Dr Naeemi among 5 killed in Lahore suicide blast…
Geo TV Updated at: 1827 PST,  Friday, June 12, 2009
 LAHORE: At least five people including Jamia Naeemia principal Dr Sarfraz Naeemi were martyred and six others injured in a suicide blast at Jamia Naeemia situated in Garhi Shahu area of Lahore, Geo News reported Friday.

The blast occurred after the Friday prayers when the people were making their way out of the mosque after offering the Friday prayers. A lot of people were present in the mosque at the time of blast…..
Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi gave fatwa that the suicide attacks are haram and he was against the Qadianis.

See: Rehman Malik Qadiani has a secret plan for Swat

Why the research on Benazir’s death points to a Qadiani Advisor?

Dawn of the tyrannical Police State in Pakistan. Part NINE.

Rehman Malik is not what he seems

more…

From a reader

Please see this picture closely because, for the life of me, I can’t get over Bilawal Bhutto accompanying his father to a high-level meeting with Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai. (Can you ever imagine Obama bringing one of his daughters to a meeting like this or, for that matter, Bush one of his)??? I know there are more important crises in Pakistan right now (the refugees, the economy, the Taliban), but I can’t let this go, even though I probably should.

I just have one question: WHY IS BILAWAL SITTING THERE ? A 20 year old who does not even know how to tie his shoes – but then come to think of it neither does his father.  Actually, I have one more question: what does it say about Zardari’s priorities that Bilawal is sitting closer to his father and Barack Obama than either Pakistan ’s foreign minister (Shah Mahmood Qureshi, on Bilawal’s left) or Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S. (to Qureshi’s left)?

There is no rational reason why Bilawal Bhutto should be sitting in on an extremely important meeting with extremely important leaders.

Could this be the “Divine Right Of The Kings” doctrine being implemented? Are these the new King and Crown Prince for us poor miserable Pakistanis?? ?

War and violence is not a solution to anything at all. War is imposed on Pakistan from outside as is the reaction to that war carefully engineered by the same forces. This combination of war and counter violence is called the ‘war within Pakistan.’ Peace is the only answer to the imposed war and planned balkanization of the country. Read more »

By Dr. Haider Mehdi

“At least 80 militants were killed and three soldiers martyred while 21 suicide vehicles, motor cyclists and bombers were eliminated during the …operation in Buner district…The operation in Buner is progressing smoothly…three soldiers embraced Shahadat, says ISPR Press release…”
The Nation, May 4, 2009

Pakistan’s political and military establishment is “romanticizing” the so-called “war on terrorism” – a war against its own people that has been going on for almost a decade now and which has its inauspicious origin in the dubious and odious American global agenda in this region of the world. The latest political tendency to “romanticize” this conflict is a dangerous phenomenon because the strategic contents of this policy do not offer a resolution to the issues involved – the logistics adopted here will only intensify and completely wreck the chances of a peaceful resolution of this country’s problematics. This is a war that, if continued, will not eliminate the enemies of Pakistan. It will most certainly kill Pakistan. The escalation and the “romanticizing” of this war poses the ultimate existential threat to this nation. Read more »

May 20, 2009
by Michael Scheuer
[Michael Scheuer is a twenty-plus-year CIA veteran. From 1996 to 1999, he served as the Chief of the bin Laden unit at the Counterterrorism Center.]

In just over 100 days, President Obama is on the verge of ensuring that militant Islams war on America will be waged for decades to come and its forces will never suffer manpower or money shortages. How did he accomplish so much in some little time? He simply behaved as all U.S. political leaders behave; that is, as an ignorant and arrogant interventionist.

