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  • Beheading Indian Soldier By Pakistan, Reason?

    Pakistan has beheaded an Indian soldier in LoC .

    It is reported that people were seen moving towards Indian border and they had cover fire.

    Soldiers were killed on the Indian side and a soldier was beheaded.

    Refuting all the allegations, Pakistan stated that India is building Hysteria and is also building bunkers,

    Pakistan forced by India made a Flag meeting.

    A 45 minutes discussion between the Commanders was reported to be heated and Indian Chief is reported to have stated that ‘India reserved the right to retaliate”

    What is behind the Pakistani move?

    It is curious that the Pakistani Media is not vociferous on this issue till now.

    1.Zardari is facing the sword of the Supreme Court.

    2.Elections in Pakistan is around the corner.

    3.Zardari stressed the importance of the Army in conducting the Elections, while the Opposition is against it.

    4.Days before Zardari’s statement a news item was leaked to the effect that Fundamentalism had emerged as Pakistan’s number one priority and not India.

    5..The Army,ISI is smarting for being sidelined. they feel let down post Osama killing.

    Zardari needs Pakistan Army and Army him,

    The Long march :

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    Muhammad Tahirul Qadri (C) , leader of Mihajul-Quran movement speaks before a protest march from Lahore to Islamabad January 13, 2013. — File Photo by Reuter
    “Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Tahirul Qadri on Sunday led thousands of supporters at the start of his long march on the capital Islamabad, demanding key reforms before the upcoming elections.

    Hundreds of cars, buses and trucks carrying around 7,000 people left Model Town in the city of Lahore, expected to grow in number as they pass through towns and villages en route to Islamabad, accompanied by a heavy security presence.

    Qadri accuses the government of being corrupt and incompetent, and argues that Pakistan must enact “meaningful” reforms before general elections, which are scheduled to be held within eight weeks after parliament disbands in mid-March.

    Speaking prior to kicking off what he termed his “march for democracy”, Qadri accused the Punjab provincial government of impounding buses and detaining drivers in their efforts to hamper the protest.

    Qadri, however, vowed to lead the march to the federal, and urged supporters to join him despite all hindrances.

    “This is a march for protection of human rights, elimination of poverty, supremacy of constitution, rule of law and end of corruption,” he said, urging transporters who were not being issued permits and licenses to participate without the provincial government’s approval.

    Qadri’s march comes amid widespread demonstrations in major Pakistani cities in solidarity with the victims of a series of gruesome bombings in Quetta on Thursday. The relatives of the victims, mostly from the minority Hazara Shia community, have refused to bury the dead as long as the Army takes control of the city, which is the provincial capital of Balochistan….

    What better way to divert attention of the people of pakistan than to call Indian bogey?

    Looks like another Kargill is in the offing.

  • Osama Killing Untold Story of The Raid By SEALS

    National Geographic has documented the Untold story of the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s Hideout in Abbotabad, Pakistan.

    Story:

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    Osama Raid.
    • The real-time video feed that President Obama and his advisers were watching during the Osama bin Laden raid in Pakistan was filmed by an unmanned RQ-170 Sentinel drone; the drone was flying more than 15,000 feet above Abbottabad while SEAL Team 6 was approaching and entering Bin Laden’s compound.

     

