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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Intelligence officials say a bomb hidden inside a radio exploded on a military base in northwest Pakistan, killing a paramilitary soldier and his 10-year-old son.

The officials say the soldier and his son were listening to the Asia Cup cricket final between Pakistan and Bangladesh on Thursday night when the bomb went off. Three other children were wounded.

Authorities are investigating how the bomb was planted in the radio. The attack occurred at a base in Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan tribal area, a key Pakistani Taliban stronghold.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

Radio-bomb kills soldier, son listening to Asia Cup final | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Intelligence officials say a bomb hidden inside a radio exploded on a military base in northwest Pakistan, killing a paramilitary soldier and his 10-year-old son.

The officials say the soldier and his son were listening to the Asia Cup cricket final between Pakistan and Bangladesh on Thursday night when the bomb went off. Three other children were wounded.

Authorities are investigating how the bomb was planted in the radio. The attack occurred at a base in Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan tribal area, a key Pakistani Taliban stronghold.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.
 
QUETTA: Gunmen ambushed a Pakistani paramilitary checkpost on Friday, killing four soldiers and abducting four others in the southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but officials blamed the attack on Taliban in Shirani district, 350 kilometres east of Quetta, the capital of the province that borders Afghanistan and Iran.

“Militants attacked the post in the early hours. They first surrounded the post, then ambushed it. After killing four, they took four other soldiers with them,” said a senior government official in Balochistan.

Three other soldiers were wounded, the official added.

An intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media, confirmed the attack and blamed the Taliban.
 
QUETTA: Gunmen ambushed a Pakistani paramilitary checkpost on Friday, killing four soldiers and abducting four others in the southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but officials blamed the attack on Taliban in Shirani district, 350 kilometres east of Quetta, the capital of the province that borders Afghanistan and Iran.

“Militants attacked the post in the early hours. They first surrounded the post, then ambushed it. After killing four, they took four other soldiers with them,” said a senior government official in Balochistan.

Three other soldiers were wounded, the official added.

An intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media, confirmed the attack and blamed the Taliban.

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Three paramilitary soldiers killed in Balochistan ambush

By Essa Tareen - Mar 23rd, 2012 (No Comment)

Quetta: At least three paramilitary soldiers were killed and five others injured in an attack on FC checkpost in Zohb area of Balochistan, sources said on Friday.

According to the sources, unknown militants, whose exact number was yet to ascertained, ambushed a Frontier Constabulary (FC) checkpost in Pusthwara area.

The sources said that there were also reports of five security personnel missing. They said the soldiers might have been abducted by the terrorists.

However, the reports could not be confirmed. Heavy contingent of forces rushed to the spot and launched a search operation in the area following the attack.

However, no arrest was made. The dead and injured were shifted to a government-run hospital. Balochistan, southwestern province of the nuclear armed nation, has been witnessing a low-level insurgency by nationalists, demanding more provincial autonomy while some of them seeking separation from Pakistan, a sole nuclear power of the Muslim world, having 60,0000 strong army.

Three paramilitary soldiers killed in Balochistan ambush | The News Tribe
 
18 militants, 3 soldiers killed in Orakzai clashes
Last Updated On 24 March,2012 About 5 minutes ago

The attack took place at a paramilitary check post in Khadizai area, Orakzai agency.

At least three soldiers were killed after dozens of Taliban militants stormed a check post in Pakistan s northwest tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Saturday.



The attack took place at a paramilitary check post in Khadizai area on the outskirts of Kalaya, the main town in the lawless Orakzai district, a senior military officer said.



"Three soldiers were martyred when Taliban armed with guns and rockets launched an attack overnight," he said, adding that several dozen insurgents were involved in the raid.



Another official said Pakistani security forces retaliated and killed more than 18 militants, but there was no independent confirmation of the toll.



Khadizai is located in Upper Orakzai most of which is in Taliban hands and is the scene of frequent clashes between security forces and Islamist militants while government troops are in control of its lower reaches.

Dunya News: Pakistan:-18 militants, 3 soldiers killed in Orakzai clashes...
 
In my opinion, real cause of continued terrorist attacks in Pakistan is that a lot of very well educated people justify one terrorist act as a reaction of another. Whereas both are equally wrong and need strong condemnation.

Only way to stop such acts would be thru all the nation unanimously deploring killing of innocents regardless of the nationality, religion, sect or race and without any ifs or buts. As long as this does not happen, Pakistan’s problems will go on and all the so called condemnation by the politicians will be nothing but the lip service.

