http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pakistan/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:35:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419368/posts KARACHI, PAKISTAN -- A suicide bomber blew up his sport-utility vehicle in the middle of a village volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan on Friday afternoon, killing 75 people and injuring more than 100 in a community that has repeatedly defied Taliban extremists. Police speculated that the horrific bombing in the village of Shah Hassan Khel, in the Lakki Marwat district, was an act of reprisal against area leaders who last year formed private militias to oppose the Taliban and recently turned in a group of extremist fighters to the authorities. The attack was the latest in a string of bombings... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419368/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419220/posts Here is a video report on a suicide terrorist bombing in Pakistan that has killed at least 75 people. The attack occurred in the Northwest of the country, where a terrorist drove a car onto a field where a Volleyball game was taking place. The blast killed at least 75 and wounded more than 60 people. The Taliban are suspected, and it may have been revenge against the community for organizing a local militia to keep the radical Islamists from controlling the area. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419220/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418963/posts MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A missile fired by a pilotless U.S. drone aircraft on Friday killed at least three militants traveling in a car in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, security officials said. "The bodies were burned beyond recognition. We are trying to determine their identity," said one security official. On Thursday night, a drone attack killed at least two militants in the same region, known as a sanctuary for Taliban and al Qaeda militants fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The United States carried out at least 50 drone air strikes in northwestern border regions in 2009,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418963/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:41:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418943/posts PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bomber set off an explosives-laden vehicle on a field during a volleyball tournament Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, police said. yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418943/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:50:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418872/posts In Pakistan, police have engaged the population to identify Islamic terrorist cells and prevent more bombing attacks (which are killing mostly civilians). As a result, police have recently seized 2.5 tons of explosives and interrupted at least six terrorist bombings. In the tribal territories, 700 retired members of the Frontier Corps (the border police) were called up to help deal with the terrorist threat. For over a decade, the Pakistani government has been split over how to deal with Islamic radical groups. Until the last few years, those officials and institutions who sought to protect Islamic radical groups, were able... The Strategy Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418872/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:21:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418869/posts MIR ALI, Pakistan – A suspected U.S. missile struck a car carrying alleged militants in a northwestern Pakistan tribal region Friday, killing three men in the second such attack in less than a day, intelligence officials said. The strikes are part of the U.S. campaign to rid Pakistan of a creeping militant movement Washington believes is threatening the war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. The rising insecurity inside Pakistan, meanwhile, is prompting the United Nations to relocate about a quarter of its international staff in the country, officials confirmed Thursday. Both missile strikes occurred in North Waziristan, a lawless tribal region... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418869/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:16:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418562/posts “Officers at the Saddr police station refused to register a case against the Muslim assailants, sources said. “The evangelists said a Muslim cleric instigated the Muslim villagers, who were armed with clubs, spades and axes” per The Christian Messenger dated December 29, 2009. faithfreedom.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418562/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:50:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418557/posts A seven-year-old Pakistani girl and her family have been given asylum in Canada after reports the child was raped and left to die when her Christian father refused to convert to Islam. The identities of Baby Neeha and her family are being protected by immigration officials, said human rights lawyer Chantal Desloges and One Free World International, a church that was instrumental in getting the family here. The family arrived in Canada on Dec. 12 after a three-year battle by organizers to spirit them out of danger in Pakistan. The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418557/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:45:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416763/posts Karachi, 28 Dec. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Riots erupted in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday when a suicide attack killed at least 30 people and injured at least 80 during a Shia Muslim procession to mark the Ashura festival. It was the third and largest attack on a Shia congregation in Pakistan in the past three days. Hundreds of people had been part of the procession at the time of the bomb attack. Immediately after the explosion, marchers turned their anger on security forces and emergency workers. Pakistan's security forces had been on high... adnkronos.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416763/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:02:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416521/posts Here is video showing the bomb blast of a suicide bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan during a parade marking one of the Shiites key holidays. At least twenty-five people were killed and dozens wounded...(Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416521/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:28:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415981/posts COPS fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners. The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet. The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London. They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await internet instructions from al-Qaeda on when to strike. A Scotland Yard source said: "The great fear is Abdulmutallab is the first of... The Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415981/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415753/posts PESHAWAR: Former Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Qazi Hussin Ahmed has alleged that the United States has made the arrangements for the seizure of country’s nuclear installments. the news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415753/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:57:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415550/posts ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents had planned to use five Americans, now detained in Pakistan, who had contacted the militants via the Internet, to carry out attacks in the U.S.-allied country, a police official said on Saturday. Usman Anwar, police chief in Sargodha, where the men were arrested this month, said emails had revealed plans for the young men from Virginia to travel to a Pakistani nuclear power plant. "We believe that they were supposed to be used inside Pakistan," Anwar told Reuters by telephone. "In their last email to the Taliban, we found they mentioned the Chashma Nuclear Plant... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415550/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:26:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415524/posts Karachi, Dec. 26 : Following the Pakistan Supreme Court's advice to the government to use eunuchs to recover outstanding loans, the transgender community is excited and ready to help, but only if they are given the same commission as their Indian counterparts. They are ready to help the authorities in their own 'traditional' style. "If we are asked to recover loans, we will constitute special teams and would rush to the houses of these defaulters with drums and other musical instruments and would sing and dance to ask them for the money,"Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had suggested taking the... Asian News International/DailyIndia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415524/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:06:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415508/posts MIR ALI, Pakistan – A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people Saturday in a northwest Pakistani tribal region where militants focused on fighting the West in Afghanistan are concentrated, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. The missile strike was apparently the latest in a lengthy campaign of such attacks by the U.S., which rarely discusses the covert program but has in the past said it has taken out several top al-Qaida operatives. Pakistan publicly opposes the strikes but is believed to secretly aid them. Saturday's strike occurred in the Babar Raghzai area of North Waziristan and also wounded two people,... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415508/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415458/posts The US killed four Islamist terrorists in the first airstrike in more than a week in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike, carried out by unmanned Predator or Reaper attack aircraft, hit a Taliban safe house in the Saidgai region in North Waziristan. Two Hellfire missiles were reported to have been launched in the airstrike. Four "extremists" were killed in the attack and two more were wounded, according to a report in Geo News. The Saidgai region in North Waziristan is under the control of Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar. The US has conducted two strikes in... The Long War Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415458/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:22:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415271/posts In the past year, exposure of significant jihadist recruitment inside the United States has left Americans worried that "homegrown terrorism" may become a serious threat. Eight years after the atrocities of September 11, 2001, media and government appear stunned by the upsurge of jihad incidents in the United States, including two lethal attacks. The Fort Hood massacre on November 5, for which an Army psychiatrist, Nidal Hasan, has been charged with 13 deaths, has been followed by two more cases. On December 9, five college-age Muslims from northern Virginia were arrested in Pakistan. They were allegedly headed for terror training... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415271/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:32:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414900/posts In the 19th century, Indian armies twice crossed the Hindu Kush, hoping to stitch together the patchwork political authority of the territory in the service of their British masters. Over a century later, the sovereign republic of India once more has a renewed presence in what was once its mountainous buffer from the Tsarist, and then Soviet, giant to the north. A year ago, Indians completed the construction of Afghanistan's new parliament building and, to compound the symbolism, provided training to the legislators who would make the country's laws. Over a billion dollars in aid and investment, multiple consulates, and... guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414900/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:59:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414862/posts The inadequacy of Barack Obama’s Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy stems from the exigencies of the calendar of the next presidential elections in America, writes Kanwal Sibal The striking thing about Barack Obama’s new policy initiative on Afghanistan and Pakistan announced on December 1 is how little in it is actually new. It re-states the problem in known terms and the proposed way forward treads old ground. This is surprising, as the president spent an enormous amount of time to examine his options, to the point of being accused of dithering, and knew that the implications of the new course he... The Telegraph India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414862/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:04:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414648/posts Pakistan Christians celebrate Christmas in Fear Past attack, threats leave minority group feeling especially vulnerable [Pic in URL]A Pakistani Christian child on Thursday arranges statues to celebrate Christmas in Islamabad. GOJRA, Pakistan - No Christmas decorations brighten the tent camp sheltering Christians left homeless by the worst violence against minorities in Pakistan this year. Instead, there is a pervasive sense of fear. The Christians have received cell phone text messages warning them to expect a "special Christmas present," they say, and are terrified of their tents being torched or their church services being bombed. "Last year I celebrated Christmas full... APReport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414648/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:16:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414419/posts They said that if they were handed over to the US, there was a possibility that they would be treated inhumanly and didn’t want to be insulted and humiliated by the American intelligence agencies, Online news agency reported. In these circumstance, they said they were appealing to the Pakistani government to decide their fate and that they would prefer the death sentence to deportation. Read more: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/hang-us-dont-deport-us-5-americans-held-on-terror-charges_100294293.html#ixzz0ac9kYEQf theindian.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414419/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:56:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414343/posts A COURT has ordered that two brothers should have their noses and ears cut off after they were found guilty of doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them. The judge at an anti-terrorism court in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore handed down the sentences on Monday in line with the Islamic law of Qisas. The law was introduced in Pakistan during the military rule of General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979. It stipulates punishment equal to the crime, akin to an eye-for-an-eye, unless the culprit is pardoned by the victim or the victim's family. The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414343/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:33:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414286/posts Arms sale to Pak justified as India buys from US: Chinese official Saibal Dasgupta, TNN 22 December 2009 BEIJING: A senior Chinese defense official has justified Beijing's sale of warships and submarines to Pakistan on the ground that India was buying similar systems from Russia and the United States. He indicated that China was conscious India might be worried about the sales. "The initiative may invite concerns from its neighboring countries. But the doubts are unnecessary," Zhai Dequan, deputy director of China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, was quoted as saying in the official media. The statement came in the... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414286/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414148/posts History speaks of a Pax Romana, a Pax Britannica, and a Pax Americana - but no other namable eras of sustained peace, for the simple reason cited by Henry Kissinger: nothing maintains peace except hegemony and the balance of power. The balancing act always fails, though, as it did in Europe in 1914, and as it will in Central and South Asia precisely a century later. The result will be suppurating instability in the region during the next two years and a slow but deadly drift toward great-power animosity. Those who wanted an end to US hegemony will get what... Asia Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414148/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412798/posts Note: Photos included. NOTE: The following text is a quote: Pakistani court acquits Christian girl and her father accused of blasphemy By Dan Wooding Monday, December 21, 2009 FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A Pakistani Christian girl and her father who were accused of defiling the Qur’an (Muslim holy book), in October of last year were acquitted on December 14, 2009 after serving thirteen months and fourteen days in prison. Sanda and Gulsher Sandal, 22 and her father, Gulsher Masih, 47, were accused of committing sacrilege of the Qur’an on October 10, 2008. A criminal case was registered against the pair... ASSIST NEWS SERVICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412798/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:18:20 GMT