Ashura, Kabirwala and media bias…

In continuation to my yesterday's post, let me share couple of harsh truths. I am writing this due to blunt lies printed in daily Khabrain on 30 December.

The newspaper tells me that the procession breached the rules. Those who have been reprimanded have used the same street for many years. It was not a procession but a smaller chunk that were going to Imambargah. Also the procession stopped for three hours. The procession on Ashura starts at 8:00 am and finishes at 4:00 pm. This routine was also followed this year and jaloos ended in time. This blatant lie only seconds media bias towards matam and azadari.

Media stupidity needs correction, and only people in Kabirwala can resolve differences.

Before you take on your rivals….

"Imagine, you have given everything in last days, have used every tactic in rule book; you are content that everything is in order. Then you hear that the town has been touched by another wave of hatred and is being rocked by chants of Kafir Kafir", my friend while narrating his first hand account was sad….

It happened in the evening of Yume Ashura on 28^th December, when fanatics from the town gathered in the name of Sahaba R.A. Reason: the story goes that nomads (pakhi waas/ jhugiwalas) broke the route and provoked anger within Sunni community. It's worth mentioning here that for many years these poor people have been using the same route to reach Imambargah Bhutianwala, Kabirwala. This anger supported with bad intent started something that had to potential to blow the whole town. Once again Kabirwala on fire, yes it was possible. The pressure was built on administration and FIR was registered against the innocents.

But why this was done?

The main brain behind this whole saga has the history of using sect for personal benefits. Only few years ago, this guy put a "haar" on a dog's neck with the name of a sahabi, and tried to create rift in Chak Sher Khan. This time, this guy has stake in Fauji ground and wants Jhugiwalas kicked out. Anyone touched by this issue, please remember that this is not for religion. This is effort for complete control of Fauji parao and ground.

A humble suggestion to my friends – Before you take on your rivals, please revisit the intentions of your leaders. May be a dog bearing the name of respected personality is being fed by your own…

In the name of honour…

I am reading newspapers and as usual sadness rules. I have lived in Kabirwala for many years, besides all bad things, it has been tolerant place. But for the last 20-25 years, a lot has changed. Whatever they do outside, they hold high morals at home. Many of best friends are worst human beings in their character. I am not judge of anybody's character but in this moment of truth, I would like to acknowledge human short comings. They argue that honour needs to be restored, even if its needs tough decisions like killing the culprit.

No body wants to know, why the girl eloped at the first place? Read the following story at decide yourself, that where in this case any intervention could have saved a life.

Parveen BiBi (18 years old) of Chah Mohammad Wala was married to her cousin Saleem 3 years ago. She eloped with Mohammad Ismaeel from her own family, and she was returned through mediators. She left again three weeks where she gave birth to a daughter. Few days ago, she was brought back again. She was killed by her uncle Jevan Naich and cousin Ghulam Hussain. As of today, her daughter is 22 days old. The case has been registered.

Kabirwala mobileshops

Ever wished shopping in Kabirwala, here are two mobile shops:)

India rocks - Serial blasts in Assam's Nalbari kill five….

Five people were killed and 30 others injured when two bombs explosions outside a police station in Nalbari district of Assam on Sunday morning.

Nalbari district is about 70 km west of Assam's main city of Guwahati. A third blast, which took place in Gopal Bazar area after five minutes of the first two, has not been confirmed by the police. The bombs were kept on a parked bicycle and exploded between 1000-1015 hrs IST, an official said. The injured have been taken to the hospitals and security has been stepped up in the city.

Police suspect the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)'s role in the blast and insist that the outfit was desperately trying to carry out a few strikes in the run-up to their 'protest day' on November 27. They also suspect that the blasts can be a reaction to the recent arrests of its foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury and finance secretary Chitrabon Hazarika.

On November 17 a blast took place on the railway tracks near Changpool in Golaghat district leading to the burning of train wagons carrying fuel from Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. Police have disclosed the names of nine ULFA militants who are allegedly planning a major attack on the state.

The names have been put up on the most wanted list of the state police's official website.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/serial-blasts-in-assams-nalbari-kill-five/105717-3.html?from=tn

An evening with Mr. Kabirwala

the nuts met Mr. Kabirwala, its hilarious. the irony is that it features few respectables of my town. Mr. Kabirwala has serious fanbase, you don't believe it, then see it:)

'Maoist attack' on railway derails India train…

India has always supported terrorism and separatist activities in Pakistan, but everything is not good there as well.

Maoist rebels in India have blown up a railway track, leading to the derailment of a passenger train in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police say. At least two people were killed and 47 others injured in the incident, which happened near Ghaghra station. Rebels are fighting for communist rule in a number of Indian states. They have a presence in more than 223 of India's 600-odd districts across 20 states.

More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels' 20-year fight. Eight coaches of the passenger train plying between Tatanagar and Bilaspur derailed after the rebels blew up a portion of the railway track near Ghaghra halt station in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, police said. "Maoists blew up a portion of the track that caused the derailment. Three coaches have been badly damaged," federal railway minister Mamata Banerjee said. Ms Banerjee said two passengers travelling on the train had died after the coaches derailed. Six others were trapped in the coaches, she added. The rebels set off several explosions near the tracks after the incident to prevent rescue workers from reaching the site, the railway minister said. Rescue workers have reached the site and are trying to bring out the passengers who are trapped, a senior police official said.

More can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8369720.stm

 

Pictures from Kabirwala…

Bit of fun in forthcoming days, I am expecting to upload photos from Kabirwala. Please watch this spaceJ

Belle de Jour…

The world is cruel, we judge people on our set of principles. West will term people fighting for their rights as terrorists and will turn diaries of a former call girl into a national legend. Belle de Jour has finally unmasked herself. I am glad that she has decided to do it. Times on Sunday did the deed, and carried a long story on her.

According to BBC…

Dr Brooke Magnanti wrote under the pen name Belle de Jour to describe the encounters she had as a high-class call girl while earning money for her PhD. The 34-year-old said she decided to unmask herself because the stress of the deceit was making her paranoid. Interest in her identity increased when her memoirs became a television series. Dr Magnanti, who now lives in Bristol and is a research scientist for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, became a prostitute because she needed a job that left her enough time to complete her studies. She kept her double life a secret even when she started the blog describing her experiences and the books which followed. Dr Magnanti told the Sunday Times she worked as a prostitute from 2003 to late 2004, and found it "so much more enjoyable" than her shifts in another job as a computer programmer.

Keeping aside issues of the morality, it's a bold decision on part of a professional to reveal her true identity. My respects for Dr. Brooke and I wish her luck in forthcoming days.

Story in Sunday times - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6917495.ece

Belle de Jour Blog - http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/

Fort Hood shootings: Again we will be judged for acts we didn't commit

An interesting article in The Guardian on Ford Hood shootings, a very well written balanced piece…

Moustafa Bayoumi, guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 November 2009 20.36 GMT

So much is still unknown about the shooting at Fort Hood Army base and the motives of the alleged shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, but still I have that same queasy feeling in my stomach that I've had before: this will not be good for Muslims.

First things first. Major Nidal Malik Hasan is in custody. We should judge him fairly and, if he is found guilty, punish him accordingly.

