Gun, grenades and suicide vests were recovered from the house in a western Karachi neighbourhood, and police said they were working to determine the exact cause of the blast and the circumstances surrounding it.
This is similar to the bomb blast in a house belonging to a SSP member in the South Punjab village of Mian Channu in July this year. I won't be surprised if the Karachi house also belonged to an SSP member. Karachi is a SSP stronghold (as it also is to MQM, AQAM and Shia terrorist organizations).At least 7 persons were killed and eight others injured in an explosion at a house in southern Pakistani city of Karachi today, police said. The blast occurred at a one-room house located near Babri mosque in Baldia town area of Karachi.
"There was a blast in a house in [Karachi's] Balida Town in which six people were killed. The house collapsed. We are trying to ascertain the exact nature of the blast," senior police official Abdul Majeed Dasti told the AFP news agency.
He said hand grenades and a Kalashnikov rifle had been found at the site of the explosion.
Karachi police chief Waseem Ahmad said explosives stored in the house appeared to have caused the explosion.
That is a hint for the transfer of possible Chinese SSNs to Pakistan.The naval chief said with the deployment of nuclear submarines by India, the Pakistan Navy was preparing a comprehensive strategy to meet future challenges and in this regard, the navy had complete support from the government.
Iqbal said Khan and Minhas came from Lahore, Pakistan, about 10 years ago. Minhas' father is not in contact with anyone in the family, his cousin said.
Minhas and Mohamad displayed no emotion about the crime and tried to charm investigators, Harris said.
“He's very manipulative, very cunning,” the detective said of Minhas, “and he was trying to put his spin on it.”
Dealing with Khan's son, Harris said, was a “cat-and-mouse game” until he was confronted with Mohamad's statement,
Then Minhas told police he “loved his mother to death” but she was too strict, Harris said.
Peshawar, Jan 8 (PTI) A suicide bomber blew himself up today at the headquarters of a banned militant group in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, killing six persons and injuring 12 others.
The attacker tried to enter the main gate of the headquarters of the Ansar-ul-Islam group in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency, witnesses said.
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The Ansar-ul-Islam has been engaged in a bitter rivalry with the Lashkar-e-Islam for the past five years.
Dozens of members of both groups have died in clashes between the two groups.
No alternative to Congress
By Kuldip Nayar
Friday, 08 Jan, 2010
There has to be an alternative party committed to secularism and public welfare. A viable opposition is necessary in a democratic state so as to keep the government on its toes. India’s graph of clean administration and basic human rights is dipping. The more space the Congress occupies the less would be the attention paid to values. Dynastic politics is ominous.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/daw ... -810-zj-06
...the most common question I get when I walk down the street or run into people is the most valid, Why are we in Afghanistan?
...We concluded quite simply that America's basic national security interests were at stake in these two countries. This was not Vietnam where the Vietcong posed no direct threat to the American homeland. It was not Iraq where Saddam Hussein similarly did not pose a direct threat. This was an area from which attacks on our soil and other countries including Pakistan itself had been planned and the people out there had said very clearly they'd do it again as the near miss on Christmas Day demonstrates so fully. The fact that this particular person was not trained in Pakistan does not change the fact that the inspiration for all of this comes from al-Qaeda, and al-Qaeda's leadership is based in the remotest areas on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. So we concluded without any dissent that this was a national security issue and we could not walk away from it.
The social system of India is founded on inequality, intolerance, conservative thoughts and religious extremism...
It was not only surprising but also babyish to listen when Indian army chief a few weeks earlier, talked about a limited nuclear war between Pakistan and India. It really kept many in a state of shock and also revealed Indian future design to destabilize the region and off course stabbing the forces that are fighting the war against terrorism. The agenda was clear as India did not want the end to terrorism....
Situation at the moment is quite complex and role of India has gone really dubious on the chess of world power game. Seeing the situation and increasing intolerance in India, the statement of the General looks quite relevant....Actually every one in India is feared from the strength of her extremist elements that are developing to form an organization just parallel to Al Qaeda.
