Bharat Rakshak

The man believed to have fired at Imran Khan at a rally this evening in Pakistan's Gujranwala said he had come to kill the former Prime Minister because he believed that he was "misleading" people.
Imran Khan, 70, is out of danger after he was shot in the leg at a political rally in Wazirabad near Gujranwala, about 70 km from Lahore.

"Sirf Imran Khan ko maarna tha (I came only to kill Imran Khan)," said the alleged shooter, on camera.

"I did this because he was misleading people. I couldn't take it. I had decided to do this the day he started the rally," he said in a video apparently recorded by the police.

He said he had acted alone. "Nobody was behind me, nobody is with me," he told reporters.

The alleged shooter also said he had come on a bike to Wazirabad and had left the vehicle at his uncle's shop.

Reports suggest there were two shooters, one with a pistol and one with an automatic rifle.

"This was an attempt to kill him, to assassinate him," his senior aide, Raoof Hasan, was quoted as telling AFP.

Mr Hasan claimed one alleged attacker had been shot dead and the second was taken into police custody.

Why is Peshawar KFC still standing??!!!

la.khan wrote:So, the p@ki army can't win wars, can't stop floods, can't get enough baksheesh, can't even bump off pesky opponents So, what are they good for? Collect water bills, acquire corner plots, open franchises? Thoo! What is this world coming to?

Anujan wrote:Abduls are getting serious

At this rate, there will be no armored division for India to fight
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la.khan wrote:So, the p@ki army can't win wars, can't stop floods, can't get enough baksheesh, can't even bump off pesky opponents So, what are they good for? Collect water bills, acquire corner plots, open franchises? Thoo! What is this world coming to?

yensoy wrote:Why do we want Pakfauj to weaken? We want them to continue their merry ways to keep Pak in a perpetual state of imagined war, suck up all resources and eat up the country from within. We know their actual warfighting ability is on the decline and will continue to rot away.

Imagine if Pak became rational all of a sudden, boxed in their military and became a functioning nation state. They could have an economy twice as large, and a power projection much larger if they played their cards right. They could be a willing foothold for the west to pressurize India, while keeping their claims on Kashmir alive. This would be a bigger problem for us than a purely military focused Pakistan.

jash_p wrote:Immys doctor showed some x-rays of injury. i talked to one radiologist who have 30 years experience and he told me he have about 50000 digital x-ray collection in his computer and can produce any x-ray if needed from that pool and can pull out any injury he wants.

shaun wrote:

jash_p wrote:Immys doctor showed some x-rays of injury. i talked to one radiologist who have 30 years experience and he told me he have about 50000 digital x-ray collection in his computer and can produce any x-ray if needed from that pool and can pull out any injury he wants.

No conviction will ever occur until the patient and his reports are in govt hand , he went to his own clinic and falsifying reports .

PTI Senator Azam Swati burst into tears before the media on Saturday, saying that his wife had received a video featuring him and her and about which he could not share further details because the “daughters of my country are listening”.

Swati, who was arrested on October 13 in a case registered against him over a controversial tweet and is now on bail, has claimed that has been subjected to custodial torture.

sanjaykumar wrote:It’s time the generals declared masha’allah again in Pakistan.

partha wrote:

sanjaykumar wrote:It’s time the generals declared masha’allah again in Pakistan.

You want Bajwa to declare marshallah? He probably can't wait to retire and GTFO in 2 weeks.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have agreed to use bullet-proof vehicles for all outdoor movement of the Chinese nationals working on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in order to protect them from terrorist attacks.

The decisions may help address the concerns of the government of China that was not moving forward on the CPEC front until the security of its nationals was fully guaranteed and Pakistan fulfilled its commitments under the energy deals.

“It has been decided that bullet-proof vehicles shall be used for all outdoor movements of the Chinese employed on projects,” said the draft minutes of the 11th JCC, which had been exchanged by Pakistan and China.

Against general expectations, Pakistan and China did not sign the 11th JCC minutes during the two-day visit of the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to Beijing earlier this week. In the past, the minutes were signed immediately after the JCC. Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal had said after the meeting that the minutes would be signed during the prime minister’s visit.

The winds changed when Musharraf imposed a national emergency by suspending the Constitution and his popularity nosedived. Facing a mass movement for the restoration of the judiciary, Musharraf was compelled to negotiate the return of his political rivals.

The General met with Benazir Bhutto in a palatial residence in the Gulf state, with the meeting said to be brokered by his own close aide, the then chief of ISI, Gen Pervez Ashfaq Kyani, who later succeeded him as COAS. Kyani had previously served Benazir as her military secretary when she was prime minister. Subsequently, the, Saudis pressured the military ruler to accept Nawaz Sharif, who was in exile in Saudi Arabia after the coup.

