Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 13 Feb 2014 09:08

http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/Pakist ... -nine-kill
Suicide attack on police bus in Karachi, nine killed

A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police bus, killing nine policemen and injuring 30 others, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
The attacker targeted the bus in Shah Latif Town as it left Razaqabad police training centre.
There were more than 50 police personnel in the bus at the time of the blast. The vehicle was completely destroyed in the incident.

Yet another attempt by Yahud-Hunud-Nasara to spoil the good name of the Taliban and somehow disrupt the peace talks.

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 13 Feb 2014 09:35

Anujan wrote:http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/Pakist ... -nine-kill
Suicide attack on police bus in Karachi, nine killed
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police bus, killing nine policemen and injuring 30 others, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
The attacker targeted the bus in Shah Latif Town as it left Razaqabad police training centre.
There were more than 50 police personnel in the bus at the time of the blast. The vehicle was completely destroyed in the incident.
Yet another attempt by Yahud-Hunud-Nasara to spoil the good name of the Taliban and somehow disrupt the peace talks.

498 soosais left

arun · Post by **arun** » 13 Feb 2014 11:47

Anujan wrote:http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/Pakist ... -nine-kill
Suicide attack on police bus in Karachi, nine killed
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police bus, killing nine policemen and injuring 30 others, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
The attacker targeted the bus in Shah Latif Town as it left Razaqabad police training centre.
There were more than 50 police personnel in the bus at the time of the blast. The vehicle was completely destroyed in the incident.
Yet another attempt by Yahud-Hunud-Nasara to spoil the good name of the Taliban and somehow disrupt the peace talks.

For a country claimed to have been created as a haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, the Mohammadden Sabbath of Friday seems to do very little to damp down violence perpetrated by adherents of that religion notwithstanding claims that theirs is “The Religion of Peace”.

Meanwhile the death toll in the Karachi demonstration of the IED Mubarak variant of the IEDology of Pakistan has climbed to 11.

Suicide blast in Karachi kills 11 policemen, injures 47

arun · Post by **arun** » 13 Feb 2014 11:57

arun wrote:
wig wrote:114 kgs of narcotics recovered from PoK truck entering India ,Biggest ever drug haul in Kashmir; driver, truck detained. this is the quantity of contraband detected. large quantities might be passing through undetected. we are better off without being MFN ............... {Snipped} .....................

http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/114-kgs-o ... pok-truck/
Upset by the seizure of illicit narcotics from a Pakistani truck by India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan spitefully detains Indian truck drivers:

20 Indian trucks, drivers detained in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

Srinagar: Authorities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) today detained over 20 drivers and their trucks carrying goods from this side to demand release of their truck and driver detained by Jammu and Kashmir Police for carrying narcotics worth Rs. 100 crore.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan finally releases the 27 Indian trucks that had been illegally detained by them. With the safe return of our truckers, our Government should immediately suspend cross LoC trade so as not to imperil our truckers from future illegal detentions by the Islamic Republic. Dry fruits can always be bought elsewhere in the world.:

Trade resumes across LoC

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Feb 2014 13:16

Anujan wrote:http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/Pakist ... -nine-kill
Suicide attack on police bus in Karachi, nine killed

The score is now 13 policemen killed & 47 injured.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 13 Feb 2014 14:34

Let's assume a net net of 15

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 13 Feb 2014 14:51

Pakistan attacks cast doubt on Taliban talks

Eleven policeman were killed and more than 30 injured in an attack on a Karachi bus on Thursday blamed on Taliban extremists, raising fresh doubts about an already troubled peace process between the government of Nawaz Sharif and the Taliban.
The bomb attack in the port city of Karachi – either a roadside device or a suicide bomber – was the third lethal incident of its kind in three days. At least 13 people were killed in a grenade attack at a cinema in the northern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, while nine people died in an assault aimed at pro-government militiamen outside the same city a day later.