I copy here an article by Irfan Hussein published in todays Dawn which describes how I feel. Remember we have to become ‘Humans’ before we can be Muslims.

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Mayhem and morality
Irfan Husain | Opinion | From the Newspaper
24th March, 2012

IN the wake of the recent vicious murder of three Jewish children in Toulouse, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, made a sober appeal.

“It is time for these criminals to stop marketing their terrorist acts in the name of Palestine, and to stop pretending to stand up for the rights of Palestinian children who only ask for a decent life.”
The killer, Mohammed Merah, cold-bloodedly gunned down three children, three soldiers and a teacher over a 10-day rampage. Claiming to have been trained by Al Qaeda along the Afghan-Pakistan border, Merah is only the latest terrorist to massacre innocent people in the name of Muslims and Islam.

These acts of violence are not always as bloody: I recently received an email from some obscure group, purporting to be fighting for the Palestinian cause, urging Muslims in the US to start forest fires.

From Benghazi came televised images of young Libyans kicking over tombstones at a graveyard where the remains of Commonwealth soldiers killed in the desert during the Second World War lay buried. This act of desecration was intended to protest against the burning of the Holy Quran by American soldiers in Afghanistan.These criminal acts, some gruesome, others bizarre, show yet again that finally, terrorism is a weapon of the weak. Unable to strike against well-protected military targets, these criminals lash out against vulnerable victims.

All too often, when outrages such as these occur, I hear somebody saying: ‘It’s terrible, but the Israelis [or the Americans] are doing the same things to Muslims.’ Let’s be clear there is no moral equivalence here whatsoever. Apart from the fact that two wrongs do not make a right, accidental deaths caused in the heat of battle or killings by deranged soldiers cannot possibly justify the calculated, cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians.

When the Sri Lankan civil war reached its bloody climax three years ago, one justification for the brutality shown by the army was the ruthless behaviour of the Tamil Tigers. However, the Sri Lankan government is signatory to several international agreements on torture and human rights, and as a member of the UN, is accountable before its own people and the community of nations. The Tamil Tigers, by contrast, were a terrorist group with no regard for civilised values. So here, too, we cannot use the criminal acts of the LTTE to justify lawless behaviour by Sri Lankan troops.

It is an unfortunate reality of our times that all too often, states act illegally against their own and other civilians in the pursuit of their agendas. This weakens their stance against terrorism and gives spurious justification to militant groups. Thus, in Pakistan, intelligence agencies routinely kidnap, kill and torture terror suspects instead of investigating allegations and prosecuting those thought to be guilty.

Drone attacks, no matter how effective, clearly contravene international law. They also fuel rage across Pakistan, even if they are sometimes applauded by civilians in the tribal areas being oppressed by militants. How much better it would have been if Pakistan and the US could have adopted a joint approach to tackle the infestation of jihadi groups in the border region.

Israel’s long and cruel occupation of the West Bank has radicalised thousands across the Muslim world, as well as in the diaspora. But killing innocent people totally unconnected to the Middle East only makes things worse for the Palestinian cause, as well as for Muslim migrants in the West. Following the Toulouse murders, Muslim leaders have expressed their fears of a backlash.

Terrorist attacks in the West against innocent civilians cause revulsion and anger against the Muslim migrants who have chosen to make their homes there. They also lose support for the Palestinian cause as they are cited by the Israeli government to support the argument that it cannot negotiate with such brutal terrorists.

And yet the causality between state action and terrorist reaction cannot be denied. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been catalysts for the global jihad. In Russia, the brutal occupation of Chechnya has caused bloody terrorist attacks against Russian targets.
In Balochistan, nationalists have killed hundreds of settlers in retaliation for repressive state policies carried out by the Frontier Corps. But these killings have won them little sympathy outside the province.

Whatever the grievances, terrorism only succeeds in justifying further state violence, as well as causing loss of support for the cause the terrorists are fighting for. As we saw in Swat, the flogging of a young girl, and the widespread killings carried out by the Taliban, caused national revulsion and an effective counter-offensive by the army. To justify their killing of western civilians, jihadis often cite the participation of the public in electing their rulers. Thus, they argue, nobody is really innocent as they have chosen their governments and are thus partly responsible for their policies. But this is sophistry used to rationalise mindless violence.

