Peshawar blast kills 20, injures 90

[Kharian_Beast]

None of the three terrorism victims (Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) has disclosed any "solid proofs" against the involvement of their rival Int agencies in terrorist incidents inside their countries. All what they say are baseless assumptions.

Unless you can provide proof that there isn't any proof, your statement is also a baseless assumption.

 

[Tornado]

In Pakistan today, there are three types of violence that are beyond the purview of the local police forces: violence by terrorists both within Pakistan and outside it; violence by US armed forces upon Pakistani soil, either through unmanned predator drones or through the odd secret special forces operations, as happened in early September; and violence by the Pakistan army against terrorists, tribal Pashtuns and rebel Balochs.

 

[Kharian_Beast]

In Pakistan today.....violence by the Pakistan army against terrorists, tribal Pashtuns and rebel Balochs.

Tribal Pashtuns are ready to sacrifice themselves for Pakistan, right now there are lashkars being formed numbering in the tens of thousands due to the aggressive posture India has exhibited and to rid their once peaceful land of foreign terror.

 

[Prodigy17]

In Pakistan today, there are three types of violence that are beyond the purview of the local police forces: violence by terrorists both within Pakistan and outside it; violence by US armed forces upon Pakistani soil, either through unmanned predator drones or through the odd secret special forces operations, as happened in early September; and violence by the Pakistan army against terrorists, tribal Pashtuns and rebel Balochs.

Hey, thanks for enlightening us mate, i figure many Pakistanis would benefit from the wealth of your knowledge about violence in Pakistan. Now whats the point???????
I see many new guys with Indian flags on their profile coming here and starting of with their innuendo and spreading their venom right from the first post.......

 

[Neo]

Who is behind Peshawar blast? ​

On the face of it, the terrible car bomb that exploded in a Peshawar bazaar on Friday night killing 34 and injuring over 130 people, is more of the same, but in actual fact it is different from the routine, and tellingly marks terrorism notching up to a new stage of violence.

For one, it comes hard on the heels of last week's Mumbai terror attack which India blames on some "elements" based in Pakistan, as it closely coincides with ethnic trouble in Karachi. Also, it is the first clear indication that militancy that was so far largely confined to the FATA and other areas has spilled over into the settled districts, and the provincial capital, Peshawar, seems to be its prime target. We may have killed scores of Taliban and other militants in the ongoing military operation in the tribal region but for the ordinary Peshawarites the Taliban are not defeated and they stand at the gates.

In case troops are withdrawn from the battle zones on the Pak-Afghan border the danger of NWFP passing under the suzerainty of Taliban - you may call them terrorists - would be real. So, there is this logic in the government's stand that war in tribal areas is Pakistan's 'own war'.

India would like Pakistan to lose this war on the western border and, perceptibly towards that end it is helping the elements that are pitted against the troops. India's consulates and trade offices in Afghan cities close to the Pakistan border are said to be bankrolling the militancy in the tribal region. Not surprisingly, NWFP Chief Minister Hoti has blamed the latest carnage on 'foreign hand' who wants to destabilise Pakistan.

This serving as the backdrop, would Pakistan like to open a war front on its eastern border by planning a terror attack on Mumbai, India's financial capital, also? May be it is the Indian thinking (and planning) that Pakistan should be forced to withdraw its troops from the Afghan border and bring them to India's border and thus leave the NWFP at the mercy of the Taliban and in return earn the wrath of its anti-terrorism western allies?

Pakistan indeed is caught between a rock and the hard place. It is pity during her latest visit here United States top diplomat, Dr Condoleezza Rice, failed to appreciate Pakistan's dilemma so unfamiliar as she is with reality on the ground. From the public perspective in Pakistan, her urging Pakistan to provide "unequivocal" help to India and that "Pakistan should be acting sincerely and quickly," despite New Delhi being unresponsive to Islamabad's offer of joint investigation, is all too partisan.

So was her demand that "Pakistan should take responsibility to deal with those who might use its territory even if they are non-state actors". Pakistan is already in combat with non-state actors - in Fata and elsewhere. Her words should have been directed at New Delhi because it is India that had failed to deal with its home-grown terrorists.

Thanks to the rising tide of Hindu revivalism, the Indian minorities, pushed to the wall as they are, are fighting their battles for survival. Even if we reject the thesis that Hindu extremists - like the ones who bombed the Samjhota Express - struck Mumbai last week, it would be difficult convince anyone that the Indian Muslims were responsible for the carnage. The International Herald Tribune (IHT) says "terrorism experts and some western officials warned that the emerging sketch of the plotters was still preliminary and could broaden even to include militants within India".

Fareed Zakria, the Indian-origin editor of the Newsweek, is more explicit. Says he in the cover story of the weekly's latest issue: "India also has a political problem with its Muslims... The cancerous rise of fundamentalism and radicalism that has swept up Muslims everywhere has not spared India...Muslims are underrepresented at every economic, political and social level - with a few exceptions... They have not shared in the progress of the last two decades and face a Hindu nationalist movement, parts of which are ugly and violent".

Pakistan is ready to share information and intelligence on terrorism with India but not to surrender its nationals at the behest of Indian establishment. India needs to sit across the table with Pakistan in the framework of a joint investigation. Pakistan is the principal target of terrorism; may be there are some non-state Indian terrorists also behind the killings in Pakistani cities like the massacre in Peshawar or ethnic killings in Karachi. Who knows?