Woman terrorist spills the beans on PoK terror camps
Pawan Bali / CNN-IBN
Published on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:54, Updated on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:06 in Nation section
Tags: Kashmir, Terrorists , Jammu
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SCARY FACE: Mixing up amongst civilians, these women were ordered to spy on security forces in J-K
Jammu: Security forces have unearthed the new face of terror. In a stunning confession, a young woman arrested while crossing the Line Of Control (LOC) revealed how hundreds of women were being trained in the terror camps of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
In videos available with CNN-IBN, on being questioned what she saw at the camps across the border, a woman trained to infiltrate said it all.
"There are training camps where over 700 women are being trained," said 23 year-old-Asiya, the wife of Pakistani Army havaldar Mohammad Sajjad.
Asiya was arrested over two months ago while crossing the LoC into Rajouri. Asiya has now disclosed how hundreds of women were being trained in terror camps in PoK.
"In Bimbar camp I saw mujahids training along with women participants. There were over 700 women. They have learnt how to fire. But I do not know how to fire," said the woman.
Senior intelligence officers say that there have been recent inputs that women have been trained to cross over and settle down in Jammu and Kashmir to finally act as spies here.
Asiya reportedly had been sent to gather information on the deployment of Indian forces at the Line of Control. She has also confessed that Pakistani army and intelligence agencies train militants.
"There are camps in, Bimar, Kotli, Sensa. In Sensa, the Army trains the mujahids and in Kotli it is the agencies that train them. But in Bimbar it is the outsiders," provided Asiya.
The women read, study and undergo training sessions on using firearms, said Asiya. So, clearly the entire operation goes on under the garb of education and schooling.
Asiya had been arrested on November 13 last year and ever since then her confessions have revealed the active role of women in terror networks.
In March 2008, two women had been arrested in Doda as Lashkar's over the ground workers.
In 2007, Nahida Altaf, a law student was also arrested for allegedly working for Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.. but Asiya's chilling confessions have proved that terror really does have a new face altogether.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 2008
கிறிஸ்துவ பெண்ணை கடத்து கற்பழித்து மதம் மாற்றி திருமணமும் செய்துகொண்ட முஸ்லீமுக்கு என்ன தண்டனை?
ஒன்றுமில்லை. சும்மா பைன். அவ்வளவுதான்.
பாகிஸ்தானின் இஸ்லாமிய ஷரியா படி தீர்ப்பு, அந்த சிறுமியை கடத்தி கற்பழித்து மதம்மாற்றிய முஸ்லீமுக்கு ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் பைன்.
Teenager kidnapped and converted to Islam
After a judge placed new financial and social pressure on the captors of a Pakistani girl who was kidnapped and converted to Islam, attorneys have guarded optimism they can return her to custody of her Christian parents, One news from Pakistan has reported.
Judge Malik Saeed Ijaz ordered the girl’s husband, Amjad Ali, to pay a dowry of 100,000 rupees (US$1,275) and allow her parents visitation rights, two actions required by typical Pakistani marriage protocol.
So far he has done neither.
The judge gave Saba Masih, 13, the opportunity to talk with her family during yesterday’s hearing, but she remained mostly silent behind her veil, offering only blunt replies.
“I don’t want to see my parents. They are Christians and I am a Muslim,” she said, according to her parents’ attorney.
Her younger sister Aneela Masih, who was also kidnapped but returned to her family three months ago, pleaded with her older sister to return home. The 10-year-old told her that Christmas was coming and she didn’t want her sister to spend it with those “who are not our people.”
Saba Masih appeared at the Multan branch of Lahore’s High Court yesterday along with her Muslim husband and his family. Her parents filed a contempt petition last month against her captors for failing to follow Pakistani marriage protocol.
Islamic law (sharia), however, gives a wife the right to relinquish a dowry. Lawyers said they fear that the Muslim family will pressure Saba Masih to claim this right in order to offset growing financial pressure.
Lawyers hope that if her mother can visit her, it will convince her to leave her husband and come home to the family; her family believes he has threatened her with violence if she attempts to rejoin them.
At Monday’s hearing, Saba Masih still appeared reluctant to return to her family. Relatives said they were praying that she would change her mind and that the captors would lose their influence over her.
“The main thing is Saba must be ready herself to come back,” said her uncle, Khalid Raheel, the family spokesman. “But she isn’t ready to come back yet, and I don’t know how they are convincing her.”
On Wednesday (Dec. 17) the judge is expected to adjourn the case and issue a deed requiring Ali to pay the dowry at the convenience of the Masih family. The judge yesterday threatened Ali with prison time if he failed to carry out this order.
Akbar Durrani, attorney for the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), said the attorneys might try to use Aneela Masih’s testimony of kidnapping to take the case to the Supreme Court if other options fail.
The Christian family’s lawyer said the attempt to force Ali to pay a dowry was a tactic to mount financial pressure on Saba Masih’s husband and to convince her to return home.
Her family and their lawyers believe she has stayed with her Muslim husband because he and his family have issued death threats.
The Christian family’s chances of winning run against the judicial status quo for Pakistani religious minorities, but the new push comes after a Sept. 9 ruling that returned Aneela Masih to her parents, a rare legal victory for non-Muslims.
Aneela and Saba Masih were kidnapped on June 26 while travelling to visit their uncle in Sarwar Shaheed, northwest of Multan. Their parents say local fruit vendor Muhammad Arif Bajwa and three others kidnapped them in Chawk Munda, a small town in south Punjab.
Saba Masih was married to Ali the next day. Bajwa and Ali registered a case with the police on June 28 for custody of the girls based on their alleged conversion to Islam.
Local residents regard the men as serial kidnappers with connections to a human trafficking ring. The girls’ first defense attorney believed they could have been raped and sold to a brothel.
Ironically, attorneys said, the kidnappers’ alleged desire to exploit Saba Masih may now be the best hope of her returning to her parents, as keeping her has become not lucrative but increasingly costly with court hearings continuing and legal fees multiplying.
“These [kidnappers] don’t have an emotional link to Saba,” Durrani told Compass by phone. “They are in the business of prostitution and only wanted to use these girls for their business.”
Prosecuting attorneys said they have a growing optimism that they can regain custody of Saba Masih, something they thought unlikely two months ago.
In previous hearings, a judge allowed Saba Masih to choose whether or not she would return to her family, even though Pakistan marriage law requires the approval of legal guardians at the age of 16.
The judge determined that her age was 17 based on her testimony and a report by a medical board pressured by Muslim groups to inflate her age. He did not accept as evidence her birth certificate and baptismal record that showed her age as 13.
Younis Masih and his wife first saw their daughters after their kidnapping at a July hearing. The girls were in the company of 16 Muslims and were said to be under pressure to claim they had converted to Islam.
After Aneela Masih returned to her family in September, she claimed that their captors threatened to kill them and their family if they did not do everything asked of them.
Previously it had been reported that she was raped while in captivity, but there was no medical evidence that she was sexually abused or manhandled, lawyers said.
Her sister appears to be suffering, Durrani said.
“The family has told us that Saba Masih is not in good condition – most of the time she cries and is not satisfied there,” Durrani said.
Kidnapping of Christians in the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million is not uncommon. Many captors believe they will not be convicted if caught due to the penal code’s influence by sharia, which grants non-Muslims second-class status in society.
Every year there are cases of Pakistani Christian children kidnapped, killed or exploited by those who believe their parents are powerless.
Last month a Muslim family in Nankan kidnapped the 7-year-old son of Pakistani Christian Binyamin Yusef, 30, over a land dispute. Two days later police found his son’s body, which showed signs of torture and rape.
Police did not register the case when Yusef initially approached them. CLAAS representatives hope to open court action against the alleged perpetrators.
பாகிஸ்தானின் இஸ்லாமிய ஷரியா படி தீர்ப்பு, அந்த சிறுமியை கடத்தி கற்பழித்து மதம்மாற்றிய முஸ்லீமுக்கு ஒரு லட்ச ரூபாய் பைன்.
Teenager kidnapped and converted to Islam
After a judge placed new financial and social pressure on the captors of a Pakistani girl who was kidnapped and converted to Islam, attorneys have guarded optimism they can return her to custody of her Christian parents, One news from Pakistan has reported.
Judge Malik Saeed Ijaz ordered the girl’s husband, Amjad Ali, to pay a dowry of 100,000 rupees (US$1,275) and allow her parents visitation rights, two actions required by typical Pakistani marriage protocol.
So far he has done neither.
The judge gave Saba Masih, 13, the opportunity to talk with her family during yesterday’s hearing, but she remained mostly silent behind her veil, offering only blunt replies.
“I don’t want to see my parents. They are Christians and I am a Muslim,” she said, according to her parents’ attorney.
Her younger sister Aneela Masih, who was also kidnapped but returned to her family three months ago, pleaded with her older sister to return home. The 10-year-old told her that Christmas was coming and she didn’t want her sister to spend it with those “who are not our people.”
Saba Masih appeared at the Multan branch of Lahore’s High Court yesterday along with her Muslim husband and his family. Her parents filed a contempt petition last month against her captors for failing to follow Pakistani marriage protocol.
Islamic law (sharia), however, gives a wife the right to relinquish a dowry. Lawyers said they fear that the Muslim family will pressure Saba Masih to claim this right in order to offset growing financial pressure.
Lawyers hope that if her mother can visit her, it will convince her to leave her husband and come home to the family; her family believes he has threatened her with violence if she attempts to rejoin them.
At Monday’s hearing, Saba Masih still appeared reluctant to return to her family. Relatives said they were praying that she would change her mind and that the captors would lose their influence over her.
“The main thing is Saba must be ready herself to come back,” said her uncle, Khalid Raheel, the family spokesman. “But she isn’t ready to come back yet, and I don’t know how they are convincing her.”
On Wednesday (Dec. 17) the judge is expected to adjourn the case and issue a deed requiring Ali to pay the dowry at the convenience of the Masih family. The judge yesterday threatened Ali with prison time if he failed to carry out this order.
Akbar Durrani, attorney for the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), said the attorneys might try to use Aneela Masih’s testimony of kidnapping to take the case to the Supreme Court if other options fail.
The Christian family’s lawyer said the attempt to force Ali to pay a dowry was a tactic to mount financial pressure on Saba Masih’s husband and to convince her to return home.
Her family and their lawyers believe she has stayed with her Muslim husband because he and his family have issued death threats.
The Christian family’s chances of winning run against the judicial status quo for Pakistani religious minorities, but the new push comes after a Sept. 9 ruling that returned Aneela Masih to her parents, a rare legal victory for non-Muslims.
Aneela and Saba Masih were kidnapped on June 26 while travelling to visit their uncle in Sarwar Shaheed, northwest of Multan. Their parents say local fruit vendor Muhammad Arif Bajwa and three others kidnapped them in Chawk Munda, a small town in south Punjab.
Saba Masih was married to Ali the next day. Bajwa and Ali registered a case with the police on June 28 for custody of the girls based on their alleged conversion to Islam.
Local residents regard the men as serial kidnappers with connections to a human trafficking ring. The girls’ first defense attorney believed they could have been raped and sold to a brothel.
Ironically, attorneys said, the kidnappers’ alleged desire to exploit Saba Masih may now be the best hope of her returning to her parents, as keeping her has become not lucrative but increasingly costly with court hearings continuing and legal fees multiplying.
“These [kidnappers] don’t have an emotional link to Saba,” Durrani told Compass by phone. “They are in the business of prostitution and only wanted to use these girls for their business.”
Prosecuting attorneys said they have a growing optimism that they can regain custody of Saba Masih, something they thought unlikely two months ago.
In previous hearings, a judge allowed Saba Masih to choose whether or not she would return to her family, even though Pakistan marriage law requires the approval of legal guardians at the age of 16.
The judge determined that her age was 17 based on her testimony and a report by a medical board pressured by Muslim groups to inflate her age. He did not accept as evidence her birth certificate and baptismal record that showed her age as 13.
