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As long as they refuse to move troops from the border with India, they have the handy excuse of insufficient manpower. And the West looks inclined to buy it. “Delayed offensive wears at Pakistan’s antiterror credibility,” by Ben Arnoldy for the Christian Science Monitor, July 24: Peshawar, Pakistan — Doubts are mounting that the Pakistani […]

Friend and Ally Update. First: “Pakistanis fighting the Taliban press for military backup,” by Ben Arnoldy and Daud Khattak for the Christian Science Monitor, July 22: Islamabad and Peshawar, Pakistan — When villagers rose up against the Taliban in Dir district a month and a half ago, headlines cheered evidence of Pakistanis resisting militancy. But […]

Eurabia Alert: They’re still “misunderstanding” Islam in droves. “German Islamists heading to Pakistan training camps,” from Deutsche Presse-Agentur, July 19: Berlin – The flow of radical Islamists from Germany to training camps in Pakistan has doubled this year, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported Sunday without naming any source. German police monitor the so-called homegrown […]

Islamic Tolerance Alert. So much for charity, for that matter. “Swat, Christian refugees excluded from government reconstruction fund,” from AsiaNews, July 16: Peshawar (AsiaNews) – The Christian refugees in the Swat valley and Malakand Division are not receiving refugee aid promised by the government to, reports the Pakistan Christian Post, which calls for equal treatment […]

Al-Zawahiri says that Muslim Pakistanis must fight against Americans, or else “we shall not only contribute to the destruction of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but we shall also deserve the painful punishment of Almighty Allah.” Not that this appeal has anything to do with Islam, or will resonate with anyone in Pakistan on religious grounds. “Al […]

After years of increasingly strained denial. “Pakistan created and nurtured terrorists, admits Zardari,” from the Times of India, July 8 (thanks to all who sent this in): ISLAMABAD: For the first time, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has admitted that militants and extremists were “created and nurtured” in the country as a policy to achieve […]

We have often remarked here on the harm caused to non-Muslims in Pakistan by that country’s notorious blasphemy laws, which Muslims often use to victimize those with whom they have personal disputes, or who refuse to affirm the Islamic faith. And here we go again. “Faisalabad, a Christian tortured and detained on false charges of […]

Hmmmm. Who could these “unidentified people” be? Methodists on an anti-Presbyterian crusade? Militant vegetarians? Renegade Buddhists? It’s a mystery! “Pakistani Presbyterian Pastor attacked at gunpoint,” by Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan for ASSIST News Service, July 1 : KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — The Rev. Eric Sarwar, a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan […]

The District Coordination Officer said Islam doesn’t allow “cruelties” toward minorities. The problem is, the bar is pretty low in Islamic law in the first place. Qur’an 9:29 mandates that dhimmis (or “protected peoples”) “feel themselves subdued.” That statement defines the spirit of Islamic laws concerning unbelievers, and it is that spirit by which the […]

Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: the U.S. is less popular than the jihadists in Pakistan, such that even our putative friends and allies in the Pakistani government don’t want to be associated with us too closely. “In Pakistani Relief Camps, Charities Press Anti-U.S. View,” by Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah for the New York […]