Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014

[Brad Goodman]

ISI upto something?
Prison break threat in Peshawar triggers red alert

[SSridhar]

partha, Mast Gul is mainly against India and Shi'as are always a target of all these salafi/wahhabi/deobandi tanzeems if they cannot get hold of a real kafir otherwise. These old outfits are being reactivated for 2014/2015 denouement. deja vu. I do not believe that it has anything to do with Iran or KSA.

[Dilbu]

IGP wants regulated entry of tribesmen, Afghans into KP

PESHAWAR: Demanding a regulated entry of the tribespeople and Afghan nationals to the province, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police chief has asked for a segregated belt between the settled and tribal areas patrolled by paramilitary forces to stop the incursions of troublemakers into the province.

“The troublemakers can easily enter any settled area and easily escape after any major attack. However, those chasing the attackers from the settled areas have no authority to enter the tribal area,” Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nasir Khan Durrani told The News in an interview.

The provincial police chief said there must be a strip between the tribal and the settled areas to be patrolled by the Frontier Constabulary so that the police and forces in tribal areas could take action in case of any untoward incident.

Around 24 posts of the police are already set up on the boundary between Peshawar and Khyber Agency while forces are deployed on the other side in tribal areas. However, attacks are still being carried out on the city from the tribal areas.

TSP should fence the international border with Pastunistan and deploy border patrol units. The two nations should sit together and resolve these issues peacefully.

[Dilbu]

Pak govt to target militants; stamp state's writ at all costs

Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Tuesday decided to continue targeted operations against militants alongside efforts to start a dialogue with the Taliban as part of steps to establish the state's writ at all costs, according to media reports.

A meeting of the federal cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sought an unconditional ceasefire by the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.

The meeting also approved the National Security Policy, Pakistan's attempt at creating a comprehensive policy to tackle terrorism and internal security challenges.

[Lalmohan]

with the imminent break up of some parts of pakistan, the probability of chinese occupation of the karakorum areas is significantly increased (as has been opined on here before). so potentially it might be worth while allowing that to happen for the sino-afghan war to kick off for the next 10 years. at the end of which pakistan will have shrunk down to pakjab only and a few independent emirates and the war will have expanded out to xinjiang in a big way

[ramana]

I am not sure if the following was posted here. Link

When reminded by the interviewer that Hakimullah was killed by a US drone and not by the Pakistan Army, Khurasani {the Emir of the Mohmand Chapter of the TTP}had stated: “America is our enemy but we don’t blame it. Our real enemy is Pakistan. We will punish Pakistan because they tricked us. The Americans have been our consistent enemy and have never changed their policy towards us.

But Pakistan is an enemy which keeps changing colours. Had the Pakistan Army and the government not helped the Americans, they would not have been able to assassinate our ameer with the help of their drones. The Americans could not have found him and killed him without their help. Therefore, we believe that America has not hurt us as badly as Pakistan has. That’s why we are battling against the state of Pakistan”.

X-Posting from Mil Forum:

Preceding World War 2, the German Army built a false myth that the German political leadership surrendered in WW1, the Army was capable of fighting & was winning. The truth was the German Army had collapsed. The myth of German Invincibility was a major factor in inciting WW2.

Same for Pakistan. The myth that Mushy is propogating that PA was winning, and political leadership sold him, is dangerous. In 1965, Pakistan could not sustain a longer war. In 1971, Pakistan lost huge swathes of territory in the Western Sector, yet some of them still lie that they won the war in the West.

The myth of PA invincibility needs to be quashed as early as possible, since it encourages adventurism. Jokers like Mushy spin defeat into victory.

TTP is doing the job in TSP.

What they need are a few anti-aircraft rockets (from Syria) to down a few bandars.

[anupmisra]

We are strongly against cricket and dislike it.

What about soccer or kabaddi? Both test "endurance, strength and guile", something the momeens don't seem to lack in their single-minded fervor to eradicate the kufr.

[anupmisra]

TSP should fence the international border with Pastunistan and deploy border patrol units. The two nations should sit together and resolve these issues peacefully.

But, don't forget to leave an opening with gates to facilitate the movement of trucks with trade goods in a show of aman and ummah.

