Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): June 30, 2011

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 06 Jul 2011 05:40

Umrikan journalist and civil libertarian is generally upset about the US govt prosecuting whistleblowers and those who leak in general. Therefore, the latest leaks about the ISI being behind SSS's murder coming from the US govt. result in this surreal essay:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn ... index.html

Surya · Post by **Surya** » 06 Jul 2011 05:48

a bitter leftist

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 06 Jul 2011 06:12

chetak wrote:
Lalmohan wrote:keepers of the ideology - check
highly militant - check
highly committed - check
state within a state - check
spewing hatred and war crimes - check

yup, so far so good...
Did they train with dogs??

Yes.

Dogs - Pakistan army available - check

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 06 Jul 2011 06:30

Nihat wrote:
I disagree that Paki obsession with Kashmir has no impact on their state of affairs or economy, because they have found their "identity in Kashmir" and willingly mortgaged the whole nation and sold themselves to the highest bidder from time to time, according to Pakis Kashmir proves the viability of their own nation and existence of 2 nation theory (half rubbished by 1971). TSP will do anything and everything to get a victory in Kashmir as a loss or no movement will mean that the last excuse for the existence of this shambolic nation has fallen.

This is why I had mentioned that Paki's remaining glued to Kashmir and parroting it is good news for India as it means that they will continue to sell themselves everyday to achieve an nonviable goal which will and is leading them to decay everyday.

I think Pakistan's status has become a bit more nuanced. The Kashmir caterwauls began as something that could be sold to the west - with Amreeka blowing huge farts across the world saying that they stood for "Freedom". Everyone was forced to believe that (America says so, so it's true) and the Pakis used that with alacrity and made Cashmeer a freedom struggle. But as history has shown Pakistan needs a fight with outsiders to maintain internal stability (like so many other regimes in the past). The Cashmere story worked for a while and now that it is fading - the Pakis are brining in "water issues" and "Afghanistan" as reasons to have a fight with India.

The Pakistani establishment needs a fight with India to survive. Look at those 14,000 trained Pakis ready to fight India. Their only raisin dieter was jihad against India. Why aren't they fighting India? Pakistan would try and infiltrate them if it could - but that option is becoming untenable and costly for various reasons. So they are forced to hold on to trained young men - probably ranging from 20 to 35 years old - feeding them and perhaps keeping them disarmed. It will be 20 years before the "fight goes out" of these men, but they have to be fed and kept in good cheer till then. if they get arms - they will become "autonomous". At best (For pakis) they will try and fight India on their own. But worse - they will fight the Paki army for not letting them fight India. And the Paki army cannot afford to allow those men to attack India because not only will they be killed - the Paki army too will face the music. The Paki army's wars are no longer supported by a US that is blowing "freedom" farts across the world. The US is now blowing "Let me save my own ass" farts.

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Jul 2011 06:41

X Posted from the ISI History and Discussions thread.

Notwithstanding the fact that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is passing through an infrequent period of civilian administration albeit “under seen” by the Military rather than the more frequent periods of outright Military Dictatorship, political freedom is nonetheless circumscribed.

Journalist Omar Waraich in Time Magazine on the deadly consequences of annoying the ISI / ISID, the intelligence agency of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Read it all:

Risky Business: When Pakistani Journalists Take On the ISI

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Jul 2011 07:06

X Posted from the India-US Strtaegic News and Discussion thread.

Excerpts from an article titled “India's Ongoing Concerns Over Pakistan and Afghanistan” by Daniel Wagner and in Subhash Agarwal in Huffington Post:

There is immense uncertainty and disquiet among the Indian diplomatic and military community, as well as among ordinary citizens, at what Indians see as continuing tacit US approval of Pakistani duplicity in the war on terror. Based on leaked Pentagon memoranda and recollections by those who were once in the inner circle of U.S. interaction with Pakistan, it is clear now that the US tacitly colluded in nurturing Pakistan's Islamic fundamentalists by looking the other way while evidence mounted that elements of the Pakistani government supported the Taliban and other jihadi movements.

