Preventing More Lal Masjids #944 Posted by arjun2

It looks like Land of the Pure is getting ready for the final purification rites....Courtesy Uncle Sam who has pumped in 5 Billion $ and wants results..now..

A Letter To President Musharraf Re: # 475

That is the USP of "Visit Pakistan Year". 72 houris only on offer there.......Since the response has been overwhelming they are considering reducing houris and adding a few Tahmeds......:)

A Letter To President Musharraf Re: # 473

Visit Pakiland and then a direct connect to 72 houris.......

A Letter To President Musharraf More people want to come to Pakistan.........

CNN) -- U.S. forces should go into Pakistan to rout al Qaeda from the safe haven it has found in the mountains on the border with Afghanistan, a co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group said.


Pakistani army soldiers patrol in the tribal area of North Waziristan along the Afghan border Wednesday.

Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who also served as the vice chairman of the 9/11 commission, says the Iraq war distracted the United States when it had al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on the run in the tribal region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He says it's now time to finish the job.

"This has to be carefully calibrated, worked out with the Pakistanis, but I am very concerned that you have a safe haven in Pakistan today where they (al Qaeda) can regroup, rethink, and get ready for more attacks," Hamilton said on CNN's "Newsroom" on Wednesday.

Declassified portions of the National Intelligence Estimate released Tuesday reported that al Qaeda has "protected or regenerated key elements" of its ability to attack the United States while in this region.

Some intelligence analysts believe bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are hiding in western Pakistan.

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"If there's anything we should have learned, it's that we must not let al Qaeda have a sanctuary, which they certainly do in Pakistan today," Hamilton said. Watch Hamilton discuss possible U.S. options »

The United States has accused Pakistan of allowing al Qaeda and the Taliban to have free rein in the region after it pulled out some of its forces in a deal with pro-Taliban tribal chiefs last year.

Under that agreement, the tribal leaders agreed not to harbor any Taliban or al Qaeda terrorists.

Fran Townsend, President Bush's homeland security adviser, said Wednesday "that agreement has failed."

After last week's deadly siege at the Red Mosque in Islamabad that pitted radical Islamists against Pakistan's military government forces, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf vowed to "fight against extremism and terrorism no matter what province."

"We will finish it off in every corner of the country," he said.

The United States will keep "working with our Pakistani allies to make sure the tribal area is denied to al Qaeda as a safe haven," Townsend said on CNN's "American Morning."

Hamilton criticized the Pakistani president for keeping U.S. forces out of the region.

"I know Musharraf is described as a great ally of the United States, he's been helpful in some ways, but the fact that he has kept us away from going after these sanctuaries I find unacceptable," the former congressman from Indiana said.


"I think we have to find ways and means, perhaps it's use of covert actions, perhaps it's use of special operations, perhaps it's the pursuit of the Taliban when they're in Afghanistan, to let us go after them as they move back into Pakistan.

"Whatever it is, I do not find acceptable a sanctuary for al Qaeda in Pakistan. We have to be able to go after them." E-mail to a friend

A Letter To President Musharraf A Bomb a day keeps Pakis at bay.....

Two Pakistan bomb attacks kill 33

Two bombs exploded in Pakistan today, one in the south and the other in the northwest, killing at least 32 people, most of them police.

A wave of bomb attacks since a siege and assault on a militant mosque stronghold in Islamabad this month has swept northwestern Pakistan, killing close to 150 people.

But today, a bomb blast killed at least 25 in a market place in the southern town of Hub, on the border between Sindh and Baluchistan provinces, near the city of Karachi. Seven of the dead were policemen. More than 20 people were wounded, some of them seriously. Police were still investigating whether it was a remote-controlled bomb or a suicide attack.
It was the first such attack in southern Pakistan during this recent wave. It was unclear whether it was related to the Islamist militant backlash against the storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque, or was linked to a long-running separatist movement in Baluchistan.

The government said 102 people had been killed in the storming of the mosque. Many of the victims came from the volatile northwest, most of them followers of cleric brothers advocating a militant brand of Islam reminiscent of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

In the far northwest, a car bomber blew himself up at a police training centre in the city of Hangu early today, killing at least seven people. The bomber tried to enter the police training centre just as young recruits were going in for training.

Hangu, which itself has a history of sectarian violence, is close to Pakistan's lawless tribal regions on the Afghan border, known as hotbeds of support for al Qaeda and Taliban militants.

A large number of al-Qaeda fighters and their allies fled to Pakistan's tribal areas after US-led forces toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001.

President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday he had no intention of declaring a state of emergency to counter the growing insecurity, and gave assurances that elections due later this year would go ahead as planned.

Rushdie and the British Establishment Pirzada-"This only shows the depth of chaos and depravity to which a once proud imperial power has unwittingly allowed itself to sink under the comradeship of Tony Blair."

Lets hope Gordie Brown does better.......like giving Tasleema Nasrin British citizenship.........

India’s First Woman President? Re: # 17

yes, while we dont have a hand in this election......the new president, he or she faces the almost impossible task of living up to the standards set by Prez Kalam......and the citizens will be doing the comparison.....

Preventing More Lal Masjids Re: # 417

DM ji,

With all due respect to you, your contention is misplaced......Azim Premji has just now been voted world-wide as an influencer (cant provide details because of a power outage here).......had he or his grandfather opted for Pakistan it may or may not have happened.....

I read somewhere that religious demographics wise........ the most prosperous communities in India are 1) The Sikhs 2) the Christians 3) The Parsees folowed by Hindus & Muslims........ no major difference between Hindus & Muslims in today`s India.......

Shall provide the respective links 2 morrow........

Preventing More Lal Masjids Re: # 407

haideri......dear friend......wasn`t Pakistan meant for the Muslims of India......a homeland against Hindu Domination......

having got it......why is there infighting and sedious tendencies among you guys..........Bangladesh no doubt happened due to India...What about Baluchistan.......Sind......You can blame all of that on India.....So why have Pakistan then.......

Preventing More Lal Masjids Prez Mushy was on BBC Live now..........erudite man.........but misunderstood by his countrymen........Is it true that Mushy is more popular in India then in Pakistan.........Possibly BJ Kumar will have some answers to that..................

Preventing More Lal Masjids Re: # 398

To add on.........whya are the Baluchis rebelling........why is the NWFp boiling.......why does altaf hussain of MQM saying partition was the worst thing that could have happened...........

Preventing More Lal Masjids Re: # 384

err BJ am I permitted to answer them.........:)

Preventing More Lal Masjids The question which begs answer is how many children got out of that terrible situation alive..........more importantly what is the Paki Govt or NGO`s doing to rehabilitate them........I am given to understand that these children come from poor backgrounds......it was ``a belief System`` by their parents to put them in there in the first place............

Dear Pakis........spare some thought for these poor kids out alive ....but incalculably harmed............

Preventing More Lal Masjids Re: # 351

Ha Ha, Good One and if I may add `` Was struck to death by over-ripe coconuts while taking a break from Chowk``

Preventing More Lal Masjids Re: # 344

hamidm2

Uncleji.....next time you wander around a Coconut tree...let a couple of overlarge......overripe coconuts fall on your sorry head and bring you to your senses..:)

Preventing More Lal Masjids Re: # 335

PM:

I think you have lost the plot.......Get some rest dude..........