The Taliban accused the Americans of committing a “blood-soaked and inhumane crime” following the murder of 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar. But they too are guilty of causing four-fifths of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Similarly, the Pakistani Taliban and their various murderous allies complain about the drone attacks when they are the ones to have killed well over 30,000 men, women and children. People offering their prayers in mosques have been slaughtered, and children in school buses have been targeted. Expressing their mistrust of modern education, the Taliban have blown up hundreds of schools.

Despite these atrocities, right-wing politicians like Imran Khan and leaders of religious parties have sought to equate the Taliban’s actions with the government’s support for coalition forces in the war in Afghanistan. But again, there is absolutely no moral equivalence here: how does killing ordinary Pakistanis force the Americans to quit Afghanistan, or our government to change its policies?

For those who claim to fight in the name of Islam, such tactics are truly despicable. But clad in a robe of righteousness, they slaughter without any problem with their conscience. Sadly, they receive the tacit support of misguided people who do not recognise a power grab when they see one.

The writer is the author of Fatal Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West.
irfan.husain@gmail.com
Mayhem and morality | Opinion | DAWN.COM

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Taliban bomber kills 13 ‘extremists’ in Khyber region

JAMRUD:
Infighting among extremist groups is becoming bloodier in a remote, lawless valley of the Khyber Agency which is sliding into chaos.

On Friday, a suspected suicide bomber struck at a mosque, killing over a dozen and wounding another half a dozen or more, officials said.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was quick to claim responsibility for the bombing which took place in Kolay village of Tirah Valley, which is inhibited by Akakhel tribe, a sub-clan of the Afridis.

“A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque run by Lashkar-e-Islam,” political administration official Bakhtiar Khan said referring to a powerful extremist group led by commander Mangal Bagh Afridi.

Another administration official, Arshad Khan, said that at least 13 people were killed and seven wounded. “Most of the victims were loyalists of Mangal Bagh,” he added.

An aide to Mangal Bagh said that the TTP sent the bomber to attack the mosque but LeI guards identified him and opened fire at him. “At that point he blew himself up,” Muhammad Hussain told journalists while speaking by phone from Tirah Valley.

However, administration official Arshad Khan gave a different account. “The bomber, a young man, entered the mosque, planted the explosive device and dashed out. But LeI guards shot him dead and shortly afterwards a powerful explosion rocked the mosque,” Khan said.

A spokesperson for the TTP Khyber Agency chapter claimed that they had sent the bomber to target LeI loyalists. “We will continue attacking Lashkar-e-Islam,” Muhammad Afridi told journalists in a phone call from an undisclosed location. Friday’s attack came exactly three weeks after a similar suicide bombing at another Lashkar-i-Islam mosque also in Tirah Valley killed 23 people and wounded another 20 after Friday prayers.

The TTP, Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansarul Islam extremist groups are known to compete for influence in Tirah Valley – where there is no presence of security forces or intelligence agencies. The region is strategically located on the confluence of borders of three tribal agencies.

The paramilitary Frontier Corps has been conducting sporadic operations against these groups since 2009. The fourth phase of the operation – codenamed Biya Darghalum (Here I come again) – is currently under way in neighbouring Bara tehsil.

Separately, security forces defused a home-made bomb in neighbouring Landi Kotal subdivision. “We cordoned off the Charwazgai area before defusing the improvised explosive device (IED),” a security official told The Express Tribune.

The security forces have recovered several IEDs the hideouts of militants over the last one month.
 
Taliban bomber kills 13 ‘extremists’ in Khyber region

JAMRUD:
Infighting among extremist groups is becoming bloodier in a remote, lawless valley of the Khyber Agency which is sliding into chaos.

On Friday, a suspected suicide bomber struck at a mosque, killing over a dozen and wounding another half a dozen or more, officials said.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was quick to claim responsibility for the bombing which took place in Kolay village of Tirah Valley, which is inhibited by Akakhel tribe, a sub-clan of the Afridis.

“A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque run by Lashkar-e-Islam,” political administration official Bakhtiar Khan said referring to a powerful extremist group led by commander Mangal Bagh Afridi.

Another administration official, Arshad Khan, said that at least 13 people were killed and seven wounded. “Most of the victims were loyalists of Mangal Bagh,” he added.

