Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 23 Jan 2014 15:07

Shakil Afridi will not be released on America's request: Foreign Office

Alleged CIA collaborator Dr Shakil Afridi will not be released on the request of the United States of America, stated a Foreign Office spokesperson, Express News reported on Thursday.
The spokesperson added that the US aid is not related to Dr Afridi.
Pakistan and United states will hold strategic dialogue in Washington on the 27th and 28th of this month, spokesperson Tasnim Aslam stated during her weekly briefing in Islamabad, Radio Pakistan reported.
Earlier, the United States had warned that it could withhold $33 million of its allotted aid to Pakistan until Secretary of State John Kerry certifies that the alleged CIA collaborator was released and cleared of all charges.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 23 Jan 2014 15:15

Shakil Afridi for that Jihadi chick, what'sername Aafia Siddiqui? While they each cross the borders of whichever embassy they're handed over at, David Coleman Gilani can straddle the yellow line with upended middle fingers to both sides. How's that for an image?

Chickmate.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 23 Jan 2014 16:33

Pakistani counter-terror funds spent on luxury gifts: report. Pakistaniyat on full display.

Pakistani officials used a secret counter-terrorism fund to buy wedding gifts, luxury carpets and gold jewellery for relatives of ministers and visiting dignitaries

During that time the interior ministry was headed by Rehman Malik, a flamboyant loyalist of former president Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP)

Many of the documents deal with payments to intelligence sources

Malik told AFP: “You know how Pakistan works.

kish · Post by **kish** » 23 Jan 2014 17:50

Pigs started selling donkey meat

Gang selling ‘donkey meat as beef’ busted

A gang busted here on Wednesday by the local administration was found involved in slaughtering donkeys and selling their meat as beef in B-Division police precincts.

The raiding team of tehsil municipal administration also recovered hundreds of kilograms of donkey meat and remains from a house being used by the gang for running the abominable business.

Considering that most pakis work as butchers in europe, it could be similar gang selling donkey meat there too

kish · Post by **kish** » 23 Jan 2014 18:08

Sad. few skillfull technicians who are experts in assembling car bomb perished in a premature explosion.

Blast in Peshawar kills six: police

Shah said bomb disposal experts estimated that around 25 to 30 kilograms of explosive material were fitted inside the car when it exploded.

Television footage showed that several vehicles were destroyed by the explosion and rescue workers and policemen searching through the rubble. The blast created a crater more than seven feet wide and two feet deep at the site of the explosion.

SP Shah said that there was a possibility that the car was being fitted with an improvised explosive device and exploded prematurely. He, however, said that BDS experts were still carrying out their investigation.

Brad Goodman · Post by **Brad Goodman** » 23 Jan 2014 18:42

US should set up military base in India to tackle Pakistan-based terror groups: Think tank

The US should discuss with India after its general elections the possibility of basing American military and intelligence operatives in the country to address threats posed by Pakistan-based terror groups in a post- Afghanistan context, a think-tank here has said. A special report titled 'Reorienting US Pakistan Strategy: From Af-Pak to Asia' by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) also recommends that the US should launch a new diplomatic dialogue with China, India and Pakistan to reduce prospects for regional tension and violence.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 23 Jan 2014 19:31

kish wrote:Sad. few skillfull technicians who are experts in assembling car bomb perished in a premature explosion.

Blast in Peshawar kills six: police

Does this hurt their 5.1% GDP growth projections?

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 23 Jan 2014 19:36

The Mohajir question

Mohajirs should not use the term ‘Mohajir’ since its meaning does not accurately describe their present status

Many Mohajirs feel betrayed at the perceived lack of gratitude shown by others for what they see as their role as Pakistan’s architects.

To wit:

People are named Alamgir (world conqueror) without conquering anything

So, does this mean pakis named Anis Butt should change their names if found to the contrary?

rajanb · Post by **rajanb** » 23 Jan 2014 21:13

Dilbu wrote:Shakil Afridi will not be released on America's request: Foreign Office
Alleged CIA collaborator Dr Shakil Afridi will not be released on the request of the United States of America, stated a Foreign Office spokesperson, Express News reported on Thursday.
The spokesperson added that the US aid is not related to Dr Afridi.
Pakistan and United states will hold strategic dialogue in Washington on the 27th and 28th of this month, spokesperson Tasnim Aslam stated during her weekly briefing in Islamabad, Radio Pakistan reported.
Earlier, the United States had warned that it could withhold $33 million of its allotted aid to Pakistan until Secretary of State John Kerry certifies that the alleged CIA collaborator was released and cleared of all charges.