In the Indian view, successive American regimes have put amazingly misplaced trust in the Pakistani leadership's ability or desire to reign in the Taliban and other militant elements on its soil. In fact, India has been miffed at the US over its ongoing suggestion that India offer concessions to Pakistan over the vexed Kashmir dispute, particularly since America - which has launched two wars in the name of pursuing the perpetrators of 9/11 - displays fleeting similar concern for accountability when India demands it from Pakistan.

At this point in time, any U.S. urging to placate Pakistan seems disingenuous at best and self-defeating at worst. Having gotten over their anger at past US actions that helped prop up the so-called "rogue elements" inside the Pakistani army, Indian officials continue to be very skeptical of the notion that these same entities can somehow be cajoled into jettisoning their pro-jihadist orientation.

Read it all:

India's Ongoing Concerns Over Pakistan and Afghanistan

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 06 Jul 2011 07:11

Another juicy bit from the Wagner article

Suddenly, American movies and TV shows have started casting Pakistan as the villainous country in the plot, while the blogosphere is full of less restrained and more openly anti-Pakistan comments

the mask is slipping..

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 06 Jul 2011 07:15

[quote="arun"

At this point in time, any U.S. urging to placate Pakistan seems disingenuous at best and self-defeating at worst. Having gotten over their anger at past US actions that helped prop up the so-called "rogue elements" inside the Pakistani army, Indian officials continue to be very skeptical of the notion that these same entities can somehow be cajoled into jettisoning their pro-jihadist orientation.

[/quote]

Notice the similarity of the theme - with Ms.Fair also saying don't bribe them or give up territory in the hope that they will cease to be barbaric animals..

This is significant. Because by the Lahori logic of our sewer rat jehadi terrorist neighbours, terrorism was meant to achieve two objectives - one is to keep SDREs cowering in fear inside their dhoties and reduce their population/economic strength and the second, more important objective was to scare the rest of the world into pressurising India to 'give up Cashmere'....now the civilised world is coming to conclusion that any concession to Pakbaric animals is likely to further encourage terrorism and hence they are urging us not to do so!...or at least beginning to do so...

g.sarkar · Post by **g.sarkar** » 06 Jul 2011 07:50

Lalmohan wrote: SS Charlemagne
SS Das Reich
SS Totenkopf
SS Horst Wechsel
(I'll stop there, since there are many more!)

Lalmohanji,
I think you mean Horst Wessel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBhxOFjCn0
Gautam

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 06 Jul 2011 07:53

Pakistan reminds me of a guy - an ordinary man with 2 wives and 14 kids who believed that the field next to his plot was full of rats that would invade any time. So he invested in rat-traps. First he got rat traps as foreign aid. Later when it came to the choice of sending his kids to school or buying rat traps, he bought rat traps. He trained his kids to set up - you guessed it, rat traps. When had to deal with a new neighbor on the other side, he bought rat traps. When his family was hungry, he responded by begging for more rat traps.

Now the guy is left with grown up kids who know nothing more than how to set up rat traps. He has a whole lot of rat traps in every nook and cranny of his house. But there are no rats in any of the neighbors' fields. The rats just ain't comin'. All that the Paki is left with is rat traps and hungry people. You want to eat? Do jihad against India. You want to take a crap? Do jihad against India. You want education? Do jihad against India . You want electricity? Do jihad against India. You need a job? Do jihad against india. You want sex? Do jihad against India (and get 72 hooris)

When we read history books we often don't understand how badly led nations fired up with idiotic religious zeal can make such bad decisions regarding life and conflict. We read a few lines about a bad king who got into many wars and the people suffered. Pakistan is playing out that kind of historic drama in front of our eyes.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 06 Jul 2011 08:34

Karachi's violence and the war in Afghanistan

Caliphate Dreaming: Pakistan is cracking down on the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. So why is it allowed to operate freely in the United States and Britain?

rajanb · Post by **rajanb** » 06 Jul 2011 09:29

Theo_Fidel wrote:
Dilbu wrote:Like a B grade parody of waffen SS.
Reminds one of 'Allo Allo' and the little pink SS tank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!

Reminds me of an AIR broadcast during '65 called "Radio Jhoothistan" and the host was called Affeemji. It was broadcast during the '65 war and utterly hilarious. A tongue in cheek sort of propaganda. Many a night was spent in college days with a small congregation, gathered around the radio, rolling with laughter. Surprisingly, a very well produced and scripted programme from AIR.

