The OIC should also discuss about the freedom struggle going in Balochistan,that's all I want to say.U cannot have different rules for different countries.Otherwise the armed struggle in Balochistan will go on & there will be more fallacious allegations.
The armed struggle in Balochistan has been going on from 1947.The OIC should not ignore the Baloch issue.The OIC should appoint a special envoy to Balochistan.A referrendum or a plebiscite will do
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Pakistan pursues railway track bombers
Posted: March 20, 2012 in
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Pakistan pursues railway track bombers - Central Asia Online
KARACHI – After a series of 14 blasts on railway tracks across Sindh Province
February 25, Pakistani authorities are pursuing the Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA), a banned separatist group, Central Asia Online has learned.
Miscreants planted low-intensity explosives along railway tracks in Sindh, including in Karachi, Hybderabad, Shaheeb Benazirabad, Mirpur Mathilo, Pud Eaidan, Khairpur and Ghotki, said Zafarullah Kalhore, a senior official of Pakistan Railways (PR). The ensuing track damage caused massive disruptions in train service.
No passenger or cargo trains were near the blast sites at the time, otherwise major casualties could have occurred, he said.
The blasts caused 17 express trains to halt for around six hours at different railway stations, leaving thousands of passengers stuck while the damages were repaired, he said. Similar attacks have taken place along railway tracks in Sindh before, but this was the first time that 14 blasts were carried out almost simultaneously, he said.
SDLA involved :
Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wassan told the media February 25 that investigations were ongoing and that the culprits, once arrested, would be punished.
Police officials and security experts believe that the SDLA is involved in the recent attacks.
“The police found pamphlets from the place of incidents according to which SDLA, an underground terrorist outfit, accepted the responsibility of blasts,” Muzaffer Shiekh, senior police official at Railway Police, told Central Asia Online. The SDLA carried out a series of attacks on PR tracks in
February 2011.
In the pamphlets, SDLA Chief Commander Darya Khan Marri calls on Sindhi’s on to take up arms and join the movement to make Sindh an independent state, Shiekh said.
Yaqoob Jatt, another senior police official at Hyderabad, claimed that Lala Aslam Pathan, a central leader of SDLA, is involved in the recent attacks. On his directives, suspected miscreants – identified as Shah Nawaz Bhutto, Ramzan Jamali, Bashir Malah, Faqir Najeeb Qureshi and others – carried out the blasts. Jatt said.
“Police have started a crackdown against the group and are carrying out the raids to arrest the culprits,” Jatt told Central Asia Online.
SDLA linked with JSSM :
The SDLA is an underground Sindhi terrorist organisation comprised of different splinter factions that broke away from various Sindhi nationalist groups. Its main commanders are Marri and Ghulam Hussain Chandio, said Raees Ahmed, a senior journalist and visiting professor at Sindh University who monitors SDLA activities.
He said the SDLA is, in fact, an offshoot of Jeay Sindh Mutahida Mahaz (JSMM), a Sindhi nationalist political party headed by Shafi Burfat.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Sindh police has formally inducted Burfat, in its Red Book list of terrorists, the Daily Times reported February 27, citing Ghulam Shabbir Sheikh, assistant inspector general of police. Police are collecting information about Burfat, the Times said.
The SDLA has bombed railway tracks in the past. It has always left pamphlets at the scene denouncing alleged atrocities against the Sindhi people and vowing to continue its struggle for Sindh “freedom,” Ahmed told Central Asia Online.
He said the SDLA emerged as a serious threat when an alleged terrorist died March 2, 2011, while planting a bomb at a railway track in Jumma Goth, Karachi.
Law enforcement agencies recovered SDLA literature after a March 7, 2011, blast at a house in the Ibrahim Hyderi limits. SDLA-linked militant Zulfiqar Kulachi was killed, and Ismail Abubakar and Sardaruddin Dino were injured, in that explosion.
Fayyaz Laghari, then head of Sindh Police, told media March 8, 2011, that terrorists were making bombs to blow up the railway tracks and they were using that house as SDLA’s Karachi headquarters.
“After the death of Kulachi and a crackdown by law enforcement agencies in the light of information received during interrogations with Abubakar and Dino, the network of SDLA was shattered, but after lapsing of almost 11 months, the series of rail track blasts show that the group has become again active in the province,” Ahmed said. Recent incidents indicate that the SDLA is following the same approach of Baloch separatist groups, in targeting railway tracks, gas lines and other government installations. “
The bomb explosions at rail tracks in Sindh could be due to ‘a sense of deprivation’ among the Sindhi people and this sense of deprivation had been created after the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto,” said Wassan, adding that the government, however, has been actively trying to eliminate this sense of deprivation by creating jobs.
