That is because they are essentially thugs who are looking at a threat to their "peaceful" existence. I still doubt no one in the official circles will have the guts to stand up to them.
Peshawar Massacre - TTP kills hundreds of school kids (Avoid graphic pics/vids)
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That is because they are essentially thugs who are looking at a threat to their "peaceful" existence. I still doubt no one in the official circles will have the guts to stand up to them.
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Gone too soon: The boy who dreamt of becoming an ISI operative
By Manzoor Ali
Published: December 20, 2014
Yasirullah was all set to start a new chapter of life at Cadet College Murree when hell struck.
PESHAWAR:
A few days prior to the APS attack, 16-year-old Yasirullah was telling his maternal aunt with pride how he had grown up and was ready to live an independent life at Cadet College Murree. “See I am 17 now and have even grown a moustache,” the aunt remembered the boy’s words.
The APS attack put a permanent end to the eighth grader’s youthful shenanigans, which his entire family was so fond of. Yasir had only recently cleared the admission test and was all set for his interview for Cadet College Murree scheduled for January 4. “He was excited about college,” recalled Yasir’s mother Razia Bibi. “We were so concerned about the cold he would have encountered in Murree,” she said, her eyes welling up.
Razia Bibi said his body had a single bullet wound and that too on the forehead. “Both his hands were smeared with blood. He might have tried to clean his face after being shot,” she said. Yasir’s family hails from Barenis, Chitral. His father Nasirullah serves in the Frontier Corps (FC) and is posted in Peshawar. “Yasir used to wake up early every day, say his prayers and recite from the Holy Quran. He followed the routine for the last time on December 16,” said Nasir. He added how Yasir was always in a hurry to reach school on time and used to scold his younger brother Tahir for not bucking up.
Both the siblings left for school together on the dreaded morning of December 16 from their house situated in a narrow alley close to Ghanta Ghar. Yasir returned draped in a shroud while Tahir miraculously escaped death. Yasir’s cousin Haleem Ahmed recalled his infatuation with the army life. “He used to bow his head upon seeing military uniform on TV,” Haleem said. Such was his obsession with the army that Yasir wrote a Facebook update on August 6 saying that he has started working as a spy for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
“Our life begins with us crying and ends with others crying, so utilise the gaps with laughs as much as possible. Keep smiling and make others smile too,” read a Facebook status Yasir wrote on November 3.
Yasir’s younger brother Tahir escaped death narrowly. “I saw two of the militants as I came out of the washroom,” he said, adding that one had a short beard, while another sported a larger one.
“Both were carrying guns and huge backpacks and did not see me,” Tahir said.He and his classmates hid beneath desks as soon as the gunfight started. They remained there for more than two hours, until military personnel arrived and rescued them.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 21st, 2014.
By Manzoor Ali
Published: December 20, 2014
Yasirullah was all set to start a new chapter of life at Cadet College Murree when hell struck.
PESHAWAR:
A few days prior to the APS attack, 16-year-old Yasirullah was telling his maternal aunt with pride how he had grown up and was ready to live an independent life at Cadet College Murree. “See I am 17 now and have even grown a moustache,” the aunt remembered the boy’s words.
The APS attack put a permanent end to the eighth grader’s youthful shenanigans, which his entire family was so fond of. Yasir had only recently cleared the admission test and was all set for his interview for Cadet College Murree scheduled for January 4. “He was excited about college,” recalled Yasir’s mother Razia Bibi. “We were so concerned about the cold he would have encountered in Murree,” she said, her eyes welling up.
Razia Bibi said his body had a single bullet wound and that too on the forehead. “Both his hands were smeared with blood. He might have tried to clean his face after being shot,” she said. Yasir’s family hails from Barenis, Chitral. His father Nasirullah serves in the Frontier Corps (FC) and is posted in Peshawar. “Yasir used to wake up early every day, say his prayers and recite from the Holy Quran. He followed the routine for the last time on December 16,” said Nasir. He added how Yasir was always in a hurry to reach school on time and used to scold his younger brother Tahir for not bucking up.
Both the siblings left for school together on the dreaded morning of December 16 from their house situated in a narrow alley close to Ghanta Ghar. Yasir returned draped in a shroud while Tahir miraculously escaped death. Yasir’s cousin Haleem Ahmed recalled his infatuation with the army life. “He used to bow his head upon seeing military uniform on TV,” Haleem said. Such was his obsession with the army that Yasir wrote a Facebook update on August 6 saying that he has started working as a spy for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
“Our life begins with us crying and ends with others crying, so utilise the gaps with laughs as much as possible. Keep smiling and make others smile too,” read a Facebook status Yasir wrote on November 3.
