Bharat Rakshak

At least 240 people have been injured thus far, including at least 15 women, six children, 38 policemen and four FC personnel.

James B wrote:I'm the Dim's container

ARY News reporter just claimed that Nawaz Sharif has sent Punjab Police and dressed them as Islamabad Police.

One benefit of all this Islamabad situation is that we have successfully kept Hindu banyas deprived of sleep.

Hurriyat must be feeling as if their parents are fighting each other. Poor souls.

..Lahore police has ran away, leaving rioters on the street...

@AapGhumaKeLeyLo: .@PTIofficial भोसड़ी के,अगली ईद तक चलाओगे ये रण्डी-रोना? मुग़लई के शौकीन नही हैं हम
साला इन्क़लाब है के गैंग्स ऑफ़ वासेपुर, ख़तम ही नही होता

Geo office Islamabad was attacked in 2007 under Pervaiz Mushraf, Today attacked by PAT/PTI workers!

In Lahore and Karachi
Cars and shops are broken, looted and set on fire by #PTI Workers.
Bechara #GulluButt .. Bad say badnaam bura...

The Juice are always conspiring against us. "@Saba_Imtiaz On Dunya, protestors tearing down the Bholi Juice sign in Liberty Market, Lahore."

..So called peaceful ..

vishvak wrote:link
From twitter account of SirZaidHamid

RoyG wrote:***** needs to hurry the f*ck up. I'm getting antsy now.

Anti-government protesters forced their way into the grounds of Pakistan's parliament on Saturday amid violent clashes that saw police fire teargas and rubber bullets at crowds demanding the prime minister's resignation. More than 200 people were injured, according to local hospitals, during clashes that broke out after the followers of former cricket star Imran Khan and Pakistani-Canadian cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri began moving towards key government buildings in the heart of Islamabad.

Thousands of protesters had besieged the sensitive area for nearly two weeks after the government deliberately chose not to use force to prevent them entering the high-security "Red Zone" of the capital. But police were finally compelled to respond after protesters attempted to use a crane to remove sea containers placed to block access to official buildings in the area, including the residence of the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who was not in the capital at the time.

Despite the presence of more than 30,000 security forces, the protesters, armed with hammers and cutting tools, eventually succeeded in using a truck to ram open gates outside Pakistan's imposing Parliament House, allowing people to flood on to the expansive lawns. The crowds did not attempt to enter the building itself after finding the entrance blocked by a large group of soldiers.

In recent days, Khan and Qadri had both threatened to try to push into the state buildings unless their demands for Sharif to stand down were met. They had also insisted that their supporters would remain peaceful, but many of them carried bamboo staves and had become prepared with eye protection and rudimentary gas masks.

Although both men had promised to lead from the front, with Khan even claiming he would "take the first bullet", they both stayed back, with Khan remaining inside a specially converted sea container that he has occupied throughout the protests.

Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, described the police action against the crowd as illegal. "Now we will show this government. We will call for countrywide agitation and we will jam the whole of Pakistan," he said.

Khan is ostensibly protesting against what he claims was industrial-scale rigging in last year's general elections, although no independent watchdog has supported his allegations. Qadri, a cleric whose own political party has no seats in parliament, has said he wants a "Green revolution" that will sweep away a democratic order he claims is inherently corrupt.

But in recent days, his demands have focused on a criminal investigation into the prime minister and other senior leaders over the killing of at least 10 of his supporters during confrontations with police in Lahore in June.

The desire to avoid a similar deadly confrontation made the government deeply reluctant to use force against Khan and Qadri when they first entered Islamabad after a "long march" from the city of Lahore on August 15. Serious violence could force an intervention by Pakistan's powerful military, which has repeatedly ousted civilian governments – a move many analysts believe Khan and Qadri had hoped to provoke.

The military, which has fought bruising policy battles with the government over the last year, has already taken a central role in the saga after army chief General Raheel Sharif held a late-night meeting with Khan and Qadri on Thursday.

But the discussions failed to create a breakthrough, with Khan returning to address his supporters with a promise that he would not end his protest until Sharif resigned.

On Saturday, the government insisted that Sharif would not step down despite the scenes in the capital and outbreaks of violence in other cities in the country.

Late on Saturday night, the country's defence minister said the protesters would not be allowed to continue and would be cleared.

Other political parties have generally supported Sharif during the drawn-out crisis. But the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party said it "strongly condemned" the police crackdown, while the leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement announced a "day of mourning" and demanded Sharif's resignation.

1) According to mainstream Islamic Scholars, the Punishment of Apostasy (Irtadad – reversion to Kufr from Islam) is death. Since every other sect of Islam considers the other as Kafir, that means every Pakistani citizen would be liable to be killed in the eyes of the other Pakistani. In Pakistan, only 7% of Muslims believe Ahmadis to be Muslims, and surprisingly only 50% believe Shias to be Muslims. Therefore, all other people think that these sects are doing Kufar, and their punishment would be death under the Shariah Law.

