Pakistan Army’s Support to Deobandi ASWJ & Taliban & other militants Archive
Pakistani Shia Muslims call for end to 4-year siege of Parachinar: Tens of thousands of Shia Muslims in a Pakistani tribal region called for end to a 4-year siege of northwestern city allegedly by Taliban militants, as the blockade has increased difficulties of the people. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) –
Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Strategy: Separating Friends from Enemies – by Dr Ayesha Siddiqa: 2011 Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Washington Quarterly • WINTER 2011, 34:1 pp. 149-162. DOI: 10.1080/0163660X.2011.538362 Ayesha Siddiqa is the first Pakistan scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of Military Inc.:
Pakistan Army allegedly owns its man on a suicide attack mission in India?: Related article: Online factories of suicide bombers: An ISI production LUBP has been boldly stating for the last many years that Pakistan Army’s continued policy of support to Jihadist-sectarian militants of Taliban/ASWJ and extremist Wahhabis of Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamatud-Dawa is
A question for Pakistanis in favour of “reconciliation” with the Afghan Taliban: In recent months, as Western despair over the Afghanistan war has increased, there has been a chorus of voices suggesting reconciliation of the Taliban leadership is the only path to end the Afghan war. It is quite natural that
Online factories of suicide bombers: An establishment’s production: It is a known fact that as long as we have sectarian madrassahs, websites and literature of extremist Deobandis and Ahl-e-Hadith (Wahhabis) in Pakistan, it will not be possible to eradicate the menace of jihadi and sectarian terrorism
ISI admits kidnapping 11 inmates from jail, SC judges say ‘thank you’!: I don’t have time and energy to translate this wonderful conversation which yesterday took place in Pakistan’s Supreme Court. Many honourable judges of the Supreme Court (CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry and Justice Ramday in particular) were seen showering thanks and
Where do the missing persons go? Mystery solved: Suggestion: Read this post in the reverse chronological order of events, reading the last news item first. What is hard to ignore in the whole episode is: 1. The dubious role of Pakistan’s ISI (the double game agency); 2.
Leaks disclose secrets of in-camera sessions; is Pakistan really playing double game?: “It’s a bombshell,” says the historian Timothy Garton-Ash in a Guardian video on the released of the cables. “It’s the most extraordinary window into how American diplomacy works.” Founded by secretive Australian Julian Assange, Wikileaks was originally based in
Our dereliction in Kurram: Kurram has had to run the gauntlet of the first TTP chief, Baitullah Mehsud, who sent his Waziristan lashkar there under the blood-thirsty Qari Hussain in 2007. According to a report published in a newspaper on November 30, the
Wikileaks reconfirm the Taliban support in Pakistani establishment: Related articles: Wikileaks on General Kayani and his ‘democratic’ puppets King Abdullah, the great-grandson of Abu Jahl – by Omar Khattab The whistle-blowing site Wilileaks has released a cache of 250,000 secret messages sent by US diplomatic staff. Here
Kurram Shias forced to give ‘good Taliban’ new Afghan access – by Kathy Gannon: Related articles: Mr Zardari, Is Kurram Agency a part of Pakistan? Finally, ISI openly blockades Shias in Kurram to enforce their subservience to Taliban Shia population of Kurram agency: Between the military and militants — by Farhat Taj Shiite
Fake Mullah Mansour and the double-game of the ISI: Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor By DEXTER FILKINS and CARLOTTA GALL Source: NYT KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if
Pakistan frees Taliban kidnappers of the NYT reporter David Rohde: Related article: 7 Months, 10 Days in Taliban’s Captivity: Story of David Rohde After New York Times’s reporter David Rohde escaped from his Taliban captors in Pakistan last year, the Pakistani intelligence services interrogated two of his guards — and
Media-military-militant Alliance – by Shiraz Paracha: On the eve of NATO summit in Lisbon, the state-funded BBC World Service and the Pakistan military, apparently, provided a PR opportunity for the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, where he claimed in an interview with the BBC
The ISI moves Siraj Haqqani to ‘secure safe house’ outside FATA – by Ali K Chishti: Daily Times can confirm that Siraj Haqqani, the operational commander of the Haqqani Network, who had earlier been moved from Miranshah, North Waziristan to Kurram Agency, has been moved to a secure “safe house” outside FATA. The decision was
Shia population of Kurram agency: Between the military and militants — by Farhat Taj: Related article: Finally, ISI openly blockades Shias in Kurram to enforce their subservience to Taliban With the Haqqanis moved to the safety of Kurram, a military operation will begin in North Waziristan that will kill innocent civilians and also
Who will save Pakistani prosecutors from the joint wrath of Takfiri Deobandis?: Pakistani prosecutors decline cases against militants 13 November 2010 By Awais Saleem, IANS Source Islamabad: Public prosecutors in Pakistan have refused to proceed with cases involving suspected militants on the pretext that the banned terror outfits are threatening them
Pakistani Generals and Innocent Mullahs: Understanding the Taliban-ISI alliance: جنرل اور معصوم مُلاّ آئی ایس آئی کے سابق سربراہ اور 1999 میں چند گھنٹوں تک اپنے آپ کو پاک فوج کے سپہ سالار ماننے والے جنرل خواجہ ضیاالدین بٹ نے اپنے ایک حالیہ انٹرویو میں جہاں بہت سی
The real story- by Peja Mistri: ISI routinely hires Pakistan’s right wing journalists to feed the stories in order to improve the image of military mafia. Such stories are usually very abstract and are written by the ISPR ”master minds” in such a way which
The 1995 Islamic coup attempt against Benazir Bhutto’s government: Cross-posted from Shahid Saeed’s blog This is the first of a non-consecutive series of posts profiling the major coup attempts in Pakistan, both successful and failed. The series would not be chronological for a variety of reasons, primarily because
