Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) : 24 July 2012

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Sep 2012 20:11

X Posted from the Oppression of Minorities in Pakistan thread.

AFP via Al Arabiya reports that Human Rights Watch has taken note of the Green on Green Intra Mohammadden blood letting in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan which is seeing followers of the Shia / Shiite sect of Mohammaddenism being killed by their co-religionists.

Pretty absurd that an Islamic Republic claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent needs to be pushed to protect its Mohammadden citizens from religion inspired depredations of co-religionists:

HRW pushes Pakistan to ‘urgently’ protect Shiites

The press release by Human Rights Watch:

Pakistan: Shia Killings Escalate – Government and Security Forces Fail to Protect Muslim Minority

member_22605 · Post by **member_22605** » 06 Sep 2012 20:31

Do the pakis use products made of shea butter or is it haram?

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Sep 2012 20:51

X Posted from the ISI History and Discussions thread.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman, legislator in the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and leader of the Mohammadden religious influenced political party the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), names the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s own intelligence agencies as being the fomenters of Mohammadden Terrorism in that country:

"I do agree with the fact that there exist militant and extremist elements in our society, but (they) come into action whenever secret agencies need it. Today, they (intelligence agencies) again need these elements to fulfil their secret agenda,"

From here:

Fazl blames intelligence agencies for sectarian violence

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 06 Sep 2012 20:51

On Burn notice there was a episode with a Paki character.

Burns takes him to an Indian resatraunt and takes his photo there to suborn the guy!

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 06 Sep 2012 22:02

ramana wrote:Burns takes him to an Indian resatraunt and takes his photo there to suborn the guy!

Maybe the cooks were bangladeshis or pakis. Hence, familiar setting for the paki. Most substandard Indian restaurants ($9.95 buffets) in NYC are non-Indian owned.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 06 Sep 2012 23:10

ramana wrote:On Burn notice there was a episode with a Paki character.

Burns takes him to an Indian resatraunt and takes his photo there to suborn the guy!

Hope they gonna start another series of Burn Notice or send Rambo six to fix the sick Pakistan ?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 07 Sep 2012 00:01

^^ No thats 24 hours!

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 07 Sep 2012 00:28

Pakis being pakis...i.e., delusional. Here's a newspiece on Shah Rukh Khan's visit to Kashmir for a film shoot. This is how Yawn reports it:

The Bollywood superstar said he hoped more filmmakers will shoot at the venue which was once hugely popular, before the region was hit by conflict between the Kashmiri locals and the Indian government.

And this is what a paki named F.S.Aijazuddin writes about Kashmir.Mobile in Kashmir. It basically starts out as a rant against Tharoor but ends up losing its direction with Shah Rukh Khan in it.

PAKISTAN is fortunate that Dr Shashi Tharoor, the newest Icarus in the Indian National Congress, never fulfilled his ambition to become the next UN secretary general. He would have used the UN to resolve the problem of Jammu & Kashmir in less time than it took to create it.

Dr Tharoor: debonair good looks, a quick intelligence, the gift of oratory, a fecund authorship, and a dollar-denominated pension from the UN where he served as an international civil servant for almost 30 years. The price he was asked to pay in return was to become rabidly anti-Pakistan.

Today, Indians seek to truss their national identity with a different sort of rope, a hangman’s rope from which to suspend not individuals but the Pakistani state.

Individual states within India may bicker with one another. But what binds them is a perception that unless they are overtly anti-Pakistan, they cannot somehow be Indian

Bollywood has shifted away from the image of a Pakistani as a pre-1947 turbanned Pathan to a post-26/11 image of every Pakistani as a bearded terrorist who has to be eliminated by any of the triumvirate of Khans

Que: Enter SRK, stage left.

I have just returned from a visit to Kashmir where I breathed the same air as Shahrukh Khan

Kashmir is worth fighting for

The Indian Army has put stems of flowers into the barrels of its guns.

Neither India nor Pakistan deserves Kashmir.

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 07 Sep 2012 02:13

Military operations: Tribesmen threaten to migrate to Afghanistan

PESHAWAR, Sept 5: Leaders of different political parties have formed an alliance under the banner of Fata Qabail Ittehad to pressurise the government for stopping military operations in parts of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, warning that in case their miseries are not ended they will collectively decide to migrate to Afghanistan.
...
“The government has failed to restore normalcy to Khyber Agency. Therefore, we are planning to shift to Afghanistan with a hope to live a life better than in camps, as police are still targeting us even in IDP camps,” he said, adding that they might boycott next general elections if the situation in Fata did not improve.
...
Ahmad Zeb (a 4th Coujin of Akbar Zeb??), an elder from Bajaur Agency, called for reconstruction of damaged infrastructure in tribal region to provide health and education health facilities to tribesmen.