Yasir’s younger brother Tahir escaped death narrowly. “I saw two of the militants as I came out of the washroom,” he said, adding that one had a short beard, while another sported a larger one.
“Both were carrying guns and huge backpacks and did not see me,” Tahir said.He and his classmates hid beneath desks as soon as the gunfight started. They remained there for more than two hours, until military personnel arrived and rescued them.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 21st, 2014.
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I have posted the fresh news... and i posted the old video just to show what sort of tattoos to be expected.
The attitude here is that believe the press release of terrorists, without objection... which is leaked to the public by very same media, but now if that media print some thing that is not desired by you or your tribe... should be rejected out right, by calling it conspiracy or childish.... this is obvious bias.
Further news leak.. but please don't associate it with my creation.
I will only be posting the news, which no one will post.
سانحہ پشاور ،بھارت اور عبداللہ عبداللہ ملا فضل اللہ کے سرپرست، اوباما کو معلومات مل گئیں
This news says Chief has given all evidence of involvement of Abdulla Abdulla and Indians in APS carnage.
After all Musharraf's info. was solid
I request the volunteers to help those by translating, who have further questions but can't read urdu.
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Will Peshawar massacre induce a paradigm shift?
Sadeq Khan
Friday, December 19, 2014
Viewers around the world of newscast in the electronic media and in particular those in South Asia were aghast by the horrendous sights of massacre of school children by seven gun-toting suicide-bombers, six of them in army disguise, taking the students and teachers hostage in their classrooms and mercilessly executing them one by one by gunshots in Peshawar, Pakistan on 16 December. Of some 500 students and teachers in that Army Public School, 141 were dead on the spot, 132 of whom were children including some as young as 12 years of age, by the time the assailants could be tackled by military operations lasting 9 hours.
The culprits blew themselves up or were blown by bombs they were wearing when they were shot. Seven more died in hospital from amongst 150 injured, including some soldiers of the rescue team.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan who claimed responsibility for the deadly attack are not “the Taliban” that the U.S.-led NATO forces have been at war with in Afghanistan. But that they adopted the name “Taliban” is no coincidence. The group shares its religious extremist ideology with its namesake in Afghanistan as well as with al Qaeda but is its own distinct group. Its primary target is the Pakistani state and it’s military. It resents the fact that Pakistan has an alliance with the West, and it wants Sharia to be imposed in Pakistan. It rejects the Pakistani constitution, and rejects the democratic process in Pakistan.
Afghan Taliban condemned massacre
In a December 2009 bombing of a mosque frequented by Pakistani military personnel, the group killed 36 and wounded 75. In March 2011, a TTP bomb planted at a natural gas station killed dozens. An attack on a Sufi shrine in April 2011 killed more than 50 in Dera Ghazi Khan, and the U.S. State Department also suspects the group may have been involved in the killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. Assaults on U.S. and U.S. Consulate in Peshawar. The TTP have also claimed responsibility for the assassination of a Saudi Arabian diplomat.
But the horror of the latest outrage, at the Peshawar military school, showing TTP attackers gunning down students taking an exam, and others selectively being taken out for execution in front of their classmates was too much to stomach even for the extra-liberal Pakistanis who were whining about desirability of peace talks between their government and the TTP. Indeed, even the Afghan Taliban condemned the Peshawar Army School massacre by a statement terming as anti-Islam the act of execution of innocent children.
The Pakistani Taliban said it staged the attack in retaliation for the Pakistan Army’s ongoing operations in the North Waziristan tribal area. It said it had targeted the school “because the government is targeting our families and females” in the military operations, “We want them to feel the pain.”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called the attack on the school a national tragedy. His statement read: “I can’t stay back in Islamabad. This is a national tragedy unleashed by savages. These were my kids.” The provincial government declared three days of mourning over the tragedy. Along with Pakistan, Turkey also observed a day of mourning with flags flying half-mast.
Widespread condemnation
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the “blood-curdling attack” on school children in Peshawar: “It is an act of horror and rank cowardice to attack defenseless children while they learn. The hearts of the world go out to the parents and families who lost loved ones in the horrific attack. The UN would continue to support the Government of Pakistan in its fight against terror and extremism.”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, condemning the massacre as “an utterly despicable and incomprehensibly vicious attack on defenseless children,” said: “The Taliban have sunk to an all-time depth with this attack. Everyone must now unite to combat this type of savage extremism. No Government or intelligence agencies, no religious figures, no wealthy sponsors, no members of the general public can possibly justify continuing support for the Taliban, ISIL, Boko Haram, Al Qaida or any of these takfiri groups which appear to be competing to attain the highest level of human barbarity.”
Sam Kutesa, President of the UN General Assembly, condemned the Peshawar massacre and in a statement conveyed his deepest sympathy and condolences to the victims of this heinous act, to their families, and to the people and the Government of Pakistan: “President Kutesa expresses the solidarity of the United Nations General Assembly with the people and Government of Pakistan in this difficult moment.”
The UN Security Council condemned the attack, calling it a “heinous act of terrorism” and underlining the need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice, urged all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, “to cooperate actively with relevant authorities in this regard.”
Modi condemned attack
A statement by the U.S. President released by the White House on Dec. 16 read: “The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s horrific attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, and loved ones. By targeting students and teachers in this heinous attack, terrorists have once again shown their depravity. We stand with the people of Pakistan, and reiterate the commitment of the United States to support the Government of Pakistan in efforts to combat terrorism and extremism and to promote peace and stability in the region.”
The chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed who is accused by India of masterminding 26/11 Mumbai attacks and former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf blamed India for the horrific killing of 132 innocent school children in Peshawar. Musharraf said the perpetrators of the crime were those trained by India: “Taliban’s commander was supported by Afghanistan and India to carry out terrorist attack in Pakistan”. Saeed said in Lahore that India was behind the massacre and threatened to send mujahids to create havoc on the Indian soil: “If India can send troops to Afghanistan to help the US, then Mujahideen have every right to go to Kashmir and help their brethren. Kashmiris are clamouring for help and it is our duty to respond to their call.”
But in reality, Indian reactions were exceptionally sympathetic towards the people and the government of Pakistan. In a mark of solidarity, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the night of December 16 to offer his condolences. In the call made soon after Sharif returned to Islamabad from Peshawar, Modi condemned the Taliban attack in the strongest terms, and said that the “shared pain and mourning is a call for our two countries and all those who believe in humanity to join hands to decisively and comprehensively defeat terrorism”.
Pak army chief visits Kabul
A press release by the Indian external affairs ministry stated: “The Prime Minister said this savage killing of innocent children, who are the epitome of the finest human values, in a temple of learning was not only an attack against Pakistan but an assault against all of humanity.” Modi also instructed Indian schools to observe two minutes of silence in memory the school children killed in Peshawar, and the Indian parliament did the same.
Prime Minister Sharif also spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that night to discuss how both countries could do more to fight terrorism. The two leaders agreed to launch fresh operations on their respective sides of the border.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s army chief General Raheel Sharif dashed to the Afghan capital, Kabul, on a surprise visit to discuss security co-operation aimed at tackling the Taliban insurgency. Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah is believed by the Pakistani authorities to be hiding in Afghanistan and media reports in Pakistan suggest the school attack may have been co-ordinated from Afghanistan, although the TTP claimed the attack had been masterminded by its own military chief in the Peshawar region, who had also been in touch with the gunmen throughout the assault. The trip, by Gen. Raheel Sharif and Lt. Gen. Rizwan Akhtar, the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, was welcomed by officials of both countries as an effort to find common ground.
Pakistani officials have been increasingly assertive before the Kabul meeting protesting operations by Afghan-based elements of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan: “The intel monitored the conversation between the attackers and their handler, who was across the border during the siege.” During a lengthy meeting at the Afghan presidential palace, the Pakistani officials shared intelligence with President Ashraf Ghani and the top American military commander Gen. John F. Campbell. A statement from the palace said the two countries had agreed on increased mutual cooperation in fighting extremism. In Peshawar, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared. “I announce that there will be no differentiation between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban.”
Paradigm shift
On 17 December, Sharif told an All Parties Conference: “Our aim is to clean this region of terrorism. Not only Pakistan and Afghanistan but indeed this entire region should be cleaned of terrorism.” Sitting grim-faced beside the prime minister was Imran Khan, the opposition leader who has spent the past four months trying to oust Mr. Sharif over vote-rigging accusations. In response to the crisis, Imran Khan has agreed to suspend his street campaign.
Writing in summer last year, a Pakistani strategic thinker Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Quaid-e-Azam Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University divined signs of a shift in the matrix of Pakistan’s “Regional Pivot”. The abstract of his thesis read: Pakistan’s recent assumption of the role as a key facilitator of the Afghan reconciliation process signals a pragmatic shift in its regional security approach. Occurring essentially in response to NATO’s military exit from Afghanistan, this shift entails a major compromise on its previous India-centric ‘strategic depth’ policy of dominating Afghanistan through Pashtun-Taliban proxies. It is a part of its broader “regional pivot” towards enhanced cooperation with regional states to secure long-term geo-economic gains such as increasing the level of trade with India, gaining access to Central Asian energy sources, and making Pakistan a corridor of trade and energy from Central to South Asia.
