Pakistan and the war there. - Page 44

mlurp · #**431** (**permalink**) 10-04-2012, 04:21 PM

Also going back about 4,000 years ago there is this large city which was very up to date in the sourthern part of Pakistan.

Where it looks like a nuke was set off above the ground as the bodies left sense then are still about 50 time radioactive when tested by Russia...

With so much history yet this country is so under educated and few have jobs worth much.

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.Pakistan struggles with smuggled Buddhist relics

By SEBASTIAN ABBOT and ZARAR KHAN | AP– 14 hrs ago. 4 Oct. 2012 ......

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lacking the necessary cash and manpower, Pakistan is struggling to stem the flow of millions of dollars in ancient Buddhist artifacts that looters dig up in the country's northwest and smuggle to collectors around the world.

The black market trade in smuggled antiquities is a global problem that some experts estimate is worth billions of dollars per year. The main targets are poor countries like Pakistan that possess a rich cultural heritage but don't have the resources to protect it.

The illicit excavations rob Pakistan of an important potential source of tourism revenue, as valuable icons are spirited out of the country, and destroy any chance for archaeologists to document the history of the sites.

"We are facing a serious problem because Pakistan is a vast country, and we have very meager resources," said Fazal Dad Kakar, head of the government's department of archaeology and museums. "We have no manpower to watch the hundreds of Buddhist sites and monasteries in the country, most of which are located in isolated valleys."

Many of the sites are in the Swat Valley, a verdant, mountainous area in the northwest that was once part of Gandhara, an important Buddhist kingdom that stretched across modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan more than 1,000 years ago.

Police seized a large container filled with nearly 400 artifacts in the southern port city of Karachi in July that were being trucked north to be smuggled out of the country. About 40 percent were found to be genuine, including nearly 100 Buddhist sculptures up to 1,800-years-old worth millions of dollars, said Qasim Ali Qasim, director of archaeology and museums in southern Sindh province.

There were effectively no restrictions on whisking Buddhist relics out of Pakistan's northwest in the first few decades after the country achieved independence from Britain in 1947, said Malik Naveed, a former police chief of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where the Swat Valley is located.

That changed in 1975 when the government passed a set of laws criminalizing the practice. But Kakar, the federal archaeology chief, said the laws are difficult to enforce given a lack of funds, and people who are caught rarely receive punishments severe enough to act as much of a deterrent.

Police arrested several people connected to the seizure in Karachi in July, but they have yet to be formally charged.

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mlurp · #**432** (**permalink**) 10-06-2012, 02:25 PM

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mlurp · #**433** (**permalink**) 10-06-2012, 02:30 PM

talk about anti drone protest. Wy not protest the messed up wars that pop up every now and again.

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Pakistanis, Americans protest drones in long drive

By ZARAR KHAN | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago. 6 Oct. 2012 ........

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of Pakistanis joined by a group of U.S. anti-war activists headed toward Pakistan's militant-riddled tribal belt Saturday to protest U.S. drone strikes — even as a Pakistani Taliban faction warned that suicide bombers would stop the demonstration.

The motorcade march was led by Imran Khan, an ex-cricket star-turned-populist politician who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Militants have dismissed Khan as a tool of the West despite his condemnations of the drone strikes, which have killed many Islamist insurgent leaders.

Pakistanis in small towns and villages along the roughly 400 km (250 mile) route warmly welcomed the 150-plus vehicle convoy. Footage broadcast on Pakistani TV showed people showering rose petals on the motorcade. But by late Saturday, it appeared increasingly less likely the protesters would reach their ultimate destination, the South Waziristan tribal area, where they hoped to stage a major rally.

Government officials had warned of dangers in South Waziristan, a frequent focus of drone strikes and the scene of a 2009 Pakistani army offensive. Pakistani media reported authorities used shipping containers to block the main road leading into the region, where access has long been heavily restricted.

In an interview with the private Dunya TV channel, Khan said he had reached another major town on the route, Dera Ismail Khan, and that he would consult with his party leaders on the situation. The protesters had planned to stay overnight in the Dera Ismail Khan area before heading to South Waziristan on Sunday.