Analysts, media, civil society and well wishers of the region will keep discussing the two front war statement of the Indian army Chief (looked inspired from Bal Thackery and Bollywood ) who left no space for India to clear its position on increasing militancy, extremism and terrorism in so called secular India.
Exactly my thoughts too.Singha wrote:the chicoms might indeed gift a couple of older Han SSNs to Pak.
Seems to have caused much taqlees as the parliament had to do the needful (as they say).Pakistan's parliament has fined members of it national hockey team rupees 200,000 ($2,350) after photos surfaced of them hugging a female liaison officer at the Champions Challenge tournament in Argentina last month.
Player Rehan Butt was fined rupees 100,000 ($1,175) while coach Shahid Ali Khan and manager Asif Bajwa have to pay rupees 50,000 ($588) each.
Pakistan team members took pictures with the liaison officer during the official players' night at the end of the tournament. The dinner was also attended by other participating teams and their officials. Pakistan lost the final to New Zealand, costing them a place in the Champions Trophy.
Hmmm. . . then Nilofar Bakhtiar seems to have escaped lightly when she hugged her parachuting instructor. Her kind of transgression normally calls for rajam. She only lost her job.kenop wrote:Pakistan hockey team in soup over hugging womanPakistan's parliament has fined members of it national hockey team rupees 200,000 ($2,350) after photos surfaced of them hugging a female liaison officer at the Champions Challenge tournament in Argentina last month.
,what if Uncle has decided to "denuclearize" TSP using a catalyst, and thereby initiate Zbignew Brezenski's ultimate vision of balkanization of TSP.. Zardari's sudden outburst on Kashmir can be seen in this light. Now you people can see lot of "activities" in J&K and it just has started with terrorists attacking Srinagar.Harbans-ji,harbans wrote:Coming to think of it, the Paki propaganda machine is indeed admirable. A simle statement from the General on preparing for war under a nuclear overhang becomes " Indian General threatens Nuclear War with Pakistan". A simple statement of having capabiloity to fight a 2 pronged war becomes "Indian General threatens Pakistan and China with war".
SourceIndia-Jammu and Kashmir State: Two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Pakistan-based militants, who were killed by security forces in a hotel in Srinagar, had been in contact with their handlers in Pakistan while they were bottled up in the hotel, according to Indian Home Ministry sources who spoke with The Times of India. The Home Ministry sources said more attacks are expected.
India media outlets have been incrementally negative about Pakistan since mid-December when the Pakistan Supreme Court struck down Musharraf-era decrees. The negative Indian coverage seems to be a warning to Pakistan that it is under close scrutiny and to beware of using India as a scapegoat to divert public attention from internal stress in Pakistan.
President Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani and Chief of Army Staff Kiyani all have bashed India, especially after India announced its adoption of a two-front defense strategy, for fighting Pakistan and China.
It is noteworthy and extraordinary that overnight Pakistan would almost automatically become more hostile to India after India named China as a future enemy.
But for a "routine statement" it sure has caused Paki undies to get knotted upAt a closed door seminar in the last week of the last decade, the Indian Army reviewed its doctrine. Presumably, it is gearing up for facing the challenges of the current decade and beyond. This is apparent from the sound bytes of the Chief on the occasion in which he referred to preparing for a ‘two front’ scenario. Armies as institutions cater for the ‘worst case’. A ‘two front’ scenario being the ‘worst case’ for India, the Army is evidently in the midst of thinking through how it would cope. Its earlier largely Pakistan specific ‘Cold Start’ strategy has been perfected over the past half decade. Over the same period, the Army in conjunction with the Air Force had moved towards a more offensive stance even against China with the IAF moving additional air assets towards that front and the Army raising two mountain divisions as part of a mountain strike corps. The new posture was termed ‘active deterrence’ as against the ‘dissuasive deterrence’ that was practiced earlier. The two distinct postures are perhaps being amalgamated to cater for the ‘worst case’ scenari
This is part of periodic updation of the doctrine of 2004 being conducted by the Army Training Command. As mentioned in the preface to the 2004 Indian Army Doctrine by the then Army Commander, ‘Part I will be reviewed every five years and updated, as necessary.’
