ISI allegedly pays for acid attacks on Afghan schoolgirls

[Vassnti]

Let me enjoy the fact that everyone is scared of ISI :p ...this thread is such a waste of time...

Actually this thread is usefull for one thing a usefull lesson to all of us to beware of propoganda. How many would have laughed at how stupid the claims were had the article been one of the following?

Mosad pays indians to steal babies.

Cia plot to bribe Pakistan cricket team to throw match to improve US ties with India.

Blackwater infiltrates Chaman as prelude to US invasion.

 

[qsaark]

whoever wrote the article forgot the first rule of lying

"the lie should be believable"

Well, he might have forgotten the first rule; he did not forget the second rule. "A lie told often enough becomes truth". He wrote something and left it on people like the starter of this thread to re-produce it on as many forums as possible; eventually this ‘lie’ will become a ‘truth’. History of these ‘repeated’ lies is very long and off and on it surfaces when the dirty laundry is de-classified every twenty or so years.

 

[S-2]

Yet the acid burns are real enough.

There is no propaganda foisted by Dexter Filkens. This is first-class journalism at its best and written with no small risk to himself from any number of possible directions.

I cried reading of the anguish these girls have experienced to achieve what we take for granted in America and many other places. I cried for the humanity and simple charity of those from a fifteen year old girl in Tacoma, Washington to haute colture elites in N.Y.C. giving freely to somebody they don't know on the other side of the globe.

I'm as pained as Filkens to realize the limits of their freedom these girls shall again realize in a few short years.

Solomon2 got your attention for those with the curiousity to read. I won't hold him accountable for his byline given the duplicitous bylines that are daily passed at this board without comment by the moderators or think-tank elites to accuracy or appropriateness.

If it cut both ways in this instance sufficient that all read the full seven pages of the story-mission accomplished. Compelling and first-class journalism, as usual, from one of my favorites.

EDIT: The taliban didn't do it. Karzai didn't do it. The ISI didn't do it. Somebody, though, did it. Nobody in their right mind will admit to doing this after-the-fact. It happened, though, and will likely happen again...by somebody who doesn't see value to the education of these and other girls in Afghanistan.

I really don't have a clue. Maybe the taliban did and wish to back out. Maybe the GoA's own intelligence did. Maybe just local religo-psychos did. Doesn't matter. It's a heinous and evil man that chose this act and may the wrath of God condemn him to eternal hellfire.

Thanks.

 

[SMC]

ISI doesn't exactly have a lot of money. What strategic objectives and interests does attacking school girls fill? None.

 

[All-Green]

Sadly this thing has become a social evil, i think there is a landmark case currently being pursued in supreme court of Pakistan whereby a woman thus marred wants the same to be done to the man responsible instead of the usual punishment.
Usually such people are imprisoned for 5-10 years and fined a million Rupees, but is that enough considering what they have done?
Initially i was thinking that this eye for an eye is too much to ask for as a punishment but now i think that it is one of those actions that needs to given such a terrible punishment that the would be perpetrators would shiver when they think of such an action...it has far gone beyond the level of one or two cases and needs to be discouraged in extremely clear terms...

Whereas some would disagree, defacing somebody is one of the worst things one can do...life is hell for the victims.
To me this is worse than murder...try to imagine life in the shoes of such a woman/man who becomes a walking corpse and is robbed of normalcy and warmth...worse than murder.

These attacks have occurred in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia etc.
Mostly in South, Southeast Asia.
Attacks have been carried out by rejected men, jealous wives against their husband's lover, husbands who think their wives are having an affair, a form of domestic violence over usual differences, higher caste members who believe the lower caste has been out of line...
Many so called reasons or justifications which the criminal makes in order to link this extremely evil act to honor, religion, rightful revenge etc. but the terrible outcome is real enough...

These attacks are not a new phenomena and have nothing to do with any agency...it is really pathetic to hide the shame of such acts by pinning it on another country's agency.
This is probably not the way to solve the real issue at hand but then i hardly think that was the priority here, the common man hardly finds himself the subject of due care in these parts of the world.

 

[notsuperstitious]

This is not remotely believable.

Unfortunately such blatant propoganda from rupee news / global mail / haq's musings etc gets posted daily. A rational person can tell the difference between exposing and demonising.