"We have come here for peace," Khan said. "I don't want to put the life of my guests in danger, but I would like to know the level of the threat."

Around three dozen Americans from the U.S.-based anti-war group CODEPINK joined Khan for the march. Because foreigners are normally forbidden from entering Pakistan's tribal regions, it was unclear whether the Westerners would have ever been allowed in.

The American protesters echoed Pakistani condemnations of the U.S. drone strikes, saying that contrary to the claims of American officials, the strikes have terrorized peaceful tribes living along the Afghan border and killed many innocent civilians — not just Taliban and al-Qaida fighters.

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mlurp · #**434** (**permalink**) 10-08-2012, 01:41 PM

Pakistan is becoming as bad as Afghanistan and I believe it is the many nuke bombs they have. Just look back thru the many posts in this thread. In the last few years it has slowly gotten worst in Pakistan. Soon the govt. will be under assult or changed into an Islamic one.

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Pakistan: Bomb kills 1 person, wounds 10

By ABDUL SATTAR | Associated Press – 9 hrs ago.. 8 Oct. 2012 .........

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani police officer says a bomb attached to a motorcycle has killed one person and wounded 10 others near a police checkpoint in the country's southwest.

Senior police official Wazir Khan Nasir says the bomb was detonated through a remote-controlled device Monday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.

Nasir says most of the victims are civilians and that at least two of the wounded are in serious condition.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bomb. But the province has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency involving Baluch nationalist groups.

Islamist militants, including the al-Qaida affiliated group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, also operate in Baluchistan.

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mlurp · #**435** (**permalink**) 10-10-2012, 12:54 PM

A few more incidents like this one will set all of the Pakistan Insurgents back wards as more and more people start to hate them like the Military does.

Although this is so

it might be the start of a large percentage of the populations realizing the enemy is these Insurgents.

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.Shooting of Pakistan girl activist sparks outrage

By RIAZ KHAN | Associated Press – 6 hrs ago. 10 Oct. 2012 ........

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Many schools in Pakistan's Swat Valley closed their doors in protest Wednesday and the country's army chief vowed to fight on against militants as anger erupted across the nation over the Taliban attack on a 14-year-old activist famed for promoting girls' education.

Malala Yousufzai was in the intensive care unit at a military hospital in Peshawar, recovering from an early morning surgery to remove a bullet from her neck a day after the attack. A Pakistani official said doctors thought she was out of danger.

The shooting of Malala on her way home from school Tuesday in the town of Mingora in the volatile Swat Valley horrified Pakistanis across the religious, political and ethnic spectrum. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking schoolchildren and shot her in the head and neck. Another girl on the bus was also wounded.

The country's top military officer, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, issued a strongly-worded statement condemning the attack. The powerful army chief rarely makes such public pronouncements, even when it comes to strictly military matters.

"In attacking Malala, the terrorist have failed to grasp that she is not only an individual, but an icon of courage and hope who vindicates the great sacrifices that the people of Swat and the nation gave, for wresting the valley from the scourge of terrorism," Kayani said.

He vowed the military would not bow to terrorists like those who shot the young activist.

"We will fight, regardless of the cost we will prevail," he said.

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mlurp · #**436** (**permalink**) 10-12-2012, 02:23 PM

Well the above news story has made it to the Western News outlets, and most are also very upset over this.

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.Arrests Made in the Shooting of 14-Year-Old Pakistani Girl

By Dashiell Bennett | The Atlantic Wire – 7 hrs ago. 12 Oct. 2012 ....

Pakistan has arrested three suspects in the remote Swat Valley for the shooting of 14-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai. Police say the three men, aged 17 to 22, were involved in the attack, but that they all said the mastermind was a man Attaullah, who is still at large. Yousafzai was shot in the head on Tuesday on her way to school, in retaliation for her criticism of the Taliban. She was nominated for several peace awards after keeping a blog for the BBC that promoted education for young girls. Her father runs the small school that she attended and has received threats from terrorists in the region for years.