[Peregrine]

Pakistan-Iran pipeline not possible due to Western sanctions

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan on Tuesday said that work on a pipeline to import gas from Iran cannot proceed because of sanctions imposed by the United Sates and the European Union on Tehran.

The Iranian side of the $7.5-billion project is almost complete, but Pakistan has run into repeated problems paying for the 780 kilometre (485 mile) section to be built on its side of the border.

Last year, Pakistan had asked Iran for $2 billion in financing to build its side of the controversial gas pipeline.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said that his country was ready to go ahead with the pipeline agreement.

“Iran is committed to this gas agreement but until Pakistan has not officially relayed its stance, we cannot react and make a decision,” he was quoted as saying Tuesday by the Mehr news agency:

In late October Zanganeh had said he had “no hope” for the project, citing financial problems.
The long-delayed pipeline that would link the two neighbours was planned to ease Pakistan’s chronic gas shortages.

The Karachi stock exchange took fright when the countries’ then-presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Asif Ali Zardari inaugurated the much-delayed section of pipeline in March last year.

Spooked by fears of US sanctions, the main index slumped almost 2.5 per cent.

Cheers

[ramana]

^^^

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan on Tuesday said that work on a pipeline to import gas from Iran cannot proceed because of sanctions imposed by the United Sates and the European Union on Tehran.

Wrong. The TSP found ample reserves of freely occuring pindi gas. No need for Persian gas.

[Mahesh_R]

^^^ I guess the agreement said if the pipeline is NOT ready at TSP end then they were suppose to pay some $4 M per day as a penalty... can Iran go to ICJ to get the penalty money from TSP ?
I believe they should sue TSP...atleast that's the bad publicity to do any business with TSP....

[Anujan]

Couple of years ago, I had posted why the pipeline is a nonstarter. Iran has banking sanctions. Banks which transact with Iran can't deal with any other bank. (That's why money due to Iran from India is held in a rupee denominated account in UCO bank). Which for the Pakistan means that they cannot get baksheesh from IMF or coalition support payments from unkil if they finance the pipeline.

The pipeline was a bargaining chip against unkil. The argument used to be that since Pakistan is energy starved, either unkil should give them a nuke deal or Pakistan will build the pipeline. The pipeline was also a thumb in the nose against Saudis who terminated the special oil facility (SOF).

Things have changed now. China is building massive reactors in Karachi (most probably with a wink and nod from NSG). unkil seems to be talking to Iran. Saudis seem to have turned the tap on (in return for terrorists from Pakistan to fight in Syria and purchase of MANPADs and anti tank missiles for Syria fighters). The pipeline threat has outlived its utility.

[Prem]

Use of chemical, biological weapons by non-state actors cannot be ruled out: NSP draft

Lahori Gas Vs Pehawari Channa

MALSIABAD: The draft of the proposed National Security Policy, a copy of which was acquired by Express News on Tuesday, warned of possible chemical or biological weapons use by non-state actors.According to Express News, the draft reveals how Pakistan has suffered losses worth $778 billion over the past decade due to various acts of terror. The draft further stated that the Ministry of Defence has the infrastructure in place to deal with non-state armed groups and terrorists.
Furthermore, the 33 intelligence agencies will work under the National Cunt Herrorism Authority (NACHA) directorate. NACHA will also have the authority to contact international agencies in its aim to counter threats to national security.The draft stated that religious seminaries will be brought under the national fold in terms of curriculum and operation. It was also proposed that counter-terrorism departments will be established in every province.The draft also mentioned that measures will be taken to prevent the wrong use of social media.NauWwaaz Sharif said Taliban should not take the government’s desire for peace as its weakness, adding that the writ of the government shall be implemented at all cost.Two cabinet members – Jamiatul Ulema-e-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F)’s Akram Durrani and Abdul Ghaoor Haideri did not come to attend the meeting.It was also agreed in the meeting that the government will take care that the women and children stay safe in the operations.Prime Minister NauWaazzo stated during the meeting that special care will be given to internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are negatively impacted by the aerial strikes.The Information Minister Waazo Per Rawshit, in an interview to Radio Pakistan on Tuesday, said that the prime minister still prefers to bring peace to the country through dialogue with Taliban to avoid further bloodshed.
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[saip]

It should be $666 billion in losses.

[Anujan]

Pakistan has lost $1 trillion due to the world not giving $1 trillion to Pakistan.

