ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A Pakistani passenger jet with 127 people on board crashed in bad weather on Friday as it was landing at an airport near the capital Islamabad, officials said.
Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhar told The Associated that the plane was in flames and rescue teams were at the scene.
State television reported that all hospitals in Islamabad and the nearby city of Rawalpindi were on high alert after the crash.
The Bhoja Airlines flight number B4-213 reportedly went down near an airbase, according to Geo.
(Reuters) – A Pakistani airliner with 131 people on board crashed in bad weather near Islamabad’s international airport on Friday, a civil aviation official said.
The civilian plane, which was traveling from Pakistan’s biggest city and commercial hub Karachi to the capital Islamabad, crashed about five nautical miles from the airport, said the official, Pervez George, without mentioning casualties.
Television channels showed charred parts of the aircraft strewn across a street in what appeared to be a residential area.
The aircraft was operated by local carrier Bhoja Air. The airline’s spokesman, Jaser Abro, said 116 passengers were on board and up to six crew.
State television reported that all hospitals in Islamabad and the nearby city of Rawalpindi had been put on high alert after the crash.
If the Government is busy in confabulating with Terrorists, this is the price it has to pay.
Nearly 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday after it was attacked by Islamist militants armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior police official said.
Some who fled the jail in the town of Bannu, near unruly ethnic Pashtun tribal areas close to the Afghan border, were militants, an intelligence official said.
One inmate who escaped was on death row for involvement in an attempt to assassinate former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a second police official said.
Pakistan’s al Qaeda-linked Taliban movement, which has close links to al Qaeda, said its fighters mounted the assault, which triggered clashes. Several people were wounded.
“We have freed hundreds of our comrades in Bannu in this attack. Several of our people have reached their destinations, others are on their way,” a Taliban spokesman said.
The claim could not be immediately verified.
If the al Qaeda-linked Taliban freed the prisoners, it could deal a psychological blow to Pakistani security forces following government assertions that security crackdowns have weakened the group.”
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“At present David Coleman Headley has been put under the witness protection programme of the Fedaral Government and he is being treated as the star witness in the trial of Tahawwur Hussan Rana. Rana’s trial is expected to start with effect from 01 November, 2010.
03. During the interrogation, Headley cooperated with the NIA team and answered all the questions put to him except questions pertaining to his immediate family members.
04. Headley during his interrogation unambiguously admitted his role as an LeT operative who was a part of the conspiracy to wage war against India.
05. During the interrogation he mentioned the roles of various LeT opertatives which inter alia include Hafiz Saeed the Ammeer of LeT(chief), Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi the chief military commander and various middle level commanders of LeT. (Sajid Majid, Muzzammil,Abdur Rehman @ Pasha, Abu Alqama, Abu Qahafa, Abu Anas, Abdul Aziz, Abu Hamza, Yaqub)
06. He ha clearly mentioned the role of ISI officials who have a profound influence and a great control over the top brass of the LeT. He further stated that he used to separately brief his ISI handler after each reconnaissance visit to Mumbai. He also carried out certain exclusive reconnaissance visit to Mumbai. He also carried out certain exclusive reconnaissance tasks for his ISI handlers.
Hafiz declared that this move is only to placate India and challenged the US to come and get him as he is not hiding in caves, a clear allusion to Osama Bin Laden.
Hafiz Saeed, Le T Chief
The terror Chief who is actively supported by the ISI of Pakistan knows his marbles.
He knows that Pakistan is there to protect him.
But then it depends on the Pakistan’s political equations.
Let’s watch who guessed it right the US or Hafiz.
One thing is for sure-another crisis for Pakistan looming large and possibly a step for the US to move into Pakistan after Iran.
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“I am here, I am visible. America should give that reward money to me,” said Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, referring to the fact that the bounty was given to a man whose whereabouts are not a mystery. “I will be inLahore tomorrow. America can contact me whenever it wants to.”
Analysts have said Pakistan is unlikely to arrest Saeed, founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, because of his alleged links with the country’s intelligence agency and the political danger of doing Washington‘s bidding in a country where anti-American sentiment is rampant.
Saeed, 61, has been accused of orchestrating the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six American citizens. But he operates openly in Pakistan, giving public speeches and appearing on TV talk shows.
The United States has offered a $10 million bounty for the founder of the Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, a move that could complicate U.S.-Pakistan relations at a tense time.
Hafiz Mohammad Saeed founded Lashkar-e-Taiba in the 1980s, allegedly with Pakistani support to pressure archenemy India over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Pakistan banned the group in 2002 under pressure from the U.S., but it operates with relative freedom – even doing charity work using government money.
The U.S. has designated Lashkar-e-Taiba and its social welfare wing Jamaat-ud-Dawwa as foreign terrorist organizations. Intelligence officials and terrorism experts say the group has expanded its focus beyond India and has plotted attacks in Europe and Australia. Some have called it “the next al-Qaida” and fear it could set its sights on the U.S.
Saeed operates openly in Pakistan, giving public speeches and appearing on TV talk shows. The U.S. also offered up to $2 million for Lashkar-e-Taiba’s deputy leader, Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, who is also Saeed’s brother-in-law.
The reward for “information leading to the arrest and conviction” of Saeed is one of the highest offered by the U.S. and is equal to the amount for Taliban chief Mullah Omar. Only Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as al-Qaida chief, fetches a higher bounty at $25 million.
The bounties were posted on the U.S. State Department Rewards for Justice website late Monday.
The website describes Saeed as a former professor of Arabic and engineering who heads an organization “dedicated to installing Islamist rule over parts of India and Pakistan.” It also noted that six of the people killed in the 2008 Mumbai attacks were American citizens.
A Pakistani-American, David Coleman Headley, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to helping Lashkar-e-Taiba plan the Mumbai attacks.
Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna welcomed the U.S. announcement, saying it would signal to Lashkar-e-Taiba and its patrons that the international community remains united in fighting terrorism.
“Lashing out at the US for putting a bounty of USD 10 million on his head, a combative Hafiz Mohammad Saeed on Tuesday said Washington was “frustrated” with him for his countrywide protests against the resumption of NATO supplies and drone strikes. “We are not hiding in caves for bounties to be set on finding us. I think the US is frustrated because we are taking out countrywide protests against the resumption of NATO supplies and drone strikes,” LeT founder Saeed was quoted as saying by Al-Jazeera news channel.
Pakistan has demolished the house where Osama Bin Laden was hiding and killed by the US forces .
This is probably due to US pressure citing that the place could become a shrine and an Icon for the Jihadis.( just as Hitler‘s hide out in black Forest and the Fuhrers Bunker in Berlin was demolished.)
Another report emanating from Pakistan states that Pakistan is to allow the US Drone strikes in Pakistan, despite Pakistan’s public noises over the use of US Drones inside Pakistan.
Pakistan is run by every one except by the Pakistanis.
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Pakistani authorities have reduced the house where Osama bin Laden lived for years before he was killed by U.S. commandos to rubble, destroying a concrete symbol of the country’s association with one of the world’s most reviled men.
The al-Qaida leader moved into the three-story house in 2005. Acting on intelligence gathered by the CIA, a team of U.S. commandos flew in by helicopter from Afghanistan and killed bin Laden on May 2 before dumping his body at sea hours later.
The operation left Pakistan’s army in the awkward position of explaining why it had not detected the U.S. raid, and how bin Laden was able to live in the town without its knowledge. U.S. officials have said they have found no evidence that senior Pakistani officials were in the know about bin Laden’s whereabouts.
Mechanized backhoe vehicles and construction workers began pulling down the house on Saturday night, working under floodlights.
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