The same is true for Sergeant John M Russell. In May 2009 Russell shot and killed five of his comrades at a combat stress clinic in a US Army base in Iraq. Before that, Sergeant Joseph Bozicevich killed two American soldiers at his base just outside Baghdad in September 2008. What do these incidents point to? We still have yet to understand how profound the depths are to the stresses of war, especially in cases of repeated exposure to war. And you don't have to be on the battlefield to be scarred. We are only now beginning to learn that the Predator drone pilots, sitting in offices in southern California and dropping bombs some 7,000 miles away from their targets, suffer the same if not higher stress disorders as soldiers on the battlefield.

Perhaps these shooting incidents also tell us something about the pressures not only of receiving but also of providing mental health services to people who have suffered traumatic events. Army suicides are at an all time high (nearly 150 servicemen and women in the US took their lives last year). Rates of domestic violence in the military are sky high and far too often turn deadly. What effect must that have on the mental health providers as well? And what do we know about the stress of being on the receiving end of prejudice, as Hasan was reported to have been? This is nothing unique to Muslims. Racial prejudice can lead to all kinds of stress outcomes. Social science research in the US has studied this phenomenon, but not frequently enough when it comes to Muslims, a space slowly being filled by the relatively new publication, the Journal of Muslim Mental Health.

These are the kinds of questions we should be asking, not out of a desire to excuse, but to explain actions that seem beyond words. But I worry that the mood in the US is dimming and turning in a more sinister direction. The questions we will be hearing are: why are Muslims in the military? And, do Muslims even belong in the United States? The allegiances of America's Muslims, all of them and not just those in the military, will be called into question. Once again, we will be judged for an act we didn't commit or condone and have loudly denounced. Am I being irrational? I don't think so. Every year since 2001 the Washington Post-ABC News poll has asked Americans if they hold negative perceptions of Islam. When the latest poll was released in April 2009, the number was 48%, the highest yet recorded.

The coming days will be meaningful. Will this crime and tragedy spur action so that we can finally see that war has enormous costs and is not merely an occasion to celebrate heroism? Or will the American public take one man's crime and churn it into the terrorism of religion? Muslims, the newest minorities in the American imagination, will be bowing heads in mourning for the loss of life at Fort Hood but, with the dark clouds around them, they will be doing so with one eye open.

Gloomy evening…

No recreation around, and gloomy cold evenings; I spent my day reading newspapers. I wanted to finish a book, but ended up eating news pages. All is not good here…

Everyone hated Musharraf in his last days, and now only one year in power, Zardari is the most disliked person in the town. Eyes on Mian Sb, and Altaf Hussain. Altaf bhai is king maker, and king has also dumped President. Many deaths but media is only worried about Hazrat Zardari's departure. Why? Human life is worthless. What else?

Sadness everywhere…

2 years girl was thrown in Haleem's daig, and innocent died there. Reason: smaller enmity.

5 years girl's head was smashed on stone after her earrings' were removed by un-known ruthless killer.

The picture of Babu Sabu inter-exchange suicide bomber has been released, look at his face, God Bless Pakistan where a blind war is killing innocents.

If found, parents should be tried….did they not know, what their son was doing. Having said that who knows his parents were victims of drone attack. Drone attacks by masters, who will speak against them?

79% of people in Pakistan think that 2 days holidays in a week is a good idea: nation of lazy work shirkers needs more time off, what I can say?

Shab Bakhair Kabirwala

 

Aerial firing claims 3 lives

Three people including brother of the groom have been killed due to aerial firing at a marriage ceremony in Kot Bahadur an adjacent area of Kabirwala on Saturday.

According to details when the family of famous advocate Shaukat Hiraj's son the groom Ahmad Ali Hiraj reached at Mushtaq's house some persons started aerial firing, which hit the brother of bridegroom and other two marriage participants and killed them. The deceased have been identified as Muhammad Ali Miraj, Kashif Ali and Gull Muhammad.

The dead bodies were rushed to Tehsil Headquarter hospital Shorkot where after autopsy the bodies have been handed over to the heirs.

Link - http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=154683

Waging War upon Ourselves

Peter Chamberlin's article on recent crisis in Pakistan is the best piece, I have read for many weeks. Eye opening and painfully true, but we can't deny the reality. Kabirwala has its own shameful contribution to sectarianism, which will haunt our generations; hatred travels in blood, how sad it is!

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Peter Chamberlin

It is easy to see why Pakistan has been chosen as the battleground of the century, but it is a real shame to us all that we have allowed our governments so much unsupervised freedom of action that they could get away with the things you are about to read about in the following article. It is a difficult story to tell, since an accurate narrative requires the merging of multiple streams of information into one. The story of the war in Wana is a tale of strange religions, secret alliances and governments that wage war upon themselves. It would be nice to believe our governments, that they were actually doing their utmost to defend our lives and our freedom in Afghanistan and Pakistan, that they were really marshalling all of our forces and our most advanced military technology to defeat an army of rabid terrorists who were out to destroy us…but that in no way resembles the situation that we have created there on the ground. The "war on terror" is a great psycho-drama, staged to convince us that the world is out to get us and we must accept living in a state of permanent war.

The first thing that must be understood is that Pakistan's allegiance to America in the past has come home to bite the generals in the asses. Running America's militant/terrorist training camps, creating "Islamist" foot soldiers for the CIA to send all over the world, is suddenly a big deal. The world has finally recognized that the training program is a vast criminal enterprise, which Musharraf and his generals are all set to take the fall for, except there at home in Pakistan, right in the middle of world war III. The Pakistani people are the most abused of all the victims of CIA/ISI terror. The Army is busy there staging a fake terror war, pretending to be fighting the TTP, in a modern remake of a farcical drama that last played in the Roman Coliseum. Thousands of Pakistani civilians and hundreds of soldiers and policemen have been sacrificed to convince the world that terrorists are waging war indiscriminately across FATA and the NWFP, even though their every action seems calculated to justify an American invasion.

The good people of Pakistan are greatly troubled, trying to understand the situation that they have been trapped in. Even as the government relocates millions of its citizens to fight entrenched terrorists who live among them, the news of the day (attack on GHQ) once again links "ex-officers" of the Army and ISI with terror attacks. Other news reports that hit men in sectarian attacks carried ISI identification. What could possibly motivate some military and government officials to participate in a plan to bring war to Pakistan?

If the evidence really proves military involvement in actual terrorism in the past and in the present, then it becomes a question of motive—Why would dedicated military men, who have taken oaths to serve and protect the Nation, kill innocent Pakistanis, or worse, their fellow officers? It seems that there could be only three possible answers to this question—money, insanity, or patriotism.

Patriotism stands-out as the most likely answer, since military minds see duty differently than civilian folks. It is conceivable that perhaps some Army or ISI guys could have been convinced that certain people were a threat to national security and had to be eliminated. This could explain how the following names of so many officers could be linked to confirmed terrorists: Mr Aqeel , Aliases Dr Usman, who was named in Daniel Pearl's murder and the GHQ attack Amjad Farooqi namesake of the (TTP) umbrella group which attacked GHQ Maj. Gen. Zaheer ul Islam Abbasi, who led an attempted coup against Benazir Bhutto, or former SSG commando Ilyas Kashmiri who alleged killed SSG Gen. Faisal Alvi. Khalid Khwaja, retired air force officer who led Daniel Pearl to Omar Sheikh dozens of active-duty military officers.… arrested for helping Amjad Farooqi try to kill Musharraf.