Not on my Musharraf, he won't. $33M just doesn't cut it. Considering he was responsible for Polio Fraud, OBL Fraud and our "face in the mud worldwide" Fraud!

$100M for the senior TSPA officer's and politician's fund and we may consider it.

saip · Post by **saip** » 23 Jan 2014 21:19

Most Chinese restaurants in China have donkey meat in their menu. These bozos could have exported it to their taller than a mountain of s.. and deeper than an ocean of p... friend.

kish · Post by **kish** » 24 Jan 2014 03:05

Any gurus here willing to take on the sooth asia expert stephen tankel. He is peddling his usual lies about Indian mujahideen in Wilson center's Asia program @AsiaProgram. He is promoting the paki narrative that IM is an indigenous outfit with no or limited support from LeT. Please follow the timeline to take on his lies.

Cosmo_R · Post by **Cosmo_R** » 24 Jan 2014 03:56

anupmisra wrote:
....

So, does this mean pakis named Anis Butt should change their names if found to the contrary?

Only if the Butts were fundus

@Shiv, did I get the terminology right?

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 24 Jan 2014 04:09

anupmisra wrote:Pakistani counter-terror funds spent on luxury gifts: report. Pakistaniyat on full display.

Pakistani officials used a secret counter-terrorism fund to buy wedding gifts, luxury carpets and gold jewellery for relatives of ministers and visiting dignitaries

I pooch - did it not work? Did any relatives or dignitaries commit act of terror?

wig · Post by **wig** » 24 Jan 2014 10:59

Taliban issue fatwa to Pakistan’s media

Pakistani Taliban have issued a fatwa against the media, declaring it a "party" to the conflict in the country, and drawn up a hit-list of journalists and publishers, a media report said on Thursday. This is the first time since the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan's inception in 2007 that such a fatwa (edict) has been issued against the media

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140124/world.htm

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 11:16

Musharraf unwilling to get angiography, wishes to go abroad for treatment

ISLAMABAD: Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is not willing to get an angiography from Pakistan and wishes to go abroad for treatment, Express News reported Friday.
Musharraf’s medical report, which was submitted to the special court in Islamabad today (Friday), stated that the former president should get an angiography as soon as possible.
The court had ordered that a copy of the report be given to Musharraf’s lead counsel Sharifuddin Pirzada and member of the prosecution team Nasiruddin Nayar earlier today.
His lawyer Anwar Mansoor had requested the court that the former president’s report be kept secret.
Sheikh had disagreed, stating that Musharraf is a public figure and his report should be made public. He said that the court should not submit any decision that is against the constitution, adding that the prosecution knows that Musharraf is in good health.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 11:19

kish wrote:Sad. few skillfull technicians who are experts in assembling car bomb perished in a premature explosion.

Blast in Peshawar kills six: police

Turns out they were not so skilled after all so don't be sad. Score from this IED mubarak has now increased to 8.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 11:25

Summoning technology: UoP to develop project monitoring and analyses tool for FATA

Dr Zulfiqar Ali of the Institute of Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Peshawar revealed the pilot phase of the project will include conducting a study in Khar, Bajaur Agency, along with developing a methodology for implementation of the monitoring system. In the second phase, the methodology will be replicated in the rest of agencies, after being fine-tuned to suit the needs of specific areas, he added.
Highlighting the objectives of the study, Dr Zulfiqar said the project intends to establish spatial-enabled data capturing, development data analyses and visualising a system for planners and decision makers. He said the system will be capable of tracking and monitoring ongoing projects as well as evaluating completed projects.

So this new tool is software or hardware? What is this photo? Is this djinn tekhnolijy 7.2?

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 24 Jan 2014 11:27

Dilbu wrote:Musharraf unwilling to get angiography, wishes to go abroad for treatment

I have heard that many people in Pakistan fake heart attacks to get Canadian visa and go abroad.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 24 Jan 2014 11:38

^^Only if you are male. If you are female, there are other means to obtain a Canadian visa. Occasionally, if one is female enough, a Canadian visa can be forcibly imposed on you.

Sometimes, it May help to be both female and gay, in which case the prize of all prizes - an American visa - will be granted to you, with all documentation accurate to a T. Visa and evacuation will be handled in a multi-agency operation, just for you. Make sure you speak nicely of them on Facebook though.

Anand K · Post by **Anand K** » 24 Jan 2014 11:56

Dilbu wrote:So this new tool is software or hardware? What is this photo? Is this djinn tekhnolijy 7.2?