    • The CIA’s break in the search for Osama bin Laden came when they intercepted a personal phone call between a man who was known to have worked as Bin Laden’s courier, and a personal friend. When asked what he was doing, the courier responded, “I’m back with the people I was with before.” The analysts then traced the courier to the Abbotabad compound. The net around the Al Qaeda leader was closing in.
      • After the initial part of the raid was over, four SEALs collected all the evidence from the compound that they could get their hands on. They took computer hardware, CDs, DVDs, flash drives and other items, a treasure trove full of information about al-Qaeda’s future plans. Bin Laden had a makeshift media room where he kept these belongings; the gold-colored robes he used to wear for his video speeches were also found in that same room.
    • Ever since military working dog “Cairo,” a Belgian Malinois, helped SEAL Team 6 conduct the bin Laden raid in Abbottabad, adoption requests for retired military dogs are on the rise nationwide. About 300 former war dogs are put up for adoption each year but usually a lot of them have to be euthanized because nobody wants to adopt them. That may change now: In the first three weeks after the raid alone, US military officials said that they’d received more than 400 adoption applications for retired war dogs.
    • Even though the SEALs were confident that they had identified Osama bin Laden, they needed DNA for proof before burying the body at sea. A SEAL used swabs to collect DNA samples from Bin Laden’s lifeless body. The DNA samples were separated. One kit went into the remaining Black Hawk helicopter, the other into the Chinook along with bin Laden’s body. Too valuable was this DNA; they had to minimize the risk of its being destroyed.
    • The downed Black Hawk helicopter had to be destroyed before the SEALs could leave the Abbottabad compound so it would not fall into the wrong hands. The pilot carried a hammer with him to use for such occasions. With it, he smashed all the classified fixtures in the specially modified aircraft before a demolition unit blew up the Black Hawk with the help of strategically placed explosives.
    • The US government released some raw video footage of Osama bin Laden in his office, which was on the second floor of the compound. There was a simple desk and some computer equipment. In the video, bin Laden can be seen wrapped in an old brown wool blanket, watching television. Pakistani officials later explained to the Associated Press that Abbottabad gets freezing temperatures in the winter. But there were no heaters anywhere in the compound. So wrapping himself in a blanket was just how he kept warm. There were no luxuries in the bin Laden household.
    • Before burying Bin Laden’s body at sea, the US reportedly contacted the Government of Saudi Arabia to ask if they wanted to take the body—after all Osama bin Laden had been a member of a very prominent Saudi family and a citizen of the country. But Saudi Arabia is said to have declined. And so Bin Laden’s body was flown out to the USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz class aircraft carrier patrolling the Arabian Sea off the coast of Pakistan. According to White House officials, the corpse was washed and shrouded, strictly following the Muslim code of conduct for burials; then weighted, placed in a bag and finally let go into the deep waters. There has, however, been much speculation that Bin Laden’s burial at sea was a strategic move, to mitigate the problems of a terrestrial grave becoming a shrine for his followers.
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  • Shia Sunni Divide in Pakistan. Reuters Report.

    Shia Sunni divide has been the bane of Islam.

    Though not well versed in Koran, I believe that a Religion which believes One God.it sounds silly to speak of Sectarian Divide .

    It can be found in all Religions especially the ones who profess that there is Equality in their Religion.

    Now coming to the point you find SaudiArabia funding Mossad for operations against Iran.

    The feud between the Islamic Countries  is endangering Islam as a Religion?

    Would the followers of Islam realize this?

    Read The investigative Story by Reuters on Te Shia Sunni Divide in Pakistan.

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    Imam Husayn Mosque KarbalaI,Iraq.

    “About 20 men dressed as Pakistani soldiers boarded a bus bound for a Muslim festival outside this mountain town and checked the identification cards of the passengers. They singled out 19 Shi’ites, drew weapons and slaughtered them, most with a bullet to the head.

    The shooters weren’t soldiers. They were a hit squad linked to the Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, or LeJ. They had trekked in along a high Himalayan pass that hot August morning to waylay a convoy of pilgrims.

    Here and across Pakistan, violent Sunni radicals are on the march against the nation’s Shi’ite minority.

    With a few hundred hard-core cadres, the highly secretive LeJ aims to trigger sectarian violence that would pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in U.S.-allied Pakistan, say Pakistan police and intelligence officials. Its immediate goal, they say, is to stoke the intense Sunni-Shi’ite violence that has pushed countries like Iraq close to civil war.

    More than 300 Shi’ites have been killed in Pakistan so far this year in sectarian conflict, according to human rights groups. The campaign is gathering pace in rural as well as urban areas such as Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city.

    The Shi’ites are a big target, accounting for up to 20 percent of this nation of 180 million.

    In January, LeJ claimed responsibility for a homemade bomb that exploded in a crowd of Shi’ites in Punjab province, killing 18 and wounding 30. LeJ’s reach extends beyond Pakistan:

    Late last year, LeJ claimed responsibility for bombings inAfghanistan that killed 59 people, the worst sectarian attacks since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001.

    “No doubt – (LeJ) are the most dangerous group,” said Chaudhry Aslam, a top counter-terrorism police commando based in Karachi, whose house was blown up by the LeJ. “We will fight them until the last drop of blood.”

    For an outlawed group accused of fomenting such mayhem, the leader of LeJ is surprisingly easy to find.

    Malik Ishaq spent 14 years in jail in connection with dozens of murder and terrorism cases.

    He was released after the charges could not be proved – partly because of witness intimidation, officials say – and showered with rose petals by hundreds of supporters when he left prison in July 2011.

    Although Ishaq is one of Pakistan’s most feared militants, he enjoys the protection of followers clutching AK-47 assault rifles in the narrow lane outside his home.

    There, in the town of Rahim Yar Khan in southern Punjab province, Reuters visited him for an interview.

    “The state should declare Shi’ites as non-Muslims on the basis of their beliefs,” said Ishaq, calling them the “greatest infidels on earth.” Young supporters with shoulder-length hair in imitation of the Prophet Mohammad hung on every word.