People in Pakistan have been exposed to this sort of news for many years, among them, there has been little doubt that the Army has always served American interests and the Army has always trained and used militants as part of this service. The terrorism in Pakistan, mostly the sectarian terrorism, has been committed by government-trained militants/terrorists, so much so that the people blame the Army for every bomb in a mosque. The "militants" who have been trained by the professionals who had joined radical outfits are really no different than those who have trained them—both are radical extremists who are ready to kill or die for their country or for their religion. As long as the terror that they have unleashed upon their neighbors and countrymen was in the name of America, Pakistan, or Islam, then the terror was for a "just" cause. This kind of thinking causes military men like ISI Directorate chief Lieutenant-General Pasha to call men like Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Fazlullah "true patriots," for offering to fight India, just like Reagan called the contras "freedom fighters."

There is a theory making the rounds and gaining ground in Pakistan that tries to explain how the military/militant nexus that was openly nurtured to fight in Kashmir was applied covertly to the situation in FATA and NWFP. That theory attempts to explain how the Army could allow American and British intelligence agencies to secretly use India's RAW and the Mossad to manipulate certain adherents of a local religious cult, the Ahmadiyya (a schism from Sunni Islam), to create a new series of schisms within Pakistani society. The theory seems to gain some validity due to certain facts that apply to many members of the cult—many are embedded within the Pakistani officer corps, a lot of them hold high positions in the government bureaucracy and their movement was founded in what is today the epicenter of sectarian terror, around the town of Jhang. The basic reality of everyday life for Ahmadis within Pakistan makes them ideal candidates for recruits in a secret army, especially if the mostly poor Ahmadis are paid exceptionally well—because of religious persecution, they have always had to hide their religious identities; they advocate reunification with India; they prefer British rule over the status quo in Pakistan. If the world was being reordered by the Americans and British in a manner that would reunite India or bring all the Muslim people in Pakistan under the control of one organization that was America-friendly, perhaps also leading to Indian reunification, then surely the Ahmadi and some of their leaders could be counted upon to cooperate in bringing the plan about.

The Pakistani Taliban are the key to the entire psyop. Understanding who they actually are and what master they really serve is vital to understanding what is going down in the homeland of the "Islamic bomb." The Tehreek Taliban emerged from S. Punjab, spreading from there to S. Waziristan. Contrary to popular deceptions, they are an "anti-Taliban" force. Like everything else in Pakistan, they were meant to play a "double-game," pretending to be part of the real Pashtun Afghan Taliban, while waging war in secret upon them. Musharraf and his generals created this "Taliban" force that was not really Taliban, by utilizing "Islamists," who were not really Muslims. They were created to serve as a safe "loyal opposition," who pretended to wage a fake war of terror for American audiences, without risking a fight with real rogue terror groups. The plan was to use military men to lead the criminal gangs of real revolutionaries and ordinary rabble,

The Tehreek Taliban are not really "Taliban," they are more accurately described as a counter-Taliban force, an "anti-Taliban." Like all the real Taliban, they follow a counterfeit Saudi Wahabi version of Islam. Unlike the real Afghan Taliban, their warped Wahabi Islam has been blended with another, even more radical "Islam" from India, Deobandi Islam. The result is the most sectarian bloodthirsty form of Sunni Islam yet devised, to them, anyone who doesn't follow this perverse Wahabi-Deobandi fusion, just like them, is "Kfir," the unbelievers. We are discussing the religious faith of people like Baitullah and Hakeemullah Mehsud, the same people who are now waging war in Pakistan.

The "Islamists" of FATA and NWFP wage sectarian war against all unbelievers in their areas of control, under the direction of ISI controllers. They also provide targets for American drones, using spies under ISI control to plant tracker chips on expendable "militants." Whenever militant leaders, or criminal gangs working under their direction, get out of control, military action takes them out. In addition to this ISI-controlled war in FATA and NWFP, there is another rogue element that is staging terrorist attacks outside of Army control, an American/British/Israeli/Indian force within the anti-Taliban themselves. The killers in this super-secret group are even worse bloodthirsty and hate-driven zealots than the Mehsuds. Pakistani writers refer to them as the "Punjabi Taliban," because that is where they first sprang-up.

Rise of Punjabi Taliban

"Today the bulk of attacks in heartland Pakistan are carried out by Pakistanis from Punjab or Sindh, or by Pashtun fighters assisted by heartland Pakistanis," says Rohan Gunaratne, author of Inside Al Qaeda. "Punjab-based groups… were initially the creatures of the Inter-Services Intelligence, and had a Kashmir focus," says Teresita Schaffer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The change began when President Pervez Musharraf outlawed two Punjabi militant groups (2002) —Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) — because of outrage over their attacks on Shias. Many Jhangvi fighters then moved to the NWFP.

"Jhangvi is now the eyes, ears and operational arm of Al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan [based in Waziristan]," says Gunaratne. "It is hard to distinguish between the three." The task of the Punjabi Taliban is to radicalize the TTP even more. All the leaders in the Tehreek Taliban movement have been educated in Deobandi madrassas, where they studied under Muftis who had been steeped in the sectarian hatred of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, the founder of the mother of all terror outfits in Pakistan, Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP). All Tehreek Taliban leaders came from SSP's militant wing, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), or one of its sub-groups. To counter the activities of the Shia organisation, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), with the blessings of the USA, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, encouraged a group of Deobandi Muslim migrants (Mohajirs) from the districts of what constitute the Indian Punjab and Haryana of today to counter the activities of the TNFJ [Shia]. Thus came into being the Ajuman-e-Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (since re-named as the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan–SSP) on September 6,1984, under the leadership of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, a semi-educated Khateeb who had his religious education in Darul Uloom, Kabirwala, and the Khairul madrasa of Multan in Pakistani Punjab. There is a river of terror running through the heart of Pakistan, flowing down every highway, road and goat path. Wherever progress has gone, the terror has followed, carried by rabble-rousing mullahs/muftis, from the central reservoir of hatred in the town of Jhang, in southern Punjab. It is more sickening than it is ironic that the architects of the reservoir sit in Washington and criticize the Pakistani engineers for following their blueprint too precisely.

All the sectarian terror in Pakistan flows from this reservoir of hatred dug deep in the town of Jhang, in the southern Punjab Region. Of all the regions of Pakistan, the ISI knew that only Jhang could produce a common mindset that would both feed the sectarian hatred and convince otherwise sane individuals to join the effort to defend Pakistan by waging war within it. Since its inception the SSP has relied on a core constituency of Sunni peasantry who felt exploited by Shi'a landlords and aristocrats. The Ahmadi are a merchant class who have lived under the thumb of Shia since first coming to Pakistan. In Jhang a center of sectarian hatred and terror already existed, embraced by an ignored hidden cult, or schism within Sunni Islam, known as Ahmadiyya, or "Qadiani." The record clearly documents a movement of anti-Shia hatred from Punjab, to Peshawar, to S. Waziristan, to Khyber, and beyond. There is no way to document how many of the terrorists that infiltrated NWFP and FATA were Qadians, but we know for certain that they were all Sipah/Lashkar Jhangvi.