The photo could very well be stock photo of some Khairpur Polytechnic-fail mard wiring up an IED ticket to Houristan. But the project seems to be some sort of Geographic information System.
Things like building a little barrage somewhere usin best principles of Civil Djinneering and later mapping how many thousand acres of perfectly good land were lost unintentionally in the ensuing flooding. Happens all the time... ask the Sindhis. Can be dual-use also with all that remote sensing, mapping and digitization involved - it can aid the Fauj aid the Good Taliban and kill Bad Taliban and talk peace with the Naughty Taliban. Time for Agora Khattak and Angoor Adda to declare Fatwa against this evil technology that aids in the death of the extra pure.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 24 Jan 2014 11:58

^^^
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1434894

vina · Post by **vina** » 24 Jan 2014 12:12

Anujan wrote:^^^
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1434894

. Pakiness in full display

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 12:15

Pay terrorists back in their own coin, forces told

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Thursday emphasised the need to make the intelligence mechanism more effective and directed the security forces to pay terrorists back in their own coin.

He expressed these views while chairing a high-level meeting on the national security situation here at the Prime Minister’s House.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif, Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Major Gen Amir Riaz, Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Nadeem, DG MI Maj. Gen. Sarfaraz Sattar, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar and DG Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Gen Zahirul Islam attended the meeting.

The meeting was convened in the wake of recent terror incidents in Bannu, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Mastung and Karachi.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 12:18

BDS defuse roadside bomb in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: A terror attack was averted after a 5kg bomb planted in an under construction fly over was diffused here on Thursday on Charsadda Road on Thursday. The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on receiving information reached the spot in time and diffused a 5kg bomb planted under Mufti Mahmood Flyover on Charsaddah Road. The BDS unit informed that the bomb was placed in a ghee tin and was attached with a timed device.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 12:21

We have a new category of militants now.

Govt to take out anti-talks militants

ISLAMABAD - In a major shift from dialogue to hot pursuit of the militants persistently defying the dialogue offer, political and military leadership agreed to continue surgical strikes against them.
It was further decided at the meeting of political and military elite, with the prime minister in the chair, to enhance coordination and intelligence sharing amongst the provinces while anti-terror legislation would be expedited to effectively block loopholes in the system.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 24 Jan 2014 14:54

Dilbu wrote:Summoning technology: UoP to develop project monitoring and analyses tool for FATA

So this new tool is software or hardware?

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 15:55

Peshawar blast: Car was impounded by police without bomb sweep

PESHAWAR: Police check post incharge Naseem Akbar was suspended on Friday for not getting a car – used in an explosion in Peshawar – cleared by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) prior to it being impounded, Express News reported.
A powerful explosion in a white Mehran inside a motor workshop in Scheme Chowk, Kohat Road killed six people on January 23.
Initial investigation report on the blast revealed that the vehicle used in the explosion was said to be found by police on the PAF Road two days prior to the explosion.
The police impounded the vehicle when they were informed that it had been abandoned. The vehicle was impounded without any checks by the BDS and was later taken to the workshop.
Police said that the explosive material might have been planted in the car to hit another target in Peshawar but accidentally detonated inside the workshop.
At least 25 kilogrammes of high-intensity explosives were used in the attack.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 24 Jan 2014 15:58

UN report portrays murky picture

ISLAMABAD - Trafficking of Pakistani males to the European Union (EU) for forced labour is an emerging area of concern while trafficking of women and children from here to the Persian Gulf for sexual exploitation is also on the rise, alarms a United Nation body, portraying a murky picture of the situation of human trafficking and migrant smuggling in Pakistan.
The report also says that Pakistan is a destination, transit and source country for smuggling of migrants and human trafficking, as Pakistani nationals are among the ten-most detected nationalities that attempt irregular migration to EU and Australia.

I bet no one is forcing them to do anything. Pakis are getting into EU illegally using all means they can find.

Brad Goodman · Post by **Brad Goodman** » 24 Jan 2014 17:56

FYI. Nothing new just posting it for records
Historical facts

RECENTLY I watched a PTV talk show aired the day the Saudi foreign minister was in Islamabad, where one of the participants was Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Sardar Mohammad Yousuf. In his effusiveness, Sardar Yousuf made two gaffes which I would like to share with your readers.

One, he said Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relations had been strong ever since Mohammad bin Qasim came to our shores . For his information, Pakistan had not come into being when bin Qasim came to Sindh. Two, Saudi Arabia was the first country to recognise Pakistan after its creation.

How many of us remember the last time the Saudi foreign minister paid a bilateral visit to Pakistan. It must be decades ago, I fear.

