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Will their friends in high places keep Pakistani authorities from moving effectively against them? “Marriott attackers Fidayeen-e-Islam threaten to attack all US facilitators in Pak,” from ANI, September 25: Lahore, Sept 25 (ANI): The Fidayeen-e-Islam (FI), a terrorist outfit which claimed responsibility for the Marriott Hotel suicide blast in Islamabad last Saturday killing 60 people, […]

Today’s complaint is Pakistani support for US forces. Once every last Pakistani learns to despise and cease “supporting” the US (not even offering any lip-service), they can rest assured that the demands of the “militants” will morph into a new “grievance” — until they get what they really want: a caliphate governing according to sharia. […]

“The solution, the bottom line, is that political stability will only come to Afghanistan when all political power groups, irrespective of the length of their beard, are given their just due share in the political dispensation in Afghanistan.” “US told it must hold talks with Taliban’s Mullah Omar,” by Isambard Wilkinson in the Telegraph, September […]

When politicians wax philosophical. At least this is a step in the right direction. If politicians can shift their rhetoric from political paradigms to philosophical ones, perhaps the day will eventually come when they can take the next step and articulate themselves through a theological paradigm, when they will be able to say “Pakistan faces […]

Back-to-back, Pakistan attacks. Another Friend and Ally Update. The irony is that such drones can help prevent another Marriott-like attack: if al-Qaeda supporting “tribesmen” shot at it (which is at least logical), what is the Pakistani government’s logic? “Pakistanis say suspected US drone shot down,” from AP, September 23 : ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistani troops […]

Update to this story. “Pakistan blames al Qaeda for bombing,” from ABC, September 22: Pakistani and US intelligence officials say a suicide attack that killed 53 people at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital bears the hallmarks of an operation by al Qaeda or an affiliate. Claire Mackay reports at least 200 people are wounded. […]

Evidently no one stands up in these mosques and says, “Wait a minute, fellows. You guys are twisting and hijacking my peaceful religion. As everyone knows, jihad is an interior spiritual struggle.” And meanwhile, of course, anyone who protests against the building of a given mosque in the West is ipso facto a “racist” and […]

Friend and Ally Update. “Report: Pakistan fires on U.S. choppers,” from NBC News, September 22 (thanks to Infidel Pride): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani territory on Sunday night, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani security official said on Monday. The helicopters violated […]

What remains to be seen is how — and if — this attack changes Pakistan’s disastrous policies that have given the Taliban and al-Qaeda safe haven inside the country. “Dinner plans save Pakistan’s rulers from hotel bomb attack,” from CNN, September 22: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s president, prime minister and other Cabinet members were […]

“Aurat Foundation Peshawar Resident Director Rukhshanda Naz cited lengthy judicial procedure and delay in disposal of such cases as the main reasons for increase in honour killing in the country.” Yet they call them “honor killings,” and not “judicial delay killings.” “90 honour killings reported in first quarter of 2008,” by Akhtar Amin for the […]