Benazir’s tragic assassination paved the way for Musharraf’s ouster and Bhutto’s party coming into power. During those days, rumours were rife that the establishment believed Pakistan needed a third force to counter the Sharifs’ PML-N and Bhuttos’ PPP. Imran, who was then struggling to find political momentum, thus became an alternative choice for the establishment.

He was nurtured as a political poster boy, tapping into his acclaimed fame in the cricketing world and his heroic image among the younger generation after winning the 1992 World Cup. He gained support among many Pakistanis for setting up a cancer hospital in Lahore, which earned him the image of a social reformist.

In the years that followed, Imran probably hit a jackpot as his own bitter political rival, the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif chose Gen Bajwa as the new army chief, superseding other more senior generals.

Gen Bajwa, himself a cricket lover, was already in awe of Imran’s cricketing accomplishments. The two bonded over a common vision, with Gen Bajwa reportedly inspired by Imran’s passion for elimination of corruption and in turn, Khan sharing Gen Bajwa’s views on what was required for the country’s stability. The ‘one page’ mantra echoed across the public domain.

Differences surfaced when Gen Bajwa wanted to transfer Lt Gen Faiz Hameed — one of the main proponents of the ‘one page’ narrative — from the post of ISI chief to the head of the Peshawar corps. Khan not only opposed the move, but delayed the process, saying it was his discretion to appoint a new ISI chief. What was interesting was that Imran had not intervened on the two previous occasions when the ISI chief was appointed in his own tenure. So Khan’s stance was merely seen as wanting Lt Gen Faiz around to fulfil his ‘political whims’ and to make him the next army chief.

The alliance of opposition parties, PDM, found the space they had been looking for to increase the wedge between the establishment and Imran’s regime. They feared that if Imran were to appoint Lt Gen Faiz as the next army chief, he would secure election outcomes in the PTI’s favour and Imran’s rule be secured for the next 10 years. Thus came about the efforts to oust Khan through a vote of no confidence.

Subsequently, Imran launched a countrywide protest campaign against his ouster. He built a narrative of an alleged conspiracy of regime change, though the National Security Council found no evidence of such a conspiracy. Imran’s peddled theory helped him make inroads into various layers of society. His protest meetings swelled manifold and his party defeated political rivals in the majority of seats in by-polls.

The former premier has recently gained massive support, but in the process, his aggressive posturing has probably burnt bridges with the establishment. Be it the killing of journalist Arshad Sharif, the recent by-elections or the alleged custodial torture of his close aide, Shahbaz Gill, Khan targeted elements within the establishment.

Imran idealises Erdogan and believes he could rule like him after securing a two-third majority in the next polls. He feels powerful vis-à-vis the establishment, now drawing political legitimacy from massive public support and silencing his detractors’ claims that he was a puppet with no autonomous power or support. He is likely to become more aggressive in his protest campaign and so far, it is clear to see that his confrontational approach is working for his support base.

The wounded Imran wants to convey a message: either face the fury of protests or hold early polls and meet his previously stated demand of putting the appointment of the military chief on hold. If Khan cannot appoint the new army chief in accordance to his liking, he feels that at the very least, he can make the government cautious about who it selects or make the appointment controversial.

Imran’s demands will likely not be acceptable to either the government or to the establishment. The government doesn’t want to hold early elections because Imran has gained considerable popularity since his ouster. And for the current guardians of the establishment, it’s akin to surrendering the state before Imran who proved unpredictable, and they feel he betrayed them and is trying to taint the image of the institution.

Imran, the government, and the establishment seem to have taken extreme positions, leaving no room for rapprochement for the time being, plunging Pakistan into political chaos.

LONDON: An India-based computer hacking gang seized control of computers owned by Pakistan’s politicians, generals and diplomats and eavesdropped on their private conversations, apparently at the behest of the Indian secret services, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported.

According to the report, several of political targets seem to have arisen from the continued tensions between India and Pakistan. On January 10 this year, the gang was tasked with breaking into the email account of Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s then minister of information in prime minister Imran Khan’s government. It took a screenshot of Fawad Chaudhry’s inbox, which has been seen by the Sunday Times and the Bureau.

The hacking team used malware to take over his computers and targeted the country’s senior generals as well as its embassies in Beijing, Shanghai and Kathmandu in a similar way. The most famous Pakistan-related target was Pervez Musharraf, the former president of the country.