Younis Masih and his wife first saw their daughters after their kidnapping at a July hearing. The girls were in the company of 16 Muslims and were said to be under pressure to claim they had converted to Islam.
After Aneela Masih returned to her family in September, she claimed that their captors threatened to kill them and their family if they did not do everything asked of them.
Previously it had been reported that she was raped while in captivity, but there was no medical evidence that she was sexually abused or manhandled, lawyers said.
Her sister appears to be suffering, Durrani said.
“The family has told us that Saba Masih is not in good condition – most of the time she cries and is not satisfied there,” Durrani said.
Kidnapping of Christians in the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million is not uncommon. Many captors believe they will not be convicted if caught due to the penal code’s influence by sharia, which grants non-Muslims second-class status in society.
Every year there are cases of Pakistani Christian children kidnapped, killed or exploited by those who believe their parents are powerless.
Last month a Muslim family in Nankan kidnapped the 7-year-old son of Pakistani Christian Binyamin Yusef, 30, over a land dispute. Two days later police found his son’s body, which showed signs of torture and rape.
Police did not register the case when Yusef initially approached them. CLAAS representatives hope to open court action against the alleged perpetrators.
Monday, December 15, 2008
ஜிகாதிகளின் பிறப்பிடம் என்ன?
வேலை செய்ய ஆர்வமின்றி, ஒழுக்கத்தை பேண பெண்களை கட்டாயப்படுத்திகொண்டு நாட்டாமை செய்துகொண்டு இருக்கும் இளைஞர்களே ஜிகாதிகளாக அட்டூழியம் செய்கிறார்கள்.
வேலை செய்து சம்பாதித்து குடும்பத்துக்கு உதவு என்று சொன்ன அம்மாவை கொன்றிருக்கிறான் ஒரு சோம்பேறி புதல்வன்.
நடப்பது பாகிஸ்தானில்
Young man kills divorced mother
* Victim married twice, first husband died of poor health, second divorced her
* Shoaib, son from second marriage, killed mother after she suggested he search for a job
Staff Report
LAHORE: A young man stabbed his 45-year-old mother to death in the name of honour on Sunday, and managed to escape with the weapon he used, within the Kotlakhpat Police precincts.
The victim was identified as Riffat Sultana, resident of Hamdani Park Chungi Amer Sidhu. According to the police, the victim had married twice. From her first marriage, she gave birth to two sons and two daughters, including one Shakeel. After the death of her first husband, she remarried and gave birth to one Shoaib. Her second marriage proved unsuccessful, after which she moved in with her sons. They earned the bread for the family by performing various types of labour work.
Murder: Police sources said that Shoaib had doubts about his mother’s character, as he suspected her of indulging in illicit relationships. They said that Shoaib was in the habit of scolding his mother over the same issue. On the day of the incident, he was once again involved in a clash with his mother, during which he attacked her with the help of a sharp scissor. Riffat suffered serious injuries to her head, throat and stomach. She succumbed to her injuries on the spot, while Shoaib managed to flee from the scene along with the weapon, in a rickshaw.
Police officials arrived at the scene and removed the body of the deceased to the city morgue for an autopsy. A case was registered against Shoaib on the complaint of Shakeel. Shakeel told the police that Shoaib was subject to regular misbehaviour and he did not contribute to the family’s income. He said that they used to encourage him to work to improve the family’s financial conditions. He said that Riffat had suggested Shoaib search for a job, which infuriated him, and he killed her by repeatedly stabbing her with a sharp scissor. Kotlakhpat Police Station House Officer (SHO) Malik Muhammad Ashraf said that a case had been registered against Shoaib. He said that the accused had managed to escape, but the police would soon arrest him.
வேலை செய்து சம்பாதித்து குடும்பத்துக்கு உதவு என்று சொன்ன அம்மாவை கொன்றிருக்கிறான் ஒரு சோம்பேறி புதல்வன்.
நடப்பது பாகிஸ்தானில்
Young man kills divorced mother
* Victim married twice, first husband died of poor health, second divorced her
* Shoaib, son from second marriage, killed mother after she suggested he search for a job
Staff Report
LAHORE: A young man stabbed his 45-year-old mother to death in the name of honour on Sunday, and managed to escape with the weapon he used, within the Kotlakhpat Police precincts.
The victim was identified as Riffat Sultana, resident of Hamdani Park Chungi Amer Sidhu. According to the police, the victim had married twice. From her first marriage, she gave birth to two sons and two daughters, including one Shakeel. After the death of her first husband, she remarried and gave birth to one Shoaib. Her second marriage proved unsuccessful, after which she moved in with her sons. They earned the bread for the family by performing various types of labour work.
Murder: Police sources said that Shoaib had doubts about his mother’s character, as he suspected her of indulging in illicit relationships. They said that Shoaib was in the habit of scolding his mother over the same issue. On the day of the incident, he was once again involved in a clash with his mother, during which he attacked her with the help of a sharp scissor. Riffat suffered serious injuries to her head, throat and stomach. She succumbed to her injuries on the spot, while Shoaib managed to flee from the scene along with the weapon, in a rickshaw.
Police officials arrived at the scene and removed the body of the deceased to the city morgue for an autopsy. A case was registered against Shoaib on the complaint of Shakeel. Shakeel told the police that Shoaib was subject to regular misbehaviour and he did not contribute to the family’s income. He said that they used to encourage him to work to improve the family’s financial conditions. He said that Riffat had suggested Shoaib search for a job, which infuriated him, and he killed her by repeatedly stabbing her with a sharp scissor. Kotlakhpat Police Station House Officer (SHO) Malik Muhammad Ashraf said that a case had been registered against Shoaib. He said that the accused had managed to escape, but the police would soon arrest him.
புர்காவுக்குள் தேடும் பாகிஸ்தான் போலீஸ்
காஷ்மீரில் பெண்கள் கட்டாயமாக புர்கா அணிந்துதான் போகவேண்டும் என்று இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் பெண்களை அச்சுருத்தியிருந்தார்கள். அதனை கேட்காத பெண்கள் மீது ஆசிட் ஊற்றினார்கள்.
அதன் பின்னர் பெண்கள் புர்கா அணிந்து செல்கிறார்கள்.
ஏன் இவ்வாறு பயங்கரவாதிகள் பெண்களை புர்கா அணிய வேண்டும் என்று சொல்கிறார்கள் என்பதன் காரணம் இதுதான்.
புர்காவுக்குள் மறைந்து இந்த பயஙக்ரவாதிகள் அட்டூழியம் செய்யத்தான்.
பாகிஸ்தான் போலீஸ் இவ்வாறு புர்காவுக்குள் ஒளிந்து வந்த மூன்று பயங்கரவாதிகளை கைது செய்துள்ளார்கள்.
Three burqa-clad men arrested
Staff Report
LAHORE: Law enforcement agencies arrested three suspected miscreants from Fortress Stadium earlier this week, as they were men dressed in burqas, Daily Times learnt on Sunday.
After thorough interrogation, the suspects were handed over to the North Cantonment Police on Sunday. Sources said that law enforcement agencies observed three young men wearing burqas on the second day of Eidul Azha with the help of security cameras installed at the Fortress Stadium to check the movement of suspicious elements. They said that one of the alleged suspects had a moustache, which caused the law enforcement agencies to consider them as potential terror suspects. The police observed the movement of the alleged suspects for almost half an hour before arresting them. The alleged suspects pointlessly roamed around the Fortress Stadium for more than 15 minutes, after which they attempted to enter the Joyland Play Park, where the entry of males was prohibited unless families accompanied them. Sources said that law enforcement agencies held three suspected youngsters in custody, while one of their accomplices had managed to escape from the scene. After interrogation, police identified the suspects as Molvi Faheem, Liaqat and Akbar. The alleged suspects confessed to teasing girls during Eid. The police sources said that after confirmation of their addresses, and meetings with their parents, the statements of the suspects had been confirmed.
North Cantonment Police Duty Officer Akmal said that they had registered a case against the young men under Section 294 of the Pakistan Penal Code. He said that the suspects would be granted bail from the courts on Monday.
அதன் பின்னர் பெண்கள் புர்கா அணிந்து செல்கிறார்கள்.
ஏன் இவ்வாறு பயங்கரவாதிகள் பெண்களை புர்கா அணிய வேண்டும் என்று சொல்கிறார்கள் என்பதன் காரணம் இதுதான்.
புர்காவுக்குள் மறைந்து இந்த பயஙக்ரவாதிகள் அட்டூழியம் செய்யத்தான்.
பாகிஸ்தான் போலீஸ் இவ்வாறு புர்காவுக்குள் ஒளிந்து வந்த மூன்று பயங்கரவாதிகளை கைது செய்துள்ளார்கள்.
Three burqa-clad men arrested
Staff Report
LAHORE: Law enforcement agencies arrested three suspected miscreants from Fortress Stadium earlier this week, as they were men dressed in burqas, Daily Times learnt on Sunday.
After thorough interrogation, the suspects were handed over to the North Cantonment Police on Sunday. Sources said that law enforcement agencies observed three young men wearing burqas on the second day of Eidul Azha with the help of security cameras installed at the Fortress Stadium to check the movement of suspicious elements. They said that one of the alleged suspects had a moustache, which caused the law enforcement agencies to consider them as potential terror suspects. The police observed the movement of the alleged suspects for almost half an hour before arresting them. The alleged suspects pointlessly roamed around the Fortress Stadium for more than 15 minutes, after which they attempted to enter the Joyland Play Park, where the entry of males was prohibited unless families accompanied them. Sources said that law enforcement agencies held three suspected youngsters in custody, while one of their accomplices had managed to escape from the scene. After interrogation, police identified the suspects as Molvi Faheem, Liaqat and Akbar. The alleged suspects confessed to teasing girls during Eid. The police sources said that after confirmation of their addresses, and meetings with their parents, the statements of the suspects had been confirmed.
North Cantonment Police Duty Officer Akmal said that they had registered a case against the young men under Section 294 of the Pakistan Penal Code. He said that the suspects would be granted bail from the courts on Monday.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
ஆண் மறுமணம் செய்தால் அல்லாவின் ஆணை, பெண் மறுமணம் செய்தால் கவுரவக்கொலை
ஒரு பெண் தானாக விருப்பப்பட்டு ஒரு ஆணை மணந்ததற்காக கவுரவம் போய்விட்டதென்று அந்த பெண்ணை கொலை செய்துள்ளனர்.
பாகிஸ்தானில் இந்த கொடூரம் நடந்துள்ளது.
ஆனால், ஆண்கள் தினந்தோறும் மூன்று தலாக் சொல்லி விவாகரத்து செய்துவிட்டு நான்கு மனைவிகளை திருமணம் செய்வது அல்லாவுக்கு ஓகேயாம்.
‘Honour’ killing accused remanded in police custody
RAWALPINDI, Dec 11: Airport police on Thursday obtained one day physical custody of a man accused of killing his ex-fiancée in the name of honour after she got married to another man of her own free will.
Airport Area Magistrate Malik Shafique Ahmed remanded Mustafa Syed into the police custody for one day as the investigation officer brought the accused to the court late and could not get the remand from the anti-terrorism court.
Airport police had booked Mustafa, a resident of a village in Kallar Syedan, for shooting and injuring his fiancée Rizwana in the premises of Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on December 3 after she came out of the court of Justice M A Zaffar.
The woman received three bullet injuries and died on December 8 in district headquarters (DHQ) hospital.
The deceased woman had moved the LHC seeking annulment of an FIR registered against her husband Shafat Janjua with Kallar Syedan Police about her abduction on the complaint of her brother. Rizwana, 21, had stated before a judicial magistrate that she had married Shafat of her consent and feared that her family might kill her in the name of honour.
A police constable escorting the unlucky woman overpowered Mustafa and handed him over to Airport police. Police registered murder and attempt to murder and terrorism cases against the accused on the complaint of the police constable. The mother of the deceased woman had taken her body to the native village for burial. —Our Reporter
பாகிஸ்தானில் இந்த கொடூரம் நடந்துள்ளது.
