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Christian boy tortured and killed in Pakistan

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The Telegraph:

The tortured body of an 11 year old Christian boy has been found in a town in Punjab, Pakistan, days after a young Christian girl was arrested on blasphemy charges.

Christian boy Pakistan

President Asif Zardari intervened in the case after dozens of Christians fled their homes fearing violence Photo: AFP

By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor

6:19PM BST 23 Aug 2012

Detectives in Faisalabad, around 60 miles from Lahore, said they were investigating whether accusations of blasphemy had also been made against the boy.

Human rights campaigners condemned the killing of Samuel Yaqoob whose burned and tortured body body was discovered on Eid, the celebration which marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

His lips and nose had been sliced off, his stomach removed and there was evidence that his legs had been mutilated too.

The boy had been missing since Monday when he left his home in the town’s Christian Colony to visit a local market. His relatives identified his body from a distinctive mark on his forehead.

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Taliban attempts to kidnap family of jailed CIA informant in Pakistan

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Published August 24, 2012

FoxNews.com

PESHAWAR –  The Taliban attempted to kidnap the brother and other relatives of the Pakistani doctor jailed for helping the CIA hunt down Usama Bin Laden, members of the family told Fox News.

The alleged attempted abduction happened on Monday, according to Qamar Afridi, a cousin of Dr. Shakil Afridi, when a man identifying himself as a representative of Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with a family lawyer in Peshawar to discuss the case. The man reportedly said the Afghan leader wanted to help the Afridi family, and was willing to offer them financial support in their efforts to free the doctor.

The man, who identified himself as Haji Hukam Khan and said he was “very close to Karzai,” asked the lawyer to bring Jamil (Dr. Afridi’s brother) and other family members to Kabul, Afghanistan to meet Karzai. “He wants to aid you,” Qamar said the man told the lawyer.

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Pakistani girl accused of Qur’an burning could face death penalty

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Guardian:

Tensions rise between Muslim and Christian communities amid claims that 11-year-old desecrated text

A Christian neighborhood in Islamabad

A Christian neighborhood in Islamabad. Around 900 Christians living on the city’s outskirts have been ordered to leave. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

An 11-year-old Christian Pakistani girl said to suffer from a mental disorder could face the death penalty under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws, after she was accused by her neighbours of deliberately burning sacred Islamic texts.

Rifta Masih was arrested on Thursday, after complaints against her prompted angry demonstrations, and Asif Ali Zardari, the president, has ordered the interior ministry to investigate the case.

As communal tensions continued to rise, around 900 Christians living on the outskirts of Islamabad have been ordered to leave a neighbourhood where they have lived for almost two decades.

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Pakistan airbase with nuclear weapons comes under sustained attack from Taliban fighters

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Daily Mail:

  • Taliban kill 1 in attack on Pakistani air base linked to the country’s nuclear program
  • Heavy battle leaves insurgents dead and parts of the base in flames
  • U.S told of Pakistani plans to launch operation against Taliban in the ‘near future’

By Katy Dartford

PUBLISHED: 09:58 EST, 16 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:14 EST, 16 August 2012

A team of nine Taliban militants who attacked a Pakistani air force base in Kamra in the northwest of the country have been killed during a heavy battle before dawn today.

The insurgents also killed a security official and left parts of the base, which is believed to be linked to the country’s nuclear program, destroyed by flames.

Hours later in northern Pakistan, gunmen forced 20 Shiite Muslims off buses, lined them up and killed them.

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Police officers make way for a firetruck at it leaves an air force base in Kamra, in northwest Pakistan after a militant attack before dawn todayPolice officers make way for a firetruck at it leaves an air force base in Kamra, in northwest Pakistan after a militant attack before dawn today

The separate incidents emphasize two daunting challenges the nuclear-armed country faces: a still-potent threat from the Pakistani Taliban despite numerous military offensives against their sanctuaries along the Afghan border and sectarian violence in a Sunni majority country where Shiite Muslims often feel under attack.

While the Pakistani Taliban have carried out hundreds of bombings and other attacks throughout the country, raids against military bases are uncommon.

Militants armed with guns and rocket launchers stormed the key Pakistani air force base sparking hours of heavy clashes that killed eight peopleMilitants armed with guns and rocket launchers stormed the key Pakistani air force base sparking hours of heavy clashes that killed eight people

The large air base, located only about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Islamabad, hosts a variety of fighter jets, including F-16s, and contains a factory that makes aircraft and other weapons systems.

Some experts suspect the base could be linked to Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal because of the weapons development there and the presence of jets that could be used to deploy bombs.

The army has denied the base has any links, but the nuclear program’s secret nature makes independent evaluation difficult.

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Interesting little article about a planned meeting by the main intelligence agency of Pakistan and the Taliban

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It seems that the ISI, the over arching group that controls all of Pakistan’s intel services, and the group that is openly accused of planning, training, financing and controlling the massive horrible attack on Bombay a few years ago, is planning a massive meeting with the Taliban to overthrow the current government of Afghanistan claiming it is a puppet of the West.

Below, an original translation translation from an Afghan Newspaper by Shabnam

H/T STRATFOR

Pakistan’s ISI chose another way to create a war against Afghanistan government

According to news from reliable sources sent to “Arman Melli”, Pakistan’s Intelligence services (ISI) intends on having another convention with 1500 Pakistani
Mullahs and Afghan Taliban members in Quetta.

Abdullah Zakir, a high official member of The Taliban is the head organiser of this meeting who works closely with the Taliban’s leader, Molla Mohamad Omar.

