Bad dhimmi! “Pakistan Protests US Remarks on Taleban,” by Azhar Masood for Arab News: ISLAMABAD, 1 March 2007 “” Pakistan yesterday lodged a strong protest with the United States for interfering in the internal affairs of the country. US Ambassador to Pakistan Ryan C. Crocker was summoned to the Foreign Office yesterday and handed a […]
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Pakistan: More polio cases if resistance continues; Islamic clerics say those who die of polio are ‘martyrs’
An update on this story. “More polio cases if resistance continues: NIH, WHO,” from the Daily Times, with thanks to Twostellas: ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) fear that more polio cases will crop up in the Bajaur and Malakand agencies since workers are denied access to children […]
Rice: Pakistan must control border area
Indeed it must. But will it? In any case, it is good to see the White House at least doing something to call Pakistan to account. By Terence Hunt for AP: WASHINGTON – The White House is pressuring Pakistan to crack down on al-Qaida and Taliban operatives in the lawless border area with Afghanistan that […]
Pakistan: Blast That Killed U.S. Diplomat Tied to Al-Qaeda
“The case is one of the first in Pakistan to underline in court the links between splinter cells of Pakistani jihad groups and Qaeda operatives in Waziristan.” “Blast That Killed U.S. Diplomat Tied to Qaeda,” by Carlotta Gall in the New York Times, : KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb. 22 “” The suicide bombing that killed an […]
Pakistan: Islamic supremacist party against teaching pre-Islamic history
“That may be your history, (but) … our history (starts) from Makkah and Medina.” Everything before the coming of Islam is, in their view, worthless trash. Jahiliyya is the pre-Islamic period of ignorance. Will the monuments of Christian Europe one day be regarded as worthles artifacts of jahiliyya also? “MMA against teaching pre-Islamic history,” by […]
Female Pakistani minister shot dead for ‘breaking Islamic dress code’
From The Times of London: A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil. Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was about to deliver a speech to dozens […]
U.S. Official: Multiple groups of jihadists training in Pakistan for attacks in West
This report corroborates the account in a Newsweek article last December of a twelve-man team training in Pakistan to stage attacks in Western countries. Apparently, there is more than one such team. “Qaeda camps in Pakistan to train operatives: US official,” by Jim Mannion for AFP: WASHINGTON (AFP) – Al-Qaeda is believed to have established […]
Official leading polio drive in Pakistan killed; locals accuse workers of “coming here disguised as polio campaigners to spread vulgarity”
An update on this story. “Official leading polio drive killed,” by Masood Khan for the Daily Times: KHAR: A senior government official was killed on Friday when a remote-controlled roadside bomb exploded in Salarzai, a village about 50 kilometres northeast of Khar, the main town in Bajur Agency, when he was returning from a jirga […]
Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot
Those Southern Baptist clerics have carried on their war against modern science long enough! Why, this is an outr–what’s that? Islamic clerics? “60% of the refusals” of the vaccine “were attributed to ‘religious reasons’”? Islamic religious reasons? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe? By Declan Walsh in The Guardian, with thanks to DFS: The […]
“Correct yourselves”: Pakistan jihadists threaten barbers
Sharia Alert. “Suspected Islamic militants warn barbers,” by Habibullah Khan for Associated Press: KHAR, Pakistan – Suspected Islamic radicals have issued a Taliban-style warning to barbers in a Pakistani border town not to shave off or cut their customers’ beards, saying it offends Islam, residents said Monday. Pamphlets with the warnings were found at several […]