Doctors removed a bullet from Yousafzai's skull yesterday, and said she was able to move her arms and legs, though she is still in critical condition. Authorities moved her to a military hospital in the town of Rawalpindi.

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mlurp · #**437** (**permalink**) 10-13-2012, 12:45 PM

I see no end to these attacks and do thnk they are part of Insurgents/Terrorists
plans for the withdrawl from Afghanistan in 2014.

And am very glad to hear that this brave little girl, Malala Yousufzai is doing better. And there is plenty more on Pakistan at the bottom link.

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.Car bomb kills 17 people in northwestern Pakistan

By RIAZ KHAN | Associated Press – 1 hr 35 mins ago. 13 Oct. 2012 .......

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb tore through a crowded bazaar outside an office for anti-Taliban tribal elders Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 17 people, officials said.

The blast in the town of Darra Adam Khel was the latest to strike the troubled area near the Afghan border, showing militants still pose a threat to the stability of key U.S. ally Pakistan despite government offensives against the Taliban and their supporters.

No group immediately claimed responsibility, but the Pakistani Taliban have staged similar attacks in the tribal region of Darra Adam Khel to punish elders for backing security forces in offensives against militants.

The explosives-laden car was parked near the office of one of the so-called peace committees that have been formed by local elders trying to rid the area of militants, regional government administrator Fakhruddin Khan said.

It was unclear how many people were in the office at the time, but Khan said those killed included tribal elders and passers-by.

He said 40 people also were wounded and the attack destroyed 35 shops and eight vehicles. The dead and wounded, including some in critical condition, had been transported to hospitals in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

The region, which is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is famous for its weapons market selling guns made by local craftsmen.

Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain blamed the Pakistani Taliban, noting the fundamentalist Islamic movement also had tried to kill a 14-year-old girl who is an advocate of education for girls and a critic of the Taliban. Malala Yousufzai was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman in the Swat Valley on Tuesday, an attack that has drawn widespread condemnation.

The girl remains on a ventilator but is in stable condition, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa told reporters Saturday.

She had been airlifted from Swat to a military hospital in the frontier city of Peshawar after the attack, where doctors removed a bullet from her neck. The bullet went into her head before travelling toward her spine. Bajwa said earlier that it was too soon to say whether she had a significant head injury.

After her sedatives were reduced on Saturday, she moved her arms and legs. Bajwa said it was a good sign.

The school that Yousufzai was attending in Swat's main town of Mingora — which is run by her father — reopened for classes Saturday. About 80 percent of the students showed up, but many were sad and scared, said one of the teachers, Asghar Khan.

"We want them to concentrate on their studies without any fear or psychological impact from the attack," said Khan.

Some 500 tribal elders held a rally in support of Yousufzai in Mingora on Saturday. Some carried photos of the 14-year-old and two other girls who were shot in the attack. They shouted, "Malala, we are all with you."

Hussain, the provincial information minister, urged the federal government to consider launching a "decisive operation against terrorists" to eliminate the militants.

"These Taliban have killed our innocent people in so many attacks. They are still killing our people. Instead of wasting time, we should hit them back, and we should do it as early as possible to save the precious lives of our innocent girls like Malala Yousufzai," he told reporters in Peshawar.

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Associated Press writers Sherin Zada in Mingora, Pakistan, and Zarar Khan in Islamabad contributed to this report.

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mlurp · #**438** (**permalink**) 10-15-2012, 02:11 PM

My prayers go out to this little girl who continued to support schooling for girls even after the Taliban warned her she would be killed. She is much more braver
than any Insurgent.

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.Wounded Pakistani girl lands in UK for treatment

By MARTIN BENEDYK and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | AP – 3 hrs ago. 15 Oct. 2012 ...

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — A Pakistani teen shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants has arrived in Britain, where she is to get specialized care.

The attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai a week ago horrified people across Pakistan and abroad.

Pakistan's military said doctors recommended Malala be shifted to a center in the U.K. that has the ability to provide "integrated" care to children with severe injuries.

Malala arrived in Britain on Monday afternoon.

