Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Aug 21, 2013

[Aditya_V]

Pakistan army shows its anti-drone technology

Alright which person her made the comment on the article "hahahaha . porkis shooting their own NATIONAL BIRD"

[neeraj]

Pakistani Taliban say chances of peace talks 'below zero'

[Peregrine]

Pakistani IT services exports fetch $1.250bn in last five years

Cheers

[vishvak]

Taliban mathematics of below zero in chance/probability explains perhaps paki IT industry popularity.

[Prem]

http://www.dawn.com/news/1055591/india- ... -the-doubt
UPA ready to give Pakistan 'benefit of the doubt'

SYDNEY: India is prepared to give historic rival Pakistan “the benefit of the doubt” as the two countries strive for peace, Congress's Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid has said.The nuclear-armed neighbours have since independence been at loggerheads over Kashmir, which is divided and administered separately by India and Pakistan but claimed in full by both.India regularly accuses Pakistan's army of providing covering fire for armed rebels who cross the border and then mount attacks and in an interview with The Australian newspaper published Monday, Khurshid admitted the relationship was fraught.“We talk to Pakistan periodically and in terms of personal gestures we receive great warmth,” he said. “But the on-the-ground reality and the results of our meetings are very disappointing.”However, with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif last month vowing to go the “extra mile” to make peace with India, Khurshid said Delhi would take him at his word.“Pakistan has a lot of very, very difficult issues to deal with at home,” he was quoted as saying. “Our view is that we should give them time, not at our cost, of course, but that we should give them the benefit of the doubt. When Mr Nawaz Sharif says he wants peace and good relations with India, we take him at his word.”But with recent shootings at the border among the heaviest since a ceasefire agreement in 2003, Khurshid pointed out that Pakistan has not yet followed through on its promise of top-level military meetings to sort out better arrangements in Kashmir.“If they can address the dismantling of the infrastructure of terrorism, that would be a good start,” he told the newspaper.

[Prem]

Pakistan to become 11th Beggerest economy soon: Dar
International Bikhari Mazakh Dekho: Lahiri Gapori Ki Chaal Dekho

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Finance, Muhammad Ishaq Dar expressed the hope that Pakistan would soon become 11th the beggerest economy due to comprehensive measures taken by the government.Talking to a private TV channel, he said that international economic rating agencies were expressing positive outlook of country’s economy. Dar said that PML-N government had inherited $9 billion loan from previous regimes, which had to be returned.He was of the view that government had taken loans from International Monetary Fund to pay the installments for saving the country from becoming a defaulter.

He said that Pakistan loan was Rs2,946 billion rupees till 1999, but in previous regimes it piled up to more than Rs. 12,000 billion.. About 1700 MW electricity was included in the national grid station, he added.The minister said that Prime Minister had stressed American leadership to provide access to its markets for boosting trade and economic activities. He said that investment activities in the country would provide employment opportunities to the people. .To another question, Ishaq Dar said that country’s economy was heading towards recovery, adding that during previous month prices of 33 basic commodities were sustained, prices of 7 items were reduced while increase was witnessed in prices of 13 items.To another question, he said that about 8500 MW electricity would be included in national grid station during the next year as government was working on mega power projects.He said that construction of two mega water sector development projects including Dasu and Diamir Bhasha Dams would help overcome energy crisis and water shortage in the country.

[SSridhar]

Haqqani Netweork Chief's son shot dead in Islamabad - PTI

The son of the chief of the Haqqani terror network, blamed for attacks on US forces and the Indian Embassy in Kabul, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near the Pakistani capital, leaders of the group said on Monday.

Haqqani network leader Nasiruddin Haqqani, the eldest son of warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, was killed by gunmen riding a motorcycle when he was returning home from a mosque late on Monday night in Barakahu area, leaders of the group said.

“I can confirm that Dr Naseer has been martyred,” a militant, who previously worked with the Haqqani network in North Waziristan, was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune.

Giving details of the incident, the militant said Nasiruddin’s body had been sent to Miranshah for burial on Sunday.

Nasiruddin had been mainly involved in dialogue-related matters of the Haqqani network. Jalaluddin’s three other sons have also been killed.