The Taliban denied responsibility for the two Peshawar attacks, but a senior Pakistani intelligence official told the Financial Times: “There is no question in my mind that it is only the Taliban who have this capability. If they (the Taliban) claim their hands are clean, they are basically lying.”
Mr Sharif, who came to power in a general election in May last year, has pushed for peace talks to end the conflict that has raged across Pakistan for over a decade. Sceptics say the latest attacks show how hard it will be for Mr Sharif to reach a settlement with the Sunni Muslim militants of the Taliban.
“The Taliban are just humiliating Nawaz Sharif’s government. They want to continue proving that they have the upper hand,” said Ghazi Salahuddin, a commentator for The News newspaper.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 13 Feb 2014 14:53

Karachi law and order situation heading towards chaos: Chaudhry Nisar

KARACHI: The law and order situation in Karachi was heading towards chaos, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan stated on Thursday. Speaking to the media in Karachi, the interior minister said that the ongoing operation against criminals needs to be conducted in an environment similar to that of the first three months of the operation.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 13 Feb 2014 14:56

PAKISTAN TERROR ASSESSMENT 2014 – ANALYSIS

Terrorism in Pakistan has already resulted in at least 460 fatalities, including 241 civilians, 86 Security Force (SF) personnel and 133 militants in just the first month of 2014, according to partial data compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP). 38 major incidents (each resulting in three or more fatalities) have inflicted at least 309 fatalities, and 70 explosions have also been recorded, accounting for 167 deaths. In one of the worst attacks of 2014 targeting civilians, at least 24 Shia pilgrims returning from Iran were killed and another 40 were injured in a bomb attack targeting their bus in the Khusak area of Kanak in the Mastung District of Balochistan Province, on January 21, 2014. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Clearly, the ‘terror industry’ that was established by Islamabad decades ago with the primary intention of exporting mujahideen into neighbouring countries, including India and Afghanistan, to secure Pakistan’s perceived ‘strategic interests’, continues to thrive. This vast misadventure, however, turned progressively against its very creators, and, since 9/11, Pakistan has itself become the increasing target of several formerly state sponsored terrorist formations that have ‘gone rogue’, even as international pressure has forced Islamabad to undertake visibly reluctant operations against some of these groups. The process escalated after the creation of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the aftermath of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) operations in 2007, causing a spiral of violence that now threatens the very existence of the country. Pakistan’s undiminished tolerance for religious extremists has not just destroyed lives and alienated entire communities; it is destroying Pakistani society and the very idea and edifice of the nation.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 13 Feb 2014 16:38

Dilbu wrote:...a senior Pakistani intelligence official told the Financial Times: “...they are basically lying.”

Two incongruities. Baki Intelligence is an oxymoronic phrase. That's the first pickle. Secondly, real muslims do not lie. Therefore the "intelligence" officer is lying or there's a whole lot of taqqiya going on leading to the likelihood that this was a red flag attack by the agencies to defame the real muslims, the tellibunnies.

I am confused. Are you?

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 13 Feb 2014 16:41

Dilbu wrote:...it is destroying Pakistani society and the very idea and edifice of the nation.

Bakis are experts at using such oxymoronic phrases to under pin their thesis that bakistan is a normal state. Hence, more taqqiya.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Feb 2014 17:24

anupmisra wrote:Secondly, real muslims do not lie.

Anup ji, didn't amir-ul-momineen, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, say that Muslims can lie in a good cause ?

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 13 Feb 2014 19:46

SSridhar wrote:
anupmisra wrote:Secondly, real muslims do not lie.
Anup ji, didn't amir-ul-momineen, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, say that Muslims can lie in a good cause ?

Sridhar, its (lying, i.e.,) always a good cause if it promotes islam. Haq is on record saying that to the Americans. For pakis its easier than, say, owning up to their faults (not that they have any, for heaven's sake). Would-be pakibrit jehadis lie blatantly to their parents when they travel to al-jehadistan claiming they are going for sleep away camps and back road tourism. The issue is that the britpaki parents (and pakis in general) know that they are being lied to (how dumb can they be) and yet accept it as a rite of passage.

In another way, every paki who lives the life of a "secular-liberal" (wining/dining/dancing/consorting) in the west is in a way doing taqqiya. Its legal per sharia.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 13 Feb 2014 21:16

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140213/main4.htm

LoC standoff over, truckers back home
Tribune News Service

Srinagar, February 12
The standoff on the cross-LoC trade spanning nearly four weeks between India and Pakistan ended today after the two sides exchanged the stranded drivers and allowed the detained vehicles to cross over.

The Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) driver, Mohammad Shafiq Awan, who was arrested while smuggling narcotic substances on January 17 triggering the standoff, continues to be under detention.