She is to be taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in central England, which is also home to the Royal Center for Defense Medicine. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is designated as one of the country's 16 major trauma centers.

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mlurp · #**439** (**permalink**) 10-17-2012, 01:09 PM

Man this is proof of the Taliban's maddness, they are truly

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.Taliban Demands Unbiased Coverage of Its Attempted Murder of a 14-Year-Old Girl

By John Hudson | The Atlantic Wire – 6 hrs ago. 17 Oct. 2012 .......

Pakistan's Taliban insurgency faces a spate of bad press in mainstream Pakistani outlets related to the jihadists' failed assassination attempt of Malala Yousafzai, a young blogger who dared protest the Taliban's ban on educating girls. Now the Taliban are plotting terror strikes on TV stations and other media organizations, but local newspapers refuse to stay silent.

The first report of these plots were surfaced by an urdu-language reporter on Saturday, who uncovered a special directive by the chief of the banned Tahreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Hakimullah Mehsud. As local newspaper Dawn reported, "Mehsud directed his subordinate to target the offices of media organisations in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and in other cities of the country especially those media organisations and media personalities who were denouncing TTP after attack on child activist Malala Yousufzai." In response, the Interior Ministry has beefed up security near media organizations. But the Taliban are still whining.

Yesterday, local paper The News International gave voice to the Taliban's pathetic complaints of bias, which offered a rare window into terrorist media criticism. TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said his group would "continue to respect journalists" except for highly biased outlets. The spokesman for another Taliban insurgent group, Sirajuddin Ahmad of Maulana Fazlullah, spoke at greater length:

He said media provided an opportunity to all those people who were opposed to the Taliban and their activities and used insulting language against them on media. “Right from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to Hillary Clinton and President Obama, all of them used whatever bad language and words they could use on the media but when we tried to reply to them, no media organisation was willing to give us importance. The media is not even allowed to use the real name for Maulana Fazlullah but calling him derogatory names like Mulla Radio,” Sirajuddin complained, but refused to admit that they planned attacks on the media.

, Columbia Journalism Review, here we come. Clearly Pakistani reporters should be giving equal weight to the pros and cons of shooting children in the face.
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mlurp · #**440** (**permalink**) 10-20-2012, 03:29 PM

Kinda shows just how involed the Intelligents community, Military and some of Pakistan's Politicans work behind the face they build on.

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.Pakistani ex-army, intel chiefs face legal action

By ZARAR KHAN | Associated Press – Fri, Oct 19. Posted 20 Oct. 2012 ......

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's top court recommended Friday that the government launch legal proceedings against a former army chief and head of intelligence for allegedly bankrolling politicians running against the current ruling party in the 1990 election.

The landmark ruling related to a case filed 16 years ago by a retired air marshal, Asghar Khan, accusing the Inter-Services Intelligence agency of distributing the money through a secret cell set up under the supervision of late President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.

The decision is the latest example of the Supreme Court's increasing activism against the civilian government and the military. The military and its intelligence agencies have been accused of interfering in politics many times in the past, but legal action against them is rare.

The court said ex-President Khan, former army chief Aslam Baig and retired ISI chief Asad Durrani "acted in violation of the constitution" and their actions "brought a bad name to Pakistan and its armed forces as well as secret agencies in the eyes of the nation." Khan died in 2006.

The judges ordered the federal government to "take necessary steps under the constitution and law against them."

The court also recommended that legal action be taken against politicians who allegedly received money and were running against the Pakistan People's Party in the election. The names of the politicians were not provided in the court order.

Intelligence agencies "have no role to play in the political affairs of the country such as formation or destabilization of government," the court said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf praised the court's ruling and promised the government would conduct a thorough investigation.

"Today is the day of triumph of democracy," Ashraf told reporters in Islamabad.

Also Friday, a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded as a paramilitary vehicle drove by in Quetta, the capital of southwest Baluchistan province. Two soldiers and one civilian were killed, said police official Hamid Shakil. Fifteen people, including four soldiers, were also wounded in the attack, he said.

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Associated Press writer Abdul Sattar contributed to this report from Quetta, Pakistan.

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