Consequently, the country has reached out to traditionally hostile non-Pashtun Afghan leaders of the erstwhile Northern Alliance, proactively pursued peace process with India; and diversified regional and international relations as manifested in rapid progress in its relations with Russia and Central Asian states, expanding strategic partnership with China and energy-centric amity with Iran. As the end-2014 deadline of the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan looms, it is important to recognize the evolving transformation in Pakistan’s Afghan and regional approaches, especially its potential for Afghan peace and regional stability.
Hangover of past policies and glaciers of mutual suspicion may have been retarding the process of that paradigm shift. Optimists have to wait and watch whether the shock of the Peshawar massacre and its impact on the three capitals, Delhi, Islamabad and Kabul may now dissolve the impediments and facilitate the making of a common cause for regional stability and prosperity.
Sadeq Khan
Friday, December 19, 2014
Viewers around the world of newscast in the electronic media and in particular those in South Asia were aghast by the horrendous sights of massacre of school children by seven gun-toting suicide-bombers, six of them in army disguise, taking the students and teachers hostage in their classrooms and mercilessly executing them one by one by gunshots in Peshawar, Pakistan on 16 December. Of some 500 students and teachers in that Army Public School, 141 were dead on the spot, 132 of whom were children including some as young as 12 years of age, by the time the assailants could be tackled by military operations lasting 9 hours.
The culprits blew themselves up or were blown by bombs they were wearing when they were shot. Seven more died in hospital from amongst 150 injured, including some soldiers of the rescue team.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan who claimed responsibility for the deadly attack are not “the Taliban” that the U.S.-led NATO forces have been at war with in Afghanistan. But that they adopted the name “Taliban” is no coincidence. The group shares its religious extremist ideology with its namesake in Afghanistan as well as with al Qaeda but is its own distinct group. Its primary target is the Pakistani state and it’s military. It resents the fact that Pakistan has an alliance with the West, and it wants Sharia to be imposed in Pakistan. It rejects the Pakistani constitution, and rejects the democratic process in Pakistan.
Afghan Taliban condemned massacre
In a December 2009 bombing of a mosque frequented by Pakistani military personnel, the group killed 36 and wounded 75. In March 2011, a TTP bomb planted at a natural gas station killed dozens. An attack on a Sufi shrine in April 2011 killed more than 50 in Dera Ghazi Khan, and the U.S. State Department also suspects the group may have been involved in the killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. Assaults on U.S. and U.S. Consulate in Peshawar. The TTP have also claimed responsibility for the assassination of a Saudi Arabian diplomat.
But the horror of the latest outrage, at the Peshawar military school, showing TTP attackers gunning down students taking an exam, and others selectively being taken out for execution in front of their classmates was too much to stomach even for the extra-liberal Pakistanis who were whining about desirability of peace talks between their government and the TTP. Indeed, even the Afghan Taliban condemned the Peshawar Army School massacre by a statement terming as anti-Islam the act of execution of innocent children.
The Pakistani Taliban said it staged the attack in retaliation for the Pakistan Army’s ongoing operations in the North Waziristan tribal area. It said it had targeted the school “because the government is targeting our families and females” in the military operations, “We want them to feel the pain.”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called the attack on the school a national tragedy. His statement read: “I can’t stay back in Islamabad. This is a national tragedy unleashed by savages. These were my kids.” The provincial government declared three days of mourning over the tragedy. Along with Pakistan, Turkey also observed a day of mourning with flags flying half-mast.
Widespread condemnation
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the “blood-curdling attack” on school children in Peshawar: “It is an act of horror and rank cowardice to attack defenseless children while they learn. The hearts of the world go out to the parents and families who lost loved ones in the horrific attack. The UN would continue to support the Government of Pakistan in its fight against terror and extremism.”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, condemning the massacre as “an utterly despicable and incomprehensibly vicious attack on defenseless children,” said: “The Taliban have sunk to an all-time depth with this attack. Everyone must now unite to combat this type of savage extremism. No Government or intelligence agencies, no religious figures, no wealthy sponsors, no members of the general public can possibly justify continuing support for the Taliban, ISIL, Boko Haram, Al Qaida or any of these takfiri groups which appear to be competing to attain the highest level of human barbarity.”
Sam Kutesa, President of the UN General Assembly, condemned the Peshawar massacre and in a statement conveyed his deepest sympathy and condolences to the victims of this heinous act, to their families, and to the people and the Government of Pakistan: “President Kutesa expresses the solidarity of the United Nations General Assembly with the people and Government of Pakistan in this difficult moment.”
The UN Security Council condemned the attack, calling it a “heinous act of terrorism” and underlining the need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice, urged all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, “to cooperate actively with relevant authorities in this regard.”
