Wednesday, February 15, 2017
پېښور او مومندو کې ځانوژونکیو بریدګرو شپږ تنه ووژل
د پېښور په حیات آباد کې په یوه ځانوژونکي برید کې د عدلیې د لاندې کچې قاضیانو رسولو یوه ګاډی په نښه کړل شوي. په دغه پېښه کې ډرایور وژل شوی اودرې ښځینه قاضیانې اویو نارینه قاضي ژوبل دي.
یو استخباراتي چارواکې د پېښی په ځای کې مشال راډيو ته وویل چې سیول جج آصف جدون له درو نورو ښځینه ججانو سره په یو سرکاري ګاډي کې د حیات آباد په ۵ فېز کې په لار وو چې د ځانووژونکي بریدګر ښکار شو. د پېښې ټپیان د حیات آباد مېډیکل کمپلېکس روغتون ته رسول شوي دي.دروغتون چارواکي وايي په پېښه کې یو تن وژل شوی او پنځه نورژوبل شوي دي.
د پېښې په ځای کې د پېښور پولیسو مشر طاهر خان له رسنیو سره په خبروکې وویلچې یوه ځانوژونکي خپل موټرسایکل د قاضیانو له ګاډي سره جنګولی چې پکې ډرایور خورشید وژل شوی. دی وايي چې په چاودنه کې ۱۵ کلوګرامه باروت کارول شوي دي.
امنیتيو ځواکونو د پېښې ځای په خپله ولقه کې خېستی او پلټنې یې پیل کړي دي. له چاودنې د یوه نزدې کور ودانۍ ته هم ډېر سخت زیان رسېدلی دی.
عیني شاهیدان وايي پهخواو شا کورونوکې ښځې او ماشومان ډېر سخت وېرې ترهې اخېستي دي.
د تحریک طالبان پاکستان ویاند محمد خراساني رسنیو ته په لېږلې خبرپاڼه کې د دې برید ذمه واري منلې ده.
په پېښور کې دا چاودنه په داسې یو ځای کې رامینځ ته شوې ده چې جوخت ورته د پېښور پرمخیتا ادارې (پي ډي اې) د دفتر ترڅنګ شوکت خانم روغتون، رحمان مېډیکل انسټیټیوټ ( آر اېم آی روغتون) یوشمېر تعلیمي ادارې اوشخصي دفترونه شتون لري چې پکې سخته امنیتي څارنه کېږي.
تر دې وړاندې بیا نن(چارشنبه)سهار د مومندو اېجنسي په غلنۍ هېډکواټر کې په يو ځانمرګي بريد کې د دوو ليويز سرتېرو په ګډون پنځه کسان وژل شوي او اووه نور ژوبل دي.
له سيمې د مشال راډيو خبريال د چارواکو په حواله وايي چې دوه ځانوژونکي بريدګر د پوليټکل کالونۍ په لويه دروازه ورغلل چې يو پکې ځان والوځولو او دويم د امنيتي سرتېرو په ډزو کې ووژل شو.
تر بريد وروسته په غلنۍ یکه غونډ او میا منډۍ کې ګرځبندیز لګول شوی دی او په سيمه کې سکولونه بند کړل شوي دي.
امنيتي ځواکونو په هغه سيمه کې لټون عمليات پيل کړی دی.
د غلنۍ برید ذمه واري جماعت الحرار منلې.
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The Lahore bombing and Pakistan's misplaced priorities
While Pakistani authorities were busy banning Valentine's Day and cracking down on those planning to celebrate it, a suicide bomber killed 13 people at a rally. What does the incident say about the country's priorities?
Prior to Monday's terrorist attack in the eastern city of Lahore, authorities had been raiding gift shops in urban centers, arresting fun-loving youngsters for buying kites for the basant (spring festival) or heart-shaped balloons and chocolates for Valentine's Day.
The crackdown on those wanting to celebrate Valentine's Day will continue on Tuesday in compliance with the orders of a court in Islamabad that decided to ban the "Christian" and "Western" event. For Pakistani authorities, Valentine's Day celebrations are "immoral," "vulgar," and not in accordance with Islamic teachings.
Amid this security clampdown on a benign activity, a suicide bomber belonging to the Jamat-ul-Ahrar faction of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) snuck into a protest rally in Lahore and blew himself up. At least 13 people were killed and some 85 were injured.
Pakistanis are angry not only because another terrorist attack has claimed so many lives, but also because they feel the priorities of the state are totally misplaced. Instead of acting against banned militant groups, the government is banning cultural events, and ironically, the intention is to appease Islamic groups.