According to this report, ISI is asking the participants of this convention to issue A “Fatwa” against the Islamic government of Afghanistan that the government of Afghanistan is a non-Islamic government Western puppet to which, jihad against it is mandatory

Lawyer shoots dead his own sister in ‘honour killing’ in packed courtroom ‘because he was opposed to her marriage’

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Daily Mail:

  • Woman was shot in the head at point blank range by her brother
  • Gunman opened fire in a packed courtroom in front of dozens of witnesses
  • He used his lawyer’s black coat to smuggle pistol into courtroom
  • He claims he did it because her marriage brought shame on the family

By Kerry Mcqueeney

PUBLISHED: 04:39 EST, 6 August 2012 | UPDATED: 08:31 EST, 6 August 2012

A lawyer shot dead his own sister in the middle of a courtroom because she had ‘brought shame’ on the family for marrying a man they disapproved of, it has emerged.

In an honour killing that has shocked Pakistan, Javed Iqbal Shaikh shot his 20-year-old sister Rahila through the head in the middle of Hyderabad’s Sindh High Court (SHC) Circuit Bench.

Shaikh smuggled a pistol into a courtroom under his lawyer’s coat – passing security checks and body searches – and opened fire in front of dozens of witnesses.

Javed Iqbal Shaikh used his lawyer's coat to smuggle the firearm into the courtroom. He was arrested at the scene and chargedJaved Iqbal Shaikh used his lawyer’s coat to smuggle the firearm into the courtroom. He was arrested at the scene and charged

 

The killing has shocked many in Pakistan because it happened in the middle of a busy court in the city of Hyderabad (pictured)The killing has shocked many in Pakistan because it happened in the middle of a busy court in the city of Hyderabad (pictured)

Rahila was shot at point blank range to the left side of her head. Shaikh then attempted to fire at his sister’s husband Zulfiqar Sehto, but police overpowered him before taking him into custody.

According to the Guardian, Sehto – who was uninjured in the attack – said: ‘Before she fell to the ground, my wife was looking straight at me.’

Rahila married Zulfiqar Sehto in the Halani town of Tehsil Mahrabpur, in the Naushehro Feroze district – but it was a marriage her family opposed.

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Man kills sister in court, regrets he couldn’t get his hands on her husband

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Yes indeed, A woman actually acting in her own interests instead of the interests of the male members of her family is indeed a capital offense in Islam.

Pakistan Tribune:

Published: August 2, 2012

Raheela, 22 years old, received one fatal point-blank shot in the neck when the judges returned to the court room from a break at around 11:30 am.

HYDERABAD: The courts are one place where the couples, who marry against the will of their families have felt safe in a province which is a hotbed for honour killings, have considered to be their safest refuge. However, the cold-blooded murder of Raheela Sehto on Wednesday, right in front of a bench of Sindh High Court will make to-be couples stop and think for sure.

Raheela, 22 years old, received one fatal point-blank shot in the neck when the judges had returned from a break at around 11:30 am. She was killed by a lawyer, Javed Iqbal Shaikh, whose black coat helped him manage to sneak in the weapon. He is also her brother.

“He [Javed] tried to come near Raheela many times but the police pushed him back,” said Zafar Sehto, Raheela’s brother-in-law. “But he succeeded to get to her when people stood up the judges entered the courtroom after the break.”

Zafar said that these few seconds distracted the police and Javed executed Raheela. He also tried to kill her husband, Zulfiqar Sehto, but the police grabbed him before he could take an aim.

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Olympic ‘terror visas’ racket

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This is the story of how a little British tabloid actually had the audacity to actually do journalism, while the rest of the official English media does propaganda for political correctness.

The story is staggering, but equally so, its good to know there is someone in England actually protecting British interests. For you people living in the UK, go out and buy a copy of the SUN. They deserve it.

H/T Barron Bodissey

The Sun.Co.UK

 

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A few dozen burlap bags protest valentines day cards. Really.

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This was uploaded July 9 2012 but it was filmed February 14 2012.

I posted it because its such a ludicrously dishonest protest that it borders on funny. First of all, the cards and signs are written in English, not any of the languages common to Pakistan. Secondly, Valentines day is a Western artifact. If they don’t like it they just have to continue to not do it. So the protest has nothing whatsoever to do with this or that holiday or the associated greeting cards. It is a silly attempt to heap scorn and contempt on the west in general.

It might also be worth pointing out that the only women allowed to voice an opinion in Muslim societies, are the ones who are more extreme about Islam and its values than the average man. Then of course they can be paraded out front to try and shame the west in some way or any potential suffragettes that might exist at home. So that is why we see them now and again. If a woman wishes to be politically active and public (as much as a cloth sack can be) she has to represent one opinion and one only. She has to be demanding her own repression.

Eeyore for Vlad.

H/T Don L

 

More horror, murder, slaughter of the vulnerable from the religion of peace

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H/T Don L

This video is not embedable where it lives now, so you will have to pop over to youtube to see it here.

It is a video of Talibani-tards attacking a civilian passenger bus and slaughtering all the people in it except one while chanting ‘Allah hu ackbar’ while doing so.

 

Pakistanis kill man accused of insulting Koran

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Ynet News:

Blobfish Mohamed courtesy of Vlad Tepes and NOT at original Ynet news site

 

Thousands drag man who threw pages of Koran into street from police station, beat him to death and set his body on fire

Associated Press

07.04.12, 21:40 / Israel News

Thousands of people dragged a Pakistani man accused of desecrating Islam’s holy book from a police station in central Pakistan, beat him to death and then set his body on fire, a police official said Wednesday.

The incident highlighted the highly charged nature of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, under which anyone found guilty of insulting Islam’s Prophet or the Koran can be sentenced to death.

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If you read the rest of the story at Ynet, you will see another excellent reason not to allow Mosques to have minarets with loud speakers.