Modi condemned attack
A statement by the U.S. President released by the White House on Dec. 16 read: “The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s horrific attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, and loved ones. By targeting students and teachers in this heinous attack, terrorists have once again shown their depravity. We stand with the people of Pakistan, and reiterate the commitment of the United States to support the Government of Pakistan in efforts to combat terrorism and extremism and to promote peace and stability in the region.”
The chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed who is accused by India of masterminding 26/11 Mumbai attacks and former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf blamed India for the horrific killing of 132 innocent school children in Peshawar. Musharraf said the perpetrators of the crime were those trained by India: “Taliban’s commander was supported by Afghanistan and India to carry out terrorist attack in Pakistan”. Saeed said in Lahore that India was behind the massacre and threatened to send mujahids to create havoc on the Indian soil: “If India can send troops to Afghanistan to help the US, then Mujahideen have every right to go to Kashmir and help their brethren. Kashmiris are clamouring for help and it is our duty to respond to their call.”
But in reality, Indian reactions were exceptionally sympathetic towards the people and the government of Pakistan. In a mark of solidarity, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the night of December 16 to offer his condolences. In the call made soon after Sharif returned to Islamabad from Peshawar, Modi condemned the Taliban attack in the strongest terms, and said that the “shared pain and mourning is a call for our two countries and all those who believe in humanity to join hands to decisively and comprehensively defeat terrorism”.
Pak army chief visits Kabul
A press release by the Indian external affairs ministry stated: “The Prime Minister said this savage killing of innocent children, who are the epitome of the finest human values, in a temple of learning was not only an attack against Pakistan but an assault against all of humanity.” Modi also instructed Indian schools to observe two minutes of silence in memory the school children killed in Peshawar, and the Indian parliament did the same.
Prime Minister Sharif also spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that night to discuss how both countries could do more to fight terrorism. The two leaders agreed to launch fresh operations on their respective sides of the border.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s army chief General Raheel Sharif dashed to the Afghan capital, Kabul, on a surprise visit to discuss security co-operation aimed at tackling the Taliban insurgency. Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah is believed by the Pakistani authorities to be hiding in Afghanistan and media reports in Pakistan suggest the school attack may have been co-ordinated from Afghanistan, although the TTP claimed the attack had been masterminded by its own military chief in the Peshawar region, who had also been in touch with the gunmen throughout the assault. The trip, by Gen. Raheel Sharif and Lt. Gen. Rizwan Akhtar, the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, was welcomed by officials of both countries as an effort to find common ground.
Pakistani officials have been increasingly assertive before the Kabul meeting protesting operations by Afghan-based elements of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan: “The intel monitored the conversation between the attackers and their handler, who was across the border during the siege.” During a lengthy meeting at the Afghan presidential palace, the Pakistani officials shared intelligence with President Ashraf Ghani and the top American military commander Gen. John F. Campbell. A statement from the palace said the two countries had agreed on increased mutual cooperation in fighting extremism. In Peshawar, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared. “I announce that there will be no differentiation between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban.”
Paradigm shift
On 17 December, Sharif told an All Parties Conference: “Our aim is to clean this region of terrorism. Not only Pakistan and Afghanistan but indeed this entire region should be cleaned of terrorism.” Sitting grim-faced beside the prime minister was Imran Khan, the opposition leader who has spent the past four months trying to oust Mr. Sharif over vote-rigging accusations. In response to the crisis, Imran Khan has agreed to suspend his street campaign.
Writing in summer last year, a Pakistani strategic thinker Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Quaid-e-Azam Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University divined signs of a shift in the matrix of Pakistan’s “Regional Pivot”. The abstract of his thesis read: Pakistan’s recent assumption of the role as a key facilitator of the Afghan reconciliation process signals a pragmatic shift in its regional security approach. Occurring essentially in response to NATO’s military exit from Afghanistan, this shift entails a major compromise on its previous India-centric ‘strategic depth’ policy of dominating Afghanistan through Pashtun-Taliban proxies. It is a part of its broader “regional pivot” towards enhanced cooperation with regional states to secure long-term geo-economic gains such as increasing the level of trade with India, gaining access to Central Asian energy sources, and making Pakistan a corridor of trade and energy from Central to South Asia.
Consequently, the country has reached out to traditionally hostile non-Pashtun Afghan leaders of the erstwhile Northern Alliance, proactively pursued peace process with India; and diversified regional and international relations as manifested in rapid progress in its relations with Russia and Central Asian states, expanding strategic partnership with China and energy-centric amity with Iran. As the end-2014 deadline of the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan looms, it is important to recognize the evolving transformation in Pakistan’s Afghan and regional approaches, especially its potential for Afghan peace and regional stability.