ஆனால், ஆண்கள் தினந்தோறும் மூன்று தலாக் சொல்லி விவாகரத்து செய்துவிட்டு நான்கு மனைவிகளை திருமணம் செய்வது அல்லாவுக்கு ஓகேயாம்.
‘Honour’ killing accused remanded in police custody
RAWALPINDI, Dec 11: Airport police on Thursday obtained one day physical custody of a man accused of killing his ex-fiancée in the name of honour after she got married to another man of her own free will.
Airport Area Magistrate Malik Shafique Ahmed remanded Mustafa Syed into the police custody for one day as the investigation officer brought the accused to the court late and could not get the remand from the anti-terrorism court.
Airport police had booked Mustafa, a resident of a village in Kallar Syedan, for shooting and injuring his fiancée Rizwana in the premises of Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on December 3 after she came out of the court of Justice M A Zaffar.
The woman received three bullet injuries and died on December 8 in district headquarters (DHQ) hospital.
The deceased woman had moved the LHC seeking annulment of an FIR registered against her husband Shafat Janjua with Kallar Syedan Police about her abduction on the complaint of her brother. Rizwana, 21, had stated before a judicial magistrate that she had married Shafat of her consent and feared that her family might kill her in the name of honour.
A police constable escorting the unlucky woman overpowered Mustafa and handed him over to Airport police. Police registered murder and attempt to murder and terrorism cases against the accused on the complaint of the police constable. The mother of the deceased woman had taken her body to the native village for burial. —Our Reporter
Sunday, November 30, 2008
கராச்சி: பட்டாணிகளுக்கும் மொஹாஜிர்களுக்கும் இடையேயான போரில் 18 பேர் பலி
பாகிஸ்தானில் கராச்சியில் மொஹாஜிர்களுக்கும் (இந்தியாவிலிருந்து பாகிஸ்தான் சென்ற முஸ்லீம்கள்) பட்டாணிகளுக்கும் இடையேயான கலவரத்தில் 18 பேருக்கும் மேல் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளதாக் செய்திகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன
Rivals clash in Pakistan's Karachi, 13 dead
Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:50pm IST Email | Print | Share| Single Page[-] Text [+] ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Thirteen people have been killed and about 50 wounded in clashes between members of rival ethnic groups in the Pakistani city of Karachi and police have been ordered to shoot troublemakers on sight.
Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital and home to its main port, has a long history of political, ethnic and religious violence and the weekend clashes will raise fears of a return to the regular bloodshed that plagued the city in the 1990s.
The latest strife is between the city's majority community of Urdu-speakers, most descendents of migrants from India at the time of the partition of the British-ruled sub-continent in 1947, and ethnic Pashtuns from northwest Pakistan.
"Thirteen 13 people have been killed in the violence between the two ethnic groups," Karachi police chief Wasim Ahmed told Reuters on Sunday.
Mobs attacked shops and set fire to numerous cars in different parts of the city and 100 people had been arrested. Authorities had issued orders to shoot rioters on sight, he said.
Tension has been rising since leaders of the Urdu-speaking community began saying Taliban militants, most of whom are ethnic Pashtun, were gaining strength in the city.
Gun battles between rival activists erupted on Saturday in several places, and several incidents of violence on Sunday, police said.
A large number of Pashtuns and members of other Pakistani ethnic groups have flocked to Karachi over the years in search of work. Pashtuns dominate the city's transport network.
A political party representing Urdu-speakers, who are known as mohajirs, which means refugees, has been the dominant political force in the city since the 1980s. (Reporting by Imtiaz Shah; Writing by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel and Valerie Lee)
Sunday, November 23, 2008
ஷியா பிரிவினர் சவ அடக்கத்தில் குண்டு வீச்சில் மேலும் ஆறுபேர் சுவனம்
ஷியா பிரிவினர் சவ அடக்கத்தில் குண்டு வீச்சில் மேலும் ஆறுபேர் சுவனம்
Bomb hits Pakistan Shia funeral
Many people were wounded in Friday's attack
A bomb has killed at least six people at the funeral of a Shia Muslim in north-western Pakistan, police say.
The blast, in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, injured many more. The town has a history of violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
In violence elsewhere, a suicide bomber killed nine worshippers on Thursday night at a mosque in the tribal district of Bajaur.
The dead included the head of a local militia formed to fight the Taleban.
Mourning hymns
The bomb in Dera Ismail Khan exploded as Shia Muslims were burying a man murdered on Thursday. Before the funeral took place a Shia cleric was killed in the town.
Anti-Taleban elder killed
"One of our men was martyred yesterday and one today. We were taking the coffin to the graveyard, reciting mourning hymns, when suddenly this blast happened," mourner Tauqir Zaidi told the Reuters news agency.
It is not clear how the bomb was triggered. Officials said it appeared to be another sectarian attack.
It provoked an outbreak of shooting near the hospital where the injured were taken for treatment.
Dera Ismail Khan lies in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The province's police chief, Malik Naveed, told the BBC Urdu service that six people were confirmed dead but the death toll could rise.
The great majority of Pakistan's Muslims are Sunni. Shias form about 15%. Violence between the two communities dates back to the 1980s.
Further north, in district of Bajaur, there was more violence blamed on the Pakistan Taleban late on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a mosque.
Among the dead was the head of a local militia formed to fight the Taleban.
The army has been encouraging the tribes to take on the militants in their areas and suspected Taleban insurgents have retaliated with attacks on tribal gatherings.
For some months the Pakistan military has waged a sustained campaign against Islamic militants in Bajaur that forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes.
US ambassador summoned
The United States has been encouraging the Pakistan government to step up its fight against Islamist militants.
The rubble of a house hit by a US drone missile attack near Bannu
But at the same time relations have soured over America's growing use since August of unmanned drone aircraft to carry out missile attacks on targets across the border from Afghanistan.
On Thursday the US ambassador in Islamabad was summoned to receive a formal protest over a drone attack near the town of Bannu.
The Bannu attack was unusual in that it took place in NWFP, much deeper inside Pakistani territory than previous attacks.
Bomb hits Pakistan Shia funeral
Many people were wounded in Friday's attack
A bomb has killed at least six people at the funeral of a Shia Muslim in north-western Pakistan, police say.
The blast, in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, injured many more. The town has a history of violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
In violence elsewhere, a suicide bomber killed nine worshippers on Thursday night at a mosque in the tribal district of Bajaur.
The dead included the head of a local militia formed to fight the Taleban.
Mourning hymns
The bomb in Dera Ismail Khan exploded as Shia Muslims were burying a man murdered on Thursday. Before the funeral took place a Shia cleric was killed in the town.
Anti-Taleban elder killed
"One of our men was martyred yesterday and one today. We were taking the coffin to the graveyard, reciting mourning hymns, when suddenly this blast happened," mourner Tauqir Zaidi told the Reuters news agency.
It is not clear how the bomb was triggered. Officials said it appeared to be another sectarian attack.
It provoked an outbreak of shooting near the hospital where the injured were taken for treatment.
Dera Ismail Khan lies in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The province's police chief, Malik Naveed, told the BBC Urdu service that six people were confirmed dead but the death toll could rise.
The great majority of Pakistan's Muslims are Sunni. Shias form about 15%. Violence between the two communities dates back to the 1980s.
Further north, in district of Bajaur, there was more violence blamed on the Pakistan Taleban late on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a mosque.
Among the dead was the head of a local militia formed to fight the Taleban.
The army has been encouraging the tribes to take on the militants in their areas and suspected Taleban insurgents have retaliated with attacks on tribal gatherings.
For some months the Pakistan military has waged a sustained campaign against Islamic militants in Bajaur that forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes.
US ambassador summoned
The United States has been encouraging the Pakistan government to step up its fight against Islamist militants.
The rubble of a house hit by a US drone missile attack near Bannu
But at the same time relations have soured over America's growing use since August of unmanned drone aircraft to carry out missile attacks on targets across the border from Afghanistan.
On Thursday the US ambassador in Islamabad was summoned to receive a formal protest over a drone attack near the town of Bannu.
The Bannu attack was unusual in that it took place in NWFP, much deeper inside Pakistani territory than previous attacks.
Friday, November 21, 2008
பாகிஸ்தானில் பெண்களை பண்டமாற்றாக உபயோகப்படுத்துவதற்கு பெண்கள் எதிர்ப்பு
பாகிஸ்தானில் பெண்களை பண்டமாற்றாக உபயோகப்படுத்துவதற்கு பெண்கள் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.
அந்தோணிசாமி மார்க்குசு என்ன சொல்லப்போகிறார் என்று அறிய ஆவலாக உள்ளேன்.
Three women refuse to accept jirga verdict
By Our Correspondent
JACOBABAD, Nov 18: Three women who had been given in marriage when they were minors by a jirga several years ago as compensation for a dispute over honour-killing in Ghouspur have refused to leave their parents’ home and appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice.
Ms Shahina, Ms Sandal and Ms Sakina reached the press club on Tuesday and told journalists while carrying the holy book in their hands that they would never accept the dictates of jirga and would rather commit suicide.
The girls’ parents said that they feared the rival party would treat them in a harsh and inhuman manner if they were married into them. The parents said that the influential people were mounting pressure on them to give their three daughters in marriage and threaten to lodge an FIR on the pretext of an old murder.
Now the girls had grown up and they were not willing to accept a decision taken about them several years ago, they said. The girls belong to Ogahi tribe of Ghouspur, Kandhkot.
The girls’ father said that a girl Ms Shahina who had been given in marriage to their group had to face torture at the hands of her husband who often deprived him of two times meal.
He said that some influential people of the area were issuing them death threats and compelling them to migrate from the area.
Kashmore DPO said the “reparation of girls” in marriage by a jirga was banned and illegal and he would arrest people involved in this act.
The girls arrived at the DPO’s office on Tuesday and sought protection.
They told the DPO that they did not want to marry because when the jirga gave its decision they were only three and four years old. The jirga-holder, too, was dead by now, they said.
DPO Mohammad Younis Chandio ordered the SHO of Ghouspur to protect the girls and lodge an FIR against jirga-holders.
அந்தோணிசாமி மார்க்குசு என்ன சொல்லப்போகிறார் என்று அறிய ஆவலாக உள்ளேன்.
Three women refuse to accept jirga verdict
By Our Correspondent
JACOBABAD, Nov 18: Three women who had been given in marriage when they were minors by a jirga several years ago as compensation for a dispute over honour-killing in Ghouspur have refused to leave their parents’ home and appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice.
Ms Shahina, Ms Sandal and Ms Sakina reached the press club on Tuesday and told journalists while carrying the holy book in their hands that they would never accept the dictates of jirga and would rather commit suicide.
The girls’ parents said that they feared the rival party would treat them in a harsh and inhuman manner if they were married into them. The parents said that the influential people were mounting pressure on them to give their three daughters in marriage and threaten to lodge an FIR on the pretext of an old murder.
Now the girls had grown up and they were not willing to accept a decision taken about them several years ago, they said. The girls belong to Ogahi tribe of Ghouspur, Kandhkot.
The girls’ father said that a girl Ms Shahina who had been given in marriage to their group had to face torture at the hands of her husband who often deprived him of two times meal.
He said that some influential people of the area were issuing them death threats and compelling them to migrate from the area.
Kashmore DPO said the “reparation of girls” in marriage by a jirga was banned and illegal and he would arrest people involved in this act.
The girls arrived at the DPO’s office on Tuesday and sought protection.
They told the DPO that they did not want to marry because when the jirga gave its decision they were only three and four years old. The jirga-holder, too, was dead by now, they said.
DPO Mohammad Younis Chandio ordered the SHO of Ghouspur to protect the girls and lodge an FIR against jirga-holders.
Monday, November 17, 2008
ஜாதிவெறி காரணமாக 1019 கொலைகள், 4971 கற்பழிப்புகள்
கௌரவக்கொலைகள் என்னும் ஜாதிவெறி கொலைகள் காரணமாக 1019 பெண்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளனர். 4971 பெண்கள் கற்பழிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
எங்கே நவீன இஸ்லாமிய சொர்க்கமான பாகிஸ்தானில்
1,019 women killed for honour over three years
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was told on Thursday that more than 7,000 cases of rape and murders of women were registered between 2005 and 2007, in addition to 1,019 cases of honour killings. According to statistics tabled in the Lower House, the total number of honour killing cases is 1,019 – 321 in 2005, 339 in 2006 and 359 in 2007. Stove burning cases include 18 cases in 2005, 17 in 2006 and 10 in 2007. Meanwhile, 3,236 murder cases were registered during the period between 2005 and 2007 – 1,075 in 2005, 1,084 in 2006 and 1,077 in 2007. Similarly, 4,971 rape cases were registered in this period. The number of registered cases of domestic violence in the country is 4,290, apart from acid attacks, honour killings and stove accidents. The statistics showed that 53 cases of acid attacks were registered between 2005 and 2007. staff report
எங்கே நவீன இஸ்லாமிய சொர்க்கமான பாகிஸ்தானில்
1,019 women killed for honour over three years
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was told on Thursday that more than 7,000 cases of rape and murders of women were registered between 2005 and 2007, in addition to 1,019 cases of honour killings. According to statistics tabled in the Lower House, the total number of honour killing cases is 1,019 – 321 in 2005, 339 in 2006 and 359 in 2007. Stove burning cases include 18 cases in 2005, 17 in 2006 and 10 in 2007. Meanwhile, 3,236 murder cases were registered during the period between 2005 and 2007 – 1,075 in 2005, 1,084 in 2006 and 1,077 in 2007. Similarly, 4,971 rape cases were registered in this period. The number of registered cases of domestic violence in the country is 4,290, apart from acid attacks, honour killings and stove accidents. The statistics showed that 53 cases of acid attacks were registered between 2005 and 2007. staff report
Sunday, November 02, 2008
பாகிஸ்தானில் மக்களே தாலிபான்களைக் கொல்கிறார்கள்
இத்தனை வருடம் ஆயிற்று பாகிஸ்தானியருக்கு- தாலிபானும், இஸ்லாமியத் தீவிரவாதமும் நச்சுப் பாம்புகள், அவற்றை வளர்ப்பது தமக்குத்தான் பெருங்கேடு என்பதை அறிய. இப்போது கிராமத்து மக்கள் தம்முடைய உருப்படாத போலிஸால் இந்தத் தாலிபான்களை ஒடுக்க முடியாது என்று தெரிந்து கொண்டு, தாமே அவர்களைப் பிடித்துச் சுட்டுத் தள்ளுகிறார்கள். இந்தியப் போலிஸாரால் தாலிபான்களை மட்டும்தானா பிடிக்க முடியவில்லை? நாடெங்கும் நாக்சலைட் கொலைகாரர்கள், மொழிப் பிரிவினைக் கொலைகாரர்கள், மதவெறியர் மேலும் வெறும் கொள்ளைக்காரக் கூட்டங்கள் எத்தனை கொலைகள், குண்டு வெடிப்புகளை நடத்துகின்றன? நம் போலிசாரின் கைகளைக் கட்டிப் போட்டு வைத்திருக்கின்றன இந்த அரசியல் கட்சிகளும், போலி செகுலரிஸ்டுகளும். இந்திய மக்களுக்குக் கொலைவெறியர்களிடம் இருந்து என்று விடிவு வருமோ?
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The New York Times
November 2, 2008
As Taliban Overwhelm Police, Pakistanis Hit Back
By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
SHALBANDI, Pakistan — On a rainy Friday evening in early August, six Taliban fighters attacked a police post in a village in Buner, a quiet farming valley just outside Pakistan’s lawless tribal region.
The militants tied up eight policemen and lay them on the floor, and according to local accounts, the youngest member of the gang, a 14-year-old, shot the captives on orders from his boss. The fighters stole uniforms and weapons and fled into the mountains.
Almost instantly, the people of Buner, armed with rifles, daggers and pistols, formed a posse, and after five days they cornered and killed their quarry. A video made on a cellphone showed the six militants lying in the dirt, blood oozing from their wounds.
The stand at Buner has entered the lore of Pakistan’s war against the militants as a dramatic example of ordinary citizens’ determination to draw a line against the militants.
But it says as much about the shortcomings of Pakistan’s increasingly overwhelmed police forces and the pell-mell nature of the efforts to stop the militants, who week by week seem to seep deeper into Pakistan from their tribal strongholds.
Since the events in Buner, the inspector general of the police in the North-West Frontier Province, Malik Naveed Khan, has encouraged citizens in other towns and villages in his realm to form posses of their own.
The hope is that determination itself will deter Taliban encroachment, building on the August victory with one phalanx after another of committed citizens.
But the strategy is also a sign of his desperation.
“We are laying down our lives,” Inspector General Khan said in an interview in October. “By the hundreds the police are being targeted and killed.”
He has had to lower recruitment standards to fill out the ranks, he said, “because this is war.” Even so, he has supplemented his force with what he said were some 15,000 “special police” — citizens whom he cannot pay, but whom he is willing to arm. “Any community which helps us, we give them weapons,” Inspector General Khan said.
The army was of no use here.
“There is no other way,” Inspector General Khan warned. “Pure military action would create a lot of devastation, to the extent that people would turn against the government.”
Indeed, after the Taliban were cornered, a new peace committee composed of elders and politicians passed a resolution declaring Buner a zone free of both the army and the Taliban.
The local police chief in the Buner district, Zubair Shah, a rising star of the Pakistani police force, acknowledged the challenges of confronting a Taliban threat that is more deeply ensconced in communities all over Pakistan than had been thought.
He is trying to tamp down the Taliban with a police force that is grossly underpaid and frequently overmatched by better armed militants. Currently, the police officers in Buner earn about one-quarter the monthly salary that the Taliban are offering, Mr. Shah said.
Moreover, given that the police have become a primary target of the militants, it is hardly surprising that morale has plummeted. “The people are more motivated than the police,” he said.
In the tribal areas to the west of the Buner district, the Pakistani Army is now encouraging tribal militias, known as lashkars, as a backup force against the Taliban. Such militias have a long tradition in tribal society.
But even there, they have met with little success in the current conflict.
By contrast, posses like the one in Buner have not been tried before in the settled parts of Pakistan outside the tribal areas, Inspector General Khan said. They have in any case become a necessary tool to help preserve the peace.
The citizens of Buner, interviewed in late October after the police arranged an escort to the area, where security is still sketchy, said they had taken matters into their own hands to keep not only the militants at bay, but the army as well.
In areas where the army has had to confront the militants frontally, fighting has ensued on the scale of a civil war, displacing tens of thousands of people. If citizens’ militias sound like civil war already, that is precisely what the people of Buner say they are hoping to avoid.
Such wrenching violence has been the fate already of the neighboring Swat Valley, and of nearby Bajaur, an area of the tribal region, where the army and militants have been locked in heavy fighting. Civilian casualties are high. The task of pushing back the Taliban is taking far longer than the army had anticipated.
In Swat, the army has been unable to stop the burning of more than 100 girls schools or the murders of politicians and their families. About one-third of the police force has deserted in Swat, and some of the deserters have joined the Taliban, even as trainers, according to senior police officials.
In Bajaur, more than 200,000 people have fled, becoming refugees in appalling conditions in makeshift camps.
The villagers in Buner say they would prefer to handle the Taliban on their own, rather than have the heavy hand of the army come and do it for them.
They did it with gusto, later lining up the bodies of their Taliban victims at a hospital like trophies so citizens could take a closer look.
“We don’t want happening here, what is happening around us,” said Mohammed Zada, a retired bank manager, and a driving force behind the peace council. “The people are very unified so the Taliban failed. We are dead set against the army, too.”
While the resolve of local residents is heartening, Mr. Shah, an expert in counterterrorism, understands better than most Pakistanis what kind of threat he is up against.
He has taught police investigative work with the United Nations in Bosnia and was selected by the United States Consulate in Peshawar for a monthlong leadership program in the United States. He recently spent a year in Australia studying transnational terrorism.
As in many areas of Pakistan — from Karachi to Islamabad, and from rural districts in the north to the cultural capital, Lahore — the Taliban have sympathizers and workers in Buner who lie low in sleeper cells that can be easily activated, Mr. Shah said.
Soon after the citizen mob killed the six Taliban, he said, undercover work led police officers to a house where they found a suicide vest packed with 20 pounds of explosives and 15 pounds of ball bearings.
That discovery led to a potentially more lethal find: a full kit of ingredients for major explosions.
In a house near his police headquarters, investigators found more than 500 pounds of explosives, a cache of 30 detonators, 10 remote-control devices, dozens of battery cells, a police uniform and a motorcycle, Mr. Shah said.
Worryingly, he said, the explosives had been methodically delivered into Buner over time in small parcels by motorbike.
One of the men arrested in the case had been friendly with the police, a shopkeeper who prayed at the same mosque as the police.
Many of the villagers in Buner had relatives working abroad — in Malaysia, in Dubai and as taxi drivers in Arlington, Va. — who sent remittances home. The relative wealth and a longstanding social cohesion had helped to fortify the community and keep the Taliban at bay.
Under these circumstances, the police chief said, people power was his best bet. “If the militants enter Buner,” he said, “all you need to do is go to the mosque loudspeakers and shout, and people will be mobilized.”
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The New York Times
November 2, 2008
As Taliban Overwhelm Police, Pakistanis Hit Back
By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
SHALBANDI, Pakistan — On a rainy Friday evening in early August, six Taliban fighters attacked a police post in a village in Buner, a quiet farming valley just outside Pakistan’s lawless tribal region.
The militants tied up eight policemen and lay them on the floor, and according to local accounts, the youngest member of the gang, a 14-year-old, shot the captives on orders from his boss. The fighters stole uniforms and weapons and fled into the mountains.
Almost instantly, the people of Buner, armed with rifles, daggers and pistols, formed a posse, and after five days they cornered and killed their quarry. A video made on a cellphone showed the six militants lying in the dirt, blood oozing from their wounds.
The stand at Buner has entered the lore of Pakistan’s war against the militants as a dramatic example of ordinary citizens’ determination to draw a line against the militants.
But it says as much about the shortcomings of Pakistan’s increasingly overwhelmed police forces and the pell-mell nature of the efforts to stop the militants, who week by week seem to seep deeper into Pakistan from their tribal strongholds.
Since the events in Buner, the inspector general of the police in the North-West Frontier Province, Malik Naveed Khan, has encouraged citizens in other towns and villages in his realm to form posses of their own.
The hope is that determination itself will deter Taliban encroachment, building on the August victory with one phalanx after another of committed citizens.
But the strategy is also a sign of his desperation.
“We are laying down our lives,” Inspector General Khan said in an interview in October. “By the hundreds the police are being targeted and killed.”
He has had to lower recruitment standards to fill out the ranks, he said, “because this is war.” Even so, he has supplemented his force with what he said were some 15,000 “special police” — citizens whom he cannot pay, but whom he is willing to arm. “Any community which helps us, we give them weapons,” Inspector General Khan said.
The army was of no use here.
“There is no other way,” Inspector General Khan warned. “Pure military action would create a lot of devastation, to the extent that people would turn against the government.”
Indeed, after the Taliban were cornered, a new peace committee composed of elders and politicians passed a resolution declaring Buner a zone free of both the army and the Taliban.
The local police chief in the Buner district, Zubair Shah, a rising star of the Pakistani police force, acknowledged the challenges of confronting a Taliban threat that is more deeply ensconced in communities all over Pakistan than had been thought.
He is trying to tamp down the Taliban with a police force that is grossly underpaid and frequently overmatched by better armed militants. Currently, the police officers in Buner earn about one-quarter the monthly salary that the Taliban are offering, Mr. Shah said.
Moreover, given that the police have become a primary target of the militants, it is hardly surprising that morale has plummeted. “The people are more motivated than the police,” he said.
In the tribal areas to the west of the Buner district, the Pakistani Army is now encouraging tribal militias, known as lashkars, as a backup force against the Taliban. Such militias have a long tradition in tribal society.
But even there, they have met with little success in the current conflict.
By contrast, posses like the one in Buner have not been tried before in the settled parts of Pakistan outside the tribal areas, Inspector General Khan said. They have in any case become a necessary tool to help preserve the peace.
The citizens of Buner, interviewed in late October after the police arranged an escort to the area, where security is still sketchy, said they had taken matters into their own hands to keep not only the militants at bay, but the army as well.
In areas where the army has had to confront the militants frontally, fighting has ensued on the scale of a civil war, displacing tens of thousands of people. If citizens’ militias sound like civil war already, that is precisely what the people of Buner say they are hoping to avoid.
Such wrenching violence has been the fate already of the neighboring Swat Valley, and of nearby Bajaur, an area of the tribal region, where the army and militants have been locked in heavy fighting. Civilian casualties are high. The task of pushing back the Taliban is taking far longer than the army had anticipated.
In Swat, the army has been unable to stop the burning of more than 100 girls schools or the murders of politicians and their families. About one-third of the police force has deserted in Swat, and some of the deserters have joined the Taliban, even as trainers, according to senior police officials.
In Bajaur, more than 200,000 people have fled, becoming refugees in appalling conditions in makeshift camps.
The villagers in Buner say they would prefer to handle the Taliban on their own, rather than have the heavy hand of the army come and do it for them.
They did it with gusto, later lining up the bodies of their Taliban victims at a hospital like trophies so citizens could take a closer look.
“We don’t want happening here, what is happening around us,” said Mohammed Zada, a retired bank manager, and a driving force behind the peace council. “The people are very unified so the Taliban failed. We are dead set against the army, too.”
While the resolve of local residents is heartening, Mr. Shah, an expert in counterterrorism, understands better than most Pakistanis what kind of threat he is up against.
He has taught police investigative work with the United Nations in Bosnia and was selected by the United States Consulate in Peshawar for a monthlong leadership program in the United States. He recently spent a year in Australia studying transnational terrorism.
As in many areas of Pakistan — from Karachi to Islamabad, and from rural districts in the north to the cultural capital, Lahore — the Taliban have sympathizers and workers in Buner who lie low in sleeper cells that can be easily activated, Mr. Shah said.
Soon after the citizen mob killed the six Taliban, he said, undercover work led police officers to a house where they found a suicide vest packed with 20 pounds of explosives and 15 pounds of ball bearings.
That discovery led to a potentially more lethal find: a full kit of ingredients for major explosions.
In a house near his police headquarters, investigators found more than 500 pounds of explosives, a cache of 30 detonators, 10 remote-control devices, dozens of battery cells, a police uniform and a motorcycle, Mr. Shah said.
Worryingly, he said, the explosives had been methodically delivered into Buner over time in small parcels by motorbike.
One of the men arrested in the case had been friendly with the police, a shopkeeper who prayed at the same mosque as the police.
Many of the villagers in Buner had relatives working abroad — in Malaysia, in Dubai and as taxi drivers in Arlington, Va. — who sent remittances home. The relative wealth and a longstanding social cohesion had helped to fortify the community and keep the Taliban at bay.
Under these circumstances, the police chief said, people power was his best bet. “If the militants enter Buner,” he said, “all you need to do is go to the mosque loudspeakers and shout, and people will be mobilized.”
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
எங்கள் சொத்தை திருப்பித்தா- பாகிஸ்தான் இந்துக்கள் போராட்டம்
இந்துக்களின் சமூக சொத்தையும் தனியார் சொத்தையும் அபகரிக்கும் பாகிஸ்தான் இஸ்லாமிய அரசாங்கத்தை எதிர்த்து இந்துக்கள் போர்க்கொடி உயர்த்தியுள்ளனர்
மனித தன்மை அற்ற இஸ்லாமிய அரசாங்கத்தினர் மனம் மாற இறைவன் அருளட்டும்
Hindu community wants their property returned
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
By Aroosa Masroor
Karachi
A month has passed since the management of the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) was issued a notification by the Sindh Provincial Culture and Tourism Department to vacate the Hindu Gymkhana, within whose premises NAPA is located. While the NAPA administration is struggling to defend its position, some members of the Hindu community say they are happy that their heritage site is finally being returned to them. “I don’t understand what is there to debate about vacating the Hindu Gymkhana. It is a declared property of the Hindu community and they have been fighting for its possession for decades now,” comments Architect Murlidhar Dawani, also a member of the Hindu community.
Since independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Hindu community of Karachi had been struggling to acquire possession of this site, which was known to host the elite of the community since 1921. However, post partition the property was handed over to the Evacuee Trust Property Board. Later, the Hindus who opted for Pakistan appealed to the government for the restoration of the premises so that it could be utilised for cultural activities and religious festivals. They say that their plea fell on deaf ears.
“Most of the elite from the Hindu community migrated to India after partition hence there were not many members to fight for the restoration of the Hindu Gymkhana. The majority of the Hindus who opted for Pakistan, particularly in Sindh, belonged to scheduled castes that were already suppressed and were unable to exercise any influence. The authorities hence did not pay attention to their demands,” comments Amarnath Motumal, President of the Hindu Panchayat, Karachi Division.
Motumal said that a movement to handover the gymkhana back to the Hindu community was first launched in the 1960s by activists Khubchand Bhatia, Seth T Motandas and Bhagwandas Chawla - the then president of the Karachi Hindu Panchayat. However, the movement was ended due to the 1965 war and later by the 1971 war.
Echoing similar sentiments is social activist and co-chairperson Pak-Hindu Welfare Association, Ramesh Mana, who has been an active part of the movement for the restoration of the Hindu Gymkhana which he re-launched in the 1980s when General Ziaul Haq’s government decided to sell the property. “Due to the government’s lack of interest in the issue after the 1971 war, most members were then discouraged and did not raise a voice until General Zia went to the extent of issuing orders to auction the premises,” informs Mana.
Another prominent Hindu of that time, P.K. Shahani, voiced his concern through the media and this compelled parliamentarians to raise the issue in the National Assembly. A stay order was then issued and the Hindu Gymkhana was protected as a heritage site under the Sindh Heritage Act. But this did not solve the problem. When General Pervez Musharraf’s government took over in 1999, he asked senior artiste Zia Mohyeuddin to establish a national institute of performing arts.
“As soon as the orders were issued, the next morning we saw the name plate of the Hindu Gymkhana removed and once again wrote to the government against the injustice meted out to the Hindu community, but because the President’s daughter, Ayela Raza, was also involved in the project we did not receive a positive response,” revealed Mana.
The community contends that the control of the premises should have been handed over to the Hindus instead of permitting the artistes to encroach upon the property that belonged to the Hindu community. Moreover, the recent influx of Hindu families from upper Sindh to Karachi has put pressure on the leaders of Hindu Panchayats who are worried about accommodating the needs of the entire population of Hindus in Karachi that amounts up to 1.5 million.
“The only empty space we have to celebrate festivals such as Holi and Diwali is a ground at the Swami Narayan Temple on M.A. Jinnah Road. But due to limited space at the said temple, most people avoid visiting temples on these religious occasions confining them to their homes,” complained Dawani. He further clarified that the community was not against the school of performing arts, but against what he called “the insensitivity of the successive governments that allowed such encroachment.”
The community has also filed a case in court for eviction of the premises. “We are not against the school. We just want them to return our space and establish the school elsewhere. Also, why could the Musharraf government not have ordered the Sind Club or Karachi Gymkhana to be vacated for these young students of performing arts? Why the Hindu Gymkhana?” questioned Dawani.
The recent controversy to vacate the premises, however, began not because the land had been encroached upon but when allegations were levelled against NAPA administration for violating the agreement signed with the Sindh Culture Department. The agreement restricted the administration from construction or alteration of a heritage site – as per the provisions of the Sindh Heritage Act. Although officials at NAPA have refuted the allegations saying that ‘they have not made any alteration to the original structure’, the Hindu community feels it is time the democratic government returned the property to them.
Mana stated that since some of the most renowned artistes of the country are on the board of NAPA, finding an alternative space ‘should not be a difficult task for them and the government should facilitate them’. But given the differences within the representative bodies of the Hindu Community in Karachi, it is unclear which body will be given the charge of the Hindu Gymkhana. There are currently four main representative bodies – Pakistan Hindu Council, Karachi Hindu Panchayat, Hindu Panchayat Karachi Division and Pak-Hindu Welfare Association – running parallel to each other.
When questioned by The News, Mangla Sharma, Chairperson of Pak-Hindu Welfare Association and Dr Ramesh Kumar, former MPA and patron Pakistan Hindu Council, who have jointly filed the case in court, were unanimous on the view that a governing body, comprising representatives from all the organisations as well as from all castes, will be formed once the property is returned to them.
The News made several attempts to contact MPA Mukesh Chawla but he was not available for comments.
மனித தன்மை அற்ற இஸ்லாமிய அரசாங்கத்தினர் மனம் மாற இறைவன் அருளட்டும்
Hindu community wants their property returned
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
By Aroosa Masroor
Karachi
A month has passed since the management of the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) was issued a notification by the Sindh Provincial Culture and Tourism Department to vacate the Hindu Gymkhana, within whose premises NAPA is located. While the NAPA administration is struggling to defend its position, some members of the Hindu community say they are happy that their heritage site is finally being returned to them. “I don’t understand what is there to debate about vacating the Hindu Gymkhana. It is a declared property of the Hindu community and they have been fighting for its possession for decades now,” comments Architect Murlidhar Dawani, also a member of the Hindu community.
Since independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Hindu community of Karachi had been struggling to acquire possession of this site, which was known to host the elite of the community since 1921. However, post partition the property was handed over to the Evacuee Trust Property Board. Later, the Hindus who opted for Pakistan appealed to the government for the restoration of the premises so that it could be utilised for cultural activities and religious festivals. They say that their plea fell on deaf ears.
“Most of the elite from the Hindu community migrated to India after partition hence there were not many members to fight for the restoration of the Hindu Gymkhana. The majority of the Hindus who opted for Pakistan, particularly in Sindh, belonged to scheduled castes that were already suppressed and were unable to exercise any influence. The authorities hence did not pay attention to their demands,” comments Amarnath Motumal, President of the Hindu Panchayat, Karachi Division.
Motumal said that a movement to handover the gymkhana back to the Hindu community was first launched in the 1960s by activists Khubchand Bhatia, Seth T Motandas and Bhagwandas Chawla - the then president of the Karachi Hindu Panchayat. However, the movement was ended due to the 1965 war and later by the 1971 war.
Echoing similar sentiments is social activist and co-chairperson Pak-Hindu Welfare Association, Ramesh Mana, who has been an active part of the movement for the restoration of the Hindu Gymkhana which he re-launched in the 1980s when General Ziaul Haq’s government decided to sell the property. “Due to the government’s lack of interest in the issue after the 1971 war, most members were then discouraged and did not raise a voice until General Zia went to the extent of issuing orders to auction the premises,” informs Mana.
Another prominent Hindu of that time, P.K. Shahani, voiced his concern through the media and this compelled parliamentarians to raise the issue in the National Assembly. A stay order was then issued and the Hindu Gymkhana was protected as a heritage site under the Sindh Heritage Act. But this did not solve the problem. When General Pervez Musharraf’s government took over in 1999, he asked senior artiste Zia Mohyeuddin to establish a national institute of performing arts.
“As soon as the orders were issued, the next morning we saw the name plate of the Hindu Gymkhana removed and once again wrote to the government against the injustice meted out to the Hindu community, but because the President’s daughter, Ayela Raza, was also involved in the project we did not receive a positive response,” revealed Mana.