Born in Paktika province of Afghanistan, Nasiruddin was put on the U.N. Security Council’s sanctions list for individuals subjected to assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo after the 9/11 attacks.

According to the sanctions list, Nasiruddin had travelled to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to raise funds for the Taliban and operated from Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region.

The Haqqani network, founded by Jalaluddin, is considered the most dangerous Taliban faction in Afghanistan. The Haqqanis have been blamed for devastating attacks on the Afghan government, US and NATO forces and the Indian Embassy in Kabul.

The network is also considered to be close to the Inter-Services Intelligence and the Pakistani military

[Anujan]

So what was he doing in Islamabad? Some rest and recreation? Resupply? Visiting home?

Also note that this "Dialogue" is different. There is one "Dialogue" between Bad Taliban and TFTAs and another "Dialogue" between Good Taliban and Massa. Haqqani group dialogue is the latter dialogue.

[Lalmohan]

the gunmen on mo'bike is an ISI SOP isnt it?

[abhijitm]

Haqqani Netweork Chief's son shot dead in Islamabad - PTI

TTP revenge? Hakimullah and Haqqani assassinations connected?

[abhijitm]

the gunmen on mo'bike is an ISI SOP isnt it?

TTP has dispatched many in Karachi that way.

[Pranay]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24898804

Nasiruddin Haqqani: Pakistan senior militant 'shot dead'

One of the most senior leaders of the Haqqani militant network has been shot dead near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, reports say.

Nasiruddin Haqqani, who was in his early 30s, was the group's financier and a son of its founder Jalaluddin.

The details of his death are still unclear, but reports say he was killed in a shooting incident in the city of Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, on Sunday night.

Another Haqqani brother, Badruddin, who had been the group's operational commander, was killed in a drone strike in August last year.

Nasiruddin's elder brother, Sirajuddin Haqqani, now leads the group, while Jalaluddin remains its figurehead.

As the group's main fundraiser, Nasiruddin frequently travelled to the oil-rich sheikhdoms of the Middle East to solicit donations.

He represented the Haqqani network in last year's efforts to set up a Taliban office in Doha for peace talks with the United States.

He was also the group's main contact person for pro-Taliban elements in Pakistan, as well as its representative with the Afghan Taliban.

'Well-dressed networker'
Unlike his father and many of his brothers, Nasiruddin Haqqani and two of his uncles did not to live in Miran Shah in North Waziristan. He chose to base himself near Islamabad, from where he made his many journeys abroad to secure funds.

Some sources said he had major business interests in the Gulf, including a transport company.

Nasiruddin is not thought to have been publicly photographed.

Those who have met him describe a tall, educated, well-dressed man who travelled in expensive cars and networked an extensive list of contacts all the time.

They say his appearance gave no clue to his militant connections. His code name was "the doctor", possibly because of a degree that he had studied for.

His death, if confirmed, will be a major blow to the Haqqanis, who will need to find someone else to spearhead their efforts to secure financing.

BBC correspondents say the killing will pile pressure on the Pakistani government because Nasiruddin's death is reported to have happened on Pakistani soil.

[putnanja]

the gunmen on mo'bike is an ISI SOP isnt it?

The Haqqani network is the ISI favourite, so doubt ISI will knock him off. Most probably TTP faction. I guess Haqqani Jr was enjoying some R&R courtesy ISI before he was sent to meet his other halaled bros

[Pranay]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world ... ml?hp&_r=0

Nasiruddin Haqqani, a son of the Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani and the group’s chief fund-raiser, was shot dead by a gunman riding a motorbike outside a bread store on Sunday night, the militants said.

“The mujahedeen are in shock,” said Mr. Gul, describing the dead militant as “a devoted brother who had been doing jihad against the crusaders.”

A Pakistani intelligence official, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity, said that after funeral prayers in Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, Mr. Haqqani was buried in the family graveyard at Danday Darpa Khel — the same village where Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, was killed in an American drone strike on Nov. 1.

It is unclear whether the two events are linked. An Afghan intelligence official, speaking in Kabul, said that preliminary intelligence assessments showed that Mr. Haqqani died as a result of a family dispute.