Unfortunately, Google does not have much info in it.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 06 Jul 2011 09:52

Suppiah wrote:Notice the similarity of the theme - with Ms.Fair also saying don't bribe them or give up territory in the hope that they will cease to be barbaric animals..

This is significant. Because by the Lahori logic of our sewer rat jehadi terrorist neighbours, terrorism was meant to achieve two objectives - one is to keep SDREs cowering in fear inside their dhoties and reduce their population/economic strength and the second, more important objective was to scare the rest of the world into pressurising India to 'give up Cashmere'....now the civilised world is coming to conclusion that any concession to Pakbaric animals is likely to further encourage terrorism and hence they are urging us not to do so!...or at least beginning to do so...

Earlier they were asking us to gift J&K. Now they are asking us not to. We should just keep doing what we were doing. All babus have to say is "we condemn the barbaric attack on innocent civilians in our neighborhood and stand aginst terrorism in all forms. Now bhayya aao chaay peejiye aur ye biscuit bhi khayiye'.

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 06 Jul 2011 10:04

Karachi: 5 bodies recovered from bus; death toll at 21

KARACHI: At least five bodies were recovered from a mini-bus in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Wednesday, pushing the overall death toll during the last 24 hours of violence in the metropolis to 21.

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1138 killed in 6 months in Karachi

According to Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), at least 1138 people were killed from January 11 to June 11 this year.

Among the killed, 77 people belonged to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), 26 to Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and 29 people belonged to Awami National Party (ANP).

According to report, 19 activists of religious parties are also included among the deceased and three workers of nationalist parties were also made victims of this violence. SAMAA

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 06 Jul 2011 10:05

The on-going intelligence war between the US and the ISI

Adding more fuel to fire, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Philip J. Crowley — who had to resign earlier this year following his comments on the treatment of Bradley Manning (arrested on suspicion of transferring classified information to Wikileaks) — tweeted: “The story about the ISI role in the murder of Shahzad is another salvo in the ongoing intelligence war with Pakistan.”

Link

Airavat · Post by **Airavat** » 06 Jul 2011 11:10

Fake currency in Fakeistan:

"Counterfeit banknotes, especially of Rs1,000 and Rs5,000 denominations, are being circulated at an increasing rate especially in Islamabad and Peshawar, according to a report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) available with The Express Tribune."

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 06 Jul 2011 11:42

Airavat wrote:Fake currency in Fakeistan:

Every which way in which they wanted to hit us has boomeranged on them.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 06 Jul 2011 11:47

Airavat wrote:Fake currency in Fakeistan:

"Counterfeit banknotes, especially of Rs1,000 and Rs5,000 denominations, are being circulated at an increasing rate especially in Islamabad and Peshawar, according to a report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) available with The Express Tribune."

Why would anyone fake toilet paper?

Something not quite right here on so many levels!

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 06 Jul 2011 11:54

gautambabu - absolutely right, i was mixing up with one of my colleagues!

Shrinivasan · Post by **Shrinivasan** » 06 Jul 2011 12:16

Lalmohan wrote:keepers of the ideology - check
highly militant - check
highly committed - check
state within a state - check
spewing hatred and war crimes - check
yup, so far so good...

Planning for eventual defeat???
Taking a cut of everything - After Mr. 10%'s cut - ???
Prosecution of dissenting groups/journalist - ???
Genocide against minorities - ???

Shrinivasan · Post by **Shrinivasan** » 06 Jul 2011 12:31

Dipanker wrote:Originally it was from this CARLOTTA GALL piece in NYTimes:
Pakistan has 12,000 to 14,000 fully trained Kashmiri fighters, scattered throughout various camps in Pakistan, and is holding them in reserve to use if needed in a war against India, he said.

This article is a leak by the US to put more pressure on the Pakis. Probably to prod them to do more on the western front. I would think a smart Pakee would use these trained me to fight the TTP? else Pakees would try their best to push them into Desh this summer.
A Jehadi sitting idle is a major pain-in-mush for Pakis, they might jump ship and join the TTP or do a PNS Mehran for a fee.
Pakistan needs a pressure valve release desperately!!!