The community contends that the control of the premises should have been handed over to the Hindus instead of permitting the artistes to encroach upon the property that belonged to the Hindu community. Moreover, the recent influx of Hindu families from upper Sindh to Karachi has put pressure on the leaders of Hindu Panchayats who are worried about accommodating the needs of the entire population of Hindus in Karachi that amounts up to 1.5 million.
“The only empty space we have to celebrate festivals such as Holi and Diwali is a ground at the Swami Narayan Temple on M.A. Jinnah Road. But due to limited space at the said temple, most people avoid visiting temples on these religious occasions confining them to their homes,” complained Dawani. He further clarified that the community was not against the school of performing arts, but against what he called “the insensitivity of the successive governments that allowed such encroachment.”
The community has also filed a case in court for eviction of the premises. “We are not against the school. We just want them to return our space and establish the school elsewhere. Also, why could the Musharraf government not have ordered the Sind Club or Karachi Gymkhana to be vacated for these young students of performing arts? Why the Hindu Gymkhana?” questioned Dawani.
The recent controversy to vacate the premises, however, began not because the land had been encroached upon but when allegations were levelled against NAPA administration for violating the agreement signed with the Sindh Culture Department. The agreement restricted the administration from construction or alteration of a heritage site – as per the provisions of the Sindh Heritage Act. Although officials at NAPA have refuted the allegations saying that ‘they have not made any alteration to the original structure’, the Hindu community feels it is time the democratic government returned the property to them.
Mana stated that since some of the most renowned artistes of the country are on the board of NAPA, finding an alternative space ‘should not be a difficult task for them and the government should facilitate them’. But given the differences within the representative bodies of the Hindu Community in Karachi, it is unclear which body will be given the charge of the Hindu Gymkhana. There are currently four main representative bodies – Pakistan Hindu Council, Karachi Hindu Panchayat, Hindu Panchayat Karachi Division and Pak-Hindu Welfare Association – running parallel to each other.
When questioned by The News, Mangla Sharma, Chairperson of Pak-Hindu Welfare Association and Dr Ramesh Kumar, former MPA and patron Pakistan Hindu Council, who have jointly filed the case in court, were unanimous on the view that a governing body, comprising representatives from all the organisations as well as from all castes, will be formed once the property is returned to them.
The News made several attempts to contact MPA Mukesh Chawla but he was not available for comments.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
பாகிஸ்தான்: இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் ஸ்கூல் பஸ்மீது போர் தொடுத்ததில் 4 குழந்தைகள் பலி
இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் ஸ்கூல் பஸ்ஸை தாக்கியதில் 4 குழந்தைகள் பலியானார்கள்.
இந்த குழந்தைகளிடமிருந்து அல்லாவை பாதுகாத்துள்ளதாக இவர்கள் அறிவித்துள்ளனரா என்று தெரியவில்லை.
இதுவரை பாகிஸ்தானில் இப்படி குழந்தைகளையும் பள்ளிக்கூடங்களையும் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் தாக்குவது இந்த வருடத்தில் 91ஆவது பயங்கரவாத தாக்குதலாகும்.
இவ்வாறு தாக்குவது சங்கபரிவாரத்தினரே என்று சத்யமார்க்கம், வினவு, தமிழ் ஓவியா போன்றோர் பதிவில் அறியலாம்.
Bomb kills four children on school bus in Pakistan
Saeed Shah in Islamabad
guardian.co.uk,
Thursday October 09 2008 11:43 BST Article history
Pakistan was hit by two deadly bomb attacks today as the country's spy chief briefed politicians on the security situation.
Eleven people were killed in the Upper Dir district of North-West Frontier Province when a roadside bomb exploded near a police van carrying prisoners. Four schoolchildren in a passing bus were among the dead, officials.
Earlier, a suicide bombing at the police headquarters in Islamabad injured up to 10 people.
A grenade was thrown outside a college in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan in the south-west, but there were no casualties.
The blasts bring to 91 the number of terrorist attacks in Pakistan since July last year. Islamic extremists began a violent campaign after security forces stormed Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, resulting in around 100 deaths.
The bombing at the police complex on the edge of Islamabad targeted the barracks of the anti-terrorist squad. One side of the building collapsed but the police officers normally inside were instead deployed around parliament to guard the building while members of the assembly were given a confidential assessment of the terror threat.
Asghar Raza Gardezi, the inspector general of police for Islamabad, said the entry of a car into the complex had breached all security arrangements. He said the car was driven up to the anti-terrorist squad building, where the passenger got out carrying two baskets of sweets and went inside to hand them to an officer.
"The moment he gave basket to the policeman, an explosion took place," Gardezi said, speaking at the site of the blast.
Other reports said the bomb was in the car. Body parts were scattered around the area. Kamran Lashari, a senior bureaucrat in Islamabad, said: "The other side wants to show its potency and its determination. We have to measure up and deal with it."
இந்த குழந்தைகளிடமிருந்து அல்லாவை பாதுகாத்துள்ளதாக இவர்கள் அறிவித்துள்ளனரா என்று தெரியவில்லை.
இதுவரை பாகிஸ்தானில் இப்படி குழந்தைகளையும் பள்ளிக்கூடங்களையும் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் தாக்குவது இந்த வருடத்தில் 91ஆவது பயங்கரவாத தாக்குதலாகும்.
இவ்வாறு தாக்குவது சங்கபரிவாரத்தினரே என்று சத்யமார்க்கம், வினவு, தமிழ் ஓவியா போன்றோர் பதிவில் அறியலாம்.
Bomb kills four children on school bus in Pakistan
Saeed Shah in Islamabad
guardian.co.uk,
Thursday October 09 2008 11:43 BST Article history
Pakistan was hit by two deadly bomb attacks today as the country's spy chief briefed politicians on the security situation.
Eleven people were killed in the Upper Dir district of North-West Frontier Province when a roadside bomb exploded near a police van carrying prisoners. Four schoolchildren in a passing bus were among the dead, officials.
Earlier, a suicide bombing at the police headquarters in Islamabad injured up to 10 people.
A grenade was thrown outside a college in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan in the south-west, but there were no casualties.
The blasts bring to 91 the number of terrorist attacks in Pakistan since July last year. Islamic extremists began a violent campaign after security forces stormed Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, resulting in around 100 deaths.
The bombing at the police complex on the edge of Islamabad targeted the barracks of the anti-terrorist squad. One side of the building collapsed but the police officers normally inside were instead deployed around parliament to guard the building while members of the assembly were given a confidential assessment of the terror threat.
Asghar Raza Gardezi, the inspector general of police for Islamabad, said the entry of a car into the complex had breached all security arrangements. He said the car was driven up to the anti-terrorist squad building, where the passenger got out carrying two baskets of sweets and went inside to hand them to an officer.
"The moment he gave basket to the policeman, an explosion took place," Gardezi said, speaking at the site of the blast.
Other reports said the bomb was in the car. Body parts were scattered around the area. Kamran Lashari, a senior bureaucrat in Islamabad, said: "The other side wants to show its potency and its determination. We have to measure up and deal with it."
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
பள்ளிக்கூடத்தையும் கல்லூரியையும் பாகிஸ்தான் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் குண்டுவைத்து தகர்ப்பு
பள்ளிக்கூடத்தையும் கல்லூரியையும் பாகிஸ்தான் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் குண்டுவைத்து தகர்ப்பு
Militants blow up school, college in Swat
By ISSA KHAN KHAIL submitted 3 hours 11 minutes ago
PESHAWAR - Amidst continuous violence and firing in the restive Swat Valley, Taliban militants destroyed Sangota Public School and Excelsior College for Boys in Sangota, besides kidnapping its staff along with two personnel of the security forces.
As per details, after receiving threats from the militants the teaching staff had already vacated the premises of Snagota Public School and Excelsior College. However the sweeper Jan Masih and Manager Sabir were present in the college.
Taliban first harassed the two staff members along with two personnel of the security forces Amir Mohammad and Gohar Ali and then planted explosive material inside the building, which blew up with a big bang.
After demolishing the school and college Taliban kidnapped the four persons and shifted them to an unknown location. Claiming the responsibility by spokesman of Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat Chapter Muslim Khan said that besides these four persons two other personnel of the security forces were also in their custody.
The security forces also targeted the suspected hideouts of the militants in Totano Banda, Tegak and Kala Kalay of Tehsil Kabal with heavy weaponry and mortar shells. A woman was killed when a mortar hit her house in Kala Kalay. A child was injured when the security forces mistakenly fired on him.
Meanwhile, due to the untargeted firing of the security forces the dwellers of the Khawazakhaila, Wakil Abad, Alam Ganj and Wali Abad area staged a protest rally against the security forces and demanded a pull-out of the troops from the restive Swat area. The protestors blocked the Main GT Road for all kinds of traffic.
Meanwhile, Taliban Tuesday released five more police recruits who were kidnapped in Darra Adamkhel area one month ago when they were on their way to Police Training College Hangu from Peshawar.
Earlier, 26 police recruits and seven personnel of Khasadar Forces were kidnapped by the Taliban in Darra Adamkhel area. A committee of Ulema and DIG Kohat contacted Taliban leadership and appealed to them for the early release of the kidnapped police recruits. After that Taliban handed over five of them to the committee.
Up till now Taliban militants have so far released 10 recruits while the remaining persons are still in their captivity.
Monitoring Desk adds: The militants have started leaving Kurram Agency and have vacated their centres in Alikhel tribe, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.
Militants blow up school, college in Swat
By ISSA KHAN KHAIL submitted 3 hours 11 minutes ago
PESHAWAR - Amidst continuous violence and firing in the restive Swat Valley, Taliban militants destroyed Sangota Public School and Excelsior College for Boys in Sangota, besides kidnapping its staff along with two personnel of the security forces.
As per details, after receiving threats from the militants the teaching staff had already vacated the premises of Snagota Public School and Excelsior College. However the sweeper Jan Masih and Manager Sabir were present in the college.
Taliban first harassed the two staff members along with two personnel of the security forces Amir Mohammad and Gohar Ali and then planted explosive material inside the building, which blew up with a big bang.
After demolishing the school and college Taliban kidnapped the four persons and shifted them to an unknown location. Claiming the responsibility by spokesman of Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat Chapter Muslim Khan said that besides these four persons two other personnel of the security forces were also in their custody.
The security forces also targeted the suspected hideouts of the militants in Totano Banda, Tegak and Kala Kalay of Tehsil Kabal with heavy weaponry and mortar shells. A woman was killed when a mortar hit her house in Kala Kalay. A child was injured when the security forces mistakenly fired on him.
Meanwhile, due to the untargeted firing of the security forces the dwellers of the Khawazakhaila, Wakil Abad, Alam Ganj and Wali Abad area staged a protest rally against the security forces and demanded a pull-out of the troops from the restive Swat area. The protestors blocked the Main GT Road for all kinds of traffic.
Meanwhile, Taliban Tuesday released five more police recruits who were kidnapped in Darra Adamkhel area one month ago when they were on their way to Police Training College Hangu from Peshawar.
Earlier, 26 police recruits and seven personnel of Khasadar Forces were kidnapped by the Taliban in Darra Adamkhel area. A committee of Ulema and DIG Kohat contacted Taliban leadership and appealed to them for the early release of the kidnapped police recruits. After that Taliban handed over five of them to the committee.
Up till now Taliban militants have so far released 10 recruits while the remaining persons are still in their captivity.
Monitoring Desk adds: The militants have started leaving Kurram Agency and have vacated their centres in Alikhel tribe, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
பிரிவினைவாதிகளை பயங்கரவாதிகள் என்று பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதி சொன்னதற்க்கு காஷ்மீரில் வரவேற்பு
பிரிவினைவாத இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகளை தவிர்த்த மற்ற முஸ்லீம்கள் பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதியின் கூற்றை வரவேற்றுள்ளனர்.