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday urged the United States government to remove Pakistan from the list of 14 countries, whose citizens will undergo enhanced security checks at the airports across the world.
Talking to the US Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain, the Prime Minister expressed serious reservations on the new security measures introduced by the US government for Pakistani nationals and termed it discriminatory. (of course, it is meant to be discriminatory. what is wrong in asking the terrorists to line up in a separate line?).
Gilani said such policies cause consternation and anxiety among the people of Pakistan and said their continuity could negatively impact the bilateral ties. (yes, you Pakis being the densest den of terrorists in the entire universe does not negatively impact ties. but pointing that out, and making you jiggle your panties at the airports does do that.)
He said this inordinate delay in receipt of payments from the United States was affecting its campaign against terrorism. He stressed that the disbursement issue of CSF Fund must not be linked with any other issue (just like at S-e-S. Turd-e-murd Gilani is saying that $$ reimbursement should not be linked to Pakis not renewing visas to US embassy staffers, and it should not be linked to the highly provocative harassment of embassy personnel at checkpoints that Shrilleen is crowing about) and the overdue payments to Pakistan must be made on fast-track basis.
(more demands)
The Prime Minister underlined the need for the provision of greater market access to Pakistan...
He reiterated his government’s disappointment over the continuing drone attacks and persisting reluctance of the US to share drone technology with Pakistan...
Or or at least add India to that list to keep the stratigic regional balancePrime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday urged the United States government to remove Pakistan from the list of 14 countries, whose citizens will undergo enhanced security checks at the airports across the world.
This is the most likely reason for the flurry of activity. They need to put their plans in cold storage or readjust. Hence all those unprecedented Corps(e) Commanders meet etc. And statements from politicians rallying under Nazaryia-e-Pakistan rubric.There is some jitteryness there because they feel that the plan is out perhaps?
...Talking to the US Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain, the Prime Minister expressed serious reservations on the new security measures introduced by the US government for Pakistani nationals and termed it discriminatory
While the caption under this picture says:Pakistan's president warns the US that its drone attacks, killing mostly civilians, will undermine the national consensus supporting the war on militancy. ...Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday that relations between Washington and Islamabad should be based on respect, mutual trust and mutual interest.
...Zardari made the comments during a meeting with a US delegation in Islamabad on Thursday, a day after US drone attacks ..Zardari also asked the US delegation for the timely reimbursement of over USD 1 billion on account of the Coalition Support Fund.
.The use of drone strikes against suspected Islamist militants in Pakistan is an effective part of US strategy and should continue, Republican Senator John McCain said Thursday
Gilani expresses reservations on US immigration law for Pak
Saturday, January 09, 2010
PM Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday urged the US government to remove Pakistan from the list of 14 countries, whose citizens will undergo enhanced security checks at the airports across the world. Talking to the US Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain, the Prime Minister expressed serious reservations on the new security measures introduced by the US government for Pakistani nationals and termed it discriminatory. Gilani said such policies cause consternation and anxiety among the people of Pakistan and said their continuity could negatively impact the bilateral ties.
BB ka BacchaKaranR wrote:Guess Who!
Needless to say, Pakistan's nuclear deterrent needs to remain credible, effective and relevant to the timeframe of operations that the Indian Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor, is contemplating.
If the Indian design is to present a fait accompli before a nuclear response materialises then the preparedness level of our nuclear deterrent needs to be tailored accordingly. Possessing tactical nuclear weapons that should destroy the invaders without crossing the Indian nuclear threshold should prove instrumental in deterring a reckless adventure.