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 06 Jul 2011 12:35

SSridhar wrote:Every which way in which they wanted to hit us has boomeranged on them.

Do you suspect that Army/ISI types are doing this to fund their ops?

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 06 Jul 2011 12:36

we've talked about this before, TSP is analogous to a fascist state driven by a deep ideology of hatred and victimhood, bolstered by fake martial fantasies and desire for land, belief in their own purity and destiny.. etc, etc. i agree that LET is nowhere near the competence of the SS, but there are wannabe elements to this analogy. perhaps LET is more akin to the brown shirts or chetniks or a myriad other vicious paramilitary gang of thugs - my view is that instead of fearing them and adding to their legend, they should be ridiculed and derided for the pathetic scum they are

rajanb · Post by **rajanb** » 06 Jul 2011 12:40

Anujan wrote:
SSridhar wrote:Every which way in which they wanted to hit us has boomeranged on them.
Do you suspect that Army/ISI types are doing this to fund their ops?

Or could be revenge?

Shrinivasan · Post by **Shrinivasan** » 06 Jul 2011 12:49

Airavat wrote:Fake currency in Fakeistan:

"Counterfeit banknotes, especially of Rs1,000 and Rs5,000 denominations, are being circulated at an increasing rate especially in Islamabad and Peshawar, according to a report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) available with The Express Tribune."

Is this Indian Rupees or Pakistani Rupees? ever wondered why Pak-shi-stan did not change its currency from rupee to a more islamic name?

anandsgh · Post by **anandsgh** » 06 Jul 2011 13:13

Shrinivasan wrote:
Airavat wrote:Fake currency in Fakeistan:

"Counterfeit banknotes, especially of Rs1,000 and Rs5,000 denominations, are being circulated at an increasing rate especially in Islamabad and Peshawar, according to a report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) available with The Express Tribune."
Is this Indian Rupees or Pakistani Rupees? ever wondered why Pak-shi-stan did not change its currency from rupee to a more islamic name?

Should be paki rupee. We don't have 5K currency notes.

rajanb · Post by **rajanb** » 06 Jul 2011 13:14

Shrinivasan wrote:
Airavat wrote:Fake currency in Fakeistan:

"Counterfeit banknotes, especially of Rs1,000 and Rs5,000 denominations, are being circulated at an increasing rate especially in Islamabad and Peshawar, according to a report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) available with The Express Tribune."
Is this Indian Rupees or Pakistani Rupees? ever wondered why Pak-shi-stan did not change its currency from rupee to a more islamic name?

http://epaper.tribune.com.pk/PUBLICATIO ... tml?Mode=1

Why would the SBP bother about Indian Rupee fakes in Pakistan? It is paki rupees.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 06 Jul 2011 13:36

Anujan wrote:
SSridhar wrote:Every which way in which they wanted to hit us has boomeranged on them.
Do you suspect that Army/ISI types are doing this to fund their ops?

rajanb wrote:Or could be revenge?

I suspect this currency business is a very big scam in Pakistan. The PA demands a hell of a lot of cash (real currency) from GoP in every budget for its covert operations against India. The COAS, Corps Commanders and officers under them then siphon off real currency and substitute them with fake currency for printing which facilities have been setup at Government expense and running expenses like importing high quality currency paper, ink etc are met by GoP. GoP knows about large scale currency swap. May be the PM, Defence Secretary and the Finance Minister get their due shares too. It is this fake currency that gets pushed into India where its is converted (obviously at a discount) into real currency, part of which is used to support operations, sustain the sleeper cells etc and the remainder is smuggled back into Pakistan where it travels all the way back up the military hierarchy to fill the pockets once again. Thus, PA gets a double jackpot. This is another issue.

All I am saying is that it could be anything. It is like the terror monster that they created. The same terror is visiting them every day and ferociously too and they are unable and unwilling to do anything about that because the moment any action is taken, the house of cards will collapse. The point is therefore that once somebody is taught how to do evil things to others and is even told that it is all religiously allowed, what is the guarantee that the same evil will not be inflicted on the teacher if and when the situation demands. Pakistan is a formidable living proof of this.

saadhak · Post by **saadhak** » 06 Jul 2011 13:42

US should slap ISI officials - says ex-CIA

We should tell the Pakistani Army leadership that if we learn one of their officers is involved in harbouring terrorists, planning terror operations, or tipping terrorist bomb factories off to drone raids, we will make it personal," said Bruce Riedel,...