Hangover of past policies and glaciers of mutual suspicion may have been retarding the process of that paradigm shift. Optimists have to wait and watch whether the shock of the Peshawar massacre and its impact on the three capitals, Delhi, Islamabad and Kabul may now dissolve the impediments and facilitate the making of a common cause for regional stability and prosperity.
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سردار عبدالرب نشتر نے قائداعظم کے بارے میں اپنی کتاب میں ایک دلچسپ واقعہ تحریر کیا ہے۔’’
جب ہم مانکی سے رخصت ہورہے تھے تو قائداعظم آگے آگے تھے اور پیر صاحب مانکی شریف سمیت پیران ان کے پیچھے پیچھے چل رہے تھے۔ جب قائداعظم موٹر میں بیٹھ گئے تو میں بھی ساتھ بیٹھا اور موٹر روانہ ہوگئی تو میں نے کہا قائداعظم مجھے ہنسی آتی تھی لیکن میں نے ضبط کرلی،۔ پوچھا کیوں؟
میں نے کہا’ جب ہم ان پیروں کے پاس جاتے ہیں تو بہت عزت واحترام سے ان کے سامنے بیٹھ جاتے ہیں لیکن آج تمام پیر آپ کے پیچھے پیچھے آرہے تھے تو مجھے ہنسی آرہی تھی۔ ‘ فرمانے لگے ’تمہیں معلوم ہے اور ان کو بھی معلوم ہے کہ میں متقی ، پرہیز گار اور زاہد نہیں ہوں۔ میری شکل وصورت زاہدوں کی سی نہیں ہے۔ مغربی لباس پہنتا ہوں لیکن اس کے باوجود یہ لوگ میرے ساتھ اتنا اچھا سلوک کیوں کرتے ہیں۔
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اس کی وجہ یہ ہے کہ ہرمسلمان کو یہ یقین ہوگیا ہے کہ برصغیر کے مسلمانوں کے حقوق میرے ہاتھ میں محفوظ ہیں اور میں اپنی قوم کو کسی قیمت پر بھی فروخت نہیں کرسکتا۔‘‘
جب ہم مانکی سے رخصت ہورہے تھے تو قائداعظم آگے آگے تھے اور پیر صاحب مانکی شریف سمیت پیران ان کے پیچھے پیچھے چل رہے تھے۔ جب قائداعظم موٹر میں بیٹھ گئے تو میں بھی ساتھ بیٹھا اور موٹر روانہ ہوگئی تو میں نے کہا قائداعظم مجھے ہنسی آتی تھی لیکن میں نے ضبط کرلی،۔ پوچھا کیوں؟
میں نے کہا’ جب ہم ان پیروں کے پاس جاتے ہیں تو بہت عزت واحترام سے ان کے سامنے بیٹھ جاتے ہیں لیکن آج تمام پیر آپ کے پیچھے پیچھے آرہے تھے تو مجھے ہنسی آرہی تھی۔ ‘ فرمانے لگے ’تمہیں معلوم ہے اور ان کو بھی معلوم ہے کہ میں متقی ، پرہیز گار اور زاہد نہیں ہوں۔ میری شکل وصورت زاہدوں کی سی نہیں ہے۔ مغربی لباس پہنتا ہوں لیکن اس کے باوجود یہ لوگ میرے ساتھ اتنا اچھا سلوک کیوں کرتے ہیں۔
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اس کی وجہ یہ ہے کہ ہرمسلمان کو یہ یقین ہوگیا ہے کہ برصغیر کے مسلمانوں کے حقوق میرے ہاتھ میں محفوظ ہیں اور میں اپنی قوم کو کسی قیمت پر بھی فروخت نہیں کرسکتا۔‘‘
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Let's forget about humanity and religion then. Lets talk pragmatism. It would be a gross misunderstanding to think that we are fighting a war against a group of people, we are in fact at war with an ideology, a mental state and a modus operandi and as such we must fight it with an ideology and a code of conduct which is it's antitheses. If we start killing everything in sight, telecast it on TV, in public squares and in everyone's home we will be satisfying our anger but will be shaping a Pakistan for the future generations in which barbarism and revenge meted out of anger will be just as normal as say, the killing of non-Muslims after meagre Muslim sentiment. Another heavy stone in a sinking boat. We need to make sure that we come out as the opposite of what the Taliban are, if not then we will have lost having still killed all the terrorists. Where will we stand with our claimed moral high ground then? Of what end will this war be then for? The Taliban then will live for ever. The time to lay the foundations of justice, civility and civil thought in this country is now. Make this amply clear that there is no one here preaching mercy, we are advocating justice. We have to be precise, swift and terrifyingly clinical when retaliating to this murder of our children, something which will make our enemies soil their pants.
ps: The wants of this emotionally charged society is one of the major reasons for the fubar situation we see right now. These very same emotional people, only a few years ago, wanted Pakistan to fight on behest of their 'Muslim brothers' i.e. the Taliban.