Let us take the ignorant part first. Since Jan. 20, Obama and his band of Israel-Firsters have shown the Muslim world moderate, conservative, radical, and fanatic that George W. Bush was no one-off fluke, that Democrats intend to wage war on Islam just like the Republicans. How so? Well, look at Obamas decisions and actions. They can only be explained by accepting that the new president is ignorant of our Islamist foes, either by choice or because the ability to read is not required to graduate at Harvard. Read more »

By: Peter Chamberlin
We are fighting a war that is like no other. The illusion is made as real; the real is made as dust. Nothing is as it seems in this war, even though this is the era of instant news. This alteration of our very understanding of reality has been necessary for us to pursue a war policy of pure evil, even though we have paraded ourselves before the world as warriors in defense of truth and light. The human race is begging for an end to the path of destruction that trusted American leaders have steered the world onto., longing to turn onto a permanent path of Light. It is high time the United States either showed the world the way into the Light, or got out of the way of those who can. Read more…

Balochistan . . . An immense desert comprising almost 48% of Pakistan’s area, rich in uranium and copper, potentially very rich in oil, and producing more than one-third of Pakistan’s natural gas, it accounts for less than 4% of Pakistan’s 173 million citizens. Balochs are the majority, followed by Pashtuns. Quetta, the provincial capital, is considered Taliban Central by the Pentagon, which for all its high-tech wizardry mysteriously has not been able to locate Quetta resident “The Shadow”, historic Taliban emir Mullah Omar himself.

Strategically, Balochistan is mouth-watering: east of Iran, south of Afghanistan, and boasting three Arabian sea ports, including Gwadar, practically at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz.

Gwadar - a port built by China - is the absolute key. It is the essential node in the crucial, ongoing, and still virtual Pipelineistan war between IPI and TAPI. IPI is the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, also known as the “peace pipeline”, which is planned to cross from Iranian to Pakistani Balochistan - an anathema to Washington. TAPI is the perennially troubled, US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline, which is planned to cross western Afghanistan via Herat and branch out to Kandahar and Gwadar.

Washington’s dream scenario is Gwadar as the new Dubai - while China would need Gwadar as a port and also as a base for pumping gas via a long pipeline to China. One way or another, it will all depend on local grievances being taken very seriously. Islamabad pays a pittance in royalties for the Balochis, and development aid is negligible; Balochistan is treated as a backwater. Gwadar as the new Dubai would not necessarily mean local Balochis benefiting from the boom; in many cases they could even be stripped of their local land.

To top it all, there’s the New Great Game in Eurasia fact that Pakistan is a key pivot to both NATO and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), of which Pakistan is an observer. So whoever “wins” Balochistan incorporates Pakistan as a key transit corridor to either Iranian gas from the monster South Pars field or a great deal of the Caspian wealth of “gas republic” Turkmenistan. . . . Read more…

U.S. Military, Mercenaries Torture Iraq Prisoners,” The Wisdom Fund, April 30, 2004.

“Dirty War: Our Monsters In Iraq,” The Wisdom Fund, November 18, 2005

["The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding," [McCain] told reporters at a campaign event. . . . Read more »

Trouble was, Bush-Cheney couldn’t even get someone they waterboarded six times a day for a month to “admit” that their allegations about Saddam and terrorists were true.

Why was getting those “admissions” so important to Bush-Cheney? more…

By Pepe Escobar
Apocalypse Now. Run for cover. The turbans are coming. This is the state of Pakistan today, according to the current hysteria disseminated by the Barack Obama administration and United States corporate media - from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to The New York Times. Even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said on the record that Pakistani Talibanistan is a threat to the security of Britain. Read more »

Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics—his administration peers—are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they’re saying? It isn’t pretty…. more… Also see this.

Gabriel Carlyle - Peace News
While newspapers and politicians fulminate against the terrorist threat to Britain that supposedly emanates from Pakistan, few British commentators have even noticed the large-scale state terrorism being practised in Pakistan by the US and Britain – and the Pakistani government (under pressure from Washington).

When referred to at all – usually in passing – Pakistani government actions in the border Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) are usually referred to, euphemistically, as the “vigