Ay khadim-e-aala Punjab, day zara jawab – by Ahsan Abbas Shah
Here is an analysis in Urdu on the Ahmadi massacre in Lahore by the Punjabi Taliban and the culpable role of PML-N’s government in Punjab.
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Tags: Ahmadiyya Muslims & Persecution, PMLN, Punjab, Punjabi Taliban, Shahbaz Sharif, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) & Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) & Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ)
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Interior Minister Rehman Malik has hinted at launching an operation in south Punjab on the pattern of the operation carried out in federally-administered tribal areas (Fata).
The minister was talking to the local C-42 TV channel where he had gone to offer condolences over the death of its technician who was covering the Friday’s terror attack on an Ahmadi place of worship in Garhi Shahu.
“There will be an operation in south Punjab on the pattern of tribal areas,” the channel quoted the minister as saying.
Although the Friday attack revived calls from various quarters for launching an operation in south Punjab, the PML-N which rules the province has denied that it is the hub of Punjabi Taliban.
“Army operations are required only where there are no-go areas and there is no such situation in any part of Punjab,” said Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah while talking to Dawn.
He described the minister’s statement as an attempt to destabilise the province.
Mr Malik also visited the worship place of Ahmadis in Model Town which also was attacked by terrorists.
The attacks left 95 people dead and over 100 injured. The minister also visited the injured in city hospitals.
Mr Malik told journalists that 726 of the 1,764 members of banned organisations like Lakhkar-i-Jhangvi and Jaish-i-Mohammad belonged to south Punjab. The region, he said, also had about 44 per cent of the country’s religious seminaries.
“I am not here to confront the Punjab government (on the south Punjab issue) but want to seek its cooperation to fight terrorists jointly,” he said. But, he made it clear that the monitoring of the members of these organisations (in south Punjab) was necessary.
“The militants in south Punjab had also established links in Balochistan and had tried to trigger clashes between Deobandis and Barelvis in Karachi before attacking Ahmadis in Lahore,” the minister said.
He said that members of banned groups like LJ and JM from Punjab had gone to the tribal areas and received training there.
“They then came back to Punjab and became part of sleeper cells. The militants who were hiding in south Punjab are now surfacing. I have been saying for the last one year that these people (Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Sipah-i-Sahaba and Jaish-i-Mohammed) are enemies of the country and are part of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda,” he said, adding that the banned organisations like JM, LJ and SSP had also joined hands with the Taliban and Al Qaeda to destabilise the country.
“The Taliban and its allied groups have adopted a new strategy after the successful military operations in Fata and they are trying to trigger infighting among different sects,” the interior minister said.
He said these militants were targeting people of all sects and religions.
“They have attacked Sunnis, Shias, Christians, Hindus and Ahmadis,” he added.
In reply to a question about involvement of a ‘foreign hand’ in the attacks on Friday, the minister said he would not say anything without having received evidence.
“When the Lahore Commissioner said about involvement of RAW, I said if you have evidence then give it to me.”
He parried a question about Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah’s ‘links’ with the SSP.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/sectarian-groups-join-hands-with-taliban-malik-hints-at-army-action-in-south-punjab-150
Seven men have been arrested over alleged links to the militants, who attacked a religious minority in Lahore, killing 95 people, reports AP.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited one of the two places for worship which were attacked on Friday in Lahore and promised to work with local officials to tackle the growing problem of militancy in Pakistan’s heartland of Punjab province.
“The terrorists, who have been hiding in southern Punjab, have now surfaced,” said Malik. “Our action will be stronger now because we cannot tolerate these killings.”
The government has been criticized for lacking the will to crack down on militants in Punjab, many of whom are part of now-banned groups started with government support in the 1980s and ’90s to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan and pressure archenemy India.
Many of these groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad, have formed links with the Pakistani Taliban, which has recruited militants to carry out attacks in parts of Pakistan far from its sanctuary in the northwest near Afghanistan.
Police said the seven men arrested over the past two days in different parts of Punjab belonged to a variety of militant groups but refused to specify which ones.
The arrests were fueled by information gleaned from one of the attackers who was captured Friday.
“We have good leads,” said senior Lahore police officer Chaudhry Shafiq. “We hope to round up all the handlers and backers of the attackers soon.”
Friday’s attacks targeted the Ahmadi community, a minority reviled as heretics by mainstream Muslims.
Seven gunmen attacked two places of worshippers in Lahore with assault rifles, grenades and suicide vests. At least two of the attackers were captured, while some died in the standoff or by detonating their explosives.
Pakistanis have criticized the government for failing to protect them from militant attacks.
A woman visiting one of the wounded from the attacks Sunday refused to accept a bouquet of flowers from Malik, the interior minister, when he visited the hospital and lambasted him for inadequate government security, according to local TV footage.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-seven-arrested-over-links-to-religious-minority-attackers-02-sa
Anti-Ahmadiyya(Babar Awan) exposed on Mubashir Luqman TV show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9xvZer4xA&feature=related
@asim naseer
1) NO BODY IS ANTI AHMADIYYA IN PAKISTAN
2) BABAR AWAN IS GREAT MUSLIM SCHOLAR AND HE KNOWS ISLAM BETTER THAN YOU I THINK
@Amjad
1) NO BODY IS ANTI AHMADIYYA IN PAKISTAN
OH really…… which pakistan are you living in these days?
2) BABAR AWAN IS GREAT MUSLIM SCHOLAR AND HE KNOWS ISLAM BETTER THAN YOU I THINK
True…exactly thats why Qadianis have conspired against him 🙂
“On November 26, 2009 Babar Awan, in his press statement,he said that the whole issue is bieng created to malign him by the “Qadiani lobby”
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