] Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene
Link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... le-4957311
Uncanny similarity with the following, N'est pa?
What I cannot understand is how anyone can drive a getaway car out of a major city, when the polis have helicopters. I mean, don't they have traffic jams? How about those murderous roundabouts? If it was in India they would be stuck between 2 buses and 5 autorickshas and 25 motorcycles all trying to get into the same space.matrimc wrote:I love Paris though.
The US on Tuesday designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Pakistani Taliban, as a global terrorist and slapped sanctions against him. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new ... wlBIq.dpuf
A_Gupta wrote:http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new ... 06464.aspxThe US on Tuesday designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of Pakistani Taliban, as a global terrorist and slapped sanctions against him. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new ... wlBIq.dpuf
Yes, and many times before.. even I have read that, .. as early as 2010. (per stories printed in US newspapers..),,,here is a story from 2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/maul ... llah-dead/.Didn't TSPA claim to have killed him after the Peshawar School attack?
Patrika: Your post in Hindi will make no sense to many here.patrika wrote:Pakistan`s Fourth Nuclear Reactor at Khushab Now Appears Operational : ISIS
sudhan wrote:JuD assets frozen
Hmm.. So a few days back we saw news articles which quoted some Paki minister saying "JuD is halal, no need to halal it". Now this, also looks like Hafiz al suar seems to have now travel restrictions..
Most likely to keep him from taking his rather vishal g*nd close to the LOC, wily bhindians might take him out..
SSridhar wrote:Look at the contrasting news items coming out.
Pakistan bans Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Haqqani network after US mounts pressure - PTI
Pakistan freezes bank accounts of Jamaatud Dawa (no mention of ban)
Very murky things are going on, as usual.
Question
Do you have anything to tell us on Federal Minister Statement who publicly denounced Saudi Arabia for having destructive effect on Pakistan through money transfers?
Secondly, would you please share information on status of JuD and Haqqani Network because numbers of our external partners are taking interest in this subject? We know it is the subject of the Ministry of Interior but anything you can tell us? (Farhan Bukhari-)
Answer
First, about the Minister’s statement, I am sure you have seen the statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office and also the clarification given by the Minister that he was quoted out of context. I don’t think I need to add anything to the Prime Minister’s statement.
About the second question, you are right it primarily relates to the Ministry of Interior. JuD and some other organizations are listed by the United Nations. Pakistan, as a member of the United Nations is under obligations to proscribe the entities and individuals that are listed. We take our obligations very seriously and try to meet these obligations scrupulously. Once any individuals and organizations are proscribed by the UN, we are required to freeze their assets and enforce travel restrictions. We take that action. Bank accounts of such entities and individuals are frozen after SRO is issued. You can check the details of what exactly the recent actions mean with NACTA or Ministry of Interior.
From here:Question
In a follow up of question on banning JuD, is it because of the pressure by the US Secretary of the State John Kerry who visited Pakistan and met with the leadership that Pakistan is banning these organizations?
As the Prime Minister has cancelled his visit to Switzerland who is representing Pakistan from Foreign Office or Ministry of Finance instead of PM? (Mateen Haider-Dawn News)
Answer
I am not aware of anyone else participating in the Davos conference. Prime Minister’s participation was at the leadership level events. As regards your other question, the National Action Plan has been under discussion, it had nothing to do with the visit by the US Secretary of State. Pakistan is taking these steps for its own sake for the protection of its own people and to eradicate terrorism from Pakistan once and for all.
We need to have Indian languages News thread with translation.by LokeshC » 17 Jan 2015, 21:49
We need to have a Hindi News thread
See here:Jen Psaki
Spokesperson
Daily Press Briefing
Washington, DC
January 22, 2015 ..........................
QUESTION: On Pakistan --
MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: -- there are reports about two organizations, Jamaat ud-Daawa and Haqqani Network, being banned by Pakistan. Have they informed you or have they really been banned?
MS. PSAKI: Can you say this one more time?
QUESTION: Jamaat ud-Daawa and Haqqani Network, the two terrorist organizations, have they been banned by Pakistan? Have they informed you about it?
MS. PSAKI: Well, we’ve certainly seen the reports, and there have been a range of reports.
QUESTION: Yes.