Baloch rebels inspire separatists in Sindh
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Report: Baloch rebels inspire separatists in Sindh by Zia Ur Rehman
Recent bomb attacks on railway tracks across the Sindh province indicate the rise of a separatist movement that takes inspiration and strength from the freedom movement in Balochistan, political analysts say.
At least 16 bombs targeted railway tracks in various parts of Sindh on February 25, stopping all train traffic. Low-intensity explosives were planted on railway tracks in Karachi, Hyderabad, Benazirabad, Mirpur Mathilo, Pud Eaidan, Khairpur and Ghotki, damaging tracks in the entire province, according to a senior Pakistan Railways official. There were no trains close to the sites of explosion, he said, therefore there was no major damage and no casualties.
“The police found leaflets from the bombing sites in which Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA), an underground separatist outfit, claimed responsibility for the attacks,” said Muzaffar Sheikh, a Railway Police officer. He said the group had bombed railway tracks in the past.
Denouncing alleged atrocities against the Sindhi people and vowing to continue its struggle until Sindh’s freedom, SDLA’s chief commander Darya Khan Marri asks other Sindhis, in the leaflet, to take up arms and join the movement. The SLDA says Sindhi separatists must get the same worldwide recognition as the separatists in Balochistan, and asks people to stand up against the “opportunist” People’s Party government, the army, and the ISI.
Sindhi separatist groups, which have never been popular in the province, have taken strength from recent move by a group of US Congressmen calling for the right of self-determination for the Baloch people. “Because of bad governance, nepotism, corruption and incompetence of the politicians, there is a lot of frustration and disappointment among Sindhi people, especially the young,” according to Imdad Soomro, a senior journalist who studies Sindh’s ethnic politics. Some of them might be involved in subversive activities, he says, but a majority of them believe in a peaceful political and democratic struggle.
The PPP seems to have taken the threat seriously. “The bomb attacks on railway tracks in Sindh could be due to a sense of deprivation among the Sindhi people, a sentiment that is also prevalent in the province of Balochistan. This sense of deprivation has been created after the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto,” Sindh home minister Manzoor Wasan told reporters. The government, he said, had been trying to tackle the problem by creating jobs.
The demand for the separation of Sindh from Pakistan has been made time and again, but the separatist movement has not posed a serious threat to the state so far. Low-scale insurgent attacks from the SDLA have been reported intermittently in recent years.
The SDLA is believed to be an offshoot of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), a Sindhi nationalist political party headed by Shafi Muhammad Burfat. Some of its members also broke away from various factions of the Jeay Sindh Tehrik (JST), founded by prominent Sindhi ethnic leader GM Syed. The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Sindh police has added Burfat to its Red Book, Sindh IG Ghulam Shabbit Sheikh told reporters on February 27, and was gathering information on him. Yaqoob Jatt, a senior officer in Hyderabad, said police believed the attacks were orchestrated by SDLA leader Lala Aslam Pathan, and carried out by suspects he identified as Shahnawaz Bhutto, Ramzan Jamali, Bashir Malah, and Faqir Najeeb Qureshi.
Sindhis are predominantly represented in parliament by the PPP, but Sindhi ethnic parties that follow the political ideology of GM Syed also have a strong influence on provincial politics. After the demise of GM Syed, his JST split into at least 11 political groups: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Bashir Qureshi Group, Burfat’s JSSM, JST led by Dr Safdar Sarki, JSQM-Arisar Group, Jeay Sindh Mahaz Riaz Chandio Group, Jeay Sindh Qaumparast Party led by Qamar Bhatti, Sindh United Party led by GM Syed’s grandson Jalal Mehmood Shah, Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) led by Abdul Khaliq Junejo, JSM Rasool Bux Thebo Group, JSM Sufi Hazoor Bux Group, and JST Shafi Karnani Group. Dr Qadir Magsi’s Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, Rasool Bukhsh Paleejo’s Awami Tehrik, and Amir Bhambaro’s Sindh National Party were not aligned with GM Syed’s ideology.
Burfat belongs to Tehni, a small village of Taluka Sehwan in Jamshoro district. He was a close associate of Dr Qadir Magsi in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was accused along with Dr Magsi of orchestrating the September 30, 1988 carnage.