[Prem]

Pakistan has lost $1 trillion due to the world not giving $1 trillion to Pakistan.

Allah wil compensate this Posumland 1 $ a day to make up the loss and Allah's one day is equal to 1000years of kuffar./

[SSridhar]

From NightWatch for the night of Feb. 24, 2014

Pakistan - Saudi Arabia: The initial features of a bilateral strategic security and defense agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have been agreed upon, according to unconfirmed sources. Under the agreement, Pakistan reportedly will provide all possible support to the Saudi army for defense of Saudi soil in any case of foreign aggression. Rumors in Pakistan report that two Pakistan Army divisions will be designated for deployment to Saudi Arabia on short notice. As to arms sales, Saudi Arabia is interested in purchasing from Pakistan 50 JF-Thunder 17 and 20 other modern aircraft and 80 Al Khalid tanks - all built in Pakistan. Saudi Arabia also has expressed interest in purchasing light tactical weapons and missile technology. Saudi Arabia reportedly will invest in Pakistan's defense industries and will use its influence to facilitate the sale of Pakistani defense products, tools, equipment and technical skills in the markets of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia reportedly intends to seek technical assistance from China and Pakistan for establishing a modern aviation industry in Saudi Arabia. Pakistani aeronautical engineers, technicians and other staff will work jointly with Saudis and Chinese technicians and advisors.

Comment: No officials have confirmed the agreement, but the Pakistani defense media have been buzzing for weeks about it. If the reports of a strategic defense agreement are even partly accurate, then Iran now must represent a close second to India as the "enemy" in Pakistani strategic military planning. That might be good news for stability in South Asia, at least. In principle, this reported agreement might be understood as the next stage in a longstanding, less formal security arrangement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In the past, Pakistan deployed entire units, up to brigade echelon, for Saudi security. In return, concessional Saudi oil sales prevented Pakistan from simply grinding to a halt. In fact the agreement appears to represent a strategic shift in several senses. First, it is the next stage -- after large US arms purchases -- in Saudi Arabia's preparations for an eventual war against Shiite Islam, backed by Iran. Saudi Arabia has made major purchases of US anti-tank weapons that far exceed the manpower of Saudi forces. This report suggests Pakistani soldiers will fire them. Second, Saudi Arabia is reducing its reliance on the US for its defense and is diversifying its weapons sources. Saudi Arabia could be the place where Pakistani soldiers integrate the best of US and Chinese weapons in a religious fight to defend the Saudi Kingdom against the Shiites. Third, for the US, the agreement indicates regional powers are making their own security arrangements. Finally, it also implies that a major ground war could occur between Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies against Iran and its Shiite allies. It would affect the US in many ways on many levels. The US might not be consulted nor be capable of providing much military assistance. What is ironic is that China would be in the catbird's seat because it would be arming both sides in such a fight. That means China might be more important in influencing the outcome of such a confrontation than the US, for the first time.

Saudi Arabia is hedging its ties with the US now that there is some improvement in the US-Iran ties, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the recent US and KSA spat, the Syria approach etc. India must question the visiting Saudi Crown Prince closely as to what is cooking. As history shows the US preference for the hardline Sunni branch, this could be under the wink and nod of the US too.

[ramana]

SS, In mid 80s Zia stationed a division of Pak troops in KSA. When the going got tought for Saddam and he was lsoing to Iran, KSA wanted the Pak troops to be sent to the front to help the Iraqis. Then Zia refused to send them to the war front, claiming his troops were to defend the KSA onlee. So KSA said there is no danger in KSA and if the Pak troops wont fight then what are they doing in KSA? So that division was withdrawn back to TSP. All this happeend in Nov-Dec 1987. There was some concern in India at that time as they were committed in IPKF but it all got sorted out.

Moral of the sotry is Pak won't fight when the going gets tough and will just milk the KSA for what they got.

Zia's real concern is TSP has significant Shia population and fighting Iran could bring the ME problems into TSP.
However looks like TSP is now more jihadized and wants to be more Arabic and kick Persian four fathers.

[Anujan]

Also Pakistan might be doing all this not because they have a strategic sense of direction for the country, but because of the simple fact that Nawaz & co have been bought by the Saudis. After all they boasted (leaked by Wikileaks cables) "We in Saudi Arabia are not observers in Pakistan, we are participants."

