News 4m Pakistan

[wilberhum]

Razak Bughti , the governments speaker for Baluchistan has been shot dead in his car.

If true he deserved it.Traitors(mussharrafs gov)now he is a real coward.

He deserved it? :raging::raging::raging:

An individual killing anyone who politically disagrees with them is a major problem there.

Where do you get that kind of think from?

 

[wilberhum]

Pakistan arrests media workers

Pakistan has arrested about 150 journalists, after earlier freeing 3,400 prisoners detained for opposing the state of emergency.

About 200 journalists were protesting in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday against media restrictions placed on many news channels since emergency rule was imposed.




Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan, said that at least 17 journalists had been injured in a police baton charge.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5BE3B54C-5492-4004-BEE0-730A6EE4D0B1.htm

 

[ahsan28]

Thats why the world's biggest democracies LOVE Pakistani dictators They envy Pakistani dictatorship and only wish they had the same in their own countries Why else would they always praise Pakistan's President during every speech :?

 

[wilberhum]

Thats why the world's biggest democracies LOVE Pakistani dictators They envy Pakistani dictatorship and only wish they had the same in their own countries Why else would they always praise Pakistan's President during every speech :?

You bet Bush would love to shut down the news.

The advantage of a Democracy is he can't.

 

[ahsan28]

But for the affected countries:-

Everything is fair in war against terror

 

[wilberhum]

Three truck drivers beheaded

KOHAT, Nov 19: In what appears to be a revenge action for sectarian killings in Parachinar, the Taliban beheaded three truck drivers near Darra Adamkhel on Monday. The drivers belonging to Juzara and Marai area of the Kohat district had been kidnapped by the Taliban on Sunday evening when they were passing through the Darra Adamkhel bazaar on their way to the troubled Kurram Agency.
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http://dawn.com/2007/11/20/top13.htm

 

[Talha777]

I just thought of a new name we can call Benazir - Bey Nazar (Without vision). She is blind and stupid, now she is taking advantage of the masses's disillusion with the Musharraf government, she is just riding the band wagon. In all honesty, she is much worse and will be much worse than Musharraf is she ever comes back to power. When will Pakistanis get tired of the same old same old and choose a drastic alternative? Islam is always there waiting to be embraced.

 

[wilberhum]

I just thought of a new name we can call Benazir - Bey Nazar (Without vision). She is blind and stupid, now she is taking advantage of the masses's disillusion with the Musharraf government, she is just riding the band wagon. In all honesty, she is much worse and will be much worse than Musharraf is she ever comes back to power. When will Pakistanis get tired of the same old same old and choose a drastic alternative? Islam is always there waiting to be embraced.

Agreement! Will wonders never cease?

Why do they seam to want to replace corruption with corruption?

I don’t understand. I hope peace and stability soon come there way. (Truly)

 

[snakelegs]

I just thought of a new name we can call Benazir - Bey Nazar (Without vision). She is blind and stupid, now she is taking advantage of the masses's disillusion with the Musharraf government, she is just riding the band wagon. In all honesty, she is much worse and will be much worse than Musharraf is she ever comes back to power. When will Pakistanis get tired of the same old same old and choose a drastic alternative? Islam is always there waiting to be embraced.

do you think an alternative is a realistic possibility? looks like everybody wants to cut a deal. (including the MMA)

 

[wilberhum]

Girls wear burqa after warning by Taliban

MANSEHRA, Nov 20: More than eighty per cent students of the Higher Secondary Girls School in Oghi have started going to school in burqa following a threat by the local Taliban, Dawn has learnt.

It is learnt that the principal of the only higher secondary girls school in the Oghi tehsil of Mansehra had received a threatening letter from the Taliban last week asking him to make it compulsory for students from Class 7 to Class 12 to wear burqa. Otherwise, he would have to suffer serious consequences.

Sources said the letter did not have the sender’s name. The letter, which was handed over to police by the school authorities, said: “So far we did not carry out any activity in district Mansehra but we want to make it clear that if you do not make the burqa compulsory for students you will face serious consequences, take it is a warning.”

When this correspondent contacted the vice-principal of the school, Bibi Aftab, she confirmed that the letter had been received by the principal.

She said that for the safety of over 800 students, the administration made the wearing of burqa compulsory and called a meeting of the Parents-Teachers Association, which sought the help of the deputy police officer and the Oghi tehsil nazim.

Replying to a question she said: “We took the threat seriously because it was a matter of safety of students and administration personnel.”

She said that the PTA also helped the school administration and as a result over 80 per cent students now come to the school in a burqa and the others would also do the same in two to three days.

A girl student said that she and some of her classmates had decided not to wear the burqa at any cost. She said that most of the girls were wearing burqa only because of the pressure from the school administration and the fear of the local Taliban.
http://dawn.com/2007/11/21/top13.htm

 

[snakelegs]

blame it on the ice cream. :giggling:
so, you were joking? :hiding:

 

[Woodrow]

I am going to delete the post, that was, directly above mine. However, I will not say I totally disagree with it. There is truth in it, but the wording is just a little too directed to a person.

But id do have a question, please point to me one ayyat or hadith that states a man may force any woman in manner to dress in a particular way. Or any ayyat or hadith that a man may strike a woman walking down the street because she is not dressed as he believes to be proper.

 

[Tania]

At last some good news. Everytime I see a woman without a burqa i feel like slapping her silly. Taliban are the true champions of Islam.

more catholic than the Pope. Its a saying which can apply here very well because this burqa its not even in the Quran.

 

[wilberhum]

http://www.dawn.com/2007/text/top8.htm
Eight hurt in explosion
KHAR, Nov 23: Eight people, including the head of a peace jirga and three Levies personnel, were injured in a bomb blast in the Mamond tehsil of the Bajaur Agency on Friday, officials said.

Political tehsildar Sardar Yousuf told journalists that Malik Aziz along with seven other people and were going to participate in a jirga when their vehicle was hit by a remote-controlled bomb in the Berkhaloz village.

The injured were taken to a hospital in Khar, the agency headquarters.

Security has been beefed up and security forces have set up check points in different parts of the area.


http://www.dawn.com/2007/text/top18.htm
Taliban behead 7 Afghan policemen
KANDAHAR, Nov 23: Taliban militants beheaded seven policemen after overrunning their checkpoints in southern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said. An Australian soldier and three civilians were also killed in a separate clash.

Six other police officers were missing after the Taliban attacked police checkpoints in Arghandab district, in Kandahar province, said Abdul Hakim Jan, a police officer.

The attack in the strategic area of Arghandab, 25 kilometres north of Kandahar city, came weeks after Afghan and foreign troops forced Taliban militants to relinquish control of the town, which they had briefly captured.

During Friday’s attack, the militants ambushed police checkpoints set up to keep the Taliban fighters away from the town and beheaded seven policemen, said Mullah Mohammad Nabi, a Taliban commander in the area.

In neighbouring Uruzgan province, an Australian soldier and three civilians were killed on Friday during an attack on Taliban bomb-makers in the provincial capital of Tirin Kot, Australia’s defence chief said.

It was Australia’s third combat death in the conflict, all in the past two months.Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said Pvt. Luke Worsley, 26, was killed while participating in “a planned and deliberate attack by our forces against Taliban leaders and bomb-makers”.

After the clash, three civilians — two women and one child — were found dead in the militants’ compound, Nato’s International Security Assistance Force said.

It was not known how they died, a Nato statement said.

“However, we do know that the insurgents fired upon ISAF soldiers from the compound in which the Afghan civilians were found after the fight,” the statement said.

Separately, US-led coalition troops clashed with militants in central Afghanistan on Thursday, leaving several suspected insurgents dead and one coalition member wounded, the coalition said in a statement.

Two people were detained for questioning, the statement said.—AP





http://www.dawn.com/2007/text/top9.htm
Blasts hit UP courts; 14 killed
NEW DELHI, Nov 23: At least 14 people were killed and 60 injured in five blasts on Friday that appeared to target bustling law courts in the cities of Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state, officials and witnesses said.

All three court premises had previously seen incidents of manhandling of suspected Muslim extremists by lawyers.

Reports said that last week lawyers had roughed up three suspected Jaishe Muhammad (JeM) militants and the bar association had also refused to take up their cases.

The Faizabad court premises were witness to an altercation between activists of a Babri Masjid organisation and lawyers.

The local bar association had banned its advocates from taking up their case. The court premises in Varanasi were witness last year to beating of Waliullah Khan, the main accused in a temple explosion there.

Junior Home Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal described the low intensity explosions as a pre-planned conspiracy but added it was too early to name the organisation behind the incidents. “There were simultaneous blasts in three cities. This makes it clear that there is a deep conspiracy behind it. I can’t say which organisation is behind the incident. But the motive could be to disturb communal harmony and to create fear and terror among the people.”

 

[Tania]

Musharraf was re-elected, according to the last night tv news. Also, during one week he will give up at his military function.
Is this true :?

 

[snakelegs]

the supreme court (with the judges president musharraf has picked) have cleared the obstacles to him standing for election. last i heard, the elections will be in early january and he is supposed to take off the uniform dec. 2.
pakistan is really in a mess and it is all quite confusing.
now nawaz sharif (corrupt former president - the one who the general threw out) is on his way home again.
it looks like the only serious candidates at this point are the general & 2 corrupt former presidents, one greatly beloved by bush.
sad.....

 

[Tania]

It means they didn't understand correctly whats happening in Pakistan. :-[ Well it depends only by the parties to point out more candidates. We had around 8 (10) people running to be president. And my country its smaller than Pakistan.

 

[snakelegs]

there are a number of parties but as far as i know only the 3 people i mentioned have a serious chance.

 

[wilberhum]

Really sad news.
http://dawn.com/2007/11/26/top8.htm
Militants in Waziristan set foodgrain on fire
WANA, Nov 25: Local Taliban militants seized and burned thousands of kilogrammes of food destined for pregnant women in a tribal area of Pakistan, officials said on Sunday.

The food, mainly lentils and cooking oil, was taken from a hospital in the district of South Waziristan and had been supplied by the aid charity Save the Children to feed pregnant women suffering from malnutrition.

A Taliban activist said they were destroyed because “foreign NGOs want to harm our future generations.” People in the deeply conservative tribal areas often oppose the presence of Western-funded non-governmental organisations on religious and cultural grounds.

An administration official, Tariq Salim, blamed health ministry officials for “mishandling” the situation, adding “this would not have happened had they consulted us before starting the distribution directly to the women.”—AFP

 

[snakelegs]

yes, it is indeed sad. i hope these people will finally be dealt with before the whole country falls apart.