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That is a hint towards killing the enemies' kids? If so then it is most highly unjust. A child is a dependant. With a mind malliable enough to believe in fairies and Santa Clause, for whom then his/her parents are god if not more. He stands where they tell him to stand, he defecates when they tell him to. It is not his will, not his choice nor his actions. You cannot go after him explicitly for complicity, period, something which the army took care of well by allowing the locals to vacate the areas before going in. Otherwise it is unjust, barbaric and unbecoming of a human being.
Of course, explicitly direct crimes by minors and situations when it is unavoidable are a different issue for which there is a well established code of conduct.
They most certainly will. You are talking about a people which takes lives for mere words and lynches kids in Sialkot.
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MQM lodges FIR against Lal Masjid's Maulana Abdul Aziz
Dawn.com
Updated about an hour ago
Supporters of MQM protesting against Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz at outside Karachi Press club. -INP Photo
KARACHI: A first information report (FIR) was lodged against Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz by Muthida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on charges of threatening party chief Altaf Hussain, terrorism, provocation and cyber crime on Sunday.
This is the second FIR against the Lal Masjid cleric in a span of two days, the earlier one being filed by civil society activists in Islamabad.
Read also: ‘No room for those who preach hatred’
Slamming Aziz's video message where he threatened the MQM chief, Rabita Commitee leaders said that those running away in burqas must not threaten Altaf Hussain who is the leader of millions of Pakistanis.
On Sunday, a large number of MQM leaders including MPAs, MNAs, Senators, and workers reached the Azizabad police station.
The case against the cleric was lodged by Advocate Arif Khan. The complainant submitted as proof the video message as well as the written document where in the Lal Masjid cleric threatened Altaf.
Later, MQM also held a protest outside the Karachi Press Club.
“Death to terrorists” chants outside Army Public School
AFP
Published about 8 hours ago
PESHAWAR: Thousands of Pakistanis flocked to the Army Public School on Sunday to mourn the more than 140 people — mainly children — massacred by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and demand action against militants.
Men, women and children from Peshawar and other cities visited the army-run institution to offer prayers for those killed in the country's deadliest-ever terror attack.
Pakistan has described Tuesday's bloody rampage as its own “mini 9/11”, calling it a game-changer in the fight against extremism. Mourners placed flowers, bouquets, placards and lighted candles in front of photos of murdered students.
Masons laid bricks and poured cement to raise the height of the wall around the Army Public School as mourners chanted slogans such as “Death to terrorists”, “Long live Pakistan army”, “The blood of martyrs will not go waste” and “Taliban are savages”.
“What kind of a person can kill a child?” asked local resident Imdad Hussain, who came to pray for the children. “What kind of justice is this, what kind of Islam is this?” he asked, urging the government swiftly to wipe out terrorists.
A local woman, her face covered with a shawl, said parents had thought their sons and daughters would be safe in school. But now they believed their children were not safe anywhere.
“First they attacked mosques, then markets and now they have started attacking schools. We cannot tolerate this. We can die, but we will not let our children be killed,” she said.
Shugufta Bibi, 28, said her friend lost his son in Tuesday's attack and she had come to pay respects to his memory. “I demand that the government close in on the terrorists and hang them in public,” Bibi said.
Tributes and condolences poured in on social media as well. The city's Christian community will cancel Christmas celebrations and will just hold a service on Dec 25, said the Rev Patrick John of All Saints Church.
The school massacre has been condemned even by the Afghan Taliban, who are loosely affiliated with the TTP in Pakistan.
In a statement Sunday the regional Al-Qaeda chapter also expressed grief at the killings and urged fellow militants to target only security forces. “Our hearts are bursting with pain and grief over this incident,” said Osama Mehmood, spokesman for Al-Qaeda's South Asia chapter.
After the school attack Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ended a six-year moratorium on the death penalty, reinstating its use for terrorism-related cases.
Two militants convicted of separate offences were the first to face the noose. Human Rights Watch termed the executions “a craven politicised reaction to the Peshawar killings” and demanded that no further hangings be carried out.
The two militants hanged Friday in the central province of Punjab were Aqil, convicted of an attack on army headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009, and Arshad Mehmood — sentenced for involvement in a 2003 assassination attempt on then-military ruler General Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan put all its airports on red alert Saturday as the military intensified operations against militants in the troubled northwestern tribal areas. The TTP said the school attack by a suicide squad was revenge for the killing of militants' families in that offensive.
The military has since June been waging the assault against longstanding TTP and other militant strongholds.
But a series of fresh strikes since the Peshawar attack, in which dozens of alleged militants were killed, suggest the campaign is being stepped up.
