Taliban & TTP Archive
Stranded Shias of Parachinar killed in Afghanistan on ‘safe route’ to Pakistan: Before you read this post, you may wish to read: Parachinar: Pakistan’s Gaza Strip remains under siege by Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba and LUBP Archive on Parachinar In the eastern Afghanistan province of Paktia, Taliban terrorists opened fire on a
Let’s negotiate with the Taliban – by Nadeem Paracha: Due to the demands of a majority of Pakistanis and leaders like Shahbaz Sharif, Imran Khan, Munawar Hussain and other such groovy people, the Pakistan government has signed a peace agreement with the Taliban in Waziristan and South Punjab.
“Blackwater responsible for the Data Darbar attack”: We don’t need rabid mullahs or pseudo-liberal poodles of the ISI to propagate wild conspiracy theory in Pakistan, Chief Justice of the Lahore Hight Court is more than enough. According to the Chief Taliban Protector in Punjab, Justice Khwaja
Now Mullah and Mullen are attuned – by Ali Arqam and Dr. Khan: In Afghan War, when the capitalist world, the salafist Arabs, the communist Chinese and the opportunist Pakistani Generals along with their puppet warriors and clergies were in a war with the USSR and the Communist Afghan regime on Afghan
US exit means Taliban’s entry – by Kuldip Nayar: Before the Soviet forces entered Afghanistan in 1979, I used to visit Kabul regularly. I found President Mohammad Daud a fatherly figure who had no idea of what was happening in his country. Even otherwise, he was dependent on
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 (
Why do the Taliban prefer to kill on Fridays? – by Abdul Nishapuri: Here I am, once again, trying to muster up some emotional and physical energy to write a few lines in condemnation of the Taliban terrorists (and their supporters and apologists). Today, on Friday 9 July 2010, a Talib suicide
Recognising Taliban narratives — by Gulmina Bilal Ahmad: The Taliban are very intelligently shaping the narrative and we are falling in line, so to speak. What is a Punjabi Taliban? Or for that matter a Pakhtun one? It is being turned into an ethnic fight based on
From General Zia’s martial law to attack on Data Darba – by Zahida Hina: Thanks: Express, 7 July
Negotiate with Taliban? – by Anas Muhammad: In a recent press conference Mian Nawaz Sharif – the head of the largest opposition Party Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) – claimed that terrorism in Pakistan is a result of government’s foreign policies. Sharif made the commen ts two
Apnay lahu ki aag mein jalnay ka waqt hay – by Ahsan Abbas Shah: Blame game always affects our unity as a nation. 5 July 1977 reminds us that how one dictator can divert our national priorities from secularism to terrorism. Here is an urdu article addressing the blame game:
Evidence of extremist Deobandi literature brainwashing suicide bombers of Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba – by Farhan Q: While terrorist organisations such as Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Taiba are “officially” banned in Pakistan, their official mentors and promoters in Pakistan’s “sensitive agencies” have made sure that useful literature is available not only in print form but also on
Then they came for Barelvis – by Imran Qadir Bhatt: Picture source: Daily Times Let us be honest with one another. We are a nation who has been taught distorted histories. We have been inculcated with absurd notions of religious pride. For us the source of honour and pride
“No Muslim can do this” – by Dr Khawaja Muhammad Awais Khalil: Attack on Data Darbar is a continuation of the same events in which Pakistanies are under attack by the few ‘Faithfuls’. Its not an event in isolation and its not a solitary attack on Braylvies. Its essentially the same
Haunting acquittals – by Babar Sattar: The Lal Masjid brigade brought life to a standstill in Islamabad. Its vigilante missions caused harm and nuisance. But that paled into insignificance when over a hundred lives were lost in the security operation executed to regain control of
Nawaz Sharif’s willing surrender to the Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists: Pakistan opposition chief backs talks with Taliban By ASIF SHAHZAD (AP) ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top opposition leader said Saturday that the government should negotiate with the country’s Taliban militants to ease the relentless security crisis in the nuclear-armed, U.S.-allied
Sufism being victimized – by Amjad Rashid: It is an established fact that Islam’s spread all over happened the world through Sufism and its teachings of love and peace. But in present times, the name of Islam is being used by the extremists, terrorists and ignorant
Sipah-e-Sahaba’s attack on Lahore’s Data Darbar, at least 37 killed, 175 injured: گنج بخش فیضِ عالم مظہر نورِ خُدا ناقصاں راپیرِ کامل، کاملاں را رہنما Extremist Deobandis of the Sipah-e-Sahaba have once again attacked the Data Di Nagri (Data’s city), Lahore. This time their target was the sacred shrine of Hazrat