    FOLLOWING THE TRAIL

    To assess the LeJ threat, Reuters followed the group’s trail across Pakistan – from Ishaq’s compound, to Gilgit in the foothills of the Himalayas, recruiting grounds in central Punjab, and the backstreets of Karachi on the Arabian Sea coast.

    In interviews, police, intelligence officials, clerics and LeJ members described a group that has grown more robust and appears to be operating across a much wider area in Pakistan than just a few years ago. But it had a head start.

    The LeJ once enjoyed the open support of the powerful spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence.

    The ISI used such groups as military proxies in India and Afghanistan and to counter Shi’ite militant groups.

    Since being outlawed after the attacks of September 11, 2001,

    LeJ has worked with Sunni radical groups al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban in several high-profile strikes.

    Among them were assaults in 2009 on Pakistan’s military headquarters and on Sri Lanka’s visiting cricket team.

    Washington says LeJ was involved in the killing of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl in 2002.

    Now it is gathering strength anew.

    The risks are heightened by Pakistan’s long-standing role as a battlefield in a proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Iran, which have been competing for influence in Asia and the Middle East since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

    That competition has heated up since the United States toppled secularist dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq and left the country under the control of an Iranian-influenced Shi’ite government.

    Intelligence officials say the LeJ is drawing financial support from Saudi donors and other Sunni sources.

    “Unfortunately, the state for strategic reasons turned a blind eye to the LeJ for a long time,” said a retired army general. “Now we have a situation where it has become Pakistan’s Frankenstein.”

    Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who is in charge of internal security, told Reuters that “we always take action” against the LeJ when the group is suspected of murder or terrorism. “We track people and arrest them.”

    When asked why those arrested are often freed, he said: “Look, my job is to arrest people, not to let them go.

    We all know who lets them off the hook and why,” he said, referring to local politicians and elements of the military who turn a blind eye to their activities or even support them in some cases.

     

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-pakistan-militants-idUSBRE89N00W20121024

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  • “CIA Invented Taliban,Al Qaeda”Pak Intellignece Offiicial I

    Just when I was rejoicing that the saner elements in Pakistan has prevailed over the hardliners  in the form of youngsters rising against terrorism by calling for understanding of the Pakistanis(a Blogger started this-please read my blog) and the retort by a 13-year-old girl against Taliban attack in Pakistan , I came across a an article written by a Retired Officer of Intelligence Bureau, Government of Pakistan.,Research Analyst/Former Intelligence Officer of DIB, Pakistan..

    In an article he quotes extensively from sources from the US, including US Spies and US papers like New York Times, Washington Post and traces the History of the Taliban to the Times of Reagan and argues Mullah Omar was actually a Fighter against the Taliban.

    After going through this one gets confused.

    Is this true?

    Does any one have more information on this subject?

    Story:

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    Steve Coll ends his important book on Afghanistan — Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to 10 September 2001–by quoting Afghan President Hamid Karzai: “What an unlucky country.” Americans might find this a convenient way to ignore what their government did in Afghanistan between 1979 and the present, but luck had nothing to do with it. Brutal, incompetent, secret operations of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, frequently manipulated by the military intelligence agencies of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, caused the catastrophic devastation of this poor country. On the evidence contained in Coll’s book Ghost Wars, neither the Americans nor their victims in numerous Muslim and Third World countries will ever know peace until the Central Intelligence Agency has been abolished. It should by now be generally accepted that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979 was deliberately provoked by the United States. In his memoir published in 1996, the former CIA director Robert Gates made it clear that the American intelligence services began to aid the mujahidin guerrillas not after the Soviet invasion, but six months before it. In an interview two years later with Le Nouvel Observateur, President Carter‘s national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski proudly confirmed Gates’s assertion. “According to the official version of history,” Brzezinski said, “CIA aid to the mujahidin began during 1980, that’s to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan. But the reality, kept secret until now, is completely different: on 3 July 1979 President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And on the same day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained that in my opinion this aid would lead to a Soviet military intervention.”….

    Asked whether he in any way regretted these actions,

    Brzezinski replied: Regret what? The secret operation was an excellent idea. It drew the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? On the day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, saying, in essence: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.’

    Nouvel Observateur: “And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?”

    Brzezinski: “What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?

    The motives of the White House and the CIA were shaped by the Cold War: a determination to kill as many Soviet soldiers as possible and the desire to restore some aura of rugged machismo as well as credibility that U.S. leaders feared they had lost when the Shah of Iran was overthrown. The CIA had no intricate strategy for the war it was unleashing in Afghanistan. Howard Hart, the agency’s representative in the Pakistani capital, told Coll that he understood his orders as: “You’re a young man; here’s your bag of money, go raise hell. Don’t fuck it up, just go out there and kill Soviets.” These orders came from a most peculiar American. William Casey, the CIA’s director from January 1981 to January 1987, was a Catholic Knight of Malta educated by Jesuits.