2) Under the Shariah Law, the punishment for theft is the severing of the hand. In Pakistan, only 0.9% of the population pays taxes, which indirectly means that 99.1% of them are tax evaders in one way or the other, and since tax evasion is a form of theft against the government, Pakistan should get ready to chop the hands of 99.1% of the population.

3) According to the chief of Jamat-e-Islami and a large percentage of Muslims, the only way a raped woman can convict her rapist(s) is by producing 4 eye witnesses who actually witnessed the crime. Thus, when Shariah would be imposed in Pakistan, unless a woman would have 4 witnesses which is probably only possible if she gets raped in a market, else she should remain quiet. Or, she herself would be stoned to death for making the confession.

4) Since the punishment of blasphemy of the Prophet (S.A.W) is death according to mainstream Islam, and apart from 1.4 Billion Muslims, all other 5.6 Billion humans consider the Prophet as (Tauba Naoozobillah) untruthful and wrong, (or else, if they take him (SAW) to be true it would be tantamount to their saying Ashhado anna Mohammad ur Rasoolillah and thus accept Islam), therefore, it would be obligatory upon us to wipe out all such blasphemous Non-Muslims from the face of the Earth. What greater blasphemy could there be than considering the Prophet as a (Tauba Naoozobillah) liar?

ArmenT wrote:

James B wrote:I'm the Dim's container

Note that many people in the container are wearing scuba goggles + breathing equipment. Maybe they fear tear gas or a pindi chana fart attack.

PTI representative Naz Baloch claims female supporters of her party are distraught as their children - as young as six months old - are missing.

Shelling has intensified in the Red Zone - the protest site looks like a battle field

WHILE Pakistan’s squabbling politicians have paralysed the nation’s capital in a naked power struggle, the emerging threat to the country from across the border has been almost completely ignored.

The peremptory cancellation of the foreign secretary-level talks by New Delhi — on the flimsy excuse that Pakistan’s high commissioner met the Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders — is but one danger signal.

It is now clear that Modi’s invitation to Pakistan and other South Asian leaders to attend his ‘inauguration’ was mostly a public relations exercise

There are several reasons why the gloves have come off now in New Delhi.

First, Modi’s promise of Indian economic revival is proving difficult to deliver. His first budget failed to curtail India’s crippling subsidies, raise revenues or introduce the economic reforms required to attract investment.

In the absence of instant economic nirvana, the Bharatiya Janata Party government has fallen back on its fundamentalist Hindu stance to retain the support of its core constituencies. An aggressive posture towards Pakistan is an integral part of the BJP’s ideology.

India has been offered access to the entire American arsenal; and is also encouraged to assume a larger role in Afghanistan and the Indian Ocean. The West studiously refrains mentioning the Kashmir dispute or India’s well-catalogued human rights violations.

The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN.- Munir Akram

Shankk wrote:

RoyG wrote:***** needs to hurry the f*ck up. I'm getting antsy now.

A request for you. I have noticed you mentioning the name in many of your posts in many topics. Although he is not on the "field", will you please stop publicizing the name and person. Guy does not need any publicity or this kind of gratification. The kind of work he did was with express understanding that he will never get any recognition but will only get blames when he fails. He is fine with it. Lets not bring un-necessary attention to him.

Thank You.

RCase wrote: Dama Dam Mast Qalandar!

This song, one of the most famous qawwali, is written and sung in the honor of Sufi mystic saint 'Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar' (Usman Marvandhi) - may God sanctify his station. Every word of his name used in the qawwali has a meaning - he was known as Hazrat (holiness), Lal (he wore red robes, also mothers fondly call their kids as Lal in Punjab and nearby region), Shahbaz (Shah - King and Baz - Falcon, king of falcons and in Iranian mythology represent godly figure who led them to victory, divine spirit), and finally Qalandar (a qalandari - a sufi saint, poet, mystic, noble man). He settled in Serwan (Sindh, now in Pakistan) and tried bringing peace between Hindus and Muslims. Hindus regard him as divine reincarnate, avatar as well. Still today many Punjabi singers, singing in his praise. He is also fondly called as Jhulelal.

The communiqué issued after US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to India contained American endorsements of several Indian foreign policy objectives, including a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and the equation of the pro-Kashmir Lashkar-e-Taiba — which is also banned in Pakistan — with Al Qaeda.

Apart from putting down any remnants of the Kashmiri insurgency, the BJP’s strategic aim is to neutralise Kashmir’s Muslim-majority status. The principal purpose of abrogating Article 370 of the Indian constitution will be to enable Hindu ‘migration’ to Kashmir. Pakistan and the Kashmiris must mobilise to prevent this.

RCase wrote:ArmenT,

Here from the web:

The red robed God-intoxicated Qalandar.......

Dipanker wrote:BBC has taken this "politically correct" way of addressing the Pakis to absurd level, not once it mentions the Paki and keeps on referring to them as "asian men" when all but one abuser were Paki. This is truly disgusting.

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