Basically, Ahmadiyya may be the most glorified personality cult of all time, based on the ego of one man who thought that he could convert the religions of the world by the power of his reasoning skills. The end product was a type of pseudo-Islamic intellectualism which could be described as a "Hindu-ized" version of Islam, misrepresenting itself as all things to all believers, clearly an abomination to all true Muslims. The Ahmadiyya believe that their founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (1835-1908) was the Mahdi of Islam, the last incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu and the embodiment of the Christian Messiah. The followers of Ahmad settled on 1034 acres of land near Jhang in Punjab. It is no coincidence that Jhang is the epicenter of sectarian terrorism in Pakistan, since it is also home to both the outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) and its most evil stepchild, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). Jhang had all the ingredients and Gen. Musharraf had all the proper credentials to go forward with the CIA plan to create an anti-Taliban force there, from an assortment of disillusioned Ahmadis and others from the mohajir community, who were fed-up with life's burdens. Gen. Musharraf, a mohajir general, was supposedly a Berelvi-Sunni, but many Pakistanis claim that he is a secret Ahmadi. The evidence reveals that in 2003, the dictator sought the help of MQM leader, Altaf Hussein, who is known as a willing servant of American and British interests, to use MQM fanatics to manipulate the local mohajir community as part of the plan. 2003 was a pivotal year in the plan, as US forces withdrew most of their assets from Afghanistan to invade Iraq in March. Bush clearly just dumped the entire operation into Musharraf's lap. Musharraf was expected to "give pursuit" to the "al Qaida" militants who had taken refuge in Waziristan. This was never the real mission, the alleged "mission" was only another part of the psyop; Musharraf's job was to stall. He was to wage a pretend war to buy time for American forces to eliminate Saddam Hussein. For this, he needed a new "Taliban" force, one to fight inside Pakistan. The moment that Bush passed Afghanistan to Musharraf, he began to call together the old Taliban alliance, under Mullah Omar. After being clearly routed in Afghanistan by American bombers and Northern alliance troops (who were mostly Shia), Omar needed a new army of zealous militants, fueled with a new desire to wage jihad against American and Afghan forces.

He needed a Pashtun publicity campaign that would follow the American model of motivational speakers, on "lecture circuits," conducted by brave inspiring role models, such as Mullah Dadullah, to persuade young Pashtun men to go to war. For this task, nothing seemed to work better than using veteran Afghan Taliban, who were missing limbs, or eyes, such as the one-legged Mullah. He was brought into S. Waziristan, along with one-legged Abdullah Mehsud, who was probably released from Guantanamo just for this reason. After sufficient CIA brainwashing, he was released into Afghanistan, where he inspired an army of Uzbek fighters of IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) to follow him into S. Waziristan. These Uzbeks were reported in the media as "al Qaida," as they terrorized the land and ran training camps around Wana, undoubtedly under direct ISI control. In 2003, at the instance of the ISI, Mulla Omar, the Amir of the Taliban, reconstituted the Taliban army to launch a new jihad in Afghanistan—this time against the Western forces. He asked Mulla Dadullah, who continued to enjoy the confidence of the ISI, to act as the chief military commander of the new Taliban army, which consisted of experienced jihadi fighters of the pre-October 7, 2001, vintage as well as new recruits from the madrasas and Afghan refugee camps of Pakistan. The new Taliban army was trained by the ISI and started operating in the Pashtun majority areas of Southern and Eastern Afghanistan from sanctuaries in Balochistan and in the Waziristan area of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

In its issue of October, 2003, the "Newsline", the reliable and well-informed monthly of Karachi, gave the following account of the re-constitution of the Neo Taliban army and the role of Dadullah in it: Hundreds, possibly thousands, of youths from religious schools across Pakistan have joined the ranks of Taliban cadres that have regrouped in Afghanistan in the last few months. According to one estimate, at least 5,000 youths including former Taliban soldiers who went underground after the fall of their regime in December 2001, and students from religious seminaries from Balochistan, have joined their compatriots in Afghanistan. Many of these young men are known in the ranks as 'sarbaz' (those who have given their lives to the cause and readily sacrifice them in suicide missions). Regrouped, reorganised and rearmed, these warriors are now all set to launch a new guerrilla war for as long as it takes to expel what they call the 'infidel forces' from Afghanistan.

From this moment on, Pakistani proxies were at war with American and NATO troops in Afghanistan. The creation of the anti-Taliban, the TTP, with the help of the British (See: Unraveling the Anti-Pakistan Psyop), effectively acknowledged this fact and began to pit an American backed Pakistani proxy force, against Pakistan. If we were in a real war and not just a massive dramatic production, then this would have been a serious matter. As it was, it was just more geo-strategic chess, or "the great game," as they like to call it on the sub-continent. The forces organized under Dadullah had to fight a war within Pakistan that was totally convincing, one that was so intense that it would convince the world community that outside intervention (meaning: American intervention) was absolutely required to save Pakistan from itself. The real mission required many more terrorists, who were sufficiently vicious to kill religious opponents without hesitation. This required at least two more side psyops, both staged in areas that had already been marked by past sectarian conflicts—Karachi and Khyber.

In Karachi, Musharraf agitated the MQM supporters of Altaf Hussein. A fake "ultimatum," allegedly from an unknown militant group, was issued around Peshawar, threatening to wipe-out all Ahmadis who refused to either convert or leave Pakistan. The fear campaign had begun. MQM agitators began recruiting for a "Sunni Tehreek," to take the war to Pashtun militants. An open deal with Musharraf was struck, which effectively closed-down a previous ISI-created anti-MQM faction, the MQM-Haqaqi, begun to undermine Altaf Hussain's group, the MQM-H, the most violent of all the mohajir factions. It was driven underground and group leader Amir Khan was arrested (June 29), effectively making thousands of potential recruits available from his organization for ISI missions.

On May 22, Ahmadi leaders met in Ranpur to make plans for dealing with the threat from the mullahs. A wave of killing was unleashed upon the Ahmadi community, beginning in Karachi. On July 14, Shia leader Allama Hassan Turabi was assassinated by a suicide bomber in front of his home in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal section of Karachi. Brigadier Iftikhar Ahmad, a well-known Ahmadi was shot dead by three men on motorbikes at his home (across the street from Musharraf) in Rawalpindi, on July 17.

Turabi was a staunch critic of the Musharraf regime and a vocal opponent of Islamabad's staunch ties to the United States. He was also outspoken against Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. He was an advocate for ethnic and sectarian harmony among Pakistan's disparate ethnic, sectarian and tribal groups and for unity in the face of what he believed was a repressive and corrupt regime in Islamabad that was beholden to U.S. interests. His membership in the Sunni-dominated MMA representing Shiite Muslims—a loosely knit coalition of Islamist parties united in their opposition to the Musharraf regime that commands a wide following in the largely Pashtun regions of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan, as well as a sizeable representation in parliament—was seen as an effort on the part of Sunni Islamist factions to reach out to Shiites to curtail the sectarian violence that has plagued Pakistan for years.

In conjunction with this anti-Shia action in Karachi, another anti-Shia psyop was getting underway in Khyber Agency, but this operation was intended to produce a second schism, this one within Sunni Islam. Haji Namdar, a local extremist, who had been unexpectedly returned from Saudi Arabia, where he had been indoctrinated for the last ten years by Wahabi instructors. He returned to Bara, which has a large Shia minority, where he became outraged that new roads and power lines had carried "sin," according to the Wahabi definition, into his hometown. He set-up his own religious police force after the Saudi model, "Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue," and began administering Saudi justice.