Don't sanction the country or the ISI {why not??}; sanction individuals. Hold them accountable. That officer will go on our terrorist most-wanted list, and we will seize his property if we can, arrest him if he travels, expel his kids from school here or in England, and – if he is truly dangerous enough – take direct action..

We should not do this alone. We should get allies, especially the British, to help, since Pakistanis love to visit London and send their kids to school in the United Kingdom

Now the evidence is growing that at least some part of the ISI and the Pakistani army was, in fact, actively complicit in hiding Bin Laden for the past five years

The commandant of the Kakul academy in 2006 was General Nadeem Taj, the right-hand man of former President Pervez Musharraf. After his service in Abbottabad, Taj became director general of the ISI in late 2007.
On his watch, the ISI blew up the Indian embassy in Kabul and Benazir Bhutto was murdered by al-Qaeda. The UN investigation of Benazir's murder held the ISI as possibly culpable

The terrorist attacks on Mumbai came a month later, and we know the ISI helped plan that. Taj had the means and access in 2006 to help Bin Laden, and he is clearly a problematic partner. Not a smoking gun by any means, but suggestive

Hafez Saed, head of Lashkar-e-Toiba and mastermind of the Mumbai massacre, lives and preaches openly in Lahore.
Dawood Ibrahim, who killed hundreds with bombs on Mumbai's metro in 1993, lives in Karachi. There are no secrets here – the south Asian press reports their hideouts on a regular basis

They know, but choose to not let the truth out in most of their articles.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 06 Jul 2011 13:44

Shrinivasan wrote:...ever wondered why Pak-shi-stan did not change its currency from rupee to a more islamic name?

The term "Rupee or Rupiya" is an Islamic reinvention. The derivative word Rūpaya was used to denote the coin introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his reign from 1540 to 1545 although the term also has Sanskritic origins as well. Since the pakis are the progenitors of everything Islamic, they stuck with the term as their own "baap ka maal".

rajanb · Post by **rajanb** » 06 Jul 2011 13:47

anupmisra wrote:
Shrinivasan wrote:...ever wondered why Pak-shi-stan did not change its currency from rupee to a more islamic name?
The term "Rupee or Rupiya" is an Islamic reinvention. The derivative word Rūpaya was used to denote the coin introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his reign from 1540 to 1545 although the term also has Sanskritic origins as well. Since the pakis are the progenitors of everything Islamic, they stuck with the term as their own "baap ka maal".

Anupji,

What to do. They invented the shuniya, the wheel, the......but hold on. They also invented gubo which they are subjected to.

*Sigh* life should be so easy.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 06 Jul 2011 13:49

Lalmohan wrote:we've talked about this before, TSP is analogous to a fascist state driven by a deep ideology of hatred and victimhood, bolstered by fake martial fantasies and desire for land, belief in their own purity and destiny.. etc, etc.

Yes. I had posted a comparison before.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 06 Jul 2011 13:49

saadhak wrote:US should slap ISI officials - says ex-CIA

At first, the link in your post gave me some sadistic (nay, wishful) hope but when I clicked on the title, it said "US should slap sanctions on ISI officials". Ah, hope lies eternal. One day, inshallah, one day.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 06 Jul 2011 14:07

Pakistan commission bars bin Laden family leaving

Wonder why? What possible, deeply rooted and vital information can the dead man's wives and kids divulge to the world? Afterall, they were in pakiland for only six years.

Pakistan has always said the relatives would be repatriated and a Pakistani security official recently confirmed to AFP that the youngest widow, Amal Abdulfattah, could return to Yemen within days. But the high-level four-member commission said no family member could leave without its prior consent.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 06 Jul 2011 14:13

anupmisra wrote:
saadhak wrote:US should slap ISI officials - says ex-CIA
At first, the link in your post gave me some sadistic (nay, wishful) hope but when I clicked on the title, it said "US should slap sanctions on ISI officials". Ah, hope lies eternal. One day, inshallah, one day.