MS. PSAKI: The Pakistani Government has made clear in both private conversations and public statements that it’s in Pakistan’s own interest to take steps against all militant groups in Pakistan, and explicitly to not differentiate between such group. We support this commitment and believe that it’s fundamental to addressing terrorism and ensuring attacks such as the horrific one that happened just weeks ago at the – that impacted the Peshawar schoolchildren never occur again. We recognize that Pakistan is working through the process of implementing measures to thwart violent extremism, including the national action plan. We don’t have any confirmation of specific steps.
QUESTION: But at the same time, they are having a huge march later this week. How do you see that? On the one hand, they have banned organizations; the other hand, the leaders are roaming around in public.
MS. PSAKI: I don’t have – do you have more details on the march and the purpose of it? I don’t have details on that.
QUESTION: I can send you the details.
MS. PSAKI: Okay. Okay, great. More on Pakistan or India?
QUESTION: One more on Ukraine. I’m sorry. ………………………
Ms Psaki is telling the absolute truth as GOTUS/SDOTUS spokesmouths always do. Those children and their teacher who was burned to death strapped to a chair, will never be impacted again by anything.that impacted the Peshawar schoolchildren never occur again
See here:January 25, 2015
U.S.-India Joint Statement साँझा प्रयास - सबका विकास” – “Shared Effort; Progress for All” ……………..
41. The Leaders reaffirmed the need for joint and concerted efforts to disrupt entities such as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, D Company and the Haqqani Network, and agreed to continue ongoing efforts through the Homeland Security Dialogue as well as the next round of the U.S.-India Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism in late 2015 to develop actionable elements of bilateral engagement. The two sides noted the recent U.S. sanctions against three D Company affiliates. The President and the Prime Minister further agreed to continue to work toward an agreement to share information on known and suspected terrorists. They also agreed to enter discussions to deepen collaboration on UN terrorist designations, and reiterated their call for Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai to justice.
Two security personnel, including an Army officer, who was awarded a gallantry medal on the occasion of Republic Day, were on Tuesday killed in a fierce gunbattle which also left two Hizbul Mujahideen militants dead in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir.
So Pakistan condoms all forms and manifestations of terrorism.Pakistan-India-US: Pakistan's reaction to the nuclear deal was harsher than that of China. On 27 January, Sartaj Aziz, advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, issued a formal response. He said that admitting India to the NSG with exemptions from the normal membership requirements will disturb the regional power balance. He said the US is supposed to act as an agent of regional stability. This action would have a negative effect on deterrence strategy, he said.
He also said the Pakistani government opposes India's bid for permanent membership on the United Nations Security Council, which the US President said he supports. "A country (i.e., India) in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions on matters of international peace and security, such as the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, by no means qualifies for a special status in the Security Council."
Aziz also stressed that Pakistan is a victim of terrorism and has shown by its action that it is committed to countering terrorism.
"Pakistan rejects any insinuation or aspersion over its commitment to fight terrorism. Condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations should not be based on selectivity or double standards."
Comment: China and Pakistan have interpreted the US President's visit as a "tilt" to India. The statements imply that the leaders in the two countries judge that the US has switched sides in South Asia.
Pakistan has withdrawn an official from its High Commission here after being asked by Dhaka, which alleged that he was financing terrorism.
Mohammad Mazhar Khan, an attaché at the consular section, was also an Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agent, Bangladesh Foreign Ministry officials said. Mr. Khan, the Ministry has been told, left the country with his family on January 31.
Mr. Khan, intelligence and media reports said, used to route funds to groups such as the Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Ansarullah Bangla Team, the Jamaat-e-Islami and its students wing Islami Chatra Shibir.
He was earlier detained by the police here [Dhaka] in January along with one of his accomplices while having a secret meeting in Dhaka. However, he but was released when a Pakistani diplomat intervened.
When narcotics slip across the Line of Control from Islamic Republic of Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir, it would be prudent of India to investigate if this smuggling attempt was a Mohammadden Terrorist financing ploy conducted by the Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Punjabi dominated Military of Pakistan, especially its intelligence arm, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate aka ISID aka ISI.sooraj wrote:Cross-LoC trade comes to a halt after drug haul
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/cross ... 150207.htm
Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel Press Secretary Kerry on Pakistan’s Failure to Combat Terrorists
Feb 12, 2015
Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry to express their serious concern about Pakistan’s failure to combat Islamist terrorist groups operating within its territory.
