Red Alert in Pakistan

[Adux]

Red alert in Pak

Sunday, July 29, 2007
18:46 IST

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Islamabad: Pakistan government has sounded a red alert in the wake of reports about presence of 600 suicide bombers within the limits of national capital and asked security personnels to avoid gathering in groups and not to wear uniform in public.


Pakistan federal capital is likely to suffer from more suicide bombings as around 600 suicide bombers are hiding in madrassas and mosques within the limits of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Daily Times quoted officials as saying.


Most of these suicide bombers were believed to be those who went missing after the crackdown on Lal Masjid.


"Around 600 students of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia have not returned to their homes after the Lal Masjid operation.


These are the people called 'missing students' and they are hiding in madrassas and mosques in and around the two cities. These are walking bombs and are determined to blow themselves up any time, anywhere," officials said.


The presence of the bombers was revealed by the sacked chief cleric of Lal Masjid Abdul Aziz, who is in custody.

Time for everyone to really worry about the mullah's taking over or atleast trying to take over control of pakistan.

 

[A.Rahman]

whats the source?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Time for everyone to really worry about the mullah's taking over or atleast trying to take over control of pakistan.

Be sensible now Adux. Do the Iraqis love Al Qaeda after the terror they have experienced? Pakistan is not some African country with a rag tag army that will not be able to stop these Neanderthals if they were to somehow manage to come up with a unified force. This is the height of their power; to kill innocent people with their bombs. If this story is true, and these people are not stopped, their explosions will sound the death knell of the dream of implementing any sort of "Islamic Rule" in Pakistan. BB's joined up with Musharraf, and she's talked about dealing harshly not just with the terrorists in the Tribal areas, but also the Madrassa's. This may well be a turning point in Pakistan's history, as the last shreds of support for these people vanish.

 

[IceCold]

No 1s trying to take control so relax. Its the usual propaganda stuff making pakistan look like a terrorist state. Your source ADUX

 

[irfan1173]

AoA
Daily Times

 

[Neo]

whats the source?

Daily Times published the article in today's edition:

600 ‘suicide bombers’ lurking in twin cities​

* ‘Walking bombs’ left Lal Masjid before final military operation

By Sharif Khan

ISLAMABAD: The federal capital is likely to suffer from more suicide bombings as around 600 suicide bombers are hiding in madrassas and mosques within and around the limits of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, sources told Daily Times on Saturday.

“Around 600 students of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia have not returned to their homes after the Lal Masjid operation. These are the people called ‘missing students’ and they are hiding in madrassas and mosques in and around the two cities. These are walking bombs and are determined to blow themselves up any time, anywhere,” said a source directly involved in the ongoing investigation of suicide blasts in the country.

“During interrogation, former Lal Masjid prayer leader Maulana Abdul Aziz said that five to six hundred students of the two madrassas had been trained, equipped and brainwashed to carry out suicide attacks. These students left the madrassa according to a plan before the final operation against the mosque was launched,” the source said, adding that some female students had also been trained to provide support to these bombers.

“During the debriefing of students captured from Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa, the security agencies learnt that the teenaged students believed that President Pervez Musharraf and his team were kaafirs (non-believers) and agents of the US and had to be killed. The bombers are targeting army and law enforcement personnel to avenge the killings of their colleagues and Abdul Rashid Ghazi,” said the source.

According to intelligence reports, at least 60 operatives are masterminding the attacks against security personnel.

“Investigations have revealed that these operatives are operating from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas,” the source said, adding that military actions alone against the militants would not bear the desired results. “Neither the operation nor massive killings can resolve this issue. It will instead trigger an unending bloodbath throughout the country,” the source quoted Maulana Aziz as telling his interrogators.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\29\story_29-7-2007_pg1_3

 

[Neo]

Army, law enforcers warned against wearing uniform in public ​

ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry has warned soldiers and officers of the Pakistan Army, Frontier Constabulary, Elite Force, Anti-Riots Force, Punjab Rangers and Punjab Constabulary against moving in public places and driving private cars while in uniform. It has also warned the Islamabad administration to restrict unnecessary movement of Punjab Constabulary personnel in Islamabad, Daily Times learnt on Saturday.

