New terrorist attack with two more dead in Balochistan gas/oil arena

[American Eagle]

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Terrorists attack OGDC bus in JaffarabadReuters(20 minutes ago)

TodayJAFFARABAD: Suspected militants opened fired on a bus

carrying employees of state-owned Oil and Gas Development

Company in the Jaffarabad district of the southwestern Balochistan

province on Friday, killing one person and wounding two, police said.

What kind of cowardly reporting is this..."suspected militant?"

 

[TaimiKhan]

What kind of cowardly reporting is this..."suspected militant?"

Till proven or till the responsibility is not taken by someone, it would be a suspected militant act.

 

[Sinnerman108]

In the next 6 months, we will see an upsurge in violence and terrorism in Balochistan.

Brass anticipated, and is prepared for it.

 

[mehru]

What kind of cowardly reporting is this..."suspected militant?"

American eagle!

Baluchistan has an active insurgency and many anti state groups operate there, notably BLA. That's why they are always suspects in such cases.

If you have problem with the term, then they are also referred as terrorists.
Pakistan Times | Top Story: Pakistan police arrest 25 suspected terrorists in Balochistan

 

[Veeru]

What kind of cowardly reporting is this..."suspected militant?"

Because there are many movements, insurgencies and problems.

Like separatists, ethnic cleansing, criminals, liberation movement, terrorists etc. etc.

So unless and until its proved u can't define it clearly.

 

[mehru]

@ A. Eagle [MOD EDIT]

Pakistan has a law of self defence. In 90% of such cases, verdicts are given in favour of accused person. So there is more chance that the court will set him free.

Read section 96 and 100.
Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860)

 

[American Eagle]

Pakistan has a law of self defence. In 90% of such cases, verdicts are given in favour of accused person. So there is more chance that the court will set him free.

This Thread which I started has to do with calling a terrorist a terrorist. I am aware having living and worked out of Karachi of the long standing Balochis complaints. It is still my hope that the new seaport of Gwadar and associated new railroad line to run from Gwadar over into India will materialize as such a huge sea, road, and RR hub should generate many jobs from blue collar up to senior white collar jobs that really do need to be given to the native Balochis, allowing of course for unique architecture and engineering and related technical skills that may not be readily found at this time among the Balochis.

But there are Taliban types and al Qaida who infiltrate ethnic gripes, as has been and continues to be the case in the north with some Pakhtuns.

On balance in the midst of a hot war against terrorists and terrorism it is not unlikely to presume with a high degree of probability terrorists committed these murders.

 

[Siddiqui A]

the railway line is to run into china not india...eagle..

 

[American Eagle]

From memory the RR line was to cross India to connect with China, but that new RR line or route is intended to serve trade and commerce between and among Pakistan, India, and China, as well as with Afghanistan, Iran.

I will try to reserach the plans and if I can find them will post them here during this weekend.

I got the reaction I expected which is an honest and innocent unawareness of some Paksitanis that a business deal was working between Pakistan and India. Started under President Musharraf, and has continued under President Zardari.

What everyone in that part of the world needs is jobs, jobs, jobs, not ethnic and religious animosity.

Cheers.

 

[American Eagle]

I am happy to have been corrected by Siddiqui A on this Thread...in that the proposed RR as now laid out on paper would pass through mountaineous Pakistani terrain, through Pakistan Administered Kashmir into I suppose Tibet?

Here is an article I found on this topic just now. And, if I may add, the idea of building the RR through India was I think discussed during the Musharraf era, as was the idea of an Iranian oil and gas line system from Southern Iran, across Pakistan, into India, and I think even beyond to the India-China border.

Until I die I will push every practical business and economic common sense idea that in my singular view could help erase the huge waste of energy and costs that has perpetuated the animosity between Pakistan, India, and China. And I admit that both India andChina have become real business rivals of us here in the USA as world traders, but competition is a good and healthy thing, as Pakistan most commonly experiences on the sports playing fields.

Aside, I have never really appreciated the sport of cricket. Cricket games in Pakistan used to take literally days for a game to be over. I would run down my portable radio batteries trying to keep up with the days long games during my era in Karachi, 1963-65!

World: Global

PAKISTAN – CHINA Kashgar Gwadar railway line would give Beijing a window on the Persian Gulf

Such a railway line would allay China’s greatest fear, a naval blockade that could stop oil shipments from Africa and the Middle East.

However, major political, technical and financial problems remain, including India’s opposition.

Monday, July 12, 2010 By Asia News

Beijing – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Chinese President Hu Jintao met last Wednesday during an official visit of the Pakistani leader to the mainland. They discussed plans to build a railway line from Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang province to the Pakistani port of Gwadar. This could give China direct access to the Persian Gulf and make Pakistan an alternative route for Chinese goods and Middle East and African oil, which currently have to go around India.

The ambitious plan has been on the drawing boards for many years. It has advantages for both parties. Beijing would have direct access to the Arabian Sea; currently, 80 per cent of China’s oil travels through the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca, an area plagued by piracy. More importantly, in case of war, China’s enemies could easily block its oil supplies. Pakistan would especially benefit from increased traffic in the Gwadar port, which was built with Chinese capital and assistance and opened in 2008.

Now the railway, which until recently appeared to be technically impossible because of the difficult terrain, at 5,000 metres above sea level, could be built thanks to the experience and knowledge China has accumulated during the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railway.

However, Professor Wang Mengshu, a rail expert at Beijing Jiaotong University, said that the Kashgar-Gwadar project would be "more difficult than the one in Tibet" because Chinese surveyors and mappers will not have as good an understanding of the local terrain as they did in Tibet.

This would also create uncertainties about the cost, which Wang estimates would be around 200 million yuan (US$ 30 million) per kilometre, a bill too great even for Beijing.

In addition, India is not going to look favourably at closer Sino-Pakistani relations. New Delhi has always regarded Islamabad as its main adversary and Beijing as its main rival.

In fact, the proposed railway would have to pass through Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a territory claimed by India, and would thus undermine the latter’s its claim. Indeed, important Indian newspapers have described the project as a serious threat to India's security.

However, the idea still has many supporters in China and many see its completion as only a matter of time.

People's Liberation Army Navy Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo said China relied too heavily on sea transportation for its oil imports. Hence, "We must either build a much more powerful navy or find alternative transportation channels."

Source: Asia News