Pakistan army’s Taliban strategy – by Kamran Shafi: Making sense of it all WHEN Musharraf made his U-turn on the Taliban upon American `urging` after 9/11, some of us thought he meant it. And, being the boss of bosses of the establishment of the Land of the
Is Orakzai Agency cleared of the Taliban? — by Farhat Taj: The IDPs say that both the Taliban and the Pakistan Army have bombed their empty houses in Orakzai. The authorities are now handing them tents so that they go back and erect tents on the sites of their bombed
Army blockading Shias in Kurram to enforce their subservience to Taliban?: Related articles on LUBP: Mr Zardari, Is Kurram Agency a part of Pakistan? Genocide of indigenous people of Parachinar, Kurram Agency in Pakistan by Taliban Innocent Shias and Sunnis of Kurram agency thrown to the Taliban wolves – by
Military Mullah Nexus – by Shahid Mahmood: Related articles on LUBP: General Ahmad Shuja Pasha’s letter to Mullah Baradar – by Hakim Hazik Taliban Apologist Court bars extradition of Mullah Baradar It is not a self-created tragedy that almost one million people gave up their lives
SP Ashfaq Anwer’s statement confirms rogue elements’ role in Benazir Bhutto’s murder – by Kamran Shafi: Good news at last By Kamran Shafi IT is one of the best pieces of news this year, yes, even more than the Supreme Court’s (SC) sagaciously and correctly signalling that parliament could legislate amendments to the constitution by
Pakistan’s Corrupt Generals: An Analysis: By: MUAHAMMAD AAMIR MUGHAL It was Hameed Gul who briefed Zia against the Geneva Accords and got the ISI to badmouth Yaqub Khan who was right once again (after East Pakistan) in siding with prime minister Junejo who had
Pakistan army frees Taliban commander Mullah Baradar: Related articles on LUBP: General Ahmad Shuja Pasha’s letter to Mullah Baradar – by Hakim Hazik Taliban Apologist Court bars extradition of Mullah Baradar Pakistan has freed the supreme commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,
Who is behind attacks on NATO supply trucks in Pakistan: There is now irrefutable evidence which suggests the following: 1. The ISI-Taliban Alliance (i.e., the Taliban in uniform and the Taliban in civil clothes) are behind recent attacks on NATO supply trucks in Pakistan 2. Pakistan’s foreign office is
‘Good Taliban, bad Taliban’: the ISI’s perspective: By Hakim Hazik There are two kinds of Taliban. The good ones live in Quetta. They are cuddly and roly-poly. They have generous and reassuring paunches, symbolic of the glory of Islam. They sit on hand woven carpets with
Dawn News Reporter – Pakistan Military’s support for militants: Dawn News recently aired a very bold show discussing the Pakistan army’s support for militants. It examined the historical ties with groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad, Jundullah and the Taliban and whether these ties still exist. Of special note is
Pakistan’s ISI aids Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Diary 2004-2010: Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert By MARK MAZZETTI, JANE PERLEZ, ERIC SCHMITT and ANDREW W. LEHREN Article Source: New York Times, July 25, 2010 Data Source: WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan
‘Data Darbar had to be destroyed because of Ibn Taymiyya’: An interview with Khaled Ahmed: Source: View Point ‘Data Darbar had to be destroyed because of Ibn Taymiyya’ Sunni-Sunni war was much earlier and it reached a peak in 2006 at Nishtar Park, the year the ISI allowed Sipah-e-Sahaba to stage its show of
The Survivalist of North Waziristan: Hafiz Gul Bahadur Biography and Analysis – by Charlie Szrom: Source: Critical Threats Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters use Waziristan to prepare for and launch attacks against American forces in Afghanistan and Western targets abroad. Since early June, the Pakistani military has been conducting a campaign to kill Waziristan’s preeminent
Killing of Shias: FIR should be registered against Saudi embassy and the ISI: By Omar Khattab On 17 July a convoy of Shias was attacked by the Taliban who used rockets and automatic weapons and cut down killing 18 including women and children. The most significant part of the attack is not
Does Pakistan have a civilian strategy? – by Mehlaqa Samdani: Source: AfPak Foreing Policy, JULY 9, 2010 As the Pakistani government tries to shape the future in Afghanistan by facilitating talks between the Haqqani network and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, its own citizens continue to bear the brunt of
Seven questions about Islamabad’s Red Mosque – by Wusatuallah Khan: لال مسجد کے سات کیوں وسعت اللہ خان بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، اسلام آباد ’جنہوں نے مشرقی پاکستان آپریشن پر معافی نہ مانگی انکے آگے لال مسجد آپریشن کس کھیت کی مولی تھا‘ کیپٹل ڈویلپمنٹ اتھارٹی (
The slanted truth – by Dr. Mohammad Taqi: Those who Believers in the thesis that Afghanistan provides Pakistan with strategic depth are so scared of this shared bond that they had vetoed Afghania — represented by the letter ‘A’ in the word Pakistan — as the new
Shia killings in Karachi and the intelligence agencies’ failure: It is now becoming abundantly clear that recent wave of Shia killings in Karachi too is a handiwork of the Jihadist sectarian elements. What is the motive behind the recent wave of sectarian killings? You can glean some information
A critical perspective on the LSE report on the Taliban-ISI alliance – by Shiraz Paracha: The London School of Economics’ (LSE) recent report on the alleged links between the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban is yet another proof of an unholy alliance, in which Western secret services, the mainstream
Murderers united: Rogue elments and the TTP-ASWJ terrorists: Source: Times online THE Taliban commander waited at the ramshackle border crossing while Pakistani police wielding assault rifles stopped and searched the line of cars and trucks travelling into Afghanistan. Some of the trucks carried smuggled goods — DVD