“Pakistan’s intelligence agencies are targeting our leaders and activists only because we are demanding our fundamental political rights,” said a JSMM leader in Hyderabad. He said the party’s secretary general Muzaffar Bhutto had been picked up several months ago and its vice chairman Serai Qurban Khuhawar, leader Rooplo Choliani and central committee member Noorullah Tunio were killed in Sanghar on April 21, 2011. He accused intelligence agencies of creating “a Balochistan-like situation” in Sindh.
The SDLA emerged as a serious threat in February last year when it bombed several railway tracks, a CID official said. A suspected terrorist died on March 2 apparently trying to plant a bomb on a railway line near Jumma Goth in Karachi. After an accidental explosion in a house that killed SDLA-linked Zulfiqar Kulachi and injured Ismail Abubakr and Sardaruddin Allahdino when they were trying to make a bomb on March 7 2011, police seized SDLA literature and other evidence. Information gathered from the literature and questioning of the injured men led to a crackdown in which all key members of the group were arrested. Eleven months later, the group has resurged with new attacks, apparently after being inspired by Baloch separatists, according to CID officials. But the SDLA is not as popular as the Baloch separatists, and that is why law-enforcement officials believe they can bust the group before it becomes a major threat.
Sindh militants blow up railway tracks
Posted: February 19, 2011 in
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2011-02-17
KARACHI – Two blasts that damaged the main railway track in the Shah Latif Town area of Karachi, and interrupted rail traffic for an hour February 17, are the latest in a recent wave of such attacks.
Two unknown men travelling by motorbike planted .5kg of explosives in Shah Latif and set them off manually, police said.
In the past week bombs throughout Sindh Province have targeted railway tracks, disrupting upcountry train service. The blasts are the work of the Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA), an underground terrorist organisation linked with the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a security official said.
The SDLA collaborates with the TTP and BLA and exchanges weapons and terrorists with them, the official said. Central Asia Online has previously reported on the links between the
BLA and TTP.
More than a dozen low-intensity blasts halted train service for hours, an official of Pakistan Railways (PR) told Central Asia Online.More than a dozen low-intensity blasts halted train service for hours, an official of Pakistan Railways (PR) told Central Asia Online. On February 11 two blasts damaged the track in Karachi near the Baloch Colony area; four blasts occurred in Mehrab Pur; two were set off in Hyderabad; and four occurred in Nawab Shah. In Khairpur on blast was set off February 13; and followed one in Kotri a day earlier, the PR official said.
The explosion near the Baloch Colony bridge area in Karachi injured two people, but no injuries have been reported in the other explosions, the official added.
Rail attacks lead to financial losses
The February 11 attacks compelled PR to halt trains carrying cargo up-country, causing a loss of Rs. 5m (US $58,700), the official said. All of the damaged track have been repaired and service restored, the official said.
Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza has ordered the inspector general of police Sindh to investigate and to arrest the culprits, a government statement said.
Mirza ordered the formation of a special team to investigate and demanded a full report, according to the statement.
Officials already have created a security plan to protect the tracks with the assistance of the Sindh police and round-the-clock patrols have begun, said Superintendent of Railway Police Muzaffar Sheikh.
Law enforcement agencies have arrested dozens of suspects from Karachi, Hyderabad and Nawab Shah, Sheikh said.
The railway attacks are linked to the militancy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and are meant to disrupt communications and foster panic, said Sharfuddin Memon, a consultant at the Sindh Home Ministry.
The locally made bombs used against the railway each contained about 1.1kg of explosive, bomb disposal officials said. They described the blasts as similar in nature and seemingly co-ordinated.
PR police found SDLA leaflets at the explosion sites, and Darya Khan, an SDLA commander, has claimed responsibility for the railway bombings throughout Sindh, a senior police official in Hyderabad told Central Asia Online. Khan also took responsibility for four explosions damaging the Guddo railway tracks in November.
The SDLA is an underground Sindhi terrorist organisation comprised of different splinter factions that broke away from various Sindhi nationalist groups. Its main commanders are Khan and Ghulam Hussain Chandio, said Ibrahim Shah, a Sukker-based Sindhi journalist.
The SDLA has bombed railway tracks in the past. It has always left pamphlets at the scene denouncing alleged atrocities against the Sindhi people and vowing to continue its struggle until Sindh gains “freedom,” Shah added.
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...all those 90K were not PA troops...there were civilians, govt officials, police, etc etc too.