Mullah Omar won, Khawja Sharif lost – by Imran Waseem: Lahore High Court in an amazing decision yesterday ordered to ban what is called internet these days, citing the presence of sacrilegious material on websites. As long as specific sites containing sacrilegious material are banned, the decision would be
A Profile of the Taliban’s Propaganda Tactics – by Abdulhadi Hairan: Published in Huffington Post “The latest sad news is that the Christian Crusaders (Americans) have burned a copy of the Holy Quran in Wardak province and have thus shown their enmity with Islam and the Muslims… The saddest aspect
Alamgir Bhittani: when reporting can cost life -by Shafiq Ahmed: Alamgir Bhittani was the first to report Baitullah Mehsud’s death. But breaking news about the death of Hakimullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone attack cost him his life. Journalists working abroad or in urban centers of Pakistan, are usually
In search of good Taliban – by Akhtar Abbas: I admit I am a bit naïve, when it comes to current affairs. I mean I do get the big picture here and there, but some things just keep confusing me again and again. Wait, I guess I have
Hamid Mir in support of Asma Jahangir: Hamid Mir in his column titled “Jamhooriat aur Tuhmat Ka Culture” has supported Asma Jahangir in the recent linking of her candidature for the position of SCBA president with “Zardari Camp” as created by Ansar Abbasi and gang. The
Islamofacists’ allergy to football, from Afghanistan to Somalia: A Somali football fan adjusts the Television set for the group D game between Ghana and Serbia Photo: EPA Unbeleivable as it may sound but according to news reports Somali religious extremists have banned watching soccer matches on TV
Gas attacks on schoolgirls in Afghanistan: As of May 2010, there are 2.5 million Afghan girls enrolled in school which is a sharp contrast to 2001 when female education was banned across the country. However, Afghan schoolgirls stay in school in the face of extreme
Amnesty: Tribal Pakistan is a ‘rights-free zone’ – BBC: Note: you can download the full Amnesty International report referenced in this article here Source BBC Millions of Pakistanis live in a “human rights-free zone” in the country’s north-west, Amnesty International says. Residents of tribal areas face Taliban abuse
Pakistan survey: Taliban lack sympathy in Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkwa, FATA, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan: ISLAMABAD: A majority of Pakistanis don’t approve of Islamabad’s decision to join the US-led war on terror but, at the same time, they don’t believe that the Taliban are fighting for Islam, according to a survey carried out by
Hundreds witness Pakistan Taliban public execution: Source BBC Up to 700 people in a tribal region of north-west Pakistan watched the Taliban publicly execute a man accused of killing two brothers, officials say. Masked militants shot the man, blindfolded and bound, dead at a football
Hate and horror in Lahore – by Irfan Hussain: Source: Dawn, 05 Jun, 2010 A day after the slaughter of nearly 100 Ahmadis in Lahore last week, Britain’s Channel 4 aired a programme on Iraq in its ‘Unreported World’ series. The narrator described the plight of the Christians and
100 Ahmadi lives vs 10 Muslim lives – by Dr Khawaja Muhammad Awais Khalil: I am not surprised on the reaction which our semi-literate urban middle class and their religo-political representatives have shown on the sad incident of Israeli attack on the Turkish Flotilla. Somehow I was expecting that reaction because it suits
Deal with the owner – by Khalid Wasti: “If a dog bites, you don’t bite it back; deal with the owner.” بُرے کی ماں کو مارو تھوڑا سا وقت نکالئیے اپنے لیئے اپنی آنے والی نسلوں کے لیئے اپنے ملک کے لیئے خود سے سوال کیجیئے ،
Where is my military coup? – by S Gulbadan: I wrote this for the Express Tribune’s sunday magazine and they published a much shorter (“mutilated”, according to the editor dude) version. General sahab, I have been a silent admirer of you and your methods for a long time
Mullah of Jamaat-e-Islami, the child molester: Here is a news report from daily The News describing how a local Taliban leader, a mullah in a Jamaat-e-Islami madrassah, was involved in child molesting. This shows the real hypocritical character of these munafiqeen who are raping Islam
Of blasphemy, Facebook and terrorism —Imtiaz Alam: Times are horrifying in this land of the pure and a chaotic world around. A “satire” protesting censoring of an episode of ‘South Park’ by Comedy Central turned viral, forcing the irreverent cartoonist to take refuge behind opposing censorship
No more – by Chauhdry Ahmad Khan: Pakistan is reeling from the murder of 70 of its own citizens-massacred due to their faith by the self-appointed guardians of faith. Anyone with a shred of conscience left in Pakistan should declare themselves as Ahmadi – “I am
The men whose hands were chopped off – by Farhat Taj: Ansar Abbasi, where are you? We need you to defend this punishment just like you defended the flogging of Chand Bibi on TV. Source Express Tribune: Recently the Taliban chopped off the hands of three young tribesmen in Orakzai
Life in Kurram and Orakzai Agencies – Report by Centre for Research and Strategic Studies: Source CRSS Life in Kurram and Orakzai Agencies