A tribal leader in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, which is the main stronghold of the Haqqani tribe, noted that Nasiruddin Haqqani had a long-running financial dispute with a cousin, Ishaq, whom he had accused of working with Afghan intelligence officials.

The fact that Mr. Haqqani was killed on the edge of the Pakistani capital was a major embarrassment to the Pakistani government, underscoring long-held accusations that the Haqqani network operates with ease inside the country, and not just inside the tribal belt.

Over the years, it has launched coordinated assaults on government ministries and five-star hotels in central Kabul, American bases near the border with Pakistan, and Indian diplomatic facilities across the country.

Fund-raising is crucial to the group’s success, thanks to links to drug smuggling, kidnapping and gun running, as well as links to rich jihadi donors in the Persian Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Haqqani’s death will renew the focus on the ease with which the Haqqani network can operate inside Pakistan. The shooting occurred in Bhara Kahu, a village on the edge of Islamabad that has long been known for its links to violent jihadi groups.

In August, the Islamabad police recovered an explosives-laden vehicle from a house in Bhara Kahu that, they said, was being prepared to be used in a militant attack.

In 2010, Newsweek magazine reported that Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, under pressure from the United States over its links to the Haqqani network, had arrested Nasiruddin Haqqani. He was later released, according to news media reports.

[JE Menon]

>>The Haqqani network is the ISI favourite, so doubt ISI will knock him off.

I suspect it's gone beyond that now. No one is fully in control, or rather, being in control is requiring much more effort - on the ground level. And the threads are fraying. It appears to be a constrictor approach. These are times when nothing is what it seems. Apart from the party that did it, it will be quite hard for anyone but the best information gatherers to have a quick and certain conclusion. Largely because the motivations are either not clear, or there are too many parties who can be attributed credible motives.

The fun has not even begun yet.

[ramana]

It could be an equal equal with TTP and Haqqani gangs each losing a prominent member.
But who benefits or quo bono?

Hakimullah getting his drone benefits TSPA.
Who benefits with younger Haqqani getting killed?
Especially with Mullah Omar blessing Mullah FM as TTP chief.
Haqqani is a Sarkari terrorist.
So maybe TTP decided to return the favor?

One thing is the "good and bad" Taliban are coalesing with Omar approving the FM elevation.


Did the good colonel on Canadian visa make his conclusion after Haqqani was killed or before?

[Prem]

Nou lets wait for Haqqani to take revenge and let all parties know he wont cow down. Regardelss , Pakistoon is on the path of shrinkage, loosing terrirtory to Afghanistan.

[Prem]

Poqolio Yaan Polio

Polio virus strain found in Syria confirmed as originating from Pakistoon: WHO

GENEVA: Polio, that has crippled at least 13 children in Syria, has been confirmed as being caused by a strain of the virus that originated in Pakistan and is now spreading across the Middle East, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.Genetic sequencing shows the strain found in Syrian children in Deir al-Zor, where an outbreak was detected last month, is linked to the strain of Pakistani origin found in sewage in Egypt, Israel and Palestinian territories in the past year.
“Genetic sequencing indicates that the isolated viruses are most closely linked to virus detected in environmental samples in Egypt in December 2012 (which in turn had been linked to wild poliovirus circulating in Pakistan),” the United Nations agency said in a statement on Monday.Closely-related strains of the wild poliovirus of Pakistani origin have also been detected in sewage samples in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip since February 2013, it said.Polio virus has been confirmed in 13 of 22 children who became paralysed in the northern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor. Investigations continue into the other nine cases. It is Syria’s first polio outbreak since 1999.No children in Egypt, Israel or the Palestinian territories have been hit by polio thanks to high immunisation rates and a strong response to the alert, WHO spokesperson Sona Bari said.Polio virus is endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria despite a 25-year-old campaign to eradicate the disease, which can paralyse a child in hours.Militants from countries including Pakistan are believed to be among groups battling to oust President Bashar al-Assad, leading to speculation that they brought the virus into the country.The WHO says it is unlikely that adults, who generally have higher immunity, carried the virus into Syria and that its mode of transmission will probably never be known.Syria’s immunisation rates have plummeted from more than 90 per cent before the conflict to around 68 per cent. Polio mainly affects children under five and cannot be cured, only prevented.“All the children (paralysed) are under two years old, so they were all born after immunisation services fell apart,” Bari told Reuters. “No doubt the outbreak will be large.”Children living in unsanitary conditions are especially vulnerable to the virus, which spreads via faecal-oral transmission and contaminated food and water.More than 20 million children, including 1.6 million in Syria, are to be vaccinated in Syria and neighbouring countries over the next six months, UN agencies said last week.

[Prem]

26 Bullets to unlock 72
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[ramana]

May Pakistan Rest in Peace - something that Pakistan shunned in Life!

May Pakistan rest in pieces!

[anupmisra]

A Request:

It is now getting awfully confusing to me. With all these 2-bit players (hundreds of political parties, independent think tanks (!), factions of tellibunnies, internal revolts, newspapers, marriage alliances, jehadi outfits and training camps, the PA with its generals, overseas funding connections and NGOs, exiled factions, and who can ignore the ISI with all its factions, etc) interacting directly or indirectly with each other to make this twice-blessed land a veritible minefield of competing alliances, can some one please draw a relationship map with hard and dotted line connections? I am not fully conversant with the entire paki scenario of who's who, otherwise I would have taken upon this task. But we can all contribute and tweak it as we move along in time.

We should then upload this chart (or map) at the beginning of every 72-page thread on the pakis. You know, for public service.

[anupmisra]

26 Bullets to unlock 72
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Imagine. These guys were peaceful Hindus once. I wonder what happened?

[Gagan]

Standard Honey Moon / Anniversary Package (Rs: 50,000)

• This package offers shared traveling within 6 person cabin.

This is 400% according to sharia.
Total six in one "honeymoon" cabin.

One mard, one zanana, and 4 bious witnesses.

[syele]

Per sources the supari on Jr. Haqqani was arranged by the hegemonic neighbor in the east.

[Cosmo_R]

Imagine. These guys were peaceful Hindus once. I wonder what happened?

They done drank de Koolaid Boss.

[SSridhar]

Per sources the supari on Jr. Haqqani was arranged by the hegemonic neighbor in the east.

I would give credit to the Afghan intelligence for this.

[Anujan]

Spot where Haqqani Jr left to meet with his maker


Apparently he was in a Naan shop.

And this from an article in 2011 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 2011_pg3_2

The irony is that while Pakistani intelligence services and that drama queen of a foreign minister were wailing about a CIA man running amok in Lahore, Khalil Haqqani was conducting a jirga a stone’s throw away from Islamabad in Bhara Kahu, where he reportedly maintains a business concern. These meetings were attended by some six Shia Kurramis, including Haji Aun Ali, Laiq Hussain, Captain Yousaf, Councillor Iqbal Hussain and MNA Sajid Turi. MNA Munir Orakzai and Senator Rashid Ahmed were among the eight Sunnis representing lower and central Kurram. Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, reportedly, also attended the meetings with Khalil Haqqani — a man declared a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ by the US earlier this month.

[sanjaykumar]

That is an interesting photograph, depicting children nonchalantly examining a smear left behind by a murdered man. Pakistan is indeed a sick society, and is producing another cohort of sick citizens, which will perpetuate the same.

[anupmisra]

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, reportedly, also attended the meetings with Khalil Haqqani — a man declared a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ by the US earlier this month.

WTF??! That's why someone brave enough should put that master relationship map together. Its a monumental effort but this one is one heck of dotted line connection to be missed.

[anupmisra]

Per sources the supari on Jr. Haqqani was arranged by the hegemonic neighbor in the east.

I would give credit to the Afghan intelligence for this.

Well, hegemonic neighbor to the east would make it somewhere in pakjab.

[Prem]

Per sources the supari on Jr. Haqqani was arranged by the hegemonic neighbor in the east.

I would give credit to the Afghan intelligence for this.Well, hegemonic neighbor to the east would make it somewhere in pakjab.

Amrullah Saleh ‏@AmrullahSaleh1 10h Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, Nasiruddin Haqqani in Islamabad, yet the world is not seeing the "smoking gun" to implicate Pakistan. Think.Reply

[Anujan]

Dangerous Talibs and Keedas hiding in cave complexes bravely commanding the Mujahids is all one big fat lie.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was in Karachi, Osama in a big mansion in Abbottabad, Hakeemullah in his residence about 1 km from Pakistan's Miranshah Base (which houses thousands of TFTAs) and now Haqqani Jr roaming around freely in Isloo. Apparently he has "business concerns" there.

The notion of terrorism as a stateless entity thriving in rugged places which has never seen civilized administration is all nandi droppings. It used to be the case that in the Mafia, foot soldiers lived in the slums and would carry their masters' orders. Masters lived in posh bungalows. Their big boss lived well protected jetset lifestyle in highrises.

Now replace slums with tribal areas, second in command with Haqqanis and Hakeemullahs and the Big boss as the whiskey swilling jernails. It is all the same. Just like how you cannot call Mafia as a "slum" phenomenon, terrorists are not a "rugged remote area non-state actor" phenomenon.

[svenkat]

8:29 AM - 11 Nov 13 · Amrullah Saleh ‏@AmrullahSaleh1 8h @AfghanTranslate Quetta Shura (Council) implies that it is a command center. That is not a smoking gun either. Perhaps a global shock ?

Default status of the current generation of Drones is: kill TTP but ignore Quetta Shura unless re-configured

@AmrullahSaleh1 indeed, I was referring 2 Mullah Omar hidden in that hole. Global shock? No, you need to publish a book & cause global shock

[Satya_anveshi]

^^[Anujanullah's post] ...along the same lines...until someone shows he is alive and shown engaging with people or at the very,very least even a half credible paki claiming to have seen him in person, the Omar in Mullah Omar (to me) means Omerica.

[Anujan]

BTW yesterday's Dawn print edition had Freudian a slip of the tongue and had to issue an apology.

[Prem]

PUqawm
Plan for Taliban talks shelved for now: Nisar

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly heard on Monday the government virtually shelving, for now, its plan to revive a disrupted peace effort with Taliban insurgents, ending a heated six-day debate without even endorsing a previous mandate in this regard given by an all-party conference.
Although he assured the house that “we have to pick up the pieces” in the face of what he called “broken paths”, he spoke of no remedy for drone attacks, which a government ally, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Mehmood Achakzai, bluntly said were “beyond our power to stop” without an agreement among Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States.Even an earlier threat by Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, to retaliate against the drone attacks by blocking Nato supplies passing through the PTI-ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after Nov 20 seemed to have become toothless as he told the house that his party would instead hold a “historic” protest against Nato supplies on that date, possibly in Peshawar.Yet, some opposition lawmakers demanded that the prime minister come to the house, possibly on the last day of the session on Tuesday.“There can be no headway in the next few days,” he said, referring to a “strong reaction from the other side” and the appointment of a new hard-line Taliban leader, Mullah Fazlullah. He added: “It takes two hands to clap and not when there is talk of ‘dialogue, dialogue’ from this side and ‘refusal, refusal’ from there.”Chodhry Nisar referred to a “wide consensus” of all political parties on the need to continue the dialogue process, that drone attacks should stop and that whatever was decided should be unanimous, but his meeting with party leaders decided against passing a resolution in the face of several drafts.However, Imran Khan complained of finding a “divided nation” after the APC consensus, although he invited all parties to join the PTI’s Nov 20 protest.Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman called for continuing peace efforts and making new approaches to Taliban ranks to break the present deadlock, saying it was the test of politics to find “a way out if the path has been blocked by thorns, water or rocks”.

[Prem]

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news- ... f-reporter
13 members of Hindu family embrace Islam

SIALKOT -Thirteen members of Hindu family including women embraced Islam at the hands of a local religious scholar in village Jandiyala-Jarpal near Zafarwal on Monday. There Islamic names will be as follow: Daleep Kumar-Khalilur Rehman, Rakhi-Naila, Suneel-Waheed Ahmed, Bhagatu Ram-Hassnat Ahmed, Razia-Razia Batool, Reemsha-Ayesha, Idrees-Muhammad Idrees, Sona-Tahira, Tanzeel-Muhammad Saeed, Noushaba-Tayyuba, Aneeta-Saima, Iram-Iram Fatima and Chheelo-Yasmeen Tahira.

[Prem]

Ganja Haajar Karoo
Prime Sinister to be briefed at GHQ today

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit the General Headquarters on Tuesday to get a briefing from the top military leadership on the current security situation in the country. A brief official handout issued on Monday said Mr Sharif would first lay a floral wreath at the memorial of martyrs and then hold a meeting with the outgoing Chief of the Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. It will be followed by a detailed briefing. Although the media wing of the Prime Minister’s Office has downplayed the meeting, close watchers say many pressing issues, including talks with the Taliban and appointment of a new army chief and Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee — the post currently held by Gen Kayani after the retirement of Gen Khalid Shameem Wynne in the first week of October — will come under discussion.
Prime Minister Sharif has said before and after his election that the next army chief will be appointed on merit and the most senior general will get the charge.
Haroon Aslam is the most senior general after Gen Kayani. But despite Gen Kayani’s announcement that he would not seek another extension, observers believe, the prime minister’s apparent foot-dragging on the announcement of the next COAS means he is keeping his options open. Information Minister Senator Pervez Rashid, who is also spokesman for the prime minister, recently said the announcement for the next army chief would be made on Nov 28, the day General Kayani retires. He dropped no hint as to who would be the next army chief and only said the decision would be taken in the best interest of the country. “Prime Minister Sharif may have made up his mind about the future army chief, but his visit to the GHQ at this time will be keenly watched because he will get first-hand information about the entire top brass of the military,” a government official said. Besides getting input from the retiring army chief, Mr Sharif would also use his own judgment in choosing the next COAS and probably this visit was meant for this very purpose, the official added. The prime minister will also be briefed by the military leadership on the pros and cons of contacting new TTP chief Maulana Fazlullah, a sworn enemy of the army. Following the TTP’s latest threat to carry out attacks on the military and government installations and functionaries, the government is virtually in a bind as far as the proposed peace talks with the Taliban are concerned. Although in his speech in the National Assembly on Monday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan linked the resumption of peace talks to the halting of drone attacks by the Americans, the military establishment wouldn’t be feeling comfortable with the government’s contact with Fazlullah

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[Singha]

the quest for eternally green purity must be very strong if religious conversion of the last remaining 2% minority in TSP is an issue important enough to make a national newspaper.

[Anujan]

Anybody following the Husband-Wife dispute in Pakistan?

Apparently Munawar Hassan, the current Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami said that Hakeemullah Mehsud was a "Shaheed" because he was killed by US drone attacks. He also said that even a dog killed by America is Shaheed. Also went on to add that Pakistani soldiers who were killed by the taliban were not Shaheed and it was right to refuse them religious prayers because they were doing the work of infidels.

TFTAs got their panties in a knot and ISPR issued a statement:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1 ... rtyrs-ISPR

A spokesman of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday strongly condemned the irresponsible and misleading remarks by the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan in a TV programme, declaring dead terrorists as Shuhada (martyrs), while insulting the Shahadat (martyrdom) of thousands of innocent Pakistanis and soldiers of Pakistan’s armed forces.

In a statement, he said Syed Munawar Hassan tried to invent a logic based on his political convenience. “Strong condemnation of his views from an overwhelming majority leaves no doubt in anyone’s mind that all of us are very clear on what the state of Pakistan is and who its enemies are,” the spokesman said.

“Sacrifices of our Shuhada and their families need no endorsement from Syed Munawar Hassan and such misguided and self-serving statements deserve no comments,” he said and added, “However, coming from the Ameer of the Jamaat-i-Islami, a party founded by Maulana Maududi, who is respected and revered for his services to Islam, is both painful and unfortunate.”

You might remember that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was caught in a Jamaat-e-Islami safe house and the Military frequently uses Jamaat-e-Islami for street protests and coup supports. Ofcourse their Bangladesh chapter is notorious for assisting the TFTAs in genocide.

Interesting times.