Don't worry, the courts are busy crushing real terror: Valentine's Day. #LahoreBlast
BILAWAL BHUTTO STRONGLY CONDEMNS BOMB BLAST IN PESHAWAR
In a press statement issued here, the PPP Chairman said that brutal and horrific terror incidents were growing but the Nawaz government was not implementing the National Action Plan in toto for unknown reasons. Dictionary of bad and good terrorism was used to befool the people, who are being targeted at will and attempting to frighten entire nation.
He stressed that implementation of NAP should not be selective as being carried out by the government and reiterated that PPP would continue to raise its voice against terrorism and stand by its victims.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that murderous attack on MWM Azad Jammu & Kashmir General Secretary was also terrorism and expressed concern that menace was crawling to the valley.
He expressed sympathies with the families who lost their loved ones in terrorist attacks and prayed for early recovery of those wounded.
https://ppppunjab.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/bilawal-bhutto-strongly-condemns-bomb-blast-in-peshawar-and-attack-on-allama-tasawar-hussain-naqvi/
Pakistan - Children In Chains
In order to eliminate all kinds of labour including child labour, seven projects, which are being implemented by provincial governments, were put in place for different parts of the country excluding the Islamabad Capital Territory (as if there is no child labour problem in Islamabad). Of the total approved funds of Rs5.788 billion, the government has released a sum of Rs912 million to fight the menace, only about 15% of funds available. This problem of on-going unfunded projects exists in all provinces. In Punjab, the government released only Rs111.9million of the approved Rs196.9million for “elimination of bonded labour in four districts of Punjab”. In Sindh, an amount of Rs54million was approved for a child labour survey and not a single transfer has been made yet. The list goes on.
Admittedly, the issue does not make for a gripping mandate that can be used to get more votes for a political party, nor does it create ratings on talk shows, but the physical and mental health of our children is the only thing that really matters. In the Global Slavery Index 2013, Pakistan comes third, after Mauritania and Haiti, in the prevalence of child labour. The government has failed to conduct a child labour survey since 1996, which made it difficult to establish details of children working in different sectors in the country. What is worse is that there is no vocal demand for such measures to be taken. Officials and business owners would rather let the situation continue as is, and it will since children are a voiceless section of our society.
Two Dead in Pakistan as Suicide Bomber Targets Judges
By Mehreen Zahra-Malik
Security has improved in Pakistan over the past few years but a spate of attacks in recent days, and a threat by a hardline militant faction to unleash a new campaign against the government, has raised fears of bloodshed.
"A suicide bomber on a motor bike rammed into an official van in which some judges were traveling," senior superintendent of Peshawar police, Sajjad Khan, told media.
He said three female judges and one male judge had been taken to a nearby hospital while the driver of the van and a passerby had been killed. The attack took place in a wealthy neighborhood of the northwestern city, where Taliban gunmen attacked a military-run school in December 2014 and killed 134 children and 19 adults.
Former cricket star Imran Khan, Pakistan's main opposition leader, was due to visit the nearby hospital. Media reported that he was unharmed.
Khan's party rules Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of which Peshawar is capital.
In a separate attack on Wednesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government office in the northwestern Mohmand Agency, killing five people.
There was no immediate claim for the Peshawar attack but the Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the Mohmand blast. The same group claimed an attack in the city of Lahore on Monday in which 13 people, five of them policemen, were killed.
The group said the Lahore attack was the beginning of a new campaign against the government, security forces, the judiciary and secular political parties.
Separately on Monday, a bomb squad commander was killed along with another policeman while they were trying to defuse a bomb in the southwestern city of Quetta. The spate of attacks has underlined the threat militants pose to the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif despite an army offensive launched in 2014 to push them out of their northwestern strongholds.
Pakistan had announced a 20-point National Action Plan after the Peshawar school massacre in 2014, the main thrusts of which included expanding counter-terrorism raids, secret military courts and the resumption of hangings.
#LahoreBlast - Terror in the heartland again
ZAHID HUSSAIN
LIKE so many past terrorist attacks, there was forewarning of the latest suicide bombing that struck Lahore on Monday. Yet the carnage could not be prevented. Despite the alert, the bomber managed to reach his target, killing over a dozen people including two senior police officers. The incident occurred right in the heart of the provincial capital — a grim reminder of the impunity enjoyed by terrorist networks.
It doesn’t matter which militant faction operating from the sanctuary across the border in Afghanistan claims responsibility; the fact is that the attack was facilitated by a network working inside the country. The Lahore attack is yet another example of our failure to act in a timely fashion on an intelligence warning and avert tragedy.