In the letter to Secretary Kerry, Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel write: “The United States should pursue a different approach with the Pakistani Government. We urge you to consider implementing travel restrictions, suspending portions of assistance, and sanctioning Pakistani officials that maintain relationships with designated terrorist groups. Such an approach would make clear that the U.S. and Pakistan cannot have a true strategic partnership until Pakistan cuts all ties with terrorist organizations and renounces its use as an instrument of state policy.”
The signed letter to Secretary Kerry is available HERE.
The text of the letter follows:
February 12, 2015
The Honorable John F. Kerry
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Mr. Secretary:
We remain deeply concerned that Pakistan has failed to take meaningful action against key Islamist terrorist groups operating within its territory. Like you, we were horrified by the December attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar which killed almost 150 people, mostly school children. This recent attack has only heightened our concerns.
As you know, while the Government of Pakistan has taken some steps to disrupt al-Qaeda and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), it has done much less to combat other designated foreign terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Jaish-e-Muhammad. This selective approach appears to stem from a misguided belief that some terrorist groups serve Pakistan’s foreign policy goals in India and Afghanistan.
We appreciate that you and other senior level Administration officials regularly raise the need to confront these groups with Pakistani officials. Yet it does not appear that this engagement has resulted in any real change in Pakistan’s policies.
We welcome Pakistan’s recent announcement that it will soon ban the Haqqani network, but are skeptical that this will result in any real change to Pakistan’s policy. After all, groups like LET and JuD are ostensibly banned and still able to operate with virtual impunity. Just days ago, on January 25, JuD held a rally in Karachi that appeared to have taken place with government permission. Indeed, given Pakistan’s history of support for terrorist groups, we are concerned that an outright ban will never come.
The United States should pursue a different approach with the Pakistani Government. We urge you to consider implementing travel restrictions, suspending portions of assistance, and sanctioning Pakistani officials that maintain relationships with designated terrorist groups. Such an approach would make clear that the U.S. and Pakistan cannot have a true strategic partnership until Pakistan cuts all ties with terrorist organizations and renounces its use as an instrument of state policy.
Mr. Secretary, Pakistan has been devastated by terrorism. Indeed, in 2013, more than 3,000 Pakistanis were killed as a result of terrorist attacks. Thousands of Pakistani soldiers have been killed and local communities have been brutalized. If Pakistan’s long-term prospects are to improve for all its people, its leaders must make a clear break from the policies of the past.
We appreciate your personal commitment to the U.S.-Pakistan relationship and look forward to working with you to address this issue and other critical foreign policy matters in the coming year.
Sincerely,
EDWARD R. ROYCE
Chairman
ELIOT L. ENGEL
Ranking Member
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Clicky
From here:Pakistan
Pakistan will probably continue to implement some economic reforms and target anti-Pakistan militants and their activities.
Prime Minister Sharifs promises to address economic, energy, and security issues almost certainly fell short of high public expectations. Furthermore, his standing weakened when he reportedly asked the Army to step in and handle opposition protests in late 2014.
We assess that Islamabad will approve some additional economic reforms in 2015. Undertaking future economic and energy reforms will be more challenging and will probably face greater political and popular opposition.
The Pakistan Government will probably focus in 2015 on diminishing the capabilities of the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), which claimed the attack on a school in December--leaving over 100 children dead.
We judge that Pakistan will aim to establish positive rapport with the new Afghan Government, but longstanding distrust and unresolved disputes between the countries will prevent substantial progress.
Pakistan's provision of safe haven to Lashkar-e Tayyiba will probably continue to be a key irritant in relations with India.
India
…………..{Snipped}…………….. lndia wants to maintain a stable peace with Pakistan but views Pakistan as a direct terrorism threat and a regional source of instability.
lndia is concerned about the stability of Afghanistan and its own presence there following the drawdown of international forces and is looking for options to blunt the influence of Pakistani-supported groups and ensure that Afghanistan does not revert to a haven for anti-lndian militants. …………..{Snipped}……………..
From Here:…………………… Lakhvi, 55, and six other terror suspects indicted for the assault on India’s financial hub live in several rooms located next to the jailer’s office in the sprawling Adiala Jail. They have the jailer's permission to have a television, mobile phones, access to internet, and visitors, BBC Urdu reported.
"He (Lakhvi) can receive any number of guests, any time of day or night, seven days a week," one unnamed jail official was quoted as saying in the report. The visitors require no special permission and they do not even need to identify themselves to jail authorities.
The report also substantiated a claim that has for long been made by Indian and US officials – that Lakhvi continues to direct the LeT’s operations from jail. Lakhvi's “uninterrupted access to guests, mobile phone and the internet has kept him in effective contact with the LeT rank and file”, it said. ……………………………..
"On an average, he receives about 100 visitors every day; they are escorted to his private quarters where they can meet him without the watch of jail guards, and can stay for as long as they like," he said. ……………………………..
The report, which described Lakhvi as one of “Pakistan's most notorious prisoners”, said he was living in “relative luxury despite the government's protestations that it is cracking down on militants”.
“This would be unthinkable anywhere else, but elements in the Pakistani establishment are known to have provided such facilities to certain jailed militant commanders who they believe they may need in future for reasons of national security,” the report said. ………………………….
NEW YORK – A Pakistani man was found guilty Wednesday in a failed Al Qaeda bomb plot after a New York trial that featured spies in disguise, evidence from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and the defendant's questioning of an admitted co-conspirator.
In her closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Zainab Ahmed told jurors the arrests of Naseer and other members of his cell averted mass murder. The government alleged Naseer had received bomb-making instruction in Pakistan in 2008.
"If the defendant hadn't been stopped, hundreds of innocent men, women and children wouldn't be alive today," Ahmed said.
TORONTO — A Pakistani man arrested by immigration officials this week is an ISIS supporter who had plotted to bomb financial buildings and the U.S. consulate in Toronto, the Canada Border Service Agency alleged at a hearing Wednesday.
Jhanzab Malik, who came to Canada as a student in 2004, told an undercover police officer he had attended training camps in Libya and wanted to build an explosive device to conduct attacks in Toronto, the CBSA said.
The planning was elaborate, including discussing with the undercover officer the video message they would leave behind in order to inspire others
Believing the undercover officer was a veteran of combat in Bosnia, he attempted to recruit him by showing him ISIS beheading videos and encouraging him to watch the lectures of al Qaida figure Anwar Al-Awlaki.
He was arrested on Monday following what the CBSA called a “lengthy investigation” by the RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team in Toronto. He faces no criminal charges at this point but is being deported.
Had the man he attempted to recruit not been an undercover officer, “mass destruction and possible loss of life would have been the result,” CBSA officer Jessica Lourenco told the Immigration and Refugee Board.
“He indicated his support of the attackers in Paris,” she said, referring to the deadly attack on the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
“The planning was elaborate, including discussing with the undercover officer the video message they would leave behind in order to inspire others,” Lourenco said.
Since arriving in Canada, Mr. Malik made several trips abroad that the government has been unable to explain. He became a landed immigrant in 2009 after he was sponsored by his wife, from whom he is now separated. He has been arrested several times for fraud and violent crimes.
Mass destruction and possible loss of life would have been the result
The government is attempting to deport him on the grounds he is a security threat. The hearing in Toronto, which occurred under tight security, was to determine whether he should be detained while Ottawa tries to deport him.
He was ordered detained.
Appearing by video conference from the detention centre in Lindsay, Ont., Mr. Malik remained quiet during the proceedings, dressed in an orange jumpsuit. His lawyer made no arguments at the detention hearing. A decision is pending.
On Monday, his lawyer Anser Farooq said Mr. Malik had contacted him following his arrest by the CBSA but had no details. He said Mr. Malik had been question by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the past.
The arrest followed the Oct. 27 apprehension of another Pakistani citizen, Mohammed Aqeeq Ansari, who was picked up in Toronto following an RCMP investigation called Project Seashell. A hearing to decide whether to deport Mr. Ansari to Pakistan concluded last Wednesday.
National Post
X Posted from the “Oppression of minorities in Pakistan”.arun wrote:Mohammadden Terrorist group TTP accepts responsibility for above Lahore demonstration of the IEDology of Pakistan confirming it to be a case of Intra-Abrahamic bloodletting with Mohammaddens dishing it out to adherents of Christism.
