Suicide Blast In Muzaffarabad

[Bill Longley]

Today around 0620 a suicide bomber stuck in vicinity of APS Muzaferabad, Capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir according to Private TV channel. According to reports bomber in his late teens tried to enter in Army public School but on challenge by guards blasted him self near an army vehicle killing 2 people and injuring 10 others. Due to summer vocations school was close and students were absent, students were believed to be real target.
In my post Dated 28 May 2009, I published the translation of conversation between Muslim Khan TTP SWAT spokes man with some commander of Baitullahs Group in which Muslim Khan appealed to attack families of security personals.
This is first time any Suicide bomber has hit Azad Kashmir. According to experts this attack is significant in many ways. Muzaferabad is a capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Other Part of Kashmir is under Occupation of India and Freedom Struggle against Indian Imperial Raj is going on since 1989. According to Kashmir media service India is keeping around 7 000000 troops in Kashmir to control Kashmiri freedom struggle. In the so called counter insurgence… it has so far……

From Jan. 1989 to April 30, 2009
Total Killings * 92,812
Custodial Killings 6,955
Civilians Arrested 116,136
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed 105,704
Women Widowed 22,689
Children Orphaned 107,243
Women gang-raped / Molested 9,864

April 2009
Total Killings (including custodial) 31
Men 26
Women 4
Children 1
Custodial Killings 1
Tortured/Critically Injured 218
Civilians Arrested 68
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed 11
Disappeared 2
Women Widowed 2
Children Orphaned 7

Both Pakistan and India have fought 1 major and 2 limited wars over Kashmir. They came near to war many times over Kashmir.
Pakistan is fighting a war of its survival against terrorist. Pakistani Security agencies are getting impressive victories against Takfiri Militants. In media reports that Indian and Afghan agencies are financing and training these Takfiri Militants against Pakistan. Pakistani government has captured many militants who have admitted their external support coming from India and Afghanistan

There is strong evidence that Main Takfiri Leadership fighting in Pakistan has links with India. Now Americans Them selves have started Admitting Indian hand in terrorism in Pakistan.
According to Reports, In Afghanistan Chinese, Russian and Iranian made weapons are captured by NATO and US in routine where as in Pakistan, Captured weapons are NATO and Indian Made. It’s clear from captured weapons that both Taliban movements in Afghanistan and Pakistan have different backings. It also proves that Indian weapons which are not being used in Afghanistan only come through Indian consulates working against Pakistan in Afghanistan.
US it self has reckoned the evidence provided by Pakistan and US under secretary of states William Burns has asked India to close its consulate in Jalalabad
The sources said besides asking India to resume talks with Pakistan, the US was also trying to convey to Indian authorities its views on closing or pruning the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad.

Pakistan Army and Other security agencies have nearly cleared SWAT, Main leadership of TTP swat is either killed or is under Arrest. Where as in another theater in South Waziristan, Forces have enveloped Baitullah Mahsud. It is matter of weeks that TTP Center of Gravity will be destroyed.
Today’s Blast in Muzaferabad can be a massage from Indians and From Takfiri TTP. Especially after the interview of US security adviser James John by leading Pakistani TV channel that US will use its influence to solve Indo-Pak disputes.
After the Rape case of TWO Kashmiri women in which Indian troops Raped and Killed 2 women ,one of whom was pregnant and then Killing them both has created new unrest in the valley. Main Kashmiri leader ship is under arrest in Indian occupied Kashmir.
Although the crimes against Kashmiries, especially women are common in IOK but Indians are in habit of blaming things on Pakistan which their own forces commit. Today’s blast according to analysts can be a massage to Pakistan that Pakistan should forget Kashmir and stop asking US and International community to help resolve the conflict according to wishes of Kashmiries because if it don’t… Indian agencies are capable to hit AJK through their Takfiri agents.
Today’s incident is important to analyze because
1. it happened in Muzaferabad, Capital of Azad Kashmir
2. Happened during Visit of General James John, US security adviser.
3. Pakistan’s impressive performance in defeating Takfiri Taliban Groups
4. The worsening situation in IOK after Rape and murder of two Kashmiri women.
India has always perused policy of regional Imperialism. Its hand in destabilizing its neighbor hood is not a new policy. Its support in creation of LTTE in SriLanka, unrest in Tibet, insurgencies in Bangladesh and Pakistan and Burma, Its dream of becoming a superpower…Bharat Versha… and in the process using cheap Chanakya tactics is observable and academics have written about it in many books and Journals. Indian analysts close to Military establishment are themselves preaching that its in favor of India to destabilize Pakistan.
Pakistani Government should tell the world about Indian designs. India is using two strategies to weaken Pakistan simultaneously.
1. At one hand it is stealing Pakistani waters. Water shortage is causing inter provincial disputes. India at one hand is terrorizing Kashmiri people and on other hand using its influence to stop any step towards resolving Kashmiri Issue. KASHMIR IS MAIN ARTRY OF PAKISTAN AS ALL OF OUR RIVERS COME FROM KASHMIR. IMPERIAL INDIA IS MAKING DAMS ON RIVERS WHICH BELONG TO PAKISTAN ACCORDING TO SINDH WATER TREATY and According to A REPORT IN South Asia Analysis Group few years ago is perusing the policy of Making Pakistan a desert

2. IT’S sponsoring, financing terrorism in Pakistan by promoting sub nationalism and helping Takfiri groups.

Pakistan is a peace loving nation. We have suffered and sacrificed more than any state in this war on terror. Its duty of International community to stop India in its designs. Instead of Taking India as a big market, world should closely study Indian policy of regional imperialism. Then pressurize it to behave for sake of peace and prosperity of people of south Asia.

 

[waraich66]

True , Indian RAW is planning to repeat their game plan of 1971.India is supporting anti pakistan forces including TTP and BLF etc.

It is joint venture of India and Israel , they are spending billion of dollars to disintegrate Pakistan.

Our nukes are main sourse of pain in their neck and @$$.

 

[ajpirzada]

if this has to do anything with indians then let them keep to gud work going. if not then they should get more worried about their part of kashmir. i wonder how can they worry more when there is a protest in IoK every now and then against indian occupation.

in both cases it should serve as an alarm for pakistan. kashmir and northern areas has so far been the safest places in pakistan. this reminds me of the zaid hamid episode on naimatullah shah wali which predicted massive unrest in northern areas of pakistan. funny isnt it
if some of you have seen the next episode, prediction is that we will lose lahore to indians during some final indo-pak and then will regain it. i lik those episodes more than any hollywood movie

 

[rokhanyousafzai]

until the government itself comes out with some real evidence this will continue is there a need though when it seems that hopefully if waziristan goes well they can be cleared and Indias proxy if its proven would have been humiliated

 

[ajpirzada]

^^rit.
i think rit now we need to focus on waziristan (TTP). all roads go to the same person. Baitullah Mehsud.

 

[BSF]

The first video of Al Jazera says nothing about Raw involvement.The man says
that he was paid money to attack and kill Pakistani army soldiers.

The second video says that the person named Musa khan is SUSPECTED to be a RAW agent

The third video says that the person who *accepted* that he was a RAW agent under torture was hired by RAW to click pictures of Pakistani Army.It says nothing about any bomb blasts.

 

[A1Kaid]

This is an act of War.

 

[PeacefulIndian]

This is an act of War.

I don't think so. Firstly, you have no evidence of Indian involvement. If at all there is, most of Pakistani members here support terrorism in 'disputed territories'. If Kashmir is disputed, Pakistani Kashmir is also disputed. And by your own definitions, India has full right to support the freedom fighters there & help them fulfill their dream of freedom. Who else will they look towards, to free them decades of oppression & state sponsored atrocities?

 

[notsuperstitious]

The first video of Al Jazera says nothing about Raw involvement.The man says
that he was paid money to attack and kill Pakistani army soldiers.

The second video says that the person named Musa khan is SUSPECTED to be a RAW agent

The third video says that the person who *accepted* that he was a RAW agent under torture was hired by RAW to click pictures of Pakistani Army.It says nothing about any bomb blasts.

Thanks for saving me the time to watch the videos.

Such posts only preach to the converted.

 

[A1Kaid]

I don't think so. Firstly, you have no evidence of Indian involvement. If at all there is, most of Pakistani members here support terrorism in 'disputed territories'. If Kashmir is disputed, Pakistani Kashmir is also disputed. And by your own definitions, India has full right to support the freedom fighters there & help them fulfill their dream of freedom. Who else will they look towards, to free them decades of oppression & state sponsored atrocities?

Notice how there are no protest and demonstrations in Azad Kashmir, and you talk about "support the freedom fighters there". Those people you are supporting are the Taliban TTP.

" Who else will they look towards, to free them decades of oppression & state sponsored atrocities?"-PeacefulIndian

So you admit Indian involvement, and then you say to me I have no evidence? Damn fool, your comment is really worthless and downright Hinduvata-Chankaya BS, there has been no decades of oppression and state sponsored atrocities in Azad Kashmir perpetrated by Pakistan, even the UN Human Rights council confirms this. India's human rights violations are well known to the UN and it has been recorded that India is to blame for the oppression in Kashmir, you have around 300,000+ armed Indian personnel in Kashmir alone you are running a military police state in occupied Kashmir.


In other words your saying you want to spread your terrorism and oppression to Azad Kashmir to free them or our terrorism and oppression, Damn fool you are PeacefulIndian.

No evidence charge is BS, we have found the money trail and it leads back to RAW.


What we do know is who in the region is likely and most capable to support such terrorism in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan, could it be China, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the equation leads us to the true culprit.

 

[A1Kaid]

It should be openly declared in Pakistan


Anyone cooperating with but not limited to RAW, India, or any Anti-Pakistani group, network, factor, entity, personnel against Pakistan or the interest of the common Pakistani people and Military, is considered a traitor and will be ruthlessly killed and/or brought to trial.


I want to address the Pathan community of Pakistan, we need the support of the Pathans we need them to root out the traitorous elements in their community currently helping our common enemy India. Pathan's should root out this evil (TTP and RAW backed Militants) and menace from Pakistan, report to Pakistani authorities help out the Pakistani army in their investigations and more.


Pakistan must be in a state of vigilance.

 

[A1Kaid]

Indian Terrorist arrested in Lahore with bomb materials

Indian terrorist connected to the bombing of Rescue 15.

This is an Act of War.

 

[Captain03]

awesome post
shows the real indian agenda

 

[notsuperstitious]

Indian Terrorist arrested in Lahore with bomb materials

Indian terrorist connected to the bombing of Rescue 15.

This is an Act of War.

More lies, misleading titles and propoganda.

No mention of any bomb material found with the so called (no 20th of the year btw) invisible RAW operative in lahore. The police officer himself says he's not linking the arrest with the rescue 15 building, but look at the title of the vide and the poster's claim!!!

This is a clear attempt to protect Taliban by diverting Pakistani peoples' attention away from the real threat to the popular one - India. Who are these Talibani supporters trying to fool Pakistanis? What is their plan for Pakistan? These are the real questions until some concrete proof of Indian involvement emerges. Yes I know people are eager to believe , but don't play into the hands of your enemies.

 

[Energon]

Taliban bomber kills 2 troops in Pakistani Kashmir
By RYAN LUCAS
Associated Press Writer
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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack Friday on security forces in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, calling it a sign that recent military strikes targeting the group's top leader have not hampered his ability to hit back.