    When neighbors came to Mullah Mohammed Omar in the spring of 1994, they had a story that was shocking even by the grim standards of Afghanistan’ s 18-year-old civil war. Two teen-age girls from the mullah’s village of Singesar had been abducted by one of the gangs of mujahedeen, or ”holy warriors,” who controlled much of the Afghan countryside. The girls’ heads had been shaved, they had been taken to a checkpoint outside the village and they had been repeatedly raped. At the time, Mullah Omar was an obscure figure, a former guerrilla commander against occupying Soviet forces who had returned home in disgust at the terror mujahedeen groups were inflicting on Afghanistan. He was living as a student, or talib, in a mud-walled religious school that centered on rote learning of the Koran. But the girls’ plight moved him to act. Gathering 30 former guerrilla fighters, who mustered between them 16 Kalashnikov rifles, he led an attack on the checkpoint, freed the girls and tied the checkpoint commander by a noose to the barrel of an old Soviet tank. As those around him shouted ”God is Great!” Mullah Omar ordered the tank barrel raised and left the dead man hanging as a grisly warning. The Singesar episode is now part of Afghan folklore. Barely 30 months after taking up his rifle, Mullah Omar is the supreme ruler of most of Afghanistan. The mullah, a heavyset 38-year old who lost his right eye in the war against the Russians, is known to his followers as Prince of All Believers. He leads an Islamic religious movement, the Taliban, that has conquered 20 of Afghanistan’ s 32 provinces..

    http://chagataikhan.blogspot.in/2010/03/ronald-reagn-afghan-mujahideen-talibans.html

    http://hnn.us/articles/8438.html

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  • New Generation Starts Asserting in Pakistan?

    I was planning to write on the incident involving the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, a 14 year old girl for her taking on the Taliban.

    I posted a blog on a Blogger attempting to change the perception of the world of the stereotyped Pakistani.

    I am posting Excerpts from an interview from Christian Science Monitor.

    We will know how the youngsters are reacting and it is a welcome sign.

    Will the elders ,Pakistani Media follow suit?

    The omission of Politicians is intentional.

    If the present generation asserts itself,the hardliners will be sidelined.

    Excerpts.

    “Which one of you is Malala? Speak up, otherwise I will shoot you all,” a hooded, bearded Talibanmilitant asked a bus full of schoolgirls on their way home earlier this week. “She is propagating against the soldiers of Allah, the Taliban. She must be punished,” the Taliban militant shouted louder. Then, recognizing her, he shot her at a point blank range…

    “I wanted to scream, shout and tell the whole world what we were going through. But it was not possible. The Taliban would have killed me, my father, my whole family. I would have died without leaving any mark. So I chose to write with a different name. And it worked, as my valley has been freed,” she told me when I invited her for an interview for the TV station I am heading now, ..

    Malala’s friend, Shazia, who was also injured that day, recounted the event to me as her eyes filled with tears.

    “They stopped our school van. They were riding on a bike. The masked man kept pointing guns at us and the other was shouting ‘where is Malala?!’ I froze with a flashback to the old dark days: I remembered the headless bodies, slaughtering of rivals – merely on dissent or slightest doubt of spying –the grotesque violence.”

    Just a few moments before, she said, the girls had been singing a traditional Pushto folk song on their way back from school, its lyrics vowing sacrificing their lives for their motherland, the beautiful valley of Swat.

    “With a drop of my sweetheart’s blood, Shed to defend the motherland, I will put a beauty spot on my forehead, Such would put to shame the rose in the garden,” they sang.

    Her father, Zia Yousafzai, a Pashtun left-wing educator, almost always accompanied her on outings and interviews. He runs a chain of schools in Swat valley, the Khushal Public School, named after a famous Pashtun poet. I met father and daughter many times, and discussed with Malala the possibility of her hosting a show to interview leading politicians and dignitaries for the TV channel where I work.

    “That will be fun, countering mullahs,” she replied, but said she wanted to focus on her studies. Her father, bursting with pride, was cautious. “It’s not the right time. She has already been in limelight in the national and international media. Her life can be under threat and she has to go a long way,” her father told me.

    The last time that I was with Malala, my 9-year-old daughter, Risa, called me to ask when I was coming home.

    “I am with a hero, a very courageous girl. She has defeated the Taliban,” I told her.

    “The horrible Taliban? She must be so brave. Can I talk to her?” my daughter asked, and the girls chatted on the telephone for a few minutes.

    http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/1011/My-conversations-with-Malala-Yousafzai-the-girl-who-stood-up-to-the-Taliban

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