That is far worse for them, imagine the entrire sons and daughters access to Western Universities and residency permits being stopped. Lets not forget many in Paki elite (sons and daughters) emigrate to Western countries and study there. Personally this carrot being stopped is a Huge blow to them.

saadhak · Post by **saadhak** » 06 Jul 2011 14:21

anupmisra wrote:
saadhak wrote:US should slap ISI officials - says ex-CIA
At first, the link in your post gave me some sadistic (nay, wishful) hope but when I clicked on the title, it said "US should slap sanctions on ISI officials". Ah, hope lies eternal. One day, inshallah, one day.

Galti se mistake hogaya

Want to add that the positive thing is that Bruce Riedel has used in the majority of examples, ISI inflicted terrorism on India (rather than incidents in which ISI hit US interests) to present the case for getting personal with ISI afsars.

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 06 Jul 2011 14:50

Old BRF friend Bhadrakumar
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/173 ... music.html

The fear psychosis of Pakistan engineering a Taliban takeover stems from a false assumption that it is the US military presence that prevents the deluge and the mistaken belief that Pakistan is indeed capable of making another attempt as it did in the 1990s to conquer Afghanistan. Alas, the legend survives that starry-eyed young Talibs in black headgear stormed Kabul in September 1996 and drove out the battle-hardened militia of Ahmed Shah Massoud. But in actuality, it was a full-fledged Pakistani military operation.

A repetition of this invasion is beyond Pakistan’s capability today. Nor is the Pakistani military leadership naïve to overlook that the political environment has changed. The paranoia of civil war is whipped up by lumpen elements who thrive when a war prolongs and becomes an industry. Both among (non-Pashtun) Afghans and among western war contractors, they are to be found. Two, the US is interested in stirring up the insecurities of non-Pashtuns, which provides raison d’etre for continued western military presence.

<snip>

The Durand Line, which Pashtun tribes never accepted as legitimate border, has all but disappeared. Pakistan has virtually come under armed attack by Pashtuns from the Afghan side. Big chunks of militant groups that Pakistan trained and equipped have turned against their mentors.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 06 Jul 2011 14:51

http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=251626
News via Iran:

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Law Enforcement Agencies has arrested a mastermind of outlawed terrorists outfits involved in the assassination of leading Shia Cleric of Pakistan Shaheed Agha Ziauddin Rizvi in Gilgit-Baltistan.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 06 Jul 2011 14:51

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/hea ... ryid=10908

A Muslim group tried to seize control of a hospital run by a Presbyterian missionary group in Pakistan, bringing charges that the hospital had been sold. The effort was foiled only after local police arrested hospital administrators at the prompting of the Muslim instigators.

The Christian Hospital of Taxila, outside Islamabad, was targeted by a team of Muslim financiers, who claimed to have purchased the property. After local officials began enforcing the claim, a stream of protest by Christian leaders—led by Bishp Rufin Anthony of Islamabad, prompted officials to investigate the claims, and find that the hospital had not been sold.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 06 Jul 2011 14:53

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/ ... KV20110705

The number of attacks from improvised explosive devices in Pakistan has grown by more than 145 percent in the last four years, as expertise in the crude bombs has flowed from militants in Iraq to Afghanistan and eventually to Pakistan, officials said.

Just on Tuesday, three separate IED attacks in North Waziristan near the Afghan border and Baluchistan in the southwest killed seven Pakistan border troops and wounded 24.

"Where this expertise is coming from, probably initially it came from Iraq, and then from Afghanistan and now it's here," said a Pakistani intelligence official.

He said there had been a dip in suicide bombings in Pakistan with a correspondent increase in IED attacks, which are increasingly the weapon of choice for Pakistan insurgents.

According to figures provided by the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's powerful spy agency, the number of IED attacks on Pakistani troops and security forces soared from 413 in 2007 to 1,015 in 2010, an increase of 145 percent. A breakdown of casualties from IEDs was not available.

But unlike in Iraq, where caches of munitions hidden by Saddam Hussein's regime were the main source of explosive material, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, most IEDs are made using ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer in Pakistan.