Blast at Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada's office, 7 dead

[Dubious]

RIP

 

[Devil Soul]

دہشت گردوں کے خلاف سینہ سپر ہونے والے شجاع خانزادہ پاک بھارت جنگ کے بھی ہیرو تھے
ویب ڈیسک 24 منٹ پہلے
تبصرےصفحہ شیئر کریںصفحہ پرنٹ کریںدوستوں کو بھیجئے
شجاع خانزادہ نے پنجاب میں کالعدم تنظیموں اور القاعدہ کے خلاف بڑی موثر کارروائیاں کی تھیں۔ فوٹو: فائل

اٹک: وزیر داخلہ پنجاب کرنل ریٹائرڈ شجاع خانزادہ کی زندگی پر ایک نظر ڈالی جائے تو ان کی زندگی پیدائش سے لے کر شہادت تک بہادی سے بھرپور ہے۔

اٹھائیس اگست 1943 کو یوسف خانزادہ کے گھر پیدا ہونے والے شجاع خانزادہ کا تعلق پٹھان قبیلے یوسفزئی سے تھا۔ شجاع خانزادہ نے ابتدائی تعلیم اٹک اور نوشہرہ سے حاصل کی اور پھر 1966 میں اسلامیہ کالج پشاور سے بی اے کیا۔ شجاع خانزادہ نے 1967 میں پاک فوج میں شمولیت اختیار کی اور 1971 کی پاک بھارت جنگ میں بھرپور حصہ لیا۔

شجاع خانزادہ 1983 میں سیاچن کے محاذ پر پہنچنے والے اولین دستے میں شامل تھے اور پھر انہیں 1988 میں تمغہ بسالت سے بھی نوازا گیا۔ آپ 1992 سے 1994 تک امریکا میں ملٹری اتاشی بھی رہے۔ کرنل ریٹائرڈ شجاع خانزادہ افغان امور کے ماہر سمجھے جاتے تھے اور ملٹری انٹیلجنس میں کمانڈر کے بھی فرائض انجام دیئے۔

اگر کرنل ریٹائرڈ شجاع خانزادہ کی سیاسی زندگی پر نظر ڈالی جائے تو آپ پی پی 16 اٹک 2 سے پنجاب اسمبلی کے رکن تھے، آپ 2002 سے 2008 تک صوبائی وزیر رہے جب کہ 2008 سے 2013 تک مشیر وزیراعلیٰ پنجاب کے فرائض سرانجام دیئے۔ آپ نیشنل ایکشن پلان کے تحت فوج سے معاونت کر رہے تھے اور کرنل ریٹائرڈ شجاع خانزادہ نے پنجاب میں کالعدم تنظیموں اور القاعدہ کے کئی اہم کماندڑز سمیت جرائم پیشہ افراد کے خلاف بڑی موثر کارروائیاں کی تھیں۔

شجاع خانزادہ آج صبح اپنے آبائی گاؤں اٹک میں اپنے ڈیرے پر عوام کے مسائل سن رہے تھے کہ خودکش حملہ آوروں نے ان کے ڈیرے پر خود کو دھماکا خیز مواد کی مدد سے اڑا دیا جس کے نتیجے میں کرنل ریٹائرڈ شجاع خانزادہ 11 افراد سمیت شہید ہو گئے۔

 

[ice_man]

yeah right he was a suicide bomber but he entered the high security area unchallenged where the office of home minister of Punjab is situated. This lax attitude on part of police when there country is fighting a crucial war on terrorist on there soil

not the case!

the Home minister in his area always felt safe and didn't wish to show his people that they can't access him. hence on purpose he forced the security personnel to stay away so HIS people can approach him.

 

[Star Wars]

check post number 6 for detail. it is reaction to the police actions against Punjabi taliban commonly known as Lashker e Jhangvi

I really think a special group of trained professionals should be created to protect high profile people... like we have with NSG and SSG .. besides it is even more a reason to crack down on these terrorists..

 

[[Bregs]]

not the case!

the Home minister in his area always felt safe and didn't wish to show his people that they can't access him. hence on purpose he forced the security personnel to stay away so HIS people can approach him.

But then this is grave mistake dear as terrorist always look out for such soft targets.

 

[In arduis fidelis]

LeJ clearly has a death wish right now.Punjab gov made a pact of "ignore and be ignored" with them which they are clearly not following anymore.You will see a dramatic increase in intensity in the ops inside punjab from now on.
On the topic of where was the security,this person didnt like to have police protocol because those with protocol are so often ridiculed by our media and general media alike.This incident should teach us as a nation that vips have protocol for a reason not just to show off.
May this brave soul find its place in heavens.