He also started a pirate FM station, where he denounced local sinners. He began to agitate against Sunni sinners, as well, in particular, the Berelvi-Sunnis. He agitated the local Berelvis to the point where he thought he needed help, motivating him to bring in radical firebrand, Mufti Munir Shakir, who was just being run-out of Hangu, because of an anti-Shia bombing inspired by his preaching….

By: Peter Chamberlin peterchamberlin@naharnet.com "Waging War Upon Ourselves" http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com:80/2009/10/31/waging-war-upon-ourselves/

The Nation newspaper is Google Ads junkyard…

The Nation newspaper, I was reading an article, couldn't complete it due to many Google ads.

Noise hinders message, and is considered as recipe for bad communication.

Why would you turn a quality paper into advertisement junkyard?

No comments….

Kids sitting in a line, not for education but to get some food…they are also not foreigners, our own displaced children.

171,000

Last month, visitors of three major shrines donated 171,000 rupees in cash; this is the money that came out of cashboxes. Auqaaf deprarment has it now, and hopefully it will be spent on good.

I am wondering, who collects money from Hazrat Peer Kabir RA's shrine in Kabirwala, and how is this spent?

Necessary evils…

Social networking is necessary evil, its one of those things which you just want to have. How much important it is, this is secondary question. I have long list, if I am without them, it gets on my nerves. Insurance is on top of my list, you're unsure about probability of acceptance of your claim, but you buy this. Sometime ago, PIA refused to pay Travel insurance claim on some stupid grounds.

Mobile phone is another, I didn't remember to carry my cell and only realised when I reached office…I had mixed feelings, if someone calls me, urgency, emergency, oh my God. Somehow, I decided to continue with the work. I came home in the evening to find out that there was no call, no textJ my persona of busy bloke shattered, but at the same time, I learnt that I was not important at all. The life continues…

Face Book, Messengers, Plaxo, Linked in...We are always worried about connectivity and access to technology. With the advent of numerous platforms, we have lost a real touch: its genuine affections to humanity. In my case, I have totally ignored myself; many days have passed since I spent even a single moment with self…just think, may be you are in the same boat. Boats on Kabirwala, not possible I understandL

Americans are not stupid...

Not inspiring

Not inspiring and not the best issue to post – it’s about Assyia Rafiq.

I have heard that Mukhtar Mai is sitting on collection made for this poor girl from Kabirwala. MM is no angel; only recently it was reported by a blogger that “Just note that over Rs 2.8 million of cash is unaccounted for, as the second bank account shows nil.” She has somehow overcome her past and now playing dirty money making games.

Sad though, but my European murshid George Orwell was right in saying, “Once a whore, always a whore”.

Not sure…

I like the outlook of blogs at wordpress.com, but being a lazy on merit, I like tool here. To test waters, I will simultaneously blog at both websites.

Blogger address remains same, http://dhartipeerkabir.blogspot.com/

& on word press, it will be http://kabirwala.wordpress.com/

Any thoughts for future….

A cry from the grave...

The long-awaited genocide trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic is set to open in The Hague on Monday amid much uncertainty as to the impact of his intended boycott.

Charges against him include the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995 -- the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

Please recite Surah Fatiha....

When you’re

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come to cut out what remains,
Just roll to your rifle, and blow out your brains.
And go to your God like a soldier.

Kipling's advice to British soldiers (including Winston Churchill) who were battling the Pashtuns in the late 19th century

Nation of time wasters…

"Summer time will be over tomorrow, so please remember to change time at clocks", UK news channels were bombarding me with reminders and flashes. Why I would be bothered? I live in Kabirwala and the last worrying thing on my books is importance of time. We are nation of time wasters (i.e. back biters).

Hate me for saying this, walk around the town and you will agree with me. On cup of tea, I have seen nobles bleating on social stigma & sudden loss of values. You must think, people around me are legends with sensitivity for others. True to some extent, but on large, gossiping is their profession. They will tell you whose daughter is doing what, how someone's son has been recently released from jail, who is the most corrupt? They go on exposing others, but it's difficult to look into self…

No body likes it, and that's we need people to share it with us. Should we wish to develop, we will need to change our habits.

Stand against....

http://standagainstpoverty.org/events/19583/rally-kabirwala

Unpublished letter…

Newspapers get many letters in post which ends up in dustbin. Telegraph has published a book of those pearls of wisdom. I enjoyed reading them, here is one of my favourites…

I recently received a spam email asking if I wanted to marry "a hot Russian chick". As I'm approaching 75 years of age and have blood pressure problems, I decided on this occasion not to accept this tempting offer.
Ivor Yeloff, Hethersett, Norfolk

Long-term use of mobile phones 'may be linked to cancer'

Heavy users face a higher risk of developing brain tumours later in life, The Daily Telegraph disclosed yesterday.

A preliminary breakdown of the results found a "significantly increased risk" of some brain tumours "related to use of mobile phones for a period of 10 years or more" in some studies. Please read the whole story at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/6420093/Long-term-use-of-mobile-phones-may-be-linked-to-cancer.html.

Karzai, the servant of lords

Karzai has agreed to run-off elections, what else a puppet would have doneJ message for rulers that man is weak and will only bring disgrace to them in future liaisons. But why our leaders will listen to me?

No offense, but we are officially American colony, thanks to baboons sitting in power houses. On both sides of border, impotence prevails, Pak Afghan dosti zindabad!

Faisal Hashmi

I was never proud of my town, as I am today:) Faisal's poetry with some voiceover.

Well-done guys.

Hasasn Pur

I have just found a blog from Hassan Pur, Kabirwala. http://hassanpur.blogspot.com/

I would have been happier, if there wee entries about life in Hassan Pur and Kabirwala.

Anyone out there?

72 members now….

72 members at STEP Face book group, good workJ

Only three wall posts, and no discussion topic; the group is inactive. Why don't start a discussion on Kabirwala, let me suggest few topics..

Who is your writer in Kabirwala?

Who has done the best work for humanity?

How has social work changed lives in the town?

Who is pride of Kabirwala?

What can be done for a park in Kabirwala?

….my list goes on

BBC – dirty work

I was disappointed with BBC earlier this year, when it refused to air aid for Ghaza. They wanted to be impartial: good for BBC, impartiality in favour of a beast who had blood of children.

Same broadcaster, but this time totally different act; BBC gave time to Nick Griffin of BNP. Nick Griffin is mentally retarded, self centred chap who happens to hate Muslims and against all of great British values of tolerance. He wants to kick immigrants out of the country, only whites' n colourless regime. My favourite moment from the program came when some Asian bloke said to Nick

You would be surprised how many people would have a whip-round to buy you a ticket and your supporters … to go to the South Pole. That's a colourless landscape, it would suit you fine.

Today's newspapers had all types of comments but for Peter Hain's statement summarised it…

The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history. Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous.

Having done this dirty task, I am surprised to read that BBC is not ruling out the possibility of his return: for me, I gather that there is bigger plot behind this drama. BBC must have blessing of some invisible hand who wants to convey strong message to foreigners. Should they pack or fight back, is now one million dollar question?

Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei on western wish list…

Everyone loves Iran and this affection is now extended to Sayyid Ali Khamenei as well. Do they love Iran? No, they don't; you already know it.

Conspiracy mills started the story last week that Sayyid Ali Khamenei had met his God. Blogs, newspapers and emails discussed succession and cited the possible reason for delay in official announcement. Daily Telegraph, even manufactured ground realities and informed its readers that flag was down, television presenters were wearing black…in January 2007, world embraced the same news.

