Who is tehmur langhra ? any link please
There was a whole team of murderers .. doing killings of professionals in Pakistan on the name of Islam .. Don't forget to make doctors or surgeons is not a easy task and already we are short of speciality professionals due to brain drain as well ...
I tried to do a search .. I don't correctly remember the name but he was Langhra or something belonging to the Jhangvi group ... Unfortuantely online we dont' get so many links of such news so easily .. Anyhow ..
Daily Excelsior... Editorial
Uneasy is Pakistan with US strategy
By B L Kak
Tension-laden President and military ruler of Pakistan, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, has so far managed to maintain his hold over the equally tense officialdom. But he and the Pak bureaucracy may fall apart if the US anti-terrorist campaign ultimately demanded that Islamabad enforce an effective ban on all Pakistan-based jihadi organisations.
Unambiguous is the message from the average Pakistani official: Washingtons expected demand for a total ban on all Pak-based militant and terrorist outfits will lead to a grave law and order situation in Pakistan and deal a major blow to the Kashmiri freedom struggle.
If the leading Pakistani English daily, The News, is to be believed, differences have arisen between the United States and Pakistans military establishment over the formers strategy vis-à-vis Osama bin Laden and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Is the Musharraf Government really getting uncomfortable on Washingtons posturing on at least four issues?
These issues have been identified as US military assistance to the Northern Alliance, its insistence on action against jihadi groups within Pakistan, US hesitation in getting a fresh UN endorsement for its military action and non-inclusion of Muslim States in the military coalition to fight against Afghanistan. Unconfirmed reports say that the military high command in Rawalpindi has been forced to reconsider its options following the ISIs finding that the India-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan was getting extensive military support from an international coalition headed by the United States.
A section of Pakistan Army is reportedly of the view that it is unnatural to expect the Pak Armed Forces to support a military action that may drive the Northern Alliance from their present hideouts in Panjshir Valley to the seat of power in Kabul. Differences between the US and Pakistan also developed over the former naming a Pakistani religious trust along with a jihad group in the list of 26 organisations to be targeted for financial crackdown.
Again, if the findings of The News were to be believed, the naming of the two organisations has multiplied doubts in the minds of Pakistani officials about the ultimate objectives of the United States mission. The average Pak official has already been led to believe that the Al-Rashid Trust, a charitable organisation, supplied bread to nearly 1,50,000 people inside Afghanistan.
The Al-Rashid Trust is, at the same time, said to be associated with the Lashkar-e-Toiba, one of the major jihadi organisations fighting Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir. The Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, the second Pakistani organisation to figure in the US list of targets, had been founded after the United States had declared its parent organisation, Harkat-ul-Ansar, as a terrorist outfit.
Even after his regimes unstinted cooperation to the US in its war against the international terrorism, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, has found it necessary to talk about the friendly Pak-Afghanistan relationship. Gen. Musharraf cannot deny the fact that he faces a troublesome Afghanistan with whom Pakistan has unsettled borders. If the border with Afghanistan becomes troublesome, Pakistan will have to raise another army to protect it.
Gen. Musharraf and his Government cannot refute yet another fact-that is, Afghanistans foreign policy has always been anti-Pakistan. Afghanistan was the only country to oppose Pakistans admission to the United Nations. It has never to this day given up its revanchist claim to the Pashtun-speaking areas extending up to the Indus river.
The British enforced the Druand Line, which demarcated the border between British India (now Pakistan) and Afghanistan under a 100-year treaty which lapsed in 1993. Mullah Omar, the supremo of the Tazliban, often referred to as Pakistans creation, has refused to discuss the extension of the treaty on the grounds that his country is at war with the Northern Alliance.
According to another Pakistani publication, Dawn, Mullah Omar can wave a double-edged sword over Pakistans head. If Pakistans Islamic credentials are found wanting, for instance, for cooperating with the UN-appointed border teams for monitoring the observance of arms embargo on the Taliban, the gears of propaganda in the tribal homelands would be moved forward to show the Government as lacking in Islamic spirit and character-a theme close to the heart of the right wing religious parties.
Is Mullah Omar a friend or a Frankenstein? Pakistans most dreaded sectarian organisation, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, is given sanctuary in Afghanistan. So are a host of other militants and wanted criminals. Terrorism and a rejection of civilised values masquerade as a religious orthodoxy that counts Mullah Omar as its spiritual and temporal head. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and other similar organisations such as Lashkar-e-Toiba are dedicated to overthrowing the civil order in Pakistan.
On more than one occasion, Gen. Musharraf himself admitted that sectarian and ethnic extremists were busy undermining Pakistans national and internal harmony. What short of a friend is Mullah Omar if he is providing sanctuary to such elements, MP Bhandara has asked in a write-up published by Dawn. The time has come to review options on Afghanistan. Bhandara has said and emphasised: "Pakistan should not seek to circumvent the UN sanctions. It is in its interest that the sanctions apply to the Taliban in full compliance of UN resolutions
Islamabad should also open better lines of communication to the Northern Alliance and fully support the efforts of King Zahir Shah to hold a Loya Jirga".
When does a freedom fighter become a terrorist? Or when does a terrorist become a holy warrior? MP Bhandaras answer: The truth is that a terrorist is neither a freedom fighter nor a holy warrior. Pakistan is an Islamic State; the Council of Islamic Ideology should decide if private or political groups have a right to declare jihad.
Is Pakistan not guilty of ignoring Article 256 of the Constitution which forbids the creation of private armies? Bhandaras comment: One wonders why the Pak Supreme Court does not take notice of this breach in its original jurisdiction?
Bhandara has warned: The day is not far off when these private armies will turn their guns on their creators and will create civil war-like conditions in Pakistan. Jihadi armies are usually commandeered by extremists who know not the language of political compromise. Any agreement with India, no matter how small a step in relation to Kashmir, will be labelled a sell-out by the ideological leaders of the private militias whose real agenda, according to the Pak publication, is to grab the levers of powers.
Osama bin Laden, a close relation of Mullah Omar, is only a franchise-holder for jihadi operations worldwide. There are people, as admitted by the United States, who provide financial help or forces that promote a world-view behind him. Over the past few years, the US officials have either not directed themselves against these forces or been stymied in their anti-Osama actions.
Al-Qaeda, the outfit headed by Osama bin Laden, is by all accounts a loose-knit fraternity rather than a monolithic organisation. Those who fought in the Afghan war or those who have joined global jihad subsequently use Al Qaeda as a hub for networking. This provides Osama with ready access to operatives or suppliers of logistic services and finances all over the world.
This, in other words, means that Osama bin Laden is not tied down to jihad in one particular country or one part of the world or attached to the agenda of a particular religious fundamentalist outfit like the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria or the Gama Islamiya in Egypt. Whether it was the attack on the US embassies in East Africa or on the USS Cole in Yemen, the actual operatives or support cadres were reportedly drawn from several countries and had been drawn into jihad by diverse national or ideological groups.
The Taliban regime has found itself in the dock since September 11 when America came under a cataclysmic terrorist offensive. With the United States losing no time to call upon the Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden, the fanatic Government in Kabul could not asked for more trouble.
With Saudi Arabia now joining the United Arab Emirates in snapping diplomatic relations with the Taliban, the renegade Afghan regimes residual lifeline of sorts is the one that Pakistan might choose to sustain or snuff out in a rapidly changing international environment.