 

[Zarvan]

It can't get more tragic than this.
RIP both of you. Both of you served the nation and did your job proudly. May ALLAH grant both of you highest place in Jannah and with Shifat of RASOOL SAW. ameen @Bratva

 

[Irfan Baloch]

I really think a special group of trained professionals should be created to protect high profile people... like we have with NSG and SSG .. besides it is even more a reason to crack down on these terrorists..

this is true that these terrorists need to be taken out. the VIPs already get the bulk of police resources and specially snatch the specially trained policemen for their shopping and school runs of their families, leaving the general public and purpose of their training pointless.
by the way , I hope decent Indians will support us instead of taunting and mocking us when Pakistan will take on the LeT JuD directly and will suffer the reprisals

 

[niaz]

It is very sad indeed. Col Khanzadah was brave, anti-extremist and eloquent; kind of man Pakistan sorely needs. May Allah bless his soul.

Of course Mauling Ludhianvi of SSP (now renamed Ahle sunnat wal Jamaat) has shed crocodile tears and a condemnation spoken with ‘Forked’ tongue.One must not forget that callous butchers in the name of Islam called LeJ is in fact an off-shoot of SSP.

The bigot Zia died on August 17, 1988, it is a strange coincidence that LeJ response to the Malik Ishaq’s death is coincides with the last day of Zia’s life. I am probably paranoid about lasting harm that the bigot Zia did to Pakistan but it was he who encouraged sectarian parties & birth of lashkars in Pakistan. I found the following article by my namesake in today’s Dawn. May be it is the name ‘Niaz’ that makes people anti-terrorists???


A post-Zia Pakistan?
DR NIAZ MURTAZA — PUBLISHED about 10 hours ago

The writer is a political and development economist.
INFLUENTIAL leaders continue shaping national fate posthumously through concrete legacies. Viewed so, unfortunately Gen Ziaul Haq arguably emerges as Pakistan’s most influential leader ever, whose legacies still haunt Pakistan decades later.

Time and health did not allow Mohammad Ali Jinnah to bequeath a definitive legacy which could clarify his vision for Pakistan given his contrasting speeches about state and religion. Ayub Khan’s legacy of a centralised polity and lopsided elitist development was quickly dismantled by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s socialist democracy project. Bhutto himself partially demolished this legacy later during his rule, while Zia demolished it even further.

Although Ayub and Bhutto’s legacies were not completely demolished, it is Zia’s legacies, however, that loom large over Pakistan today. His vision included maintaining a feeble democracy under establishment control; using militants extensively to achieve foreign and domestic goals; promoting Salafist Islam to control society; and radicalising society through madressahs and mosques. Subsequent elected governments were too weak to seriously challenge these legacies. Even Pervez Musharraf only slightly reversed the promotion of Salafist Islam and in fact strengthened policies regarding a controlled democracy and the use of militants for achieving state goals. Thus, among Pakistan’s long-ruling powerful leaders, Musharraf is the only one unable to craft a unique national vision.

The state is not going far enough to dismantle Zia’s legacy.
Of late, Pakistan has taken bold steps which raise hopes about the emergence of a post-Zia Pakistan. However, it is important to carefully review the extent to which the current steps are actually dismantling Zia’s four critical legacies listed above. Firstly, the events over the last one year have actually cemented the establishment’s grip over the elected regime and the security policy, thus reinvigorating the vision of Zia and other dictators. Secondly, the most visible step has been the crackdown on a wide range of militant groups which had emerged under Zia and Musharraf, often with tacit state support. However, the concomitant strengthening of establishment control over security policy creates doubts whether such a crackdown really represents a complete break from the tactic of using militants as tools of state policies.

During Musharraf’s rule, Pakistan became infested with numerous militant groups, which coordinated logistically and financially, but pursued different goals. These included the West-focused Al Qaeda; the Afghanistan-focused Taliban; the India-focused Lashkar-e-Taiba; the sectarian Lashkar-i-Jhangvi; the Pakistan-focused TTP; and the Balochistan-focused insurgents. The current crackdown largely targets internally-focused sectarian, TTP, Karachi and Baloch groups but spares India- and Afghanistan-focused groups. Thus, the current operation is perhaps less about abandoning the use of militants completely, especially for foreign policy goals, and more about shielding Pakistan from the boomerang effects of using militants for this purpose.

True, Afghan-focused groups are being nudged towards peace talks while India-focused groups are probably being kept on a tight leash against undertaking major attacks. But this represents changing tactics rather than strategy. So long as the militant use policy is not completely abandoned, Pakistan will remain vulnerable to attacks by new splinter groups of externally-focused militant groups and covert retaliation by foreign countries. But abandoning externally-focused groups completely would go to the core of the Pakistani establishment’s worldview. As of today, there is no concrete evidence that it is willing to make such huge changes, for doing so would undermine its ability to dominate Pakistan.