Later, Iranian supreme leader's office released a picture of the leader from an official meeting he held Saturday with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to disapprove the rumour. The dust is settled now, and his "well-wishers" must be slapping on their faces and banging their heads to the walls…

But why demise of Khamenei?

As guardian of Iran's revolution, he stayed put. After Ayatollah Khomeini's loss, country needed a true revolutionary and Sayyid proved that he was right choice. A lot of fuss was created on his clerical credentials, but he rose above all of this and led his nation in hard times. His presence is threat to everyone who thinks that they can topple regime. Only recently, Michael Jackson's death diverted focus from Iran to America, otherwise, we were reading every minute updates on latest situation after election. Even Mousavi won the elections; he had guardian council watching him.

God Bless Sayyid Ali Khamenei and I am praying for his long life. It doesn't matter, if I have different school of thought at all, but for me he is symbol of Islamic resistance.

Madness of western media…

Newspapers have been reporting that Lockerbie bomber is dead; sky news started this story in the day that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi who was in critical condition had died. He was only recently released after which Scottish government came under immense pressure and brutal criticism on his discharge on compassionate grounds.

After denial from his lawyers, the claim was retracted.

Western media is spitting rumours for the past few days, who is the other victim, I will share tomorrow…I have no doubt that many media outlets are loosing creditability.

Is Pakistan behind Jundullah?

Iranian ambassador in Pakistan, Mashallah Shakeri has alleged Jundullah hand cannot be ruled out in the suicide attack carried out in Iran Sunday. Talking to Geo News, Shakeri alleged Jundullah chief; Abdul Malik Regi has taken refuge in an unknown region of Baluchistan Province.

It was no brainer and later in the day Jundullah accepted the responsibility. Mashallah Shakeri's statement is alarming, not because he said it, but it's true. It's worth mentioning that ISI was involved in Sadiq Ganji's murder in 1990. Hassan Abbas, in his book "Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, The Army, And America's War On Terror" revealed that while Iranian Consul General Sadiq Ganji was shot by notorious terrorist Riaz Basra, "the other person on the motorcycle with Basra conducting the Ganji murder operation was an ISI official named Athar, a low-level official from the Pakistan Air Force.." Later same outfit was involved in attacks on Iran's cultural centres in Pakistan. Sadly, our soil has not been very kind to Iranians.

And now this whole sage of Jundullah will harm our relationship with Iran. A quick look on web will give you eye opening details about the terrorist group.

In an October 17, 2008 interview aired on Al-Arabiya TV, its leader Abdolmalek Rigi stated the group had given "over 2000 men" military, political and ideological training but that the number of its members "in the mountains does not exceed 200." It has been reported that Baloch rebels connected with Narcotic smugglers are actually an instrument of United States Central Intelligence Agency and are being directed from CIA's Muscat station. It has also been alleged that Jundallah is involved in smuggling Iranian diesel fuel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, price of which is more than five times cheaper than the diesel fuel in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The diesel fuel is then bartered with opium, which is smuggled into Iran from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be sold in Iran.

There is no doubt that our masters (Americans) are behind Jundullah and we will need to seriously investigate this allegation. We don't have safe borders. India has always been our enemy, not safe from our eastern border, we have now opened new frontier in North Wazirstan. We are pushed into this offense or not, it's another debate but lets be clear that we are loosing few sincere friends left in the world. America has its own agenda and vulnerable Pakistan suits it. Is this good for as well, let's focus on our national interests.

Instead of fighting diplomatic battle with Iran, we should support our neighbour in finding the culprits. Good neighbours do this, are we any good?

http://www.diplomaticourier.org/kmitan/articleback.php?newsid=228

Noor Ali Shooshtari, Deputy Commander Revolutionary Guards, and other elite commanders are the latest...

A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of southeastern Iran that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported.

The official IRNA news agency said the dead included the deputy commander of the Guard's ground force, Gen. Noor Ali Shooshtari, as well as a chief provincial Guard commander for the area, Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh. The other dead were Guard members or local tribal leaders. More than two dozen others were wounded, state radio reported.

The commanders were inside a car on their way to a meeting with local tribal leaders in the Pishin district near Iran's border with Pakistan when an attacker with explosives blew himself up, IRNA said.

Iran's state-owned English language TV channel, Press TV, said there were two simultaneous explosions: one at the meeting and another targeting an additional convoy of Guards on their way to the gathering.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the region in Iran's southeast has been the focus of violent attacks by a militant group from Iran's Sunni Muslim minority called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, which has waged a low-level insurgency in recent years.

Link

Did Italy pay to Taliban for safety?….

The world heard last week that Italy paid to Taliban for safety, The Times has started new debate. According to newspaper…

War, said Clausewitz, is the continuation of politics by other means. The Times reported this week on a distinctive political strategy adopted by Italy in the war in Afghanistan. Italian intelligence officers have paid money, amounting to tens of thousands of dollars, to the Taleban in protection money. Under the arrangement, neither side would attack the other. When the Italians were replaced by French troops in the Sarobi district of Afghanistan last year, the newcomers believed the region to carry only a low risk, as there had been only one Italian fatality in the previous year. But the Italians neglected to mention the payments. Within a month of their arrival, ten French soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded in a Taleban attack.

The Italian Government has furiously denied our report, including our statement that the US Ambassador submitted a formal complaint about Italian payments to local insurgents in Herat province. Opposition politicians in France are demanding explanations, and ought to receive them. We unreservedly stand by our account. Since its publication, a Taleban commander and two senior Afghan officials have confirmed that this strategy has been practised by Italian forces in this and other regions of Afghanistan.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6878520.ece

Britain on spotlight…

Great Britain is on spotlight for all the right reasons, gori sarkar has done all the wrong things she could do to earn bad name and to strengthen Muslim reservations against UK. Yesterday, they decided to opt out of vote that endorsed Goldstone Report and declared Israel a war criminal. I am reading that it was mainly due to state of indecision. Writing in The Times, Richard Beeston slammed the government …

Many well-crafted arguments will no doubt emerge to justify the British indecision. There was not enough time to study the text, consult capitals, win concessions. In short, the British have pioneered a new form of diplomacy — "the dog ate my homework".

In another blow to government, the court has ordered to release secret US intelligence material on the former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. Binyam Mohammad wants to expose all the culprits in his torture saga, he said to BBC…

The public needs to know how far the involvement of the UK Government in my case is," he said. "There is information in there which I'm 99 per cent sure states that the US subcontracted the UK Government to do its dirty work."

Also, The Guardian revealed that "Government anti-terrorism strategy 'spies' on innocent". The government and police have repeatedly denied that the £140m programme is a cover for spying on Muslims in Britain. But sources directly involved in running Prevent schemes say it involves gathering intelligence about the thoughts and beliefs of Muslims who are not involved in criminal activity. Instances around the country include:

• In the Midlands, funding for a mental health project to help Muslims was linked to information about individuals being passed to the authorities.

• In a college in northern England, a student who attended a meeting about Gaza was reported by one lecturer as a potential extremist. He was found not to be.

• A nine-year-old schoolboy in east London, who was referred to the authorities after allegedly showing signs of extremism – the youngest case known in Britain. He was "deprogrammed" according to a source with knowledge of the case.

• Within the last month, one new youth project in London alleged it was being pressured by the Metropolitan police to provide names and details of Muslim youngsters, as a condition of funding. None of the young Muslims have any known terrorist history.

Had early start….

I had an early start today, I went for a walk, my friend had late night "workout" and was enjoying nice sleep: so I decided to go alone. If you were taught, Morning Walk essay in school, you all would know, how my walk was…it was calm in the streets of Kabirwala. Only few who usually decide to walk after Fajar prayers…

Besides many promises, we don't have park. I have been hearing many claiming that they would change fate of the town, but little has been done in provision of health facilities to public. Then why I would expect anything from them money making machines called politicians and my regards to red tape culture as well.

We really need a good park, don't we?

Long week…

We all had a long painful week…many causalities and merciless killings. Its total disaster and I am shattered.

I will pick up some pace and write down tomorrow.

We deserve to know more about our un-named heroes…

Now they are 6 commandoes who have met their God, May Allah accept their sacrifices including all other who are not among us.

But we are safe due to two un-sung and un-named heroes who according to The News;

…The sources said at one stage when it was felt that the commandoes might not be able to capture or kill the terrorists without some losses to human lives, the decision was taken to storm the room where they were being held.

But, later another strategy was adopted as two brave commandos volunteered to come forward to face the terrorists to diver their attention, so that others could storm them. This strategy was said to have worked but not before two valiant commandos knowingly embraced martyrdom so that many others could live.

Few bags of sugar…

I am reading a great example of generosity for people of Kabirwala; our generous district government has given 400 bags to three major shop keepers in the town.

Its shame, Isn't it?

Turkey and Armenia sign historic protocols

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Armenia signed the historic protocols late Saturday to normalize their troubled relations after the resolution of last-minute differences. The ceremony that took place after a three-hour delay began when the host country, Switzerland's Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey invited Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoğlu and Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian to the table. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, French FM Bernard Kouchner, Russian FM Sergei Lavrov and EU's foreign policy Chief Javier Solana were present during the ceremony.

The crisis occuped when Turkey and Armenia attempted to interfere in the verbal statements they will make. In his speech, Nalbandian wanted to refer to the 1915 killings of the Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire by using the word "genocide," considered as an attempt to relax the Armenian diaspora and the opposition in Armenia. The Turkish side, on the other hand, wanted to refer to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, something Armenia says has nothing to do with the normalization of ties with Turkey, NTV broadcaster reported from Zurich.

It was later announced that the signing ceremony was delayed for an indefinite time but there were ongoing negotiations over the wording of the verbal statements. While the delegations were returning to the University of Zurich, Nalbandian was still absent and instead, Armenian Ambassador to Switzerland Charles Aznavour was present, raising questions if the protocols would be signed at the level of the two countries' ambassadors to Switzerland or the foreign ministers. The Armenian Foreign Ministry announced the protocols would be signed around 9 p.m. The crisis was overcome when the parties agreed not to give verbal statements. In the following process, the accords need to be forwarded to the two countries' parliaments for ratification. On Monday, the Turkish Cabinet is expected to discuss the documents before sending them to Parliament.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-and-armenia-sign-historic-protocols-2009-10-10

 

GHQ operation over…

Pak Army soldiers have once again defeated the terrorists, as the operation at General Headquarters against the intruding terrorists concluded to its logical end Sunday morning. The commandos in their successful operation killed eight terrorists and recovered 39 hostages, while their top dog Aqeel alias Dr. Usman was nabbed. Two commandos and three hostages were martyred in the operation.

Following the operation, Army Chief General Ashfaque Perviz Kayani paid a visit to the GHQ. The operation beginning this morning on the whole rescued 25 hostages in the first phase and at the end of the operation five more hostages were recovered, while three hostages and two Pak Army commandos were also martyred. Earlier, SSG commandos had killed four terrorists in successful operation at GHQ security building. The operation for the rescue of hostages taken on Saturday noon was started this morning at 6.00 A.M and SSG commandos with their great expertise successfully completed the operation in merely one hour and, thereafter, a search operation had started.

Major General Athar Abbas said that the operation has concluded to its logical end and the situation was completely under control of the forces. Five terrorists were killed in the Saturday encounter at GHQ check post # 1, while one Brigadier, one Lt. Col. amid five security personnel were martyred. Thus since Saturday noon to Sunday morning at 9.00 A.M on the whole eleven persons were martyred including the eight security personnel.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=88814

I am sad on GHQ attack…

No matter whatever they stood were, none should have attacked our forces Headquarters.

Confined as they are, I am praying for the safety of men in uniform and my heart goes with their families.

When arrested, attackers deserve a public hanging so that their cronies understand the repercussion of attacking one of the key pillars of system…

Prize fools

When Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the satirist Tom Lehrer remarked that he saw no further need to perform as the award had made satire obsolete. By offering the world's most prestigious political accolade to Barack Obama, a man who has held office for barely nine months, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is in danger of putting the entire comedy industry out of business.

The committee has put hope above results, promise above achievement. The prize undermines the selfless triumphs of earlier winners. Indeed, the award's obvious political intent looks partisan, a signal of European relief at the end of the Bush presidency. The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama's action in "strengthening international co-operation between peoples". That is a worthy aim and America's re-engagement in multilateral diplomacy has been warmly welcomed by its allies. But it is hard to point to any substantive results yet. Much was promised to the Muslim world in the President's speech in Cairo; on the ground, the failure still to achieve any tangible progress towards a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians has left all sides disillusioned. In Moscow, the talk of pressing the reset button in relations was welcome, as was Mr Obama's abandonment of the US missile shield in Europe. But so far none of this has led to the scrapping of any more nuclear warheads.

The nomination of Mr Obama, among more than 200 other contenders, had to be made within weeks of his inauguration. Was this a message of support for the election of America's first black president? Or was it a self-defeating way of trying to align the peace committee with the excitement that marked his first few weeks in office? Mr Obama yesterday responded with characteristic eloquence and modesty in announcing his acceptance. He would, however, have done better to have let it be known to those sounding out the White House beforehand that he saw the prize as premature, ill judged and embarrassing at a time when he is preoccupied with fighting a war in Afghanistan.

There have, of course, been previous awards that have been widely condemned as undeserved. The most contentious was probably the 1973 prize to Dr Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for their talks on an end to the Vietnam War. Dr Kissinger had just backed the US bombing of Cambodia, and Le Duc Tho — the only nominee to reject the prize — negotiated in bad faith while the Communists prepared plans to invade South Vietnam. Some awards, especially those to Arabs and Israelis, have proved overoptimistic; others, such as the 2005 prize to Mohamed ElBaradei, have been politically partisan.

This year there was no shortage of qualified contenders, men and women who may not have the glamour of Mr Obama but who have easily fulfilled the criteria of individuals who have done their utmost, often at great personal cost, to promote peace, reconciliation and human rights. Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean Prime Minister, may seem naive in his faith in sharing power with President Mugabe. But no one can doubt the courage of a man who has been tortured and imprisoned for his actions in defence of democracy. Denis Muwege is a physician in war-torn Congo who has opened a clinic to help the many victims of rape. Senator Piedad Córdoba has mediated in Colombia's civil war. Greg Mortenson is an American former US army medic who has made it his mission to build schools for Afghan girls in places where warlords and drug dealers kill people for trying. All would have been worthy peace prize winners.

This year, however, no prize has been given for peace. Instead, this is a Nobel prize for politics.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6868838.ece

Many in US media skeptical of Obama's Nobel Prize

"Excessive praise can be unwelcome and embarrassing," noted The Los Angeles Times. "We endorsed him for the job, and we greatly prefer him to his predecessor. But it's difficult to see why he deserves the peace prize so soon after taking office. The Nobel committee didn't just embarrass Obama, it diminished the credibility of the prize itself."

The Washington Post, another newspaper that had endorsed Obama for president, was equally skeptical. "It's an odd Nobel Peace Prize that almost makes you embarrassed for the honoree," said the Post editorial. "In blessing President Obama, the Nobel Committee intended to boost what it called his 'extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.'

The Wall Street Journal, a conservative newspaper, said in an editorial that its reaction was "bemusement" at the Nobel Committee, which the paper said was "anticipating the heroic concessions that it believes Mr. Obama will make to secure treaties that will produce a new era of global serenity." "We all have at least three more years to learn if Mr. Obama will fulfill the audacity of hope that the Nobel Committee has put on him to bow to the values of the world's 'majority,'" the paper opined. Link

Obama – Nobel Peace Prize

"The killer walks away with prize" was the message I received shortly after the announcement. Only on Thursday night, we joked that Bush would be the winner for this year. Another friend said that Bush & Blair should be given this as both of them were war criminals and they would never be tried. Committee should reward them for killing innocent and unarmed civilians. The world is divided on the rewarded and international press has mix response. Personally, I like President Obama for his pragmatic and balanced approach. He is US president and his policies reflect struggle for hegemony of state. His campaign was brilliant and I persuaded many friends in America to leave their homes and to vote for him.

In Pakistan, we were happy on his election but we forgot that he was elected Supreme Commander of United States not for Pakistan. He inherited debt, war and broken society, that's also true. We were also wrong in assuming him our saviour. Being a Muslim, I believe that God is my Saviour. Huge expectation world had on President Obama, and this Nobel Prize only seconds it. What international press thinks, I will share later but I am glad that he has got it.

In my view, its slap on those faces as well, who have yet accept the reality of non-white president. Still in many quarters, a strong hatred and racism remains bitter truth.

Congratulation – Mr. President, you deserved itJ

 

Tony Blair – the War criminal

I'm not shaking your hand; you've got blood on it. I understand soldiers go to war and die but they have to go to war for a good reason and be properly equipped to fight.

I believe Tony Blair is a war criminal. I can't bear to be in the same room as him. I can't believe he's been allowed to come to this reception. It comes back to me every day, every time I see a coffin come off a plane; it reminds me of what happened to Shaun (his son).

.....Peter Brierley, father of British Soldier who was killed on active duty ahead of the Iraq War

One in four people is Muslim, says study

Islam may be most closely associated with the Middle East, where it emerged in Arabia in the seventh century, but today the region is home to only one in five of the world's Muslims, according to a study of the religion's global distribution. The world's Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly one in four people practise Islam, according to the US Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which published the survey. This compares to 2.25 billion Christians. The top five Muslim countries in the world include only one in the Middle East ‑ Egypt ‑ behind Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, in that order. Russia, the survey shows, has more Muslims than the populations of Libya and Jordan combined. Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon. China has a bigger Muslim population than Syria. The work, the largest of its kind, was the result of three years of research examining data from 232 countries and territories.

The portrait it provides of Islam's distribution could have a profound influence on public policy in the west, and on attempts by the US, British and other governments to reach out to Muslims. Extrapolating the figures from the survey, the Islam that is largely practised around the world, particularly in large swaths of Asia, is more moderate and integrated than its stereotypical characterisation as an often militant and intolerant faith. The reality, as described by Mapping the Global Muslim Population, is that two out of three Muslims are Asians, while the 38 million Muslims in Europe, if treated as a separate group, would be the ninth largest in the world, behind Turkey, with a population of 71 million, and ahead of Algeria, with 34 million.

Significantly, one in five of Muslims now lives in a country where they are represented as a religious minority, with three-quarters of that number concentrated in five countries: India (161 million), Ethiopia (28 million), China (22 million), Russia (16 million) and Tanzania (13 million). The survey also attempted to quantify the relative sizes of the two main branches of Islam - Sunni and Shia - but came up against the difficulty that many national demographers did not distinguish between the two. It ended up suggesting that Shias, concentrated largely in four countries including Iran and Pakistan, probably made up between 10 and 13% of Muslims.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/08/muslim-population-islam-survey

Not content with

Not content with bombing the shit out of Muslim countries, the yanks have just dropped a bomb on the moon. Rumour has it they had intelligence that Bin Laden was hiding up out there!!! (A text received from a friend after US experiment on moon today)

Nobel Prize for Peace 2009

It's been difficult year for world peace and all eyes are on Peace Prize announcement later in the day. Who is your favourite?

Herta Mueller - Nobel prize for literature 2009

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed," the Swedish Academy said. The 56-year-old author, who emigrated to Germany from then-communist Romania in 1987, made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled "Niederungen," or "Lowlands" in English, which was promptly censored by her government.

In 1984 an uncensored version was smuggled to Germany where it was published and her work depicting life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania was devoured by readers there. That work was followed by "Oppressive Tango" in Romania. "The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while, outside of Romania, the German press received them very positively," the Academy said. "Because Mueller had publicly criticized the dictatorship in Romania, she was prohibited from publishing in her own country."

Most of her works in German, but some works have been translated into English, French and Spanish, including "The Passport," "The Land of Green Plums," "Traveling on One Leg" and "The Appointment." Mueller is the 12th woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Recent female winners include Austria's Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and British writer Doris Lessing in 2007.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gn-_m0gOLDlyXymX2CJHcV5HexsgD9B6SQTO1

http://www.nobelprize.org

 

Maldives cabinet sinks to new low

The Maldives government is to hold a meeting under water to highlight the perceived threat of global warming and rising sea-levels. Maldives, the lowest-lying country on Earth faces a severe threat if ocean levels rise.

President Mohammed Nasheed will lead the meeting - about 20 feet under the sea, along with 14 cabinet ministers, on October 17. At the meeting Mr Nasheed and ministers will sign a document calling on all countries to cut down their carbon emissions.

Berlusconi, Immunity & NRO

Ever wondered, why Europe is second name for peace, prosperity & tranquillity. I am watching news on CNN and something has come up which is unbelievable. Italian court rules Berlusconi's immunity law unconstitutional, which means Italian prime minister could be tried for bribe, corruption and fraud. According to The Guardian newspaper, "The decision represented a severe blow for the prime minister, already struggling to contain the damage from a lurid sex and drugs scandal in which he was accused of using the services of prostitutes." 

The newspaper further noted; "Today's ruling marked the second time in five years that Italy's most august tribunal had rejected an attempt by the right to put its leader above the law. Initial reports said that the judges had reached their decision because a constitutional reform was needed, and the government had used a routine law. As Berlusconi's lawyers acknowledged in their pleading to the court, the immunity act represented a breach in the constitutional principle that all Italians were equal before the law."

This decision comes in a time, when we have many mainstream politicians who are the beneficiary of NRO. Is President immune from trail? It's not my place to comment. I would also like to know the motives of these cases, as in Pakistan political victimisation has been shameful reality. Having said that there is lesson for us, that no matter, how much our illiterate clerics teach hatred against Europe, they have better justice than us.

Shame on us, no need to explain the shame and disgrace….