From Reuters: ISLAMABAD – Pakistani security forces have arrested some suspected Taliban officials in a raid in northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, police said on Tuesday. Pakistani newspaper reports quoted unnamed officials as saying Mawlavi Abdul Kabir — a deputy of elusive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar — was among those arrested, but senior Pakistani officials […]
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Pakistan: All 17 militants killed in gunbattle from Kazakhstan
From China Daily: The Pakistani military said that 17 militants gunned down near the Afghan border were all from Kazakhstan and included women and teenage youths. “We now believe the entire group was from Kazakhstan,” military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told AFP on Monday. He said the authorities recovered four passports and some documents […]
Lodi cleric, son agree to be deported to Pakistan
From the San Francisco Chronicle, with thanks to Skeet Street. A Muslim cleric with ties to Lodi men caught up in an FBI terrorism investigation agreed Friday to be deported to his native Pakistan along with his son rather than fight government immigration charges. Mohammad Adil Khan, 47, and his son, Mohammad Hassan Adil, 19, […]
Pakistan: Two held for planning to attack mosque
From Gulf News, with thanks to Skeet Street. Karachi – Police arrested two youth outside the US Consulate in Karachi yesterday following a terror alert that suicide bombers planned to attack a Shiite mosque, officials said. The two suspects Asim and Nasir Ali tried to dodge a police picket metres away from the consulate, but […]
U.S. forces kill 24 militants in Pakistan
From Reuters: MIRANSHAH, Pakistan – U.S. forces based in Afghanistan killed 24 suspected Islamist militants inside Pakistan after coming under rocket fire from across the border that killed an Afghan soldier, officials said on Friday. The fighters, believed to belong to Taliban and al Qaeda forces, were killed late on Thursday near Lowara Mandi, a […]
Pakistan: ‘University of Jihad’ teaches students hate and bigotry
We have been posting about this for some time. From the TimesOnline, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: SPORTING black turbans or skull caps, the young men squat on a carpet in a crowded classroom and listen in silence to a lecture given by a thickly bearded, middle-aged cleric. The students are at the final […]
Survey of Human rights violations perpetrated against Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Jammu & Kashmir
The Hindu American Foundation has released its first annual survey of Hindu human rights (thanks to Looney Tunes): TAMPA, FL: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) released today its first annual report on the status of Hindu human rights in Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Entitled “Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and […]
Pakistani author: Islam is the antidote to terrorism
Haider Zaman writes in Dawn, with thanks to Leslie: SOME of the major problems besetting human society these days are terrorism, disrespect for the basic human rights and disregard for fair and impartial justice. Islam is the outstanding religion which provides the most appropriate and effective guidance for overcoming all the these problems. In whatever […]
Police in Pakistan Raid Catholic Bookstore
And no doubt found weapons caches similar to what you might find in an Iraqi mosque. After all, both religions inspire violence equally, don’t they, and Pakistani Christians feel under siege as much as Iraqi Muslims, don’t they? From Zenit, with thanks to Daryl: KARACHI, Pakistan, JULY 5, 2005 (Zenit) – Archdiocese of Karachi Protests. […]
Rushdie: India and Pakistan’s Code of Dishonor
Salman Rushdie writes in the New Duranty Times, with thanks to all who sent this in. IN honor-and-shame cultures like those of India and Pakistan, male honor resides in the sexual probity of women, and the “shaming” of women dishonors all men. So it is that five men of Pakistan’s powerful Mastoi tribe were disgracefully […]