Are these the same tribals who vowed to fight alongside TSPA during Op Parakram and also in aftermath of 26/11 to repel any Indian invasion ??

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 07 Sep 2012 03:52

Paglo Ka Mulk
Poo "r" Pakist- annus

More than 100 million Pakistanis are ‘food insecure’ (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations). More than 100 million Pakistanis make $2 or less (World Bank). According to Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the incidence of multidimensional poverty in Pakistan stands at 49.4 percent of the population – that is one out of every two Pakistanis.Why are so many Pakistanis so poor? Is it because of our geography; because we do not have sufficient arable land on a per capita basis? After all, 60 percent of Pakistan is taken up by deserts and all we are left with is a mere 0.336 acres per capita worth of arable land. Could that be the cause of our severe poverty?
Why are so many Pakistanis so poor? Daron Acemoglu, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and James Robinson, a political scientist at Harvard University, seem to have the right answer. Their book, which has just come out, is appropriately titled “Why nations fail”. The book states: the “Egyptians in Tahrir Square, not most academics and commentators, have the right idea. In fact, Egypt is poor precisely because it has been ruled by a narrow elite that have organised society for their own benefit at the expense of the vast mass of people. Political power has been narrowly concentrated, and has been used to create great wealth for those who possess it, such as the $70 billion fortune apparently accumulated by ex-president Mubarak. The losers have been the Egyptian people, as they only too well understand

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 07 Sep 2012 04:02

Pakistan will fight terror to the finish
Zardari, Suun Baat hamarri,Kya Laggi tughe Beemari, Itni Phar Kyon marri, Kardi Kharab Paki Virginity Sarri

RAW AL PINDI: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday militants have threatened Pakistan’s national integrity and extremists want to impose their political agenda on people through bullet but “we cannot allow this... We will fight them to the finish”.He added Pakistan seeks good relations with all countries on the basis of mutual respect and equality.“It has initiated the process of dialogue in the region for peaceful resolution of all disputes,” he said at a function held in connection with the Deafence Day of Pakistan at Joint Staff Headquarters.“We believe that peace is essential for development and progress. We believe in peace with honour. We have initiated the process of dialogue in the region.”Zardari said that Pakistan needed peace to focus its energies on improving the lives of people. “We seek good relations with all based on mutual respect and equality,” he added.The president said that dialogue was aimed at peaceful resolution of all outstanding disputes, including Kashmir. He reiterated Pakistan’s desire for peace in Afghanistan and in the region.“A peaceful and stable Afghanistan is in our national interest. We support an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process in Afghanistan.”

AdityaM · Post by **AdityaM** » 07 Sep 2012 06:19

How to commit blasphemy in Pakistan

kancha · Post by **kancha** » 07 Sep 2012 06:25

Curse of Blasphemy Law - Ayesha Siddiqa

arun · Post by **arun** » 07 Sep 2012 07:11

Text of interview of our Minister of External Affairs S.M. Krishna by Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune. :

3-day visit: I bring a message of goodwill: Krishna

An extract:

Q: India does not seem to be even partially satisfied with the progress of the case in Pakistan against those (Lakhvi and company) allegedly involved in Mumbai attacks. What in your opinion would Pakistan need to do for India to feel satisfied with the progress?

A: India has repeatedly stressed, including at the highest level, the need for an expeditious and successful conclusion of the trial in Pakistan relating to those involved with the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Prime Minister Dr. Singh has recently mentioned that action in this respect will be a major confidence building measure, help in bridging the trust deficit and also help to build public support in India for the kind of relationship we would like to see between the two countries.

Q: How does India view Hafiz Saeed’s claims of his innocence in the Mumbai attacks?

A: Any such claim cannot withstand a case prepared well on the basis of the incontrovertible and undeniable evidence available against him and his well known track record of involvement in acts of terror against India.

arun · Post by **arun** » 07 Sep 2012 07:31

X Posted from the Indus Water Treaty thread.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s penchant for not taking responsibility for its actions by blaming others continues. Some in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s bureaucracy are claiming it is India’s fault that the cost of Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Project has soared

:

Neelum Jhelum project: Irregularities unearthed in costing, award of contract

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 07 Sep 2012 07:41

^^ good answers by SMK

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 07 Sep 2012 08:01

Lilo wrote:Military operations: Tribesmen threaten to migrate to Afghanistan

Wow, the tribals too have strategic depth...

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 07 Sep 2012 08:17

Talking of strategic depth, TSPA may have come up with the idea, but they forgot to patent it, like Apple, so now others are executing on that idea and benefiting...while TSPA itself is not able to..

Tribals have it, the 'bad bunnies' also have strategic depth...give a few months, Afghan army will have it - pashtun lands of TSP will be their strategic depth..

Comer · Post by **Comer** » 07 Sep 2012 10:07

Not sure if this was posted, Photochor Khan speaks to foreignpolicy.com:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... _interview

Excerpts:

FP: The acronym for your movement, TTP, is the same as that of the Pakistani Taliban. This is at best unfortunate or confusing. Was it intentional?

AQK: This is sheer coincidence and only came to my notice later. I have never been interested in the activities of the Taliban. The best word to convey our message was "Tahaffuz", which means "protection" or "safety". So the name became "Movement for the Protection of Pakistan", thus "Tehreek Tahaffuze Pakistan" (TTP).

We are quite clear about my role. I am just a guide -- some sort of Lee Kwan [sic] Yew, the former PM of Singapore, Mahathir [of Malaysia] or, hopefully, Mandela. I will only advise on good governance.

Move over Mushahid hussain, you got competition.
The bloody cheek of this guy. I don't know why Pakistani TVs don't start a reality show with this guy as the star.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 07 Sep 2012 10:10

saravana wrote:
. . . or, hopefully, Mandela.
Move over Mushahid Hussain, you got competition.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 07 Sep 2012 10:22

kancha wrote:Curse of Blasphemy Law - Ayesha Siddiqa

From the above,

As mentioned earlier, blasphemy law is not religious but historically a politico-military tool that can be dispensed with if the Muslims consider the logic, forwarded by a great Islamic scholar Nasr Abu Zayd that “divine law must be interpreted in the light of changing circumstances”.

Ayesha Siddiqa has to be careful even if she takes refuge under the fact that she only quoted another Muslim scholar. She had, once earlier, to run away from Pakistan to save her life.

Blasphemy Law cannot be wished away in Pakistan. These pious protestations carry no conviction.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 07 Sep 2012 10:44

SMK and India's propensity to talk to Pakistan apparently is to "engage and empower" elements which are "sane and reasonable" in Pakistan. (So says a little bird who is accompanying MMS delegation).

"Sane and reasonable people of Pakistan" reminds me of a tenali rama story: There is a village filled with thieves and murderers who regularly terrorize and steal from neighboring villages. Tenali rama advices the king to catch a few of them and throw them in jail to teach everyone a lesson. The king says that he will deal with it by convincing the "nice and wise people" in the village. Tenali rama and the King go to the village....

....The King stops a fellow from the village and asks him "Who is the most law abiding, forthright and honest person in your village?". The fellow replies "Well that guy!" and points to a fellow who is busy setting his neighbor's house on fire after robbing it...

On that note, I am sure that there are some sane and reasonable people in Pakistan. As someone I know once observed, all this nuclear animosity, arms buildup and military threats is only by the Paki establishment. Common people of Pakistan dont want to do anything with it, only want to live their lives in peace, earn money and do Jihad against India.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 07 Sep 2012 13:16

Following threat, TSP ups security at n-sites

Pakistan has deployed large contingents of army and police at one of the country's biggest nuclear facilities in Dera Ghazi Khan in the Punjab province following intelligence interceptions of a strike threat from terrorists.

"There have been threats to all installations, including the Dera Ghazi Khan nuclear site, in the current law and order situation in the country," Dera Ghazi Khan district police chief Chaudhry Saleem said on phone.

"After the attack on Kamra airbase, we have been asked to remain extra vigilant. Police divisions are ready to respond to any emergency call," he said. Security had been further enhanced around the nuclear site in Dera Ghazi Khan after the attack on Kamra airbase on August 16, he said.

A Lahore police official said that a circular issued by the Punjab Police chief's office had directed the police chiefs of 36 districts to beef up security around sensitive installations due to "credible reports of terrorists' attacks". Earlier, The Express Tribune reported that security had been stepped up at the nuclear facility in Dera Ghazi Khan after the ISI intercepted a telephone call during which militants were heard discussing an attack on the installation.