It happened at a time we are trying to convince the world that terrorists are on the run and our major cities are safe to hold international sporting and cultural events. For sure, the level of militant violence has come down significantly compared to previous years. But the latest attack shows how easy it is for the militants to regroup and launch spectacular attacks with the state still reluctant to act against the major sources of militancy without exception. The Lahore bombing was waiting to happen.
Given this state of affairs, it is not surprising to see terrorism rearing its ugly head yet again. The Charing Cross bombing has validated Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s indictment of state institutions, particularly of the federal interior ministry, for failing to act more effectively against proscribed militant and sectarian groups operating under new banners. The Justice Isa commission report on the Quetta hospital bombing last August, which wiped out almost an entire generation of senior lawyers in Balochistan, was released in December.
Instead of accepting responsibility, the interior minister had angrily dismissed the allegation. The Lahore attack does not need a new commission of inquiry but it does require that Justice Isa’s report be taken more seriously and its recommendations implemented. Though the federal and the provincial governments deny the threat, Punjab is sitting on a powder keg. The province is the hub of violent extremism with banned outfits operating freely. What is most dangerous is the ostrich-like attitude of the provincial government in the face of the grave threat.
It has almost become a ritual for the government to pledge its resolve to fight terrorism and all manifestations of extremism after each incident of violence. But that is mere rhetoric. One such example was the decision by the prime minister in the aftermath of the Quetta carnage to set up yet another committee headed by the national security adviser, retired Gen Nasser Janjua, to monitor progress on the National Action Plan.
But like more than a dozen other monitoring committees formed over the past two years, the fate of the committee remains unclear. There has hardly been any tangible sign of progress on NAP despite solemn pledges. Surely, no amount of bloodletting could force the interior minister to move against the sectarian militant groups that he declared ‘kosher’. The Lahore incident was, perhaps, waiting to happen.
Despite the claims of a widespread intelligence-based crackdown, some sectarian and militant networks are still active in many districts of south Punjab. Political expediency and the old habit of creating distinctions between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ militants makes it harder to deal with the menace. Thousands of militant suspects have reportedly been arrested by security agencies in Punjab alone over the past two years, but there is no report of their being convicted or even tried by anti-terrorism courts.
Most of the detainees are freed due to lack of evidence. An unprotected judiciary does not want to stick out its neck. The situation has become more complicated with the government’s failure to reform the country’s judicial system as promised under NAP. The military courts have also become ineffective because of the sunset clause. That means detained suspects will either be freed or languish in jail without trial.
Also, the alleged extrajudicial killings of some high-profile sectarian militant leaders do not solve the problem in the long term. Given the constant supply of ‘holy warriors’ coming out of radicalised seminaries, it is extremely difficult to eradicate militancy with short-term measures. These cannot be a substitute for an overarching counterterrorism and counter-extremism strategy.
Most alarming are the intelligence reports about members of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) now operating under the banner of Jamaatud Dawa getting involved with the militant Islamic State (IS) group. The footprints of the global jihadi group were found in several terrorist attacks across the country, though the government has downplayed such reports.
It may be true that IS does not have any organisational structure in the country but the threat cannot be underestimated. Many recent terrorist attacks including the one in Lahore have been claimed by TTP factions that have reportedly pledged to support IS. Reports of an emerging nexus between members of banned militant outfits and IS must be taken more seriously.
Unsurprisingly, foreign hands are being blamed for the latest wave of militant violence. It is certainly the easiest thing to do to cover up one’s own failure. While one must not completely rule out the possibility of foreign involvement particularly given the current regional tensions, it is also true that our own people are facilitating these attacks. Outside forces can only fish in troubled waters and surely our inaction provides them with an enabling environment.
The Charing Cross bombing must serve as yet another eye-opener for state institutions. It is surely a protracted battle which can only be won if we take the threat seriously. Our half-hearted actions make the terrorist stronger. Our leaders must go beyond empty rhetoric and ritualistic condemnation. In order to prevent Lahore-like terrorist attacks from recurring, the militant sanctuaries and support networks in both southern and northern Punjab must be dismantled.
Pakistan - Lahore horror
Yet another grotesque terror attack once again struck Pakistan on Monday, this time threatening to tear humanity apart in the heart of Lahore. The target and even the place chosen by the new extremist faction, Jamat-ul-Ahrar, invigorated to establish itself as the most aggressive and violent of the militant outfits, seems to have been chosen to maximise their damage. As of now, at least 13 people have been killed whilst an additional 85 were injured in the attack outside the Punjab Assembly.