With the exchange of drivers, the two sides are likely to resume the stalled cross-LoC trade next week.

The official sources said the exchange of 48 truckers from Pakistani occupied Kashmir (PoK) and their vehicles, stranded at Salamabad in Uri, and 27 drivers from Kashmir and their trucks detained on the other side, took place through Aman Setu (peace bridge) connecting the two sides in the Uri sector on Wednesday evening in the presence of senior officials from both the sides.

“The issue of exchanging the stranded drivers and trucks was resolved by the foreign offices of the two countries,” said a senior official. “The two sides have also decided to resume the cross-border trade. This is likely to begin from next week,” he added.

Baramulla Deputy Commissioner Ghulam Ahmad Khwaja said the 48 PoK trucks were dispatched from Salamabad towards Aman Setu in Uri at around 5 pm. “We dispatched trucks from the Trade Facilitation Officer (TFO), Salamabad, towards Aman Setu after the completion of modalities between the two sides,” said Khwaja.

PoK driver remains in custody

PoK driver, who was arrested while smuggling narcotic substances on Jan 17, continues to be under detention
The two sides have agreed that the driver would face the due process of law.
During a probe, it was found that the driver was not aware that drugs were being smuggled through his truck
The drugs were to be unloaded in Amritsar.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 13 Feb 2014 21:26

SBajwa wrote:http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140213/main4.htm

LoC standoff over, truckers back home

Question: Did India return the drugs as was demanded by the pakis? Pakis didn't care about the truckers (dime a dozen there).

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 13 Feb 2014 23:26

partha wrote:http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/ ... m#_ednref5

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"The Taliban not being overly given to paperwork , Pakistani citizens wishing to cross the Indus - say, to buy chappals [slippers] from Charsadda, gur [jaggery] from Mardan or naswar (snuff) from elsewhere - may not require any form of paper visas. But some kind of a toll, we can be reasonably certain, they will have to pay; the Taliban, as noted above, not believing in the concept of free lunches. Troops will have to vacate forward areas. This is a given, and without it there can be no agreement. From the seven tribal agencies all troops gone, FATA clearly coming under a new jurisdiction, that of the Islamic Emirate of North and South Pakhtunistan [comprising of both parts of Waziristan]."
cry is coming

That's some paki style to say it is NOT that sharia loving talib will not loot & pillage; it is just that talibs are not big on "paperwork" and rather be ad-hoc! Fits well with baniya-hating paperless unjahilias.

partha · Post by **partha** » 14 Feb 2014 02:27

http://tribune.com.pk/story/669709/ceas ... -with-ttp/

Ceasefire

boom boom

agreed:

boom boom

Headway claimed

boom boom

in talks with TTP

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 14 Feb 2014 03:03

Reserves will go past $10b by March end, govt plans

ISLAMABAD : As the country’s foreign currency reserves plunged to dangerously low levels of $7.6 billion, the federal government vowed to increase the reserves to $10 billion by the end of next month, a target that appears unrealistic in the backdrop of drying foreign inflows.

According to figures released by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday, the country’s total liquid reserves stood at $7.59 billion as of February 7, the lowest level in years. Out of the total reserves, the foreign currency reserves held by SBP dropped to $2.841 billion, the central bank said. Reserves held by commercial banks stood at $4.748 billion, according to the SBP.

Net official reserves have turned out to be negative, if the government’s liabilities on account of China currency swap, forward contracts and China deposits are subtracted from the reserves held by the SBP.

The $2.84 billion reserves are sufficient to finance only three weeks of imports, as the country’s monthly import bill rose to $4.2 billion in January.

Cheers

sadhana · Post by **sadhana** » 14 Feb 2014 05:32

Islamisation of Jinnah

Ayesha Siddiqa Agha

http://www.scribd.com/doc/206997012/Isl ... ruary-2013

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 14 Feb 2014 09:00

Even 8-month-old girl not spared
Just when U think Fortress of Islam cant fall further: Momin Is always Superior to Kaffir

LAHORE - Doctors at the Children’s Hospital in Lahore are struggling hard to save the life of an eight-month-old baby girl who was raped by an 18-year-old youth in the Nankana Sahib district of the Punjab, on Thursday.According to doctors, who also performed a surgery on the poor soul, the infant’s condition is too critical and grim to be explained.The resident of Jhugian Garnalian was yet to gain consciousness and she was battling for life in the ICU till late Thursday night. “A special medical board will explain her condition to hospital MD on Friday (today),” an official said. But chances of her survival were slim, hospital sources said.Police sources said the girl was sleeping when merciless youth, Hashim, forced his entry into her cottage. He fled the spot leaving the infant in a pool of blood. The poor parents were at work in the nearby fields when the brute assaulted the child.
First, the girl was rushed to a nearby clinic where the doctors advised the parents to rush her to the Lahore Children’s Hospital. The gruesome incident took place in limits of Sadar Shah Kot Police.
“We have arrested the rapist after registering a criminal case against him on the complaint of victim’s father,” Nankana Sahib DPO Abdul Ghaffar Qaisrani told The Nation by phone.However, police sources said the local police are handling this criminal case, worst of its kind, in their typical manner and giving protocol to the resourceful accused in the lock-up. An investigator said the youth has confessed to the crime.The poor family has appealed to Punjab CM to ensuring exemplary punishment to the rapi

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 14 Feb 2014 10:20

Jhujar wrote:Even 8-month-old girl not spared
Just when U think Fortress of Islam cant fall further: Momin Is always Superior to Kaffir

LAHORE - Doctors at the Children’s Hospital in Lahore are struggling hard to save the life of an eight-month-old baby girl who was raped by an 18-year-old youth in the Nankana Sahib district of the Punjab, on Thursday.According to doctors, who also performed a surgery on the poor soul, the infant’s condition is too critical and grim to be explained.The resident of Jhugian Garnalian was yet to gain consciousness and she was battling for life in the ICU till late Thursday night. “A special medical board will explain her condition to hospital MD on Friday (today),” an official said. But chances of her survival were slim, hospital sources said.Police sources said the girl was sleeping when merciless youth, Hashim, forced his entry into her cottage. He fled the spot leaving the infant in a pool of blood. The poor parents were at work in the nearby fields when the brute assaulted the child.
First, the girl was rushed to a nearby clinic where the doctors advised the parents to rush her to the Lahore Children’s Hospital. The gruesome incident took place in limits of Sadar Shah Kot Police.
“We have arrested the rapist after registering a criminal case against him on the complaint of victim’s father,” Nankana Sahib DPO Abdul Ghaffar Qaisrani told The Nation by phone.However, police sources said the local police are handling this criminal case, worst of its kind, in their typical manner and giving protocol to the resourceful accused in the lock-up. An investigator said the youth has confessed to the crime.The poor family has appealed to Punjab CM to ensuring exemplary punishment to the rapi

Probably the victim will have to produce four male witnesses.

She may have also been guilty of associating with a male who is not related to her.

partha · Post by **partha** » 14 Feb 2014 10:27

sadhana wrote:Islamisation of Jinnah

Ayesha Siddiqa Agha

http://www.scribd.com/doc/206997012/Isl ... ruary-2013

Pakistan had "secular liberal traditions"? When exactly?

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 14 Feb 2014 10:37

^^^
"Secular" in Pakistani contexts means tolerating Shias. "Liberal" means tolerating Sufi traditions of dance and music. Ofcourse, conventional accepted definitions means tolerance for all faiths, religions and lack thereof and Social justice & personal freedom. In Pakistani context it means lack of bombing and shooting.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1086861/now-or-never

why is it that Punjab remains largely peaceful while Balochistan, KP and Sindh continue to be ravaged by an unending spiral of violence? Insofar as so-called Talibanisation needs to be dealt with, why is the Punjabi contribution to the phenomenon ignored in mainstream intellectual, media and political discourses? Why is it that ‘crises’ in the country’s biggest province remain limited to power and gas shortages?

It is a measure of the priorities of our ruling class that all hands were on deck following the blowing up of a gas supply line in Rahim Yar Khan earlier this week. Pakistani governments are not known to be efficient or sensitive to the needs of ordinary people, yet within 72 hours gas supply was restored to both domestic consumers and industrial units in Punjab. Needless to say, such quick-time responses are conspicuous by their absence in the long-suffering peripheries.

Brave for Dawn to carry this article.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 11:29

Another soosai.
Blast near Rangers' vehicle in Karachi injures two

KARACHI: An explosion took place near a Rangers' vehicle in Karachi's Qayumabad area injuring two personnel on Friday, DawnNews reported.

A rescue source said that one of the wounded persons was wearing the Rangers uniform whereas the other was dressed in plain clothes.

The wounded Rangers personnel were shifted to PNS Shifa hospital for treatment.

A Rangers spokesperson said the explosion had targeted a wing commander of the force who was travelling in the vehicle. He added that the body parts of a person, including the head and legs, were found from the site which suggested that the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 11:34

Wave of fear: Teachers to ‘lock up schools’ if forced to partake in polio drives

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa All Primary Teachers Association (APTA) Women’s Wing protested against the provincial government on Thursday and threatened to lock up schools if they were forced to take part in any polio drives.
Around 50 teachers from various localities of the city gathered in front of Peshawar Press Club, blocking Sher Shah Suri Road for one hour. Led by K-P APTA Women’s Wing President Nizakat Kalsoom, the protesters carried banners and placards, and chanted slogans against the K-P government.
Talking to the media, Kalsoom said they had received threatening letters from unknown people saying if they took part in the polio drive, their schools would be blown up. “A wave of fear has spread amongst female teachers, and now their families are not allowing them to work any longer,” added Kalsoom.
She claimed it is not the duty of teachers to carry out vaccination drives on the streets, adding that the health department had a considerable staff of lady health workers who should be deployed in their stead. The teacher also claimed that all her colleagues in the city have decided not to participate in the drive any longer.
“Many female teachers across the province are already under threat and perform their jobs with great difficulties,” shared Kalsoom. “Putting this additional burden on them will only disrupt the education system further.”
Kalsoom questioned how it would be possible to ensure the safety of teachers, if security personnel and polio workers were not safe from attacks. She demanded the government to distance teachers from the campaign, and threatened to continue their protest until the fulfilment of their demands.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 11:41

Long-delayed count: Govt drops census plan for fear of backlash

LAHORE:The ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) is caught between a rock and a hard place. Despite its eagerness to reap political dividends from holding the long-delayed sixth census, the ruling party has decided against conducting the population count for fear of unrest following its results. The country’s fifth and last census was carried out in 1998.
Sources privy to the February 10 meeting of the Council of Common Interests revealed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dropped the most critical feature of the council’s agenda after consultation with stakeholders.

The crux of the Statistics Division report shared by officials states that the census would involve a distribution of resources under the National Finance Commission (NFC) and an allocation of seats in the National Assembly and the provincial assembly concerned.
It proposed that the CCI should take a decision like the one made in India, and freeze the relevant articles of the constitution regarding NFC and seat allocation before the census.
The division proposed that the CCI should bring an amendment in the constitution to freeze article 51 for 10 years or more in order to avoid controversy.
Another suggestion floated was that the Pakistan Army should carry out the census.
Sources said Nawaz was informed that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) opposed a military-supervised census as it fears discrimination. They said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and other political groups did not want the army to carry out the exercise in rural Sindh as they want a favourable result.
Baloch and Pakhtun political blocs in Quetta said the census will expose the true ethnic percentage.
Sources said representatives from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa felt the issue of Pakhtun and Hazara representations may emerge after a census while the PTI also requested that Nawaz defer the count.
In Punjab, the PM was told that the PML-N may also come under the threat of the Seraiki and Punjabi issue. If the census in Multan shows that the Seraiki population is smaller than Punjabi-dominated areas, then there will be unrest over the issue of allocation of resources in the name of Seraiki South Punjab.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 11:43

Wah wah Bandar finds a buyer.
Pakistan to sell combat jets to Saudi Arabia

NEW DELHI, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistan is to sell JF-17 Thunder combat jets and trainer aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud is set to visit Pakistan beginning Saturday, with talks expected to focus on deepening security and defense cooperation between the two countries. The crown prince's delegation will include Economy and Planning Minister Mohammed bin Sulaiman al-Jasser, Commerce Minister Tawfiq bin Fawzan al Rabiah, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nizar Bin Obaid Madani and important businessmen.

Foreign Office spokesman Tasnim Aslam said during a news briefing that Pakistan was considering Saudi Arabia as a potential armaments market, telling journalists, "Certainly, defense cooperation would figure in the talks. The army chief would be calling on him separately," Saharasamay.com website reported on Thursday.

Besides the JF-17 Thunder jet co-developed with China, other armaments that Pakistan is interested in selling to Saudi Arabia include the Mushak trainer aircraft. Analysts say Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are seeking deeper strategic ties as the United States begins to withdraw from Afghanistan.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 11:47

Peshawar cinemas: Intermission

Cinema Road wears a similar deserted look as the three cinemas located on the film strip – Picture House, Ayeena and Palwasha cinemas have also closed their doors for the time being.
After two attacks on two cinema houses – Picture House and Shama Cinema – which left more than 17 dead, cinema owners have decided to close shop till proper security arrangements are made for them.
The police has warned cinema owners that they could be the target of more attacks and so to prevent any disasters, should beef up the security.

Nishtarabad, the CD centre of Peshawar where one can also produce films, telefilms or dramas, has been attacked several times in the past and is facing many security threats today. “Being the sole production centre of all entertainment in the province, we should be provided with security,” said Farhan Khan, the president of Nishtar CD Production Association.
Most Pashto films are made in Lahore’s Evernew Studios and then sent for production and distribution to Peshawar’s Nishtarabad.
Film producer Muzafar Khan and the owner of his own production house, said that they had cancelled screenings of the new productions at cinemas. He added that the future of the industry depends on the condition of the province. “The people are not interested in watching the movies and we do not want to invest in this business anymore.”
“Even if the cinema houses were not closed, there was no audience,” he said. “So shutting them (the cinemas) down will not really have an impact on the business.”
Cinema owners have decided to keep their curtains closed and provide cinemagoers with proper security.
Wazir Khan, a resident of Peshawar, felt that the theatres should remain closed while the law and order situation in the city was bad. He added that even though this was the only source of entertainment in the city, security was important.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 14 Feb 2014 11:50

Means they are going to station some Bandars loaded up with nukes in Saudi Arabia.

Saudis operate F15, typhoons and have hawk trainers. Why would they want bandars ?

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 11:58

But but isn't this dialogue stolen from kufr India who tell this to TSP every time there is a TSP sponsored attack?
Terrorism, talks can’t go side by side: Nisar

Nisar stated that the situation in Karachi was a national issue. “It is an issue of every citizen.”Talking about intelligence agencies, he commented that their work and operations have become better and intelligence sharing has also improved.

“On the one hand we are engaged in dealing with elements trying to disrupt peace initiative and on the other with people who want to talk,” said the minister expressing his annoyance on the matter.

“Nevertheless, one thing is clear that peace talks cannot go alongside terrorist attacks,” he added.Sources said the letter written by the government committee to the TTP calls for an end to terrorist attacks as they are having a ‘negative impact’ on talks.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 12:01

Anujan wrote:Means they are going to station some Bandars loaded up with nukes in Saudi Arabia.

Saudis operate F15, typhoons and have hawk trainers. Why would they want bandars ?

In line with Anu ki jan's analysis.
Pakistan not giving Saudi Arabia nuke technology: FO

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office spokesperson on Thursday rejected reports that Pakistan was giving nuclear technology to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

She said, “We have a nuclear weapons programme which is a declared one. We have extensive security regimes. Our civilian nuclear programme is under the IAEA safeguards and it is meant to provide energy and it is also used in agriculture and medical fields.

“The crown prince’s visit is of special significance since it would be his first visit to Pakistan after assuming this position. Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud had visited Pakistan in 1998 as Governor of Riyadh,” she said, “it would provide a good opportunity to explore ways and means for further strengthening cooperation in diverse areas of mutual interest particularly in expanding and enhancing investments and trade.”

Pakistan’s army chief would also be calling the Saudi dignitary, but so far there is no reference to the stationing of Pakistani troops in KSA, though Pakistan has been providing training to the Saudi Armed Forces.“We would also be interested in sale of arms to Saudi Arabia like JF-17 Thunder and Mushshaq aircraft and other equipment,” added the spokesperson.

Sale of arms from TSP to Saudi is certainly very odd.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 14 Feb 2014 12:49

Saudis are probably buying for Paki H&D purposes.

partha · Post by **partha** » 14 Feb 2014 13:07

^
Iran.

partha · Post by **partha** » 14 Feb 2014 13:13

Dilbu wrote:Another soosai.
Blast near Rangers' vehicle in Karachi injures two
KARACHI: An explosion took place near a Rangers' vehicle in Karachi's Qayumabad area injuring two personnel on Friday, DawnNews reported.

A rescue source said that one of the wounded persons was wearing the Rangers uniform whereas the other was dressed in plain clothes.

The wounded Rangers personnel were shifted to PNS Shifa hospital for treatment.

A Rangers spokesperson said the explosion had targeted a wing commander of the force who was travelling in the vehicle. He added that the body parts of a person, including the head and legs, were found from the site which suggested that the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.

wow..TTP attacks in Karachi are now becoming as common as Lyari gang fights and they have been consistently getting their intel on high value targets right. SP CID, Police, Rangers, President's (Zardari) personal body guard.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 13:22

TFTAs are doing what they are known for doing.
Police on the run in Karachi

Karachi - Law-enforcers have almost vanished from the city following the frequent attacks against the police and rangers by terrorists who are seeking revenge for the killing of their associates in the targeted operation in Karachi.
As many as 92 policemen have so far been killed since the start of intelligence based targeted operation against the criminals five months ago on September 5 last year. At least 50 law enforcers were killed in targeted killing and bomb blasts in the ongoing year alone.

Rangers have vanished from the city screen after they were attacked a couple of days ago in Nazimabad. Three Rangers personnel were martyred in that attack. Similarly, the police personnel – who had already been directed to move in at least two vans guarding each other during patrol and snap checking – have been terrified after Thursday’s blast at Razaqabad Police Training Centre that killed 13 cops and wounded dozens other.

The areas of District West and District Malir considered as the strongholds of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). A police station there remained locked for 24 hours. Police officials wished to be anonymous revealed that the law enforces were now focusing on catching the target and sectarian killers hiding in the political folds than encountering the hardened terrorists affiliated with militant outfits.

Sources said that police avoided hitting the TTP and their allies even during the targeted operation. Even slain CID SP Chudhary Aslam Khan, the most active encounter specialist, would not go for a hot pursuit of the members of TTP or its affiliated groups. Every terrorist killed by SP Khan was owned by TTP only after his killing and it was then the police would know the connection. The Taliban felt the fire especially when allegedly security forces dumped seven shot dead bodies of TTP operatives.

A police official said that numerous top cops, considered experts in counter terrorism and sectarian cases, have tendered apology to the Taliban and assured TTP high command that no further terrorist affiliated with TTP would be arrested. Rest of the cops were half heartedly working for the department and staying out of their respective areas most of the time.
Another factor of demoralisation is that heirs of at least half of the police martyrs have so far not been given their legal financial benefits or compensations, the police official said. He alleged that top officers were trying to hush up many cases even though “we have the capability to deal with the terrorists”. If the priority of operation have had been set right by the high ups in the start, police would have removed most of the sanctuaries of terrorists in Karachi, he added.

The official pointed out that government and security high ups called the increase in the killing of security personnel a reaction of targeted operation, though operation was “not aimed to eliminate terrorist”. When tried to contact for knowing his response, City police chief Shahid Hayat did not pick up the phone.

May be it the sensible thing to do. Go underground for now and then later grow a beard and come out to implement 'promotion of virtue & prevention of vice' once Taliban take over of Pakistan is complete.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 14 Feb 2014 13:26

Dilbu wrote:Wah wah Bandar finds a buyer.
Pakistan to sell combat jets to Saudi Arabia

Why is TSP selling the Bandar ? Shouldn't it be China ? Or, has China allowed TSP to do some moonlighting because of the taller friendship and the upcoming Afghan situation ?

partha · Post by **partha** » 14 Feb 2014 13:33

TTP ka matlab kya? la il.. Taliban Taking Pakistan.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 14 Feb 2014 13:35

Anujan wrote:Means they are going to station some Bandars loaded up with nukes in Saudi Arabia.

Bandars are what the name implies. They are not gorillas capable of carrying crown jewels and penetrating deep. It is really perplexing unless the Saudis want to convey a message to the US with whom their relations aren't good. The arrogantly rich Saudis wouldn't touch a Chinese plane otherwise when they have so many non-US options.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Feb 2014 13:40

It can also be a message to US, Iran and other parties that to counter Iran's nukes Saudi will deploy TSP fighters loaded with nukes.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 14 Feb 2014 13:46

bandar sales are hashish pipe dreams, more about four_father love fantasies than anything else