It was the first time the intensifying conflict between Pakistani forces and the Taliban has reached Kashmir, the disputed Himalayan enclave that has long been a flashpoint for violence between Pakistan and arch-rival India.

The assault was meant to show that the Taliban could strike wherever it wishes in Pakistan, a spokesman for the militants said, indicating they were likely not trying to stoke tensions between the nuclear armed adversaries.

But hitting security forces in such a strategically and politically sensitive region as Kashmir may be an attempt to distract the military as it prepares for a major operation against Pakistani leader Baitullah Mehsud in his stronghold along the Afghan border.

Islamic militant groups have operated in the divided territory of Kashmir for years, often with clandestine support from elements of Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies, analysts say.

But New Dehli's rule over the Indian portion of the region has been the target of previous attacks.

Early Friday, a suicide bomber approached an army vehicle in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, and detonated his explosives, killing two soldiers and wounding 3 others, the army said in a statement.

Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy of the Taliban leader, told The Associated Press that Friday's assault was launched to prove that Mehsud was still a force to be reckoned with despite two major military campaigns against the Taliban in Pakistan's volatile northwest.

"We are in a position to respond to the army's attacks, and time will prove that these military operations have not weakened us," Hakimullah Mehsud told the AP by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Mehsud is blamed for a series of suicide attacks across the country on targets including police and intelligence agency buildings, mosques, markets and an international hotel that have killed more than 100 people since late May.

Mehsud's group has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks and warned of more. It says they are to avenge the military's two-month-old campaign to oust the Taliban from the northeastern Swat Valley and to respond to a second operation against him that is heating up on his home turf of South Waziristan.

The military has said the recent militant attacks are an attempt to distract government forces from their operations in Swat and South Waziristan.

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday repeated that the government would not step back from hunting the Taliban, warning the group's members "to give up militancy and submit to state authority or be prepared for physical extermination," the state-run news agency reported.

Washington strongly supports the operations against the militants, seeing them as a measure of nuclear-armed Pakistan's resolve to tame a growing insurgency after years of unfinished military campaigns and failed peace deals.

Mehsud is believed to be linked with al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban leaders who may be hiding in the rugged, lawless tribal belt on the Pakistan-Afghan border, and defeating him may help the war in Afghanistan because the area has been used as a springboard for cross-border attacks on U.S. and other troops.

Talat Masood, a Pakistani military and political analyst, said Mehsud likely struck in Kashmir "to make it more difficult for the military in South Waziristan by spreading out the conflict."

Ishtiaq Ahmad, an expert on terrorism and regional security at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, said the Kashmir attack was the latest move in what has emerged as a showdown between Mehsud and the military.

"In the past two months, each side has been raising the stakes," Ahmad said. "Battles lines are increasingly being drawn now, and the physical extermination of the enemy has been clearly outlined."

For 20 years, India has accused Pakistan of harboring Islamic militants in Kashmir and helping them sneak across the boundary into its part of Kashmir to launch attacks on Indian security forces. Pakistan denies the allegations.

Pakistani armed forces have been bombing and shelling militant targets in South Waziristan for almost two weeks and says it is preparing for an operation to rout Mehsud.

In the government's latest attack, warplanes bombed two militant targets in the villages of Ladha and Makeen - Mehsud's hometown - killing 10 people and wounding 15, two intelligence officials told the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

Hakimullah Mehsud said no militants were killed, "just one elderly innocent citizen."

Baitullah Mehsud has also been the target of suspected U.S. missile attacks. Earlier this week, he narrowly escaped a drone strike in his hometown in Makeen South Waziristan that officials said killed 80 people.

Eliminating Mehsud and his estimated 12,000 loyal fighters will be no easy task for Pakistan's military, which has been humbled by the Taliban leader in the past. And any ground operation, is expected to be a much tougher fight than the one in Swat.

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Associated Press writers Roshan Mughal in Muzaffarabad and Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan contributed to this report.