Defining The Punjabi Taliban Network

[batmannow]

again , & sadly once again!
same candi in a different rapper?

go, to "WAZIRISTAN" KILL THEM ALL, they all are terorists!
dont think about the "KILL BILL", ITS GOOD FOR YOU JUST DO IT, LET black waters , secure "N-ASSESTS"
LOL, LAST TIME SEEN , this kind "hysteria by, the western media was against musharaf now, they go again!

 

[kidwaibhai]

i think operation in south punjab is an urgent necessity.

 

[third eye]

The spread is alarming. Things may not be lsolated to the W region.


LONDON: The attack on the Pakistan Army headquarters has highlighted the threat not just from militants in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, but from those based in the country’s Punjab province.

Security officials said some of the militants involved in the attack in the city of Rawalpindi, next door to the capital, Islamabad, appeared to have links to Punjab.

The attack came as the army prepared an offensive in South Waziristan, the stronghold of the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP), or Pakistani Taliban, in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

‘All roads lead to South Waziristan,’ Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, after a week of violence which included an attack on a UN office in Islamabad and a suspected suicide bombing which killed 49 people in Peshawar.

‘Now the government has no other option but to launch an offensive,’ he said.

But even if the military manages to pin down Pakistani Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, the country remains vulnerable to attacks by Punjab-based militants acting either in concert with the TTP or alone.

‘South Punjab has become the hub of jihadism,’ Pakistani analyst Ayesha Siddiqa wrote in a magazine article last month.

‘Yet, somehow, there are still many people in Pakistan who refuse to acknowledge this threat,’ she wrote.

Security officials said a militant arrested after the 22-hour-long attack and hostage-taking at army headquarters was believed be a member of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an al-Qaeda-linked Punjab-based group.

Some hostage takers’ phone calls were intercepted and they were speaking Punjabi, another security official said.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said, however, it was too early to say whether Punjab-based groups were involved.

North West Frontier Province Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain called on Saturday for the elimination of militant bases in Punjab. Even if a South Waziristan offensive was successful militants would still get help from Punjab, he told reporters.

But targeting all the militants at once could create an even more dangerous coalition by driving disparate groups closer together to make common cause with the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda in fighting the state, analysts say.

The army also draws many of its recruits from Punjab, making any efforts to root out militants there all the harder.

‘Deploying the military is not an option. In the Punjab this will create a division within the powerful army because of regional loyalty,’ wrote Siddiqa.

Confronting militant organisations directly could make them more dangerous by driving them underground, and creating splinter groups that would be even harder to control, diplomats and analysts say.

Defence analyst Brian Cloughley said the attack on the army’s headquarters showed how little support militants had in the military and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

‘The ISI is hardly going to support militants – even ‘selected’ militants – when it is obvious that main targets are their own people,’ he said. —REUTERS

 

[XYON]

South of Punjab is an agricultural/ Feudal based society and is considerably very well developed in terms of roads/ communications/ infrastructure etc compared to the likes of Swat, Waziristan etc. It has a huge presence of all security forces, Army & intelligence at all levels. Hence to say that South Punjab will be the next Waziristan is generally a misnomer. So just for the reason some of the TTP pussies who ransacked the GHQ security post are from Punjab does not necessarily mean that now the South of Punjab is becoming the next Waziristan. Magazines/ Newspapers like to sensationalize because that's what sells.

 

[pakdefender]

We have a HUGE armour presence in Bhawalpur , Sargodah is home to the F-16s , this 'south panajb being the next waziristan' is mere speculation. If ever there was threat to the state from these areas , we'll be able to put it down very easily

 

[pakdefender]

Ayesha Sidiqa is one of those anti-state journalists that gets paid by foreign entities to vomit rubbish against the Army.

By the way recently and indian newspaper claimed that she is a large holder of agriculture land in Bhawalpur wonder if she has any land disputes and for that she has come up with this latest drivel .. lol

 

[pakdefender]

Quoting from an indian source

The owner of 300 acres of farmland in the famed mango-growing area of Bahawalpur herself, Ms Siddiqa also raised concerns about the “cartelisation of agriculture” in which a few big landowners with political influence would join hands with foreign investors.

