Updated at: 2340 PST, Monday, August 04, 2008 KARACHI: Spokesman Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Maulvi Umer has said that Taliban are operative in Lahore and across Sindh including Karachi.
In an interview to a foreign radio, he said Karachi is a focal point for the whole world including India.
The presence of Taliban in Karachi will ensure elimination of vulgarity, obscenity and influence of foreign forces in the city.
Karachi is the largest business city of the country and there is need for peace here. The peace is embedded in Islam and its teachings.
News # 1 = Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad ( Pakistan ) Stock Exchanges Crashed. Angry protestors broke windows and damaged banks and brokerage houses as country's Stock Exchanges hit their lowest.
( Geo / Aaj / ARY One World, Waqt, Express, Samaa News ) The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) -100 index closed at 10,213 after shedding 279 points today.( In Paki the Taliban are miscreants, and stock market LOSSES are "shedding". G )
The market is under severe bearish clutch for the fourth day of the trading week in a row. The Benchmark 100-index has sunk to the lowest in seven years as it reached to 10,213 points.
News # 2 = Taliban give NWFP govt 5-day ultimatum to quit
This might be enough pain to get the Government to act against the Taliban. The big money in Paki is scared. They have some of the Best Intelligence. Something heavy this way comes.
Blind seven-year-old beaten to death for failing to memorize the Koran
Blind Muslim seven-year-old beaten to death for failing to learn the Koran
By Massoud Ansari in Islamabad
Last Updated: 6:14PM BST 31/05/2008
The parents of a blind seven-year-old who was sent to a religious school in Pakistan have told how he was hung by his feet from a ceiling and beaten to death after failing to memorise the Koran.
The parents of Mohammed Atif admitted that they had ignored their son Mohammed's repeated complaints about abuse at the madrassah.
Police in the Punjab province said that Mohammed's religious teacher, Qari Ziauddin, was now in custody charged with torturing and murdering the boy on Thursday.
Police said Ziauddin, whose title "Qari" signifies he is a mullah, had suspended the boy from a ceiling fan for an hour before he beat him. When he realised how badly Mohammed was hurt, he apparently fled instead of taking him to hospital. ............... The boy's body was not discovered until the next day when fellow pupils, including Mohammed's cousin, realised he had not slept in his bed. They searched the madrassah and found his battered corpse in Ziauddin's room.
An autopsy concluded that Mohammed, who was blind from birth, died of severe head injuries and also found marks of "physical torture" on his body. Police said the fatal blow might have been caused by Ziauddin dropping the boy when he cut him down from the fan.
According to the boy's father, the teacher had previously smashed him over the head with an iron rod, cutting him so badly that he needed stitches.
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The killing has sparked concerns for the welfare of the 1.5 million students in the country's 13,000 madrassahs, which are regarded as potential recruiting grounds for al-Qa'eda and the Taliban.
In 2002 President Pervez Musharraf responded to international concerns by ordering madrassahs to adopt a more modern curriculum. But religious hardliners have stymied many of the reforms, and their refusal to allow state regulation has also seen the schools develop an reputation for child abuse.
While officialdom often turns a blind eye, the sheer brutality of the latest case has led the new prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, to order an inquiry.
Police said the other children who attend the Qari Latif madrassah in Vihari, 150 miles southwest of Lahore, have all been withdrawn.
Investigators said Ziauddin had admitted the assault and claimed such brutality was normal. "We punish students who don't learn their lessons," he told detectives. "We used to get similar beatings when we were studying in the same schools. It is not uncommon."...
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For Qari ? Ziauddin, Satan has a special place for him,
Report: Osama bin Laden's security coordinator captured in Pakistan By Bill RoggioJanuary 6, 2008 11:15 PM
Osama bin Laden escorted by the Black Guard. Click image to view.
A senior al Qaeda commander has been reported to have been captured in the Pakistani city of Lahore, according to a Pakistani newspaper. Dr. Amin al Haq, the security coordinator of Osama bin Laden's Black Guard, "was apprehended from Lahore couple of days back," The Nation reported, citing "credible Afghan sources." Al Haq is said to be "under interrogation" at an undisclosed location.
The report of al Haq's capture has not been confirmed, a senior intelligence official told The Long War Journal. US intelligence agencies are aware of the report. SOURCE:
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Dr Amin is the second leading Al-Qaeda operative from Afghanistan apprehended in Lahore. Earlier, Mohammad Rahim, an alleged Al-Qaeda fugitive, who had worked as Osama bin Laden's driver for couple of years in Afghanistan was also arrested from Lahore. He had also been the member of Jihadi Shura, which was set up soon after resignation of late Afghan President Dr Najibullah in April 1992 for governing the eastern province of Nangarhar. He was associated with Hizbe Islami Afghanistan headed by late Maulvi Younas Khalis, which joined Taliban Movement in 1996. Dr Amin was also part of the Afghan delegation flown to Sudan in 1996 to bring Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan. After landing of Osama bin Laden in Nangarhar in 1996, Dr Amin became closer to Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda leaders. He along with his family members stayed in Pakistan off and on. It merits to mention that Dr Amin's name is in the list of those 12 Afghans who are considered active members of Al-Qaeda. SOURCE:
Losing hearts and minds in Lahore’s map of dug-up roads
Losing hearts and minds in Lahore’s map of dug-up roads
Lahore is all dug up because the local governments are keen to finish development jobs before the onset of general elections where critical votes will hang by how much work has been done on the city roads. This is all very well, but the same people whose votes have been targeted are also suffering because all the roads are made to look like graves at the same time. Mounds of earth remain in place for weeks, rained on and flattened by passing traffic.
Surely this is the wrong way of going about pleasing the voters. You will be shocked to know the truth if you asked the prospective voter. He is cynical and says the “jobs” have been dished out in such a way that the capacity of the contractors is thin in relation to the work in hand, and that the jobs that should end in one month now take six. This is not the way to win hearts; this is more likely to make the voters lose their tempers. *
Taliban commander planning suicide attack in Lahore?
LAHORE: Police officials have received information about possible suicide bomb attacks by the religious fundamentalists and have issued directions to deal with the threat.
Police sources said that Taliban commander Qari Hussain Ahmad is reported to be present in Lahore. The areas of Badamibagh, Shafiqabad, Misri Shah, Shahdra Town, Shadbagh, Ravi Road and Lorry Adda had been identified as possible hideouts for miscreants. The security forces at Allama Iqbal International Airport had also been put on high alert as intelligence reports have reported a suicide bomb threat at the airport. The airport officials said that all flights would remain on schedule.
Sources said that police and other intelligence agencies had been on the lookout for any terrorist activity for the last few weeks. Based on intelligence reports, special directions had been issued and specially trained officials had been directed to gather information data about any terrorist activity.
Senior Police officials have issued directions to Town Police Officer (TPO) Ravi Road in this regard. Sources said that police and intelligence agencies had deployed intelligence and operational personnel in sensitive areas. These officials are ready for conducting any type of operation against the militants.
Sources said that in order to maintain the law and order situation surety bonds had been signed from different religious leaders in Lahore and other cities. The Allama Iqbal Town TPO had taken a surety bond of 100,000 rupees from religious activist Ali Sher Haidery and put the activist under constant surveillance.
Sources said that that city police department had received information about terrorist activity against law enforcement agencies. To counter any such activity, law enforcement agencies have deployed security personnel at all installations and law enforcement buildings. This security is also extended to all other gatherings that law enforcement officials might be at. shahnawaz khan
KARACHI: Spokesman Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Maulvi Umer has said that Taliban are operative in Lahore and across Sindh including Karachi.
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