[anupmisra]

This time I really mean it!

Bakistan poised for offensive in North Waziristan

Pakistan is poised to launch a full-scale offensive in its lawless tribal region North Waziristan if talks with Taliban insurgents fail, a senior Pakistan government official said Tuesday.

preparations have been made for military action if negotiations do not yield the "right dividend."

The right dividend? I didn't know that the pakis were treating this (yet another) waziri adventure as an investment? Hasn't history taught them anything?

[anupmisra]

By the way, that cricket thingy is not going away so soon. There, it seems, was an ulterior motive behind the offer. Motion submitted against minister’s statement on Taliban

Through the adjournment motion...it was stated that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had offered Taliban to play cricket at this critical time when Pakistan was suffering at the hands of the Taliban

...on Monday a cricket match was held between Pakistani cricketers and the diplomats of Commonwealth countries in Islamabad

The aim of the match was to bring international cricket to Pakistan by showing that its citizens loved cricket

Aha! Now I get it. The minister's offer to the tellibunnies to play cricket with the baki cricket team was all about bringing international cricket to bakistan. Don't you see? All the tellibunnies are foreigners (none of them are bakis). If the tellibunnies were to play in bakistan just like the commonwealth diplomats, it will prove to the world once and for all that bakistan is once again safe for international sports.

Get it?

[partha]

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/02/is-pak ... ue-regime/

Is Pakistan a rogue regime?
Michael Rubin | February 24, 2014, 3:21 pm

In my new book, Dancing With the Devil, I examine a half-century of American diplomacy with rogue regimes and terrorist groups. Initially, defining a rogue regime was akin to paraphrasing the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s quip about *****, “It’s hard to define but I know it when I see it.” But, while there remains no consensus view internationally about what makes a rogue (just like there is no standard definition of terrorism), Clinton-era National Security Advisor Anthony Lake tried to define the notion of rogue, or “backlash state,” as the Clinton administration alternately called these problematic states. In short, the United States began to understand these rogue regimes as countries immune to traditional deterrence, those whose policy was controlled by an undemocratic clique, states which did not accept the norms of diplomacy, and those which sponsor terrorism and/or proliferate nuclear technology.

Today, of course, few doubt that North Korea is a rogue state, and many recognize the Islamic Republic of Iran as one as well. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Muammar Qadhafi’s Libya were historically rogue regimes as well. So too was the Taliban’s self-styled “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.” By Lake’s definition, however, perhaps it is time to recognize Pakistan as a rogue:

Pakistan has proliferated nuclear weapons and, given the lionization of nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, they have done so unapologetically.
That Pakistan sponsors terrorism is an open secret, as open as Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s flirtation and perhaps material support for designated terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, and as certain as Al Qaeda mastermind Usama Bin Laden’s long residence in Abbottabad.
While ordinary Pakistanis seek representative government and democracy, that Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) seems to wield disproportionate power and influence over policy is less the stuff of conspiracy theory and more the realm of reality and makes the conclusion that Pakistan does not abide by the norms of diplomacy and does not accept traditional deterrence open for debate.

Many Pakistanis will respond to such a notion with opprobrium. Others will no doubt say that Pakistan does not fit the definition because deterrence is effective and because they do not accept that the good-cop, bad-cop approach of Pakistan’s elected leadership and the ISI represents contempt for international norms. That Pakistan is moving so close to the line that separates a competitor or adversary from a full-fledged rogue suggests, however, that no one can afford to take security in South Asia for granted so long as Pakistan plays the game it does.

While it is good that somebody is throwing out the idea that Pakistan is a rouge state, the bolded parts sans OBL were true even 10 years back. Why this sudden realization that Pakistan is a rogue state? As long as someone is serving US interests, Americans overlook anything and everything but lecture other countries on how to behave.

[anupmisra]

In a nation crowded with half wits, how can one forget this 16-anna-moron. Country more important than democracy: Altaf

Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Hussain has asked the army to seize power if the government does not support it in the fight against Taliban

He said he did not care if people said that he was preferring dictatorship to democracy. “For us, the country is more important than democracy”

And, for good measure and to virtually seal his fate, Altafbhai added in earnest:

“It is un-Islamic to support Taliban.”

AoA!

[anupmisra]

When it rains, it pours. Drug a shy govt can’t see.

bakistan has become a major market for smuggled and sub-standard aphrodisiacs

sexual enhancement drugs, both smuggled and locally manufactured, are being sold in the country without clinical trials

The study put the total annual value of sexual enhancement drugs in the country at Rs1.3 billion

There are an estimated 30,000 unregistered herbal medicine companies operating in Pakistan and almost 90 per cent of them are selling ‘powerful herbal sex medicines

[anupmisra]

While al-bakistan is poised to take the war-on-error to the tellibunnies, it seems the tellibunnies are not the ones to back off from a muh-tod-jawab. Taliban ready for military operation consequences: TTP spokesman

Shahidullah Shahid has said that Taliban were ready for the consequences of military operation

TTP spokesman said military operation will incur less loss to Taliban and that the rulers must fulfill their will for compiling the statistics

[anupmisra]

And, finally the towel (before I retire for the night). State of the nation

In the last few years the writ of the Pakistani state has been rapidly eroding. Internationally we have been isolating ourselves, while domestically strangling our economy with record incompetent governance.

Many of our best and brightest have left for greener pastures, with thousands more queuing up every month.

Karachi has worsened under their watch. According to the Wall Street Journal more than 30 percent of Karachi is under direct or indirect TTP control. That’s mind numbing.

Sindh has some of the most enterprising businessmen and creative individuals just waiting to be unleashed. The province could grow faster than next-door Modi’s Gujarat.

We have almost run out of time. And the Kayani doctrine is no more.

Good night and good luck!

[partha]

marshallah! bhat a motivational video from Mitranwali, Punjab province.

Ho raha Bakistan nirman.



Pakistan music industry is way ahead of Indian music industry. India may have better musical equipment but Pakistan has way better singers.

[Anujan]

My sources tell me that Waziristan operation, Iran Pakistan pipeline, granting MFN status to India, catching benazir Bhutto's killers and punishing Mumbai attackers will all happen on the same day.

[RCase]

^^^ That is the day that pigs will fly!

[SSridhar]

^^^ That is the day that pigs will fly!

Got choked man,

Thd question is when that day when snow freezes in hell comes about, will TSP be remaining as one entity ?

[Anujan]

Hizbul Mujahideen has clarified that Mast Gul is no longer with them. Hizbul Mujahideen kills only non-Pakistanis and would never kill Pakistanis.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1089487/hizbul ... its-member

“Attempts to affiliate someone claiming responsibility for bomb blasts in Pakistan with Hizbul Mujahideen to dent its credibility are upsetting and painful,” said the group in a brief statement issued here, in a reference to Major Mast Gul, alias Haroon Khan.

[partha]

So Mast Gul is officially a retired and rogue member of Hizbul

[sum]

^^ Non-state actor of a non-state actor??

[Dilbu]

Non-non state actor.

[SSridhar]

So, clearly there are two groups in Pakistan. Non-state actors who are TTP and its allies and State-actors who are simply the rest.

[SSridhar]

On this Gul phenomenon, we have to watch carefully for signs of a split in HM. The HM is a Jama'at-e-Islami (JI) outfit. It is the armed wing of the JI and is fully supported, and funded by the ISI. We know that cadres have left outfits like LeT and joined the TTP. In the case of JI, one of its leaders is Sufi Mohammed, the father-in-law of ski-elevator operator-turned TTP Chief. Like in LeT, HM cadres could be also moving over to the 'greener' camp. Just a thought.

[Lalmohan]

you are not seeing the wood for the trees - mast gul, aka heady bloom... sounds very much like a yehudi naam, obviously a mossad agent

[Lalmohan]

seriously though - has LeT fragmented significantly? the consensus seems to be that 26/11 was launched more to keep LeT together in the strategic toolkit
if enough cells/groupings have left to form other units, where does that leave the kashmir front?

[Yogi_G]

marshallah! bhat a motivational video from Mitranwali, Punjab province.

Pakistan music industry is way ahead of Indian music industry. India may have better musical equipment but Pakistan has way better singers.

It's like Lollyood having better actors than Bollywood. SDRE Kafirs look better as b'wood has better lighting. I am serious, look it up, this was actually said by someone from the other side.

[Dilbu]

Del