The daily quoted sources in the military and Punjab Police as saying that the nature of threat at the nuclear installation is "serious", with an 80% chance of occurrence.

An unnamed high ranking military officer serving at the installation was quoted as saying: "Dera Ghazi Khan houses one of the largest nuclear facilities in the country and has faced the first ever serious security threat from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan."

According to an official who works at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, a key military and civilian fuel cycle site is located 40 km from Dera Ghazi Khan. The site comprises uranium milling and mining operations and a uranium hexaflouride conversion plant.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 07 Sep 2012 15:32

Anujan wrote:SMK and India's propensity to talk to Pakistan apparently is to "engage and empower" elements which are "sane and reasonable" in Pakistan. (So says a little bird who is accompanying MMS delegation).

Reminds me of the MAD cartoon read about somewhere..back in the hostage crisis days....How do you define a moderate Iranian?

Anyone with 5 hostages or less.

SMK can adopt a similar definition to look for sane and reasonable shitistanis

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 07 Sep 2012 15:34

[quote="SSridhar"]Following threat, TSP ups security at n-sites[quote]

Look like Unkil has to only talk to the purest of the pure faith-fools to take out TSP's nooks. No need to endanger human lives..

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 07 Sep 2012 15:41

Suppiah wrote:Talking of strategic depth, TSPA may have come up with the idea, but they forgot to patent it, like Apple, so now others are executing on that idea and benefiting...while TSPA itself is not able to..

Tribals have it, the 'bad bunnies' also have strategic depth...give a few months, Afghan army will have it - pashtun lands of TSP will be their strategic depth..

So how will the TSPA enforce it IP. Will they just give up. Of will they try & force the tribal to stay.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 07 Sep 2012 15:42

Overheard on twitter: The literally toothless SM Krishna quite literally represents toothless India in Pak.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 07 Sep 2012 15:44

No, as in the gadget business, just out-innovate. That means come with better ideas, such as taqiya...make some piss noises, fool some WKKs and live to ~~fight~~ send another dingy some other day

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 07 Sep 2012 16:14

Fridin aa gaya, lekin abhi tak soosai-uncles did not strike in Pak. Yaaa Allah

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 07 Sep 2012 17:23

Foreign Secretary level talks were positive and very good: TSP

When TSP says that talks with India were very positive and good, it only means two things. India conceded heavily and Pakistan was not pushed.

The incumbent Indian PM is determined to wrest a trip to Pakistan within the next two months when the PPP would still be in power, before the interim government took over. Let us remember that so far, this has been a one-way street: liberalized visas, investment, banking, promise of 500 MW, POL exports, education opportunities, uninterrupted & uninterruptible talks etc. flowing from us in rapid fire while Pakistan is just sitting tight on transit trade rights with Afghanistan and beyond, MFN status (though every Indian analyst believes that it has been already granted by TSP), prosecution of 26/11 terrorists etc.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 07 Sep 2012 18:43

^ And continuing their cross-border firing and pushing terrorists in to India.

As I mentioned before MMS raised the bar to punish Pakis. Now they have to kill at least 5-600 people in a brazen attack to get a dossier response from India.

Pakis will get Indian military response only if they take >10,000 SqKM of Indian territory that too threatening key military/economic routes. Otherwise no military response.

Poor Pakis I must say. They need to make a nuke-attack in order to invoke a war with India under MMS's (I guess we still cannot use adjectives to his name) PMship.

I join my4THcousin in pitying Pakis.

Rahul Shukla · Post by **Rahul Shukla** » 07 Sep 2012 18:48

U.S. to designate Haqqani network a terrorist organization

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-575 ... anization/

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will officially designate the Pakistan-based Haqqani network a terrorist organization before a weekend deadline to decide on the group's classification, senior U.S. officials confirmed Friday.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed a report to Congress Friday stating that the Haqqani network meets the statutory criteria for designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). A Senior State Department official said the report was "quite short" and notifies Congress that she intends to designate the Haqqani network as an FTO.