Thirdly, the goal of imposing Salafist Islam on Pakistan has been abandoned completely by both the establishment and the PML-N. However, some madressahs and mosques continue to spew radical thought without meaningful check by the state, even if it is not supporting them aggressively now. Thus, it seems premature to celebrate a complete national break from Zia’s devastating legacies. A complete break is also hampered by the non-emergence of new groups with fresh ideas and the backing of large sections of society to implement them. Thus, Bhutto’s strong, though partially flawed, ideas quickly demolished Ayub’s legacy; Zia’s strong, and even more flawed, ideas further demolished Bhutto’s remaining legacies. Today, the Pakistani political landscape is bereft of such strong new visions.

The landscape is dominated by the PML-N, the true heir of both Ayub’s economic conservatism and Zia’s social conservatism legacies, from whom fresh, strong ideas are as likely to emerge as the sun is likely to emerge from the west tomorrow. The PTI’s vision of change is unclear and seemingly limited in scope. The PPP is in irreversible decline. Thus, until new, powerful ideas emerge from society, the establishment will likely continue to implement a scaled back version of Zia’s vision.

The writer is a political and development economist.

murtazaniaz@yahoo.com
A post-Zia Pakistan? - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

 

[ice_man]

But then this is grave mistake dear as terrorist always look out for such soft targets.

yes ofcourse but clearly he knew of his threat.

and EVERY SUNDAY he held this "KACHERI" to sit and listen to problem of his people in his constituency. He was informed by intelligence agencies about possible threats to him.

However, he couldn't push away the people who voted for him. he was such a cult figure that even though he was in PML Q first under mushi then went back to PML N and yet people voted for him.

Even PML N didn't carry on vendetta against him infact promoted him to home minister.

 

[New Resolve]

RIP, i'm sure well even up with who ever is behind this. I think just because weve had a lot of successes against terrorism, people have let their guard down a bit, these type of open gatherings are dangerous for high profile people and should be avoided.

 

[[Bregs]]

yes ofcourse but clearly he knew of his threat.

and EVERY SUNDAY he held this "KACHERI" to sit and listen to problem of his people in his constituency. He was informed by intelligence agencies about possible threats to him.

However, he couldn't push away the people who voted for him. he was such a cult figure that even though he was in PML Q first under mushi then went back to PML N and yet people voted for him.

Even PML N didn't carry on vendetta against him infact promoted him to home minister.

Then its doubly sad to loose such a working peoples politician which are a rarity now a days. In today's context the security is must for profile targets

 

[SwAggeR]

yeah right he was a suicide bomber but he entered the high security area unchallenged where the office of home minister of Punjab is situated. This lax attitude on part of police when there country is fighting a crucial war on terrorist on there soil

I guess since in Punjab there was lull in terrorist activities from so many days , security may have become bit lax . But nevertheless it's terrible loss. Even one DSP got martyred.Home ministry is pretty high profile post. RIP

 

[Spectre]

this is true that these terrorists need to be taken out. the VIPs already get the bulk of police resources and specially snatch the specially trained policemen for their shopping and school runs of their families, leaving the general public and purpose of their training pointless.
by the way , I hope decent Indians will support us instead of taunting and mocking us when Pakistan will take on the LeT JuD directly and will suffer the reprisals

Irfan Bhai, I have had misgivings against commitment of Pakistan before but every passing day they are becoming less.

I now believe there is a battle of ideologies happening in Pakistan and your good general Sharif is fighting for the right side. This attack horrible and unfortunate though it is, it is also a solid proof of Pakistan's commitment. I believe that Pakistan is now taking the fight to one enemy at a time and hopefully soon the likes of LeT and JuD would be the target.

I hope our politicians understand this and give Pakistan the necessary leeway in form of controlling or silencing the hawks on our side with foot in their mouths. In the long run terrorism free Pakistan is going to be a huge boon for India and world in general and I hope India extends all the help it can to make this possible.

I anyway will pray for the victims and your brave minister and wish for my God to give strength to the families of deceased.

Carry on the good Fight!!

 

[ice_man]

Then its doubly sad to loose such a working peoples politician which are a rarity now a days. In today's context the security is must for profile targets

yes sadly he was not a politican of the current lot but truly a people's man.

and i guess maybe because of his army background he had this attitude to disregard security.

whatever the case may the culprits specifically the LeJ be brought to justice.