Sardar Yousuf’s understanding of history is no better. For the first three years after our independence, Saudi Arabia did not allow us to open a resident diplomatic mission in the Kingdom, thanks to negative lobbying by Jawaharlal Nehru (details of this can be seen in the works of Muhammad Asad, the Austrian convert to Islam). What more can we expect from leaders who have never been properly schooled?

Toheed Ahmad

Lahore

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 24 Jan 2014 18:37

Briton Who Called Himself Islamic Prophet Sentenced to Death in Pakistan

A Briton who declared himself an Islamic prophet has been sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy.

Mohammad Asghar, a 65-year-old British citizen of Pakistan origin, was also ordered to pay a penalty of one million Pakistan rupees ($10,000).

"Asghar claimed to be a prophet even inside the court. He confessed it in front of the judge. Asghar used to write it even on his visiting card," prosecutor Javed Gul told AFP.

The Briton was arrested in Sadiqabad near Islamabad in 2010 after writing several letters to others claiming he was a prophet.

Cheers

CRamS · Post by **CRamS** » 24 Jan 2014 19:28

kish wrote:Any gurus here willing to take on the sooth asia expert stephen tankel. He is peddling his usual lies about Indian mujahideen in Wilson center's Asia program @AsiaProgram. He is promoting the paki narrative that IM is an indigenous outfit with no or limited support from LeT. Please follow the timeline to take on his lies.

I have tried many times and given up. Its a futile exercise. Its the same old. US is steadfast in its objective to preserve TSP, and all these anal-ysts and think tanks who get their funding from one US govt source or the other, have to come up with convoluted narratives to support this objective.

It used to be India alleges, TSP denies, but now the dominant theme is non-state actors that threaten both India and TSP, or India TSP rivalrly. And what is most shameful from someone like me who attempt to take on these anal-yst frauds is that many useless, pompous, MUTUs, ignorant, naive, "secular" Indians buy into this crap.

After almost 15-20 years of countering this fraud, I see that the only way out for the truth about TSP to come out is for India to develop economically and leave TSP far behind, or for TSP to be consumed by "non state actors". Otherwise, India's other pathetic ills which are undeniable preclude anyone including Indians themselves (except for honest patriots and nationalists, a dwindling breed) to see India as anything different from TSP, and so this fraud like what stephen tankel peddles has a life of its own.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 24 Jan 2014 20:54

This is Danny Pearl's final story

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 25 Jan 2014 00:31

Only in bakistan. Negotiating with a gun pointed to your own head. Gun wielding lover creates scene at Lahore office

A gun wielding young man created chaos at a private office by threatening to commit suicide if he was not allowed to meet a young woman he claimed to be romantically involved with

The gunman ... entered the office of a private airline ... around 5:00 and tried to talk to the girl who refused to meet him and hid in a washroom

He claimed that the girl used to love him before she declared him to be a brother after a three-year affair.

Please note the determined look on the brave baki birather.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 25 Jan 2014 00:32

SSridhar wrote:
Dilbu wrote:Summoning technology: UoP to develop project monitoring and analyses tool for FATA
So this new tool is software or hardware?

Like everything else, its a product of Paki Bhai's Sharp Hardware and Cousin Sister' Software, no gender/mix gender Chakka Tool of Fools for Fools by Fool to be used in FATTA. Tool is called InbredPucker.

BijuShet · Post by **BijuShet** » 25 Jan 2014 01:20

From The News editorial (posting in full).
Lawlessness codified

Friday, January 24, 2014

Under pressure from the Supreme Court, the government has devised a novel solution to the problem of ‘missing’ persons by making a previously illegal action legal. The Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO), which has been sold to the public as a necessary counterterrorism measure, was amended on the orders of the Supreme Court to tackle the vexing issue of illegal detentions. Rather than deny law-enforcement agencies the right to pick up whoever they want for any reason they desire, the ordinance will now allow the government to hold suspects without charge for as long as they want and without having to inform anyone, including the courts, where they are being detained. Previously the ordinance had only given the government the power to keep suspects without charge for no more than 90 days. On top of that, the PPO also gives the government the extraordinary power to revoke the citizenship of anyone declared an enemy combatant. Since the government and military have already made clear that they consider Baloch separatists to be unpatriotic we can expect the PPO to be wielded as a weapon against them. This is an audacious move at a time when the Supreme Court has been trying to locate and free those held illegally. The court is yet to rule on the constitutionality of the PPO but the intention behind the ordinance is as clear as the sun.

With a single stroke of the pen, the issue of missing persons has been solved. Those for whom activists have agitated, relatives have marched miles and countless tears have been shed no longer count as having disappeared; they are merely detained. There is nothing to state that their guilt must be proven. Ideally the ordinance would be rejected by parliament. It was originally introduced as a presidential ordinance when the National Assembly was in recess and since then the opposition parties have pointed out that potential for abuse is rife in the PPO. Now that the National Assembly’s standing committee on interior and narcotics control has passed the bill, it is only a matter of time before it makes its way through the legislature. Only the Supreme Court stands in the way of an executive determined to disregard the rights of citizens in its pursuit of absolute power. No one would deny that terrorism and militancy need to be addressed by the government and that legislation is needed to address this unique threat. That still does not justify giving the power of indefinite detention to a state that has abused this power repeatedly in the past. Why can the PPO not be amended, for example, to give the courts the right to rule on preventive detention within 90 days? Three months is sufficient time for the government to gather enough evidence to prove that the detention is justified. The problem is that the state wants to keep its power to act as it pleases; to stave off any challenge to its authority from the courts it is simply codifying lawlessness.

BijuShet · Post by **BijuShet** » 25 Jan 2014 02:25

From Tribune new article (posting in full).
US approves $352 million for Pakistan under Coalition Support Fund

By Web Desk - Published: January 24, 2014

ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of Defence has signed an authorisation for the payment of $352 million to Pakistan under Coalition Support Fund, reported Radio Pakistan.
US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson‚ during his meeting with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in Islamabad‚ said the Congress has been notified and the amount is expected to be released to Pakistan by February 6.

The two officials discussed matters of mutual interest in the meeting, particularly topics related to the forthcoming strategic dialogue, scheduled to begin in Washington next week. Ambassador Olson confirmed the meeting of the Economic Working Group would be held in Washington in April this year. Dar told the American ambassador that Pakistan has successfully achieved the economic targets set for itself for the half-year period ending December 2013. He said the government has taken some tough decisions to stabilise the economy.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 25 Jan 2014 02:43

LAnd of The Pee & Home Of Da Graves

Pakistan's Shia pilgrimage route to Iran suspended

QUETTA: Pakistan has suspended buses carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims from travelling through its volatile Balochistan province to neighbouring Iran due to security concerns after a suicide attack killed 30 pilgrims this week, officials said on Friday.Sectarian attacks are on the rise in Pakistan, where minority Shias make up about 20 per cent of the 180 million people. Human Rights Watch says more than 400 Shia Muslims were killed in 2013, including members of the ethnic Hazara community.“No place is safe for us. There is no alternate road. We have to travel through this ‘bloody highway’ each time we go on a pilgrimage,” said Mohammad Ismail Changazi, one protester.Militant group Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) claimed responsibility for the latest attack.Deputy Commissioner Chagai, Saifullah Khetran told APP that seven coaches carrying about 300 pilgrims reached Taftan from Iran. “FC Sunni Terrorists Personnel escorted the pilgrims’ coaches,” he said.

partha · Post by **partha** » 25 Jan 2014 03:03

http://tribune.com.pk/story/663055/road ... ct-to-fwo/

ISLAMABAD:

The United States has linked its $90 million assistance for resuming work on the Kalat-Quetta-Chaman section of highway with the award of contract to the Frontier Works Organization (FWO) and hiring of a reputed international firm to monitor construction, sources say.

US is insisting that project work be awarded to FWO which comes under PA. For cultivating intel sources in FWO during the project work perhaps?

saip · Post by **saip** » 25 Jan 2014 03:52

Dilbu wrote:Musharraf unwilling to get angiography, wishes to go abroad for treatment
ISLAMABAD: Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is not willing to get an angiography from Pakistan and wishes to go abroad for treatment, Express News reported Friday.
Musharraf’s medical report, which was submitted to the special court in Islamabad today (Friday), stated that the former president should get an angiography as soon as possible.
The court had ordered that a copy of the report be given to Musharraf’s lead counsel Sharifuddin Pirzada and member of the prosecution team Nasiruddin Nayar earlier today.
His lawyer Anwar Mansoor had requested the court that the former president’s report be kept secret.
Sheikh had disagreed, stating that Musharraf is a public figure and his report should be made public. He said that the court should not submit any decision that is against the constitution, adding that the prosecution knows that Musharraf is in good health.

I wont blame him. Knowing the Paki expertise they might stick the probe somewhere else.

saip · Post by **saip** » 25 Jan 2014 03:52

.Dupe.