The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : Planned farmland sale to Saudis gives Pakistan jitters

Shame Shame , Ayesha Sidiqa ( more like Ayesha Jhota .. lol )

 

[Comet]

Elements can be present in Punab and also in Sindh infect also in UK and USA itself. Elements doesn't make situation like Waziristan.

 

[Kompromat]

Shaheed ki Jo maut hai woh Qaum ki Hayat hai !! Laho jo hai Shaheed ka Woh Qaum ki Zakat hai!! I request you to pay Gratitude to the SSG Commandos who sacrified their Lives for the Homeland
Click at the link below:

http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100736852&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20091013

 

[pakdefender]

Shaheed ki Jo maut hai woh Qaum ki Hayat hai !! Laho jo hai Shaheed ka Woh Qaum ki Zakat hai!! I request you to pay Gratitude to the SSG Commandos who sacrified their Lives for the Homeland
Click at the link below:

http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100736852&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20091013

These people seflessly defended the pride of the nation in the line of duty. Words cannot be enough to show the gratitude.

We Salute you brave soldiers , we pray that you find eternal peace in the life Here After and may Allah shower His blessings on you.

We pray that may Allah gives us also the courage that He gave you so we may face the odds that have been stacked against us.

Let us all make a pledge that we will go after the ones responsible for this act WITHIN our borders , OUTSIDE our borders and ACROSS continents, anything less will simply not be acceptable.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Threads merged

 

[seekers]

http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100743354&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20091019


Good research column

 

[sonicboom]

Top guns of Punjabi Taliban captured

By Baqir Sajjad Syed
Friday, 23 Oct, 2009

ISLAMABAD: Security agencies have arrested two of the highest ranking Punjabi Taliban commanders, who are believed to have masterminded the 10/10 attack on Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) and other high-profile strikes in Lahore.

The two commanders identified as Iqbal and Gul Muhammad, both hailing from Faisalabad, were arrested earlier this week by law-enforcement agencies, senior officials disclosed to Dawn on Thursday.

They were members of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Shura, the umbrella council of about top 40 militant commanders that coordinates and oversees Taliban activities in Pakistan.

The two, who were in charge of militancy in Punjab, officials claim, served as the link between Taliban’s main leadership in Waziristan and the increasingly threatening Punjabi Taliban network, a grouping of sectarian and Kashmir focussed militant groups responsible for the Taliban hits in Punjab and the federal capital.

Their arrest, which is being claimed by the security agencies as a major breakthrough against the Taliban in Punjab, came after telephone intercepts by intelligence agencies and disclosures by Muhammad Aqil alias Dr Usman, who led the October 10 attack on the military’s power base and was the only attacker to be arrested after the 22-hour hostage crisis in one of the headquarters’ buildings.

Iqbal and Muhammad are said to be of the same ranking in the militant hierarchy as Aqil, who was also one of the TTP Shura members.

Security sources say the two remained involved in most of the major attacks in Punjab this year including the one on the GHQ and the three coordinated attacks in Lahore on October 15.

At least one of them is believed to have escorted the GHQ attackers. The responsibility for the GHQ and Lahore attacks has been claimed by the Punjabi Taliban.

The Punjab faction of Taliban had been previously linked to the Marriott bombing, and attacks on the navy headquarters in Lahore, and on the FIA.

Taliban had stepped up attacks in Punjab and NWFP before the start of Rah-i-Nijat, the military operation to flush out terrorists from their South Waziristan stronghold, to stave off the offensive.

Punjab government has so far been downplaying reports about the rise of Punjabi Taliban.

However, security analysts believe that the growing role of Punjabi Taliban has heightened the militant threat not only in Punjabi heartland, which has recently suffered multiple suicide bombings, but also in the rest of the country, because the Punjabi militants have increasingly taken control of the Taliban forces and are believed to be more lethal than their Pakhtoon counterparts.

Security analysts, however, are sceptical if the arrests would break the backbone of Taliban in Punjab.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Top guns of Punjabi Taliban captured

 

[pakdefender]

kudos to the law enforcement agencies , we need more of this and the police has to take the lead in busting the Taliban network in Panjab

 

[The Patriot]

well done. bust them all. and i am 10000 per cent sure that if our security wants to reign in the terrorists, nobody can come to their rescue. it is just they didnt want it for the reasons better known to them.