Neela · Post by **Neela** » 07 Sep 2012 18:58

Confirmed: Amereekis are retarded. It takes 4 years (after Indian embassy bombing) to designate Haqqani network as terrorist organization

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 07 Sep 2012 19:33

OK now I understand why there are no patakas today in Land of Pure. Looks like the quality of Paki-IT industry is going down the paki... They need to strive for ISO2000

my4THcousin is disappointed

Terror bid foiled in Peshawar, terrorist killed
Three killed while making suicide jacket
The trainers were wasting their time on unnecessary stuff

Sungi workers condemn police torture on Asad Rahman, son

We have to settle with this for today
Top Pakistan policeman is shot dead in Quetta
bullet-riddled bodies found in Jamrud
Former tax official among five killed in Karachi

I just realized that the ebil-brhmins of this yindoo-phanatic forum delegitimized paki links

doesn't it make plashemic per INC-ka-MMS and force al_braman to wear a soosai jecket?

Yaaa allah, bhy are you so cruel to paakis

member_22872 · Post by **member_22872** » 07 Sep 2012 19:42

she intends to designate the Haqqani network as an FTO

Saar, she has been intending to designate Haqqani network as FTO for some years now. Why jump the gun so fast, the last word on this hasn't been said yet.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 07 Sep 2012 20:00

Pakistan Pisses on 26/11 victims

Tackle Mumbai attack trial realistically not emotionally: Pak

]"Terrorism was mantra of the past, terrorism is not the mantra of future," said Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar today ahead of her talks with Indian counterpart S M Krishna, asking India to see the Mumbai terror attack trial "realistically" and not "emotionally".

i.e Relistically- The 26/11 was a great strategic Hit, we have Nukes and you can't do shit about it. SO continue to give us what we want, free power, Free railway engines, Allow us to mess your economy etc.

And what does GOI do

She also indicated that the new visa agreement will be inked during Krishna's visit.

And yet our People will elect the same set of leaders. Someways, we are inviting other countries to treat us as shit, I just hope either or know one whom I know gets killed in future terror attacks which are bound to happen if present policies are continued.

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 07 Sep 2012 20:08

http://tribune.com.pk/story/432295/taliban-threat-nuclear-site-in-dg-khan-cordoned-off/

nuclear-sites-defence-facilities-sealed-off-across-pakjab

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 07 Sep 2012 20:17

Murder spotlights Pakistan's "heroin kingpin"

One night in March, police found a body slumped in the back of a black Toyota parked in an affluent district of Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital.

The man, a prominent public servant named Abdul Rehman Dashti, had been shot in the face. His watch, ring and money were gone.

Not far away, servants scrubbed blood from the driveway of an imposing house belonging to Imam Bheel, a businessman from the southwestern province of Baluchistan. Camera crews rushed to the scene, and Deputy Inspector-General Shaukat Ali Shah named the suspected killer: Bheel himself.

The allegation cracked a wall of silence around a man who Washington says is a key gatekeeper in a heroin supply chain stretching from poppy fields in Afghanistan to street corners in the West.

Three years earlier, President Barack Obama had designated Bheel an international narcotics "kingpin" - ranking him with drug lords from Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico. The announcement drew scant attention in the Pakistani media and he continued to live quietly in Karachi, untroubled by police.

Pakistan faced a deluge of questions last year when Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid near a military academy outside Islamabad.

Few in Pakistan or abroad know the country is home to a suspected major player in a $68 billion global opiates industry that has claimed far more lives than attacks by al-Qaeda.

The lack of action over the murder and Bheel's links with politicians raise new questions over the extent of official tolerance for heroin smuggling in Pakistan and its corrosive influence on the volatile, nuclear-armed state.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 07 Sep 2012 21:12

From the link posted above by Svenkat

The Dashtis filed an application to the Supreme Court in May demanding an inquiry. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry denied the request after reviewing a police report, a court official told Reuters. The judge is not obliged to explain his reasoning.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 07 Sep 2012 21:24

Another report about Imam Bheel., he is probably in cahoots with Dawood

http://baluchsarmachar.wordpress.com/20 ... d-hussain/

In June 2009, members of MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo’s family received a gift parcel at their residence in Karachi’s upmarket Defence area from someone in Turbat. As they opened the parcel, it exploded. The MNA’s five-year-old daughter, brother and mother were injured. Hours later, reporters in Balochistan were contacted by the Balochistan Liberation Front’s (BLF) spokesman to claim responsibility, saying they deliberately did not make the bomb deadly because they merely wanted to warn the MNA and his father against “sabotaging the nationalist movement”.