Meanwhile death toll in demonstration of IEDology of Pakistan has climbed to 10 and Police inform that attacks were carried out on two separate Christist Churches, on of Protestant sect and other of Catholic sect:
10 dead, 50 injured in twin blasts near church in Lahore
“Pakistan is definitely one of the most unsafe places now and regularly such kinds of incidents are taking place even targeted specifically to the minorities within Pakistan. Pakistan will not be able to solve or achieve victory in its fight against terror if it is going to maintain a duplicity in its approach of good terrorists, bad terrorists"
Pakistan won't be able to solve or achieve victory in its fight against terror: BJP"You can't support those terrorists who do action against India and protect them, and take action against those who actually perpetrate terror in Pakistan"
Apportioning blame on Pakistan for being the ‘fountainhead’ of terrorism and using it as ‘instrument of state policy’, the Ministry of Defence, in its annual report, has cautioned India’s western neighbour of ‘ramifications on bilateral relations’.
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The 240-page document says: “Pakistan continues to remain the fountainhead of terrorism in the region.” The report adds that Pakistan’s quest for strategic depth in Afghanistan continues to drive its policy of support the Taliban.
“The expanding footprints of extremist and terrorist organisations in Pakistan and their linkages with terrorist activities in J&K and the rest of India pose a major security challenge to India, with severe ramifications on bilateral relations as well as to peace and security of the region,” the report said.
“Terrorism as an instrument of state policy has deep roots in Pakistani military establishment,” the report says, noting that “ceasefire violations and infiltrations from the Pakistani territory are major obstacles and source of concern” to a dialogue between the two countries.
“A meaningful dialogue requires an environment free from terror and violence,” the report said, adding that India was committed to resolve all issues with Pakistan under the Simla agreement (1972) and the Lahore declaration (1999).
The existence of terrorist camps across the international border and Line of Control (LoC), instances of ceasefire violations, attempted infiltrations and transgressions demonstrate the challenges faced by India, the document says.
“Pakistan has continued with its policy of selective approach to tackling terrorist groups operating from its territory… which do not serve the interests of regional peace and security.”
Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 19
Apportioning blame on Pakistan for being the ‘fountainhead’ of terrorism and using it as ‘instrument of state policy’, the Ministry of Defence, in its annual report, has cautioned India’s western neighbour of ‘ramifications on bilateral relations’.
In its recent report, the ministry also expresses concern over China’s growing military might and its assertiveness in the disputed hydrocarbon rich South China Sea.
The 240-page document says: “Pakistan continues to remain the fountainhead of terrorism in the region.” The report adds that Pakistan’s quest for strategic depth in Afghanistan continues to drive its policy of support the Taliban.
“The expanding footprints of extremist and terrorist organisations in Pakistan and their linkages with terrorist activities in J&K and the rest of India pose a major security challenge to India, with severe ramifications on bilateral relations as well as to peace and security of the region,” the report said.
“Terrorism as an instrument of state policy has deep roots in Pakistani military establishment,” the report says, noting that “ceasefire violations and infiltrations from the Pakistani territory are major obstacles and source of concern” to a dialogue between the two countries.
“A meaningful dialogue requires an environment free from terror and violence,” the report said, adding that India was committed to resolve all issues with Pakistan under the Simla agreement (1972) and the Lahore declaration (1999).
The existence of terrorist camps across the international border and Line of Control (LoC), instances of ceasefire violations, attempted infiltrations and transgressions demonstrate the challenges faced by India, the document says.
“Pakistan has continued with its policy of selective approach to tackling terrorist groups operating from its territory… which do not serve the interests of regional peace and security.”
On China, the report asserts that India’s stake in maintaining peace in the Asia Pacific Region. Without naming the South China Sea, the report says “countries must exercise restraint”.
Beijing is the dominant player in the hydrocarbon-rich South China Sea and threatens to control a greater part of it. Beijing’s overlapping claims with Brunei, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam has tensed up matters. India has interests in oil bocks off the coast of Vietnam and maintaining freedom of navigation.
The US Energy Administration estimates that 11 billion barrels (bbl) of oil reserves and 190 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas reserves are available in the South China Sea.
“India has important political economic, commercial and social interests in the Asia-Pacific and has stake in the continued pace and stability in the region,” the report says.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama, in their meeting in New Delhi in January, had unveiled a ‘Joint Strategic Vision for the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region’, which talked about the “importance of safeguarding maritime security and ensuring freedom of navigation and over flight throughout the region, especially in the South China Sea”.
Earlier this month, Admiral Harry B Harris Jr, who heads the Pacific Fleet of the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM), on a visit to India said China’s activities in the South China Seas were a ‘cause of concern’.