Terrorist tag stuns separatists
Ishfaq-ul-Hassan
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 01:52 IST
SRINAGAR: Shock, anger and disbelief sum up the mood in the separatist camp after Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari described militants fighting in Jammu and Kashmir as “terrorists”. The statement has put Kashmiri separatists again on notice with people beginning to raise questions about the rationale of relying on Islamabad for support.
“Our youths picked up arms only when New Delhi failed to address the Kashmir issue peacefully. Our struggle is for the right to self determination and that will continue peacefully. We have nothing to do with Zardari who should realise that our struggle is for our birthright,” said Moulana Mohommad Abbaas Ansari, former chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which pioneered the armed struggle in Kashmir, termed the statement as foolish. “No power on earth can defeat Kashmiris who have given huge sacrifices for achieving the goal of freedom,” said Bashir Ahmad Bhat, vice-chairman of the JKLF.
Mohommad Azam Inqlabi, former chief commander of the Operation Balakote outfit, who now heads Mahaz-e-Azadi, described Zardari’s statement a “blatant betrayal”. “History will sideline Zardari akin to his predecessor Pervez Musharraf for his irresponsibility. He is trying to appease George Bush by these irresponsible statements because he is facing enormous crises, both economic and political,” said Inqlabi.
But Kashmiri Pandits, who bore the brunt of militancy which forced them to migrate from the valley, were happy. “We have been victims of terrorism and this statement has vindicated our stand,” said Ashwani Chrungoo, president of Panun Kashmir Movement, the apex body of migrant Kashmiri Pandits.
Reactions from mainstream political parties were mixed. “We should congratulate prime minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for projecting the Kashmir issue in the right perspective,” said Abdul Gani Vakil, vice-president of J&K Pradesh Congress Committee. PDP said gun and grenades have no role in the peaceful struggle launched by the people. The National Conference said: “Let us first see what he has actually said.”
Terrorist tag stuns separatists
Ishfaq-ul-Hassan
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 01:52 IST
SRINAGAR: Shock, anger and disbelief sum up the mood in the separatist camp after Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari described militants fighting in Jammu and Kashmir as “terrorists”. The statement has put Kashmiri separatists again on notice with people beginning to raise questions about the rationale of relying on Islamabad for support.
“Our youths picked up arms only when New Delhi failed to address the Kashmir issue peacefully. Our struggle is for the right to self determination and that will continue peacefully. We have nothing to do with Zardari who should realise that our struggle is for our birthright,” said Moulana Mohommad Abbaas Ansari, former chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which pioneered the armed struggle in Kashmir, termed the statement as foolish. “No power on earth can defeat Kashmiris who have given huge sacrifices for achieving the goal of freedom,” said Bashir Ahmad Bhat, vice-chairman of the JKLF.
Mohommad Azam Inqlabi, former chief commander of the Operation Balakote outfit, who now heads Mahaz-e-Azadi, described Zardari’s statement a “blatant betrayal”. “History will sideline Zardari akin to his predecessor Pervez Musharraf for his irresponsibility. He is trying to appease George Bush by these irresponsible statements because he is facing enormous crises, both economic and political,” said Inqlabi.
But Kashmiri Pandits, who bore the brunt of militancy which forced them to migrate from the valley, were happy. “We have been victims of terrorism and this statement has vindicated our stand,” said Ashwani Chrungoo, president of Panun Kashmir Movement, the apex body of migrant Kashmiri Pandits.
Reactions from mainstream political parties were mixed. “We should congratulate prime minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for projecting the Kashmir issue in the right perspective,” said Abdul Gani Vakil, vice-president of J&K Pradesh Congress Committee. PDP said gun and grenades have no role in the peaceful struggle launched by the people. The National Conference said: “Let us first see what he has actually said.”
Monday, October 06, 2008
அறிவுஜீவிகள் திருப்தி? சர்தாரி காஷ்மீர பயங்கரவாதிகளை பயங்கரவாதிகள் என்று சொன்னதை திருப்ப பெற்றுக்கொண்டார்
அறிவுஜீவிகள் திருப்தி? சர்தாரி காஷ்மீர பயங்கரவாதிகளை பயங்கரவாதிகள் என்று சொன்னதை திருப்ப பெற்றுக்கொண்டார்
தமிழ்நாட்டு பத்திரிக்கை, மற்றும் இணைய அறிவுஜீவி போலிகள் நிம்மதி பெருமூச்சு விட்டதாக தெரிகிறது.
தூ.. வெட்கம் கெட்ட நாய்கள்.
Zardari backtracks on 'terrorists' remark
NDTV Correspondent
Monday, October 06, 2008, ()
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zaradri has backtracked on his comments describing militants operating in India as 'terrorists'.
The government clarified Zardari's stand in an official statement.
"The President has made it very clear that the just cause of Kashmir and its struggle for self-determination has been a consistent central position of the PPP for forty years now. There is no change in that policy. He has never called the legitimate aspirations of Kashmiris an expression of terrorism, nor has he undermined the sufferings of the Kashmiri people. All other statements about India were in context of our current bilateral relations," said the statement.
Zardari has drawn flak in his own country following his comments in an interview in Wall Street Journal. Nawaz Sharif's party, PML-N, has taken a strong stance against Zardari's remarks.
தமிழ்நாட்டு பத்திரிக்கை, மற்றும் இணைய அறிவுஜீவி போலிகள் நிம்மதி பெருமூச்சு விட்டதாக தெரிகிறது.
தூ.. வெட்கம் கெட்ட நாய்கள்.
Zardari backtracks on 'terrorists' remark
NDTV Correspondent
Monday, October 06, 2008, ()
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zaradri has backtracked on his comments describing militants operating in India as 'terrorists'.
The government clarified Zardari's stand in an official statement.
"The President has made it very clear that the just cause of Kashmir and its struggle for self-determination has been a consistent central position of the PPP for forty years now. There is no change in that policy. He has never called the legitimate aspirations of Kashmiris an expression of terrorism, nor has he undermined the sufferings of the Kashmiri people. All other statements about India were in context of our current bilateral relations," said the statement.
Zardari has drawn flak in his own country following his comments in an interview in Wall Street Journal. Nawaz Sharif's party, PML-N, has taken a strong stance against Zardari's remarks.
தற்கொலை குண்டுவெடிப்பில் 17 பேர் பலி
17 killed in suicide blast at Pakistan MP's house
Islamabad (PTI): In a sudden upsurge in militant attacks, at least 17 people were killedon Monday and 60 injured as a suspected suicide bomber struck at the home of a prominent PML-N parliamentarian in Pakistan's heartland of Punjab province.
The bomber blew himself up at the residence of PML-N leader Rasheed Akbar Nawani, a prominent politician of Bhakkar district and a member of the National Assembly, almost destroying his home and shaking the entire area sending his panicked neighbours and shopkeepers scurrying for safety. Though TV channels reported that between 15 to 20 people were killed, Punjab's Inspector General of Police Shaukat Javed confirmed 12 deaths.
Nawani was injured in the attack and rushed to a hospital, where channels said his condition was serious. Over 200 people had gathered at Nawani's home to exchange Eid greetings at the time of the attack. Though special security arrangements were made at the lawmaker's residence, the bomber managed to sneak inside and detonate his explosives, police officials said.
Nawani is a Shia and reports suggested that the attack might have been carried out by rival sectarian groups. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which was condemned by President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif.
Nawani's residence was sealed off by policemen and investigators scoured the site of the blast for clues. Police officials said they had found parts of the body of the suicide bomber and these would be sent for DNA tests to establish his identity. Media reports said that the lawmaker was embracing people and wishing them Eid greetings when the blast occurred.
According to the eyewitnesses, at least 30 people injured in blasts were in critical conditions. Parts of human bodies were seen scattered in three rooms of the house and in open areas outside.
The attack on the lawmaker comes even as suspected Taliban militants fired rockets at the house of North West Frontier Province Chief Minister Amir Haider Hoti in his hometown Mardan. Hoti, however, escaped as he was in Peshawar at the time of attack.
In a related incident, the authorities for security reasons have moved the Awami National Party chief and chairman designate of the Senate Asfandyar Wali Khan to the Presidential Palace.
Khan escaped a suicide bomb attack at his house in Charsadda in NWFP last week in which four people were killed.
Islamabad (PTI): In a sudden upsurge in militant attacks, at least 17 people were killedon Monday and 60 injured as a suspected suicide bomber struck at the home of a prominent PML-N parliamentarian in Pakistan's heartland of Punjab province.
The bomber blew himself up at the residence of PML-N leader Rasheed Akbar Nawani, a prominent politician of Bhakkar district and a member of the National Assembly, almost destroying his home and shaking the entire area sending his panicked neighbours and shopkeepers scurrying for safety. Though TV channels reported that between 15 to 20 people were killed, Punjab's Inspector General of Police Shaukat Javed confirmed 12 deaths.
Nawani was injured in the attack and rushed to a hospital, where channels said his condition was serious. Over 200 people had gathered at Nawani's home to exchange Eid greetings at the time of the attack. Though special security arrangements were made at the lawmaker's residence, the bomber managed to sneak inside and detonate his explosives, police officials said.
Nawani is a Shia and reports suggested that the attack might have been carried out by rival sectarian groups. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which was condemned by President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif.
Nawani's residence was sealed off by policemen and investigators scoured the site of the blast for clues. Police officials said they had found parts of the body of the suicide bomber and these would be sent for DNA tests to establish his identity. Media reports said that the lawmaker was embracing people and wishing them Eid greetings when the blast occurred.
According to the eyewitnesses, at least 30 people injured in blasts were in critical conditions. Parts of human bodies were seen scattered in three rooms of the house and in open areas outside.
The attack on the lawmaker comes even as suspected Taliban militants fired rockets at the house of North West Frontier Province Chief Minister Amir Haider Hoti in his hometown Mardan. Hoti, however, escaped as he was in Peshawar at the time of attack.
In a related incident, the authorities for security reasons have moved the Awami National Party chief and chairman designate of the Senate Asfandyar Wali Khan to the Presidential Palace.
Khan escaped a suicide bomb attack at his house in Charsadda in NWFP last week in which four people were killed.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
"ஜம்மு காஷ்மீர் பயங்கரவாதிகள்" என்று பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதி சர்தாரி சொன்னதற்கு முன்னாள் பாக் பிரதமரது கட்சி எதிர்ப்பு
தற்போதைய பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதி ஜம்மு காஷ்மீரில் பயங்கரவாதம் செய்துவரும் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகளை "பயங்கரவாதிகள்" என்றே அழைத்தார்.
பாகிஸ்தானிலும் இந்திய அறிவுஜீவி வட்டாரத்திலும் இவர்களை சுதந்திரவீரர்கள் என்று அழைப்பதுதான் பழக்கம்.
இந்த பழக்கத்தை மறுத்து, இந்த பயங்கரவாதிகளை பயங்கரவாதிகள் என்றே பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதி சர்தாரி அழைத்தது பலத்த அதிர்ச்சியை உருவாக்கியுள்ளது.
தமிழ் அறிவுஜீவிகள் பலருக்கு இது மாரடைப்பை ஏற்படுத்தியிருக்கலாம் என்று அஞ்சப்படுகிறது
PML(N) objects to Zardari's comments on J&K militants
Press Trust of India
Posted: Oct 05, 2008 at 1839 hrs IST
Updated: Oct 05, 2008 at 1839 hrs IST
The PML-N took exception to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's description of militant groups in Jammu and Kashmir as ‘terrorists’ and said it would raise the issue in Parliament.
"We take exception to Mr Zardari's statement in this regard," PML-N spokesman Siddique-ul-Farooq told Dawn News channel.
He said the ‘uprising’ in Jammu and Kashmir over the past few months had proved that the movement in the Indian state is ‘indigenous’.
Farooq said that the PML-N would raise the issue in Parliament.
In an interview to Wall Street Journal, Zardari described militant Islamic groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir as ‘terrorists’ and said "India has never been a threat to Pakistan".
India has for long accused Pakistan of arming and funding the militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan has denied the charge.