As no one had died in the attack, it failed to attract much media attention. And the MNA’s father managed to remain anonymous. It was not until March 6 – when the police accused the MNA’s father of killing his close friend, Deputy Commissioner Gwadar Abdul Rahman Dashti, at his Defence residence – that the people of Karachi realised that a man more internationally notorious than the fictitious Godfather was quietly living in their midst. He is Imam Bheel, one of the world’s top drug kingpins, according to the Obama administration.

Dashti might be the man’s first hit in Karachi, but Bheel is a household name in the Makran region mainly because of the number of people he has allegedly killed or hired to run his underworld drug network. He is considered more influential than any political party and mightier than any intelligence agency. In 2009, US President Barack Obama identified him as one of the four ‘significant narcotics traffickers’ in the world. The man is perhaps one of the top beneficiaries of Balochistan’s strategic location, as he controls the 700 km coastline that plays a pivotal part in the drug trade from Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries to the Gulf and Europe via Iran and Turkey.

Balochistan is a transit point in the international drug trade route. Narcotics are brought from Helmand, a Baloch-dominated province in Afghanistan, to Balochistan from where they are transported to Iran, Turkey and Europe.

Makran’s ports are also the main points used to ship drugs to the Gulf countries, East Africa and Europe. A UN report titled ‘The global Afghan opium trade: A threat assessment’, released in July last year, stated that the ports along the Makran coast – Gwadar, Ormara, Talar, Hingol, Sur Bander, Peeshukan and Jiwani – were being increasingly used for narcotics trafficking. Apart from these ports, the Dalbandin area in Chaghai district and the Mand area in Turbat district, both bordering Iran, are transit points for drug trafficking through the land route.

Bheel controls these transit points single-handedly. He has no open rivals, because they do not live long. In the late 1990s, Keenagi, his main adversary in the whole region, was killed in Turbat city in broad daylight. Keenagi’s cousin and enforcer, Hasan, pledged revenge. But he and at least four of his family members and associates were blown up in his car. The remnants of the family, now left without much muscle power, filed several cases against Bheel for ordering the murders. As always, the orders were reportedly executed by his hotheaded and unruly brother Ishaq Bheel. A soft-spoken man, Imam Bheel’s image is that of a man of compromise. The Gwadar DC murder is perhaps the first case in which he has been accused of personally carrying out a murder.

However, despite his soft image, there had been no dearth of cases against him, but all of them were withdrawn during the government of General Musharraf, the man who ordered the fifth military operation in Balochistan. Media reports suggest Makran’s Zobeda Jalal, Musharraf’s handpicked federal education minister, lent Bheel a helping hand.

Once Bheel was declared clear, he ventured into politics. Initially, he joined the Balochistan National Party-Awami but then switched to the National Party whose leaders had previously been Bheel’s fierce critics. Ironically, in the 2008 elections, his son, Yaqoob Bizenjo, defeated Zobeda Jalal to become an MNA.

While Bheel was focusing on rebranding his image through politics, his formidable power was challenged by the heavily-armed separatist militants, locally known as Sarmachars. The militants blame him for collaborating with the military to counter the nationalist cause. The BLF, the militant group active in the Makran and Awaran regions of Balochistan, has constantly targeted Bheel’s men and installations. In June last year, a ‘caporegime’ in Bheel’s drug business, Haji Lal Mohammad, was gunned down in Mand. The BLF claimed responsibility.

As the power of separatist militants grew in Makran, Bheel’s influence withered. He has now been living in Karachi’s posh Defence area for the past couple of years, seldom visiting his hometown where his business is based. Two days before he allegedly killed the Gwadar DC, top BLF commander Dr Allah Nazar, in an interview with a Balochi television channel, mentioned Bheel’s name more than once among those ‘who deserved death’.

In Bheel’s absence from the area, Keenagi’s crime family has reorganised itself. The late drug lord’s brother, Abdul Rasool, staged a successful jailbreak in Turbat in November 2006 and since then has managed to revive his family’s influence in the drug business. There are rumours that Rasool has declared war against Bheel after the Gwadar DC murder. “Imam Bheel has not killed Dashti, he has killed Keenagi again,” he has reportedly said.

However, despite the diatribes of his rivals and the insurgents against him, Bheel has never publicly threatened his adversaries or criticised the separatist movement. In fact, he seldom says anything publicly, and that is the secret of why he has managed to live in Karachi for so long as a normal resident without being noticed. Bheel has always preferred to operate in silence and in return, everyone else has obediently remained silent about his operations.