The army has also been deployed to guard major prisons housing militants. Officials have said there would be up to ten more executions in coming days.
Dawn.com
Updated about an hour ago
Supporters of MQM protesting against Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz at outside Karachi Press club. -INP Photo
KARACHI: A first information report (FIR) was lodged against Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz by Muthida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on charges of threatening party chief Altaf Hussain, terrorism, provocation and cyber crime on Sunday.
This is the second FIR against the Lal Masjid cleric in a span of two days, the earlier one being filed by civil society activists in Islamabad.
Read also: ‘No room for those who preach hatred’
Slamming Aziz's video message where he threatened the MQM chief, Rabita Commitee leaders said that those running away in burqas must not threaten Altaf Hussain who is the leader of millions of Pakistanis.
On Sunday, a large number of MQM leaders including MPAs, MNAs, Senators, and workers reached the Azizabad police station.
The case against the cleric was lodged by Advocate Arif Khan. The complainant submitted as proof the video message as well as the written document where in the Lal Masjid cleric threatened Altaf.
Later, MQM also held a protest outside the Karachi Press Club.
“Death to terrorists” chants outside Army Public School
AFP
Published about 8 hours ago
PESHAWAR: Thousands of Pakistanis flocked to the Army Public School on Sunday to mourn the more than 140 people — mainly children — massacred by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and demand action against militants.
Men, women and children from Peshawar and other cities visited the army-run institution to offer prayers for those killed in the country's deadliest-ever terror attack.
Pakistan has described Tuesday's bloody rampage as its own “mini 9/11”, calling it a game-changer in the fight against extremism. Mourners placed flowers, bouquets, placards and lighted candles in front of photos of murdered students.
Masons laid bricks and poured cement to raise the height of the wall around the Army Public School as mourners chanted slogans such as “Death to terrorists”, “Long live Pakistan army”, “The blood of martyrs will not go waste” and “Taliban are savages”.
“What kind of a person can kill a child?” asked local resident Imdad Hussain, who came to pray for the children. “What kind of justice is this, what kind of Islam is this?” he asked, urging the government swiftly to wipe out terrorists.
A local woman, her face covered with a shawl, said parents had thought their sons and daughters would be safe in school. But now they believed their children were not safe anywhere.
“First they attacked mosques, then markets and now they have started attacking schools. We cannot tolerate this. We can die, but we will not let our children be killed,” she said.
Shugufta Bibi, 28, said her friend lost his son in Tuesday's attack and she had come to pay respects to his memory. “I demand that the government close in on the terrorists and hang them in public,” Bibi said.
Tributes and condolences poured in on social media as well. The city's Christian community will cancel Christmas celebrations and will just hold a service on Dec 25, said the Rev Patrick John of All Saints Church.
The school massacre has been condemned even by the Afghan Taliban, who are loosely affiliated with the TTP in Pakistan.
In a statement Sunday the regional Al-Qaeda chapter also expressed grief at the killings and urged fellow militants to target only security forces. “Our hearts are bursting with pain and grief over this incident,” said Osama Mehmood, spokesman for Al-Qaeda's South Asia chapter.
After the school attack Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ended a six-year moratorium on the death penalty, reinstating its use for terrorism-related cases.
Two militants convicted of separate offences were the first to face the noose. Human Rights Watch termed the executions “a craven politicised reaction to the Peshawar killings” and demanded that no further hangings be carried out.
The two militants hanged Friday in the central province of Punjab were Aqil, convicted of an attack on army headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009, and Arshad Mehmood — sentenced for involvement in a 2003 assassination attempt on then-military ruler General Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan put all its airports on red alert Saturday as the military intensified operations against militants in the troubled northwestern tribal areas. The TTP said the school attack by a suicide squad was revenge for the killing of militants' families in that offensive.
The military has since June been waging the assault against longstanding TTP and other militant strongholds.
But a series of fresh strikes since the Peshawar attack, in which dozens of alleged militants were killed, suggest the campaign is being stepped up.
The army has also been deployed to guard major prisons housing militants. Officials have said there would be up to ten more executions in coming days.
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A student in Karachi holding a rose takes part in a prayer for victims of the Taliban attack on Army Public School in Peshawar. – Reuters
Activists light candles. — AFP
Activists of a religious group's student wing hold a flower basket and candles. — AP
A man lights candles to mourn victims from Army Public School in Peshawar. — Reuters
Children pray for the departed school children in Peshawar. — AP
Candle light vigil in Islamabad. — AP
PTI activists light candles for the victims in Karachi. — AFP
Students in Karachi read the Holy Quran and pray for the victims. — AFP
People partake in a candle light vigil at Teen Talwar, Clifton, Karachi. — Ali Umair Jaffery
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