Farooq said UN resolutions on Kashmir, the Simla Accord and the February 23, 1999 Lahore accord signed by PML-N chief and then premier Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee provided the ‘only solution’ to the dragging Kashmir dispute.
"If India or Pakistan or both want to get this issue resolved, these (accords) and resolutions suggest the exact solution of the problem," he said.
The PML-N was part of the ruling coalition led by Zardari's Pakistan People's Party till August. It pulled out of the coalition after Zardari failed to deliver on several commitments to reinstate dozens of judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf during last year's emergency.
பாகிஸ்தானிலும் இந்திய அறிவுஜீவி வட்டாரத்திலும் இவர்களை சுதந்திரவீரர்கள் என்று அழைப்பதுதான் பழக்கம்.
இந்த பழக்கத்தை மறுத்து, இந்த பயங்கரவாதிகளை பயங்கரவாதிகள் என்றே பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதி சர்தாரி அழைத்தது பலத்த அதிர்ச்சியை உருவாக்கியுள்ளது.
தமிழ் அறிவுஜீவிகள் பலருக்கு இது மாரடைப்பை ஏற்படுத்தியிருக்கலாம் என்று அஞ்சப்படுகிறது
PML(N) objects to Zardari's comments on J&K militants
Press Trust of India
Posted: Oct 05, 2008 at 1839 hrs IST
Updated: Oct 05, 2008 at 1839 hrs IST
The PML-N took exception to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's description of militant groups in Jammu and Kashmir as ‘terrorists’ and said it would raise the issue in Parliament.
"We take exception to Mr Zardari's statement in this regard," PML-N spokesman Siddique-ul-Farooq told Dawn News channel.
He said the ‘uprising’ in Jammu and Kashmir over the past few months had proved that the movement in the Indian state is ‘indigenous’.
Farooq said that the PML-N would raise the issue in Parliament.
In an interview to Wall Street Journal, Zardari described militant Islamic groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir as ‘terrorists’ and said "India has never been a threat to Pakistan".
India has for long accused Pakistan of arming and funding the militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan has denied the charge.
Farooq said UN resolutions on Kashmir, the Simla Accord and the February 23, 1999 Lahore accord signed by PML-N chief and then premier Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee provided the ‘only solution’ to the dragging Kashmir dispute.
"If India or Pakistan or both want to get this issue resolved, these (accords) and resolutions suggest the exact solution of the problem," he said.
The PML-N was part of the ruling coalition led by Zardari's Pakistan People's Party till August. It pulled out of the coalition after Zardari failed to deliver on several commitments to reinstate dozens of judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf during last year's emergency.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
பாகிஸ்தானில் இஸ்லாமிய ஜாதிவெறி காரணமாக 225 பெண்கள் கௌரவகொலை
பாகிஸ்தானில் இஸ்லாமிய ஜாதிவெறி காரணமாக 225 பெண்கள் கௌரவகொலை
செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்
225 women killed for honour in six months
LAHORE: Two hundred and twenty-five women have been killed in incidents of Karo Kari (honour killing) in the past six months across Pakistan, according to a survey conducted by the Aurat Foundation, BBC Urdu reported on Friday. The organisation said that though honour killing has different names in different areas of Pakistan, the traditions remain the same across the country. Malik Asghar of the Aurat Foundation said that the survey covered details of women killed for honour between January and June 2008. According to the survey, the number of women murdered during the six months for reasons other than honour was 722. The survey revealed that only two accused in Karo Kari cases registered during the last six months had been sentenced while the rest were pending in courts. daily times monitor
செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்
225 women killed for honour in six months
LAHORE: Two hundred and twenty-five women have been killed in incidents of Karo Kari (honour killing) in the past six months across Pakistan, according to a survey conducted by the Aurat Foundation, BBC Urdu reported on Friday. The organisation said that though honour killing has different names in different areas of Pakistan, the traditions remain the same across the country. Malik Asghar of the Aurat Foundation said that the survey covered details of women killed for honour between January and June 2008. According to the survey, the number of women murdered during the six months for reasons other than honour was 722. The survey revealed that only two accused in Karo Kari cases registered during the last six months had been sentenced while the rest were pending in courts. daily times monitor
சாரா பாலினுடன் பேசியதற்காக பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதி ஆசிப் சர்தாரி மீது பத்வா
சாரா பாலினுடன் பேசியதற்காக பாகிஸ்தான் ஜனாதிபதி ஆசிப் சர்தாரி மீது பத்வா விதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Fatwa Against Pakistani President For Praising Palin
9/29/2008 7:16 AM ET
(RTTNews) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's "You're gorgeous" compliment to U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Washington last Thursday landed him in trouble, with the prayer leader of the extremist Lal Masjid mosque in the heart of Islamabad issuing a fatwa against him, media reports said.
Maulana Abdul Ghafar said the act was un-Islamic and unbecoming of a head of state of a Muslim country, adding that he shamed the entire Pakistani nation by publicly making indecent gestures, filthy remarks and repeated praise of a non-Muslim female wearing a short skirt.
He termed the manner in which Zardari shook hands with Palin and expressing his deep desire to hug her, as intolerable and shameful.
"We are fighting the American war in our country and thousands of Pakistanis were killed just to please Uncle Sam. Therefore, we demand that the military operation in the Pak-Afghan tribal areas be immediately stopped, as it is creating hatred amongst the general public against the Pakistani army", he added.
by RTT Staff Writer
Fatwa Against Pakistani President For Praising Palin
9/29/2008 7:16 AM ET
(RTTNews) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's "You're gorgeous" compliment to U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Washington last Thursday landed him in trouble, with the prayer leader of the extremist Lal Masjid mosque in the heart of Islamabad issuing a fatwa against him, media reports said.
Maulana Abdul Ghafar said the act was un-Islamic and unbecoming of a head of state of a Muslim country, adding that he shamed the entire Pakistani nation by publicly making indecent gestures, filthy remarks and repeated praise of a non-Muslim female wearing a short skirt.
He termed the manner in which Zardari shook hands with Palin and expressing his deep desire to hug her, as intolerable and shameful.
"We are fighting the American war in our country and thousands of Pakistanis were killed just to please Uncle Sam. Therefore, we demand that the military operation in the Pak-Afghan tribal areas be immediately stopped, as it is creating hatred amongst the general public against the Pakistani army", he added.
by RTT Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2008
ஜாதி கௌரவத்துக்காகவும் குடும்ப கௌரவத்துக்காகவும் 90 பெண்கள் கொலை- பாகிஸ்தான்
ஜாதி கௌரவத்துக்காகவும் குடும்ப கௌரவத்துக்காகவும் 90 பெண்கள் கொலை- பாகிஸ்தான்
90 honour killings reported in first quarter of 2008
By Akhtar Amin
PESAHWAR: Cases of honour killing are on the rise in Pakistan as 90 such cases were reported all over the country in the first quarter (January to March) of 2008, says a report compiled by a non-governmental organisation (NGO)Aurat Foundation (AF).
Out of the 90 cases, 36 were reported in Balochistan, 35 in Sindh, 11 in Punjab and eight in NWFP.
Talking to Daily Times, Aurat Foundation Peshawar Resident Director Rukhshanda Naz cited lengthy judicial procedure and delay in disposal of such cases as the main reasons for increase in honour killing in the country.
She said that the government’s effort to make the state a party in honour killing cases was an encouraging step but alongside, the government should also give instant punishment to honour killers to stop this heinous crime in the country.
About the three teenaged girls allegedly buried alive in Balochistan by the tribesmen in the name of honour, she said that the inhuman incident not only earned a bad name to Balochistan but also to the whole country.
“If the government award strict punishment to honour killers, such incidents would not be reported in the country,” she said, adding that for curbing such incidents in future, the government should enact strict laws.
According to the AF report, 366 women were murdered in first three months of the current year in Pakistan. Out of them, 130 were murdered in Punjab, 110 in Sindh, 95 in NWFP and 25 in Balochistan. Sixty cases of rape were reported in this period, out of which 34 were reported in Punjab, 14 in Sindh, nine in NWFP, three in Balochistan and one in Islamabad.
A total of 246 cases of abduction were reported with 177 of them reported in Punjab, 38 in Sindh, 16 in NWFP and four in Balochistan.
A total of 66 women committed suicide during this period. Twenty-seven of them were in Punjab, 24 in Sindh, eight in NWFP, four in Balochistan and three in Islamabad.
Eighteen cases of gang rape were reported in the first quarter of the current year. Out of the number, 34 cases were reported in Punjab, 10 in Sindh, nine in NWFP, three in Balochistan and one in Islamabad.
As many as 24 cases of sexual assault happened, out of which 13 were reported in Punjab, six in Sindh, 10 in NWFP, three in Balochistan and two in Islamabad. A total of 119 cases of domestic violence were reported in the three months with 46 cases reported in NWFP, 34 in Punjab, 30 in Sindh, seven in Balochistan and two in Islamabad.
Thirty-four cases of custodial violence were also reported in this period, out of which 10 cases were reported in Punjab and 14 in Sindh. Out of 16 women who were burnt, four were in Punjab, six in Sindh, one in NWFP, four in Balochistan and one in Islamabad.
Three cases of acid-throwing were reported in the country, two in Punjab and one in Sindh, while six cases of human trafficking (four in Punjab and two in NWFP) were also reported.
90 honour killings reported in first quarter of 2008
By Akhtar Amin
PESAHWAR: Cases of honour killing are on the rise in Pakistan as 90 such cases were reported all over the country in the first quarter (January to March) of 2008, says a report compiled by a non-governmental organisation (NGO)Aurat Foundation (AF).
Out of the 90 cases, 36 were reported in Balochistan, 35 in Sindh, 11 in Punjab and eight in NWFP.
Talking to Daily Times, Aurat Foundation Peshawar Resident Director Rukhshanda Naz cited lengthy judicial procedure and delay in disposal of such cases as the main reasons for increase in honour killing in the country.
She said that the government’s effort to make the state a party in honour killing cases was an encouraging step but alongside, the government should also give instant punishment to honour killers to stop this heinous crime in the country.
About the three teenaged girls allegedly buried alive in Balochistan by the tribesmen in the name of honour, she said that the inhuman incident not only earned a bad name to Balochistan but also to the whole country.
“If the government award strict punishment to honour killers, such incidents would not be reported in the country,” she said, adding that for curbing such incidents in future, the government should enact strict laws.
According to the AF report, 366 women were murdered in first three months of the current year in Pakistan. Out of them, 130 were murdered in Punjab, 110 in Sindh, 95 in NWFP and 25 in Balochistan. Sixty cases of rape were reported in this period, out of which 34 were reported in Punjab, 14 in Sindh, nine in NWFP, three in Balochistan and one in Islamabad.
A total of 246 cases of abduction were reported with 177 of them reported in Punjab, 38 in Sindh, 16 in NWFP and four in Balochistan.
A total of 66 women committed suicide during this period. Twenty-seven of them were in Punjab, 24 in Sindh, eight in NWFP, four in Balochistan and three in Islamabad.
Eighteen cases of gang rape were reported in the first quarter of the current year. Out of the number, 34 cases were reported in Punjab, 10 in Sindh, nine in NWFP, three in Balochistan and one in Islamabad.
As many as 24 cases of sexual assault happened, out of which 13 were reported in Punjab, six in Sindh, 10 in NWFP, three in Balochistan and two in Islamabad. A total of 119 cases of domestic violence were reported in the three months with 46 cases reported in NWFP, 34 in Punjab, 30 in Sindh, seven in Balochistan and two in Islamabad.
Thirty-four cases of custodial violence were also reported in this period, out of which 10 cases were reported in Punjab and 14 in Sindh. Out of 16 women who were burnt, four were in Punjab, six in Sindh, one in NWFP, four in Balochistan and one in Islamabad.
Three cases of acid-throwing were reported in the country, two in Punjab and one in Sindh, while six cases of human trafficking (four in Punjab and two in NWFP) were also reported.
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