The warning has been issued after a suicide blast at Aabpara Market on Friday in which 15 people including seven policemen were killed and several others injured. The blast, which targeted the police, was the latest in a wave of terror attacks in the country. The ministry’s warning said that suicide bombers could target the civil armed forces and Punjab Constabulary to avenge the Lal Masjid operation that left more than 102 dead, mostly madrassa students. The ministry has directed the Islamabad administration to improve its coordination with the intelligence agencies to counter terrorism in the federal capital. naveed siddiqui

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\29\story_29-7-2007_pg1_4

 

[Neo]

Although mullah's taking over control isn't a realistic option the situation is worrysome sice its all happening in the Capital.

 

[Adux]

AM,

Mullah taking over is definitly a relastic option in my opinion, it depends how much of ISI and Armed Forces are with Musharraf right now.
Musharaf played two defensive strokes in Bhutto and CJ issue. He is in a hard place now. An assassination of Musharraf will throw up the Pakistani Leadership wide open, The strong will win.

 

[Neo]

Mullah's arn't strong, Islamic parties never scored more than 11% votes in elections.
ISI might have a few hardliners, its not a radical organisation.

 

[Adux]

Neo,

What makes you think Mullah's will come through the ballot box to grab power?

PS: I can see you are weeding out un-needed stuff in the forum, thank you.

 

[Wounded Healer]

The Mullahs cannot come into power, not yet anyway.......majority of the people are totally against them now, specially after what they did when they won the seats in N.W.F.P. and Baluchistan....the people are totally against them now.
the Mullahs have lost their support....granted that they are still quite strong in some places but that number is minimal.

 

[Neo]

Neo,

What makes you think Mullah's will come through the ballot box to grab power?

Adu,

No military ruler would last long without support from America and Pakistani's are way too moderate to accept a taliban style government. What happened in Iran or Afghanistan is simply not possible in Pakistan.

PS: I can see you are weeding out un-needed stuff in the forum, thank you.

Its needed!

 

[Neo]

The Mullahs cannot come into power, not yet anyway.......majority of the people are totally against them now, specially after what they did when they won the seats in N.W.F.P. and Baluchistan....the people are totally against them now.
the Mullahs have lost their support....granted that they are still quite strong in some places but that number is minimal.

Agreed! If anyting good came out of Lal Masjid Affair, its the revealing of true face of mullah's and realisation that its the actual cancer of the society.
General public opinion is very anti mullah at the moment.

 

[kidwaibhai]

WASHINGTON, July 25: Fully 70 per cent of Palestinians believe suicide bombing is justified but support for terrorism is declining in the wider Muslim world, according to a comprehensive US survey released on Tuesday (Wednesday in Pakistan).

The Pew Research Centre said its annual “Global Attitudes” report also showed that the United States’s image in Muslim-majority countries remains “abysmal,” and that solid majorities see Washington as a military threat.

Support for terrorist tactics has fallen in seven of the eight countries polled on that question since 2002, the Washington-based group said.

In Lebanon, those believing that suicide bombing is justified often or sometimes has slumped from 74 per cent five years ago to 34 per cent now. In Pakistan, where Islamist violence has surged, the figure is just nine per cent.

In parallel, the Pew group reported “large drops in support for Osama bin Laden,” the Al Qaeda founder.

It cited Jordan, where the percentage of Muslims who have “confidence in bin Laden as a world leader” has slumped 36 percentage points since 2003.

But in the Palestinian territories, 41 per cent said suicide bombing was justified often, and 29 per cent said sometimes. Just six per cent said it was never justified, by far the smallest proportion of the places polled.

“Acceptance of extreme terrorist tactics in the Palestinian territories is remarkably uniform across major demographic groups,” including women, the young and the old, and those less religiously minded, Pew said.

Across the Muslim world, majorities fret that the United States could become a military threat to their country, including 93 per cent of Bangladeshis, 77 per cent of people in Nato ally Turkey, and 73 per cent of Pakistanis.—AFP

I think that this clearly suggests that the extremists are losing their support in pakistan and they have pver played their hand drastically.