Every single terrorist incident is equally horror-filled and heart-wrenching since the loss of every precious human life should be necessarily mourned. However, the fact that the attacker ripped through such a large number of protesting chemists in addition to targeting senior police officers narrates an even darkening tale of our long struggle against extremism. The horrifying cries of the wounded, the trauma of those braving the losses of their loved ones, and the general panic and despair that seems to have engulfed the entire city clearly signify a bloody reminder of our constant danger. In a manner similar to the atrocious carnage that a suicide bomber of the same organisation had left behind in the city’s most popular park last year — wreaking havoc on hundreds of families — this attack appears to send a clear message of our vulnerability to policymakers. The same group also attacked a lawyer’s rally in Quetta last year; killing more than 70 people. A suicide blast outside a church in Lahore claimed 15 lives in 2015 while an attack at a police station in the same city killed as many as seven officers a year earlier. May it be families walking down the streets in Anarkali, passengers awaiting their trains on various platforms in the railway station or even protestors mourning at the Muharram procession, Lahore has long borne the brunt of these shameless terrorist outfits that appear hell-bent on taking as many human lives as possible only to further their yet unclear designs.
Amid the unrelenting yet psychotic passion of these militant bodies, the state of our own defences, nonetheless, still remains unaddressed. While a significant connection between the blast and the imminent Pakistan Super League (PSL) tournament final, scheduled to be held in Lahore, is already making rounds on many television talk shows, calls of undermining the mega investment planned under the umbrella of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor are also being heard. Those voicing concerns about the future of the tournament do hold substantial ground. Only last year’s bombing in the same city was quoted by the Afghanistan cricket team as its board cancelled its proposed April tour of Pakistan. The security concern had also set forth the cancellation of a series between the women cricket teams of Pakistan and Kenya, which was to be organised in home grounds last year. In the wake of the incessant lack of development opportunities back home braved by the country’s national team ever since a 2009 militant attack on Sri Lankan cricket team on their way to a match in Qaddafi Stadium, all fears of cricket aficionados seem justified. After all, the sporting isolation that had ensued as a result of these unfortunate security lapses still manages to hamper the progress of national cricketers.
As the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has rightly reiterated, an unwavering resolve is now needed, more than ever, to tackle “this cancer (to) avenge those who have laid down their lives for us.” Gone are the days when the country’s leadership could get away with simply reassuring us of the majestic might and determination of our armed forces. Every militant stronghold obscured in the plains of Punjab requires our immediate attention. A collaboration between the civilian and military leadership — the likes of which have already achieved significant success during Operation Zarb-e-Azb and the Karachi Operation — should be initiated to act against the looming militancy problem in the province. It is hoped that the leadership would act quickly so that such tragic events are no longer allowed to disrupt the social fabric, and, in this case, shatter the hopes of millions pining upon the revival of international cricket in home grounds.
#LahoreBlast - The State Must Answer
Once the initial shock subsides and the immediate job of calling for strength and solidarity is over, the public’s gaze inevitably turns inwards; it asks for explanation, attributes blame and demands action.
Following yet another terror attack in Lahore, the citizenry is asking hard questions and our politicians must answer. On the dock is also the military, which is quick to declare victory and claim credit for triumph, but stands bereft of responsibility when things go wrong.
Collectively the state must answer, why has it been unable to eliminate Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, why do religious extremists still enjoy the state’s leniency, and who is to blame for the state’s constant failure to protect its people?
The opposition believes the government is to blame.
Almost in a single voice, most political parties have condemned the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for failing to implement the National Action Plan (NAP) in its full potential, and pinned the blame for the residual traces of terrorism on them. While this criticism rings true – seminary reform was abandoned and extremists in Punjab still move about with impunity – this automatic blaming of the government for every attack by the opposition is an overly simplistic picture.
The provinces administered by the opposition have fared no better, and in the case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has actually given millions to actively militant seminaries such as Madrassa Haqqania. Seminary reform and other anti-terror laws are the responsibility of the opposition too, who has to push the government in the right direction, but it was too busy skewering the Prime Minister for the Panama scandal to care about what really matters.
However, it is difficult to sympathise with the government when its leaders maintain such a shameful dismissive attitude about their own people. A day after the attack, with the carnage still fresh in the streets and the victims struggling for life in various hospitals, the Punjab Minister Rana Sanaullah has blamed the victims for the attack, saying “had there been no protest demonstration, this incident would not have occurred”.
Not only are such comments highly inappropriate and disrespectful, but also emblematic of the problem – instead of thinking how it could protect the people better, the government’s first instinct is to protect itself, by blaming the victims no less. This is a shameful move, even by Rana Sanaullah’s standards. The government has to own up to its responsibility as must the military.
The nation has been told a narrative of success in the military operations but attacks continue to happen regularly and effortlessly. The military must reverse is narrative of victory, or get back to work eliminating the militants left. The state is responsible for this senseless loss of life, and the state must answer.