An aide to Mangal Bagh said that the TTP sent the bomber to attack the mosque but LeI guards identified him and opened fire at him. “At that point he blew himself up,” Muhammad Hussain told journalists while speaking by phone from Tirah Valley.

However, administration official Arshad Khan gave a different account. “The bomber, a young man, entered the mosque, planted the explosive device and dashed out. But LeI guards shot him dead and shortly afterwards a powerful explosion rocked the mosque,” Khan said.

A spokesperson for the TTP Khyber Agency chapter claimed that they had sent the bomber to target LeI loyalists. “We will continue attacking Lashkar-e-Islam,” Muhammad Afridi told journalists in a phone call from an undisclosed location. Friday’s attack came exactly three weeks after a similar suicide bombing at another Lashkar-i-Islam mosque also in Tirah Valley killed 23 people and wounded another 20 after Friday prayers.

The TTP, Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansarul Islam extremist groups are known to compete for influence in Tirah Valley – where there is no presence of security forces or intelligence agencies. The region is strategically located on the confluence of borders of three tribal agencies.

The paramilitary Frontier Corps has been conducting sporadic operations against these groups since 2009. The fourth phase of the operation – codenamed Biya Darghalum (Here I come again) – is currently under way in neighbouring Bara tehsil.

Separately, security forces defused a home-made bomb in neighbouring Landi Kotal subdivision. “We cordoned off the Charwazgai area before defusing the improvised explosive device (IED),” a security official told The Express Tribune.

The security forces have recovered several IEDs the hideouts of militants over the last one month.

Excellent news. Let the animals kill each other without the Army firing a single bullet, just goes to show how well the ISI has done in causing these faultlines in these groups, resulting in all these turf wars.
 
Excellent news. Let the animals kill each other without the Army firing a single bullet, just goes to show how well the ISI has done in causing these faultlines in these groups, resulting in all these turf wars.

degenerates.....


oh well, saves us bullets! :laugh:
 
Excellent news. Let the animals kill each other without the Army firing a single bullet, just goes to show how well the ISI has done in causing these faultlines in these groups, resulting in all these turf wars.

Its like mafia war, let the gangs kill each other, while the police will kill the remaining survivors.

Actually in India, maoist are not as succesful because they have several factions within them.
Just like one group kidnaps italian persons while another kidnaps an MLA. (shows no purpose or policy directions, just random kidnapping to earn some money)
 
Another two shot dead in Balochistan

QUETTA – Another two people were shot dead in different cities of Balochistan on Sunday.

Unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire on a truck carrying marbles in Suraab area of Kalat district, some 160 KM southeast of Quetta. As a result, truck driver Abdul Shakoor received multiple bullets wounds and succumbed to his injuries. The assailants fled the scene after committing the crime.

On getting information, police rushed to the site and removed the body to nearby state-run hospital for autopsy.

“The truck was heading towards Karachi from Chagai loaded with marbles when armed men attacked it with sophisticated weapons,” a police official said, adding the deceased belonged to Dalbandin and his body had been dispatched to his native town.

In another firing incident, a person was killed in Machh area, some 60 KM away from Quetta. Unidentified assailants shot dead Noorullah and managed to escape from the scene.

After the incident, local administration shifted the body to hospital for medico-legal formalities.
 
Blast hits police van; no casualty
PESHWAR - Unknown miscreants on Sunday targeted a police van by a remote controlled bomb, however no causality or other loss was reported.

According to details, unidentified militants targeted a police van parked near Arbab Talo check post in Matani area of Peshawar.

However, the police van remained safe and no human or property loss was reported due the blast.

The security forces cordoned off the area after the blast and started search operation but no arrest has been made. Meanwhile security of the area was also beefed up after the incident

3 Bhittani tribesmen abducted from Tank area

TANK - Unidentified armed persons kidnapped three persons belonging to Bhittani tribe including son of a former peace committee member, police sources said on Sunday.

According to Cantonment Police Station, 14 to 15 people armed with latest weapons attacked the house of Ghulam Ali, resident of Kiri Saidal, a village about seven kilomtres away from Tank. The police while quoting an FIR by Abdul Ghanni, son of Ghulam Ali, said over a dozen armed persons who were wearing masks attacked the house in the early hours of Sunday, adding that the inmates retaliated to them. The crossfire left Abdul Ghanni injured, police added. The armed persons after storming through the main entrance of house started plundering. They took away his elder brother Mukhtar on gunpoint.

According to police, Abdul Ghanni was injured in the firing and was admitted to the THQ hospital Tank.

It is worth mentioning that Ghulam Ali has been an active member of the then pro-government Turkistan militant group, which played a considerable role in eliminating the Taliban influence. The night of attack he was not present.

These days the Turkistan as well as Qari Zainuddin militant groups, which have been wrapped up a year ago are facing tough time.

Meanwhile it is immediately after the incident, the said armed people according to local sources captured Gul Muhammad and another Abdul Wahab on gun point when they were watering their fields in Naimat Khel, village close to Saidal Kiri. However, police said they did not know about this incident. They started investigation into the first incident.
 
Eight killed in Balochistan target killings

QUETTA: In a fresh wave of target killings in the provincial capital, eight persons, including a woman, were shot dead in four different incidents of violence in the provincial capital Quetta and Kohlu district on Saturday.

Police said that Qari Abdul Basit was shot dead at Balochi Street when unknown armed men attacked him near his home. The ill-fated religious leader was heading to lead the Zuhr prayers at a nearby mosque when he was attacked. The victim sustained multiple bullet injuries and was shifted to civil hospital for medical treatment. But Qari Abdul Basit succumbed to his injuries on his way to the hospital.

The attackers, however, fled from the scene leaving Qari Basit in a pool of blood. Police believed that this is target-killing incident and further investigations are in progress.

The incident created tension in the provincial capital and a large number of people thronged the Civil Hospital and later protested against the killing. They demanded the immediate arrest of the culprits involved in the incident.

In another incident of target killing, unknown armed men attacked a pick-up when it approached them at the Saryab road on Saturday evening. The attackers sprayed bullets with lethal automatic weapons and killed two persons — Gul Muhammad and Adam Khan — instantly. The ill-fated persons were traveling in the pick-up, police said. The armed men fled from the scene.

In two separate incidents of firing two persons, including a woman, were killed at Kashmirabad and Killi Deba. Police could not arrest any of the attackers and claimed that they are investigating the incidents.

APP adds: At least three people, including a tribal leader, have been killed and six others, among them five women, injured in an attack in Kohlu district on Saturday.

Levies Force sources said that unknown gunmen riding bikes opened fire at a vehicle owned by a local tribal leader Muhammad Nawaz in the Pir Master Tawakli area of Kohlu district. Resultantly, three persons, including Muhammad Nawaz, Bahadar Shah and Lal Khan, were killed on the site and six others, including Taj Bibi, Jan Bibi, Shari Bibi, Darbi Bib, Murad Bibi and a man Rab Nawaz, were wounded.

The assailants managed to escape from the scene. The injured were shifted to hospital. Law enforcement personnel rushed to the site and cordoned off the entire area to trace the suspects. A further probe was in progress.

Eight killed in Balochistan target killings - PakTribune
 
Three, including FC man, killed in Balochistan

Staff Report

QUETTA: Three people, including a woman and an official of the Frontier Corps (FC), were killed in separate incidents of firing and landmine explosion in different towns of Balochistan on Monday.

According to a police official, Nazir Hussain alias Ejaz and Ali Asghar were sitting at their shop near Pudgilli Chowk on Sabzal Road when assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on them. Resultantly, Ejaz died on the spot while Asghar received critical wounds. The assailants managed to escape from the place. The body and injured were shifted to Bolan Medical Complex where the condition of the injured was stated to be critical. “The victims were shot in head and chest. The injured is in very critical condition and was referred to Combined Military Hospital (CMH),” doctors said.

A local police official said the victims belonged to Hazara community and it could be an incident of sectarian targeted killing. “Police are investigating the incident from different angles. They were ethnic Hazara thus there is possibility of sectarian target killing,” a senior official said. However, no group has claimed responsibility for the killings.

After completing legal formalities, police handed over the body to heirs and registered a case against unidentified people.

Meanwhile, Frontier Corps (FC) official identified as Gul Zaman was killed in a landmine explosion in Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti.

Security sources said the victim stepped on a landmine that exploded with a big bang killing him instantly. The body was taken to nearby hospital for an autopsy.

In another incident, a man identified as Chamsa Khan allegedly strangled his wife in Bakhtyarabad area near Sibi district. The accused fled from the scene after committing the crime. “The accused was mentally ill and police have mounted a search for his arrest,” an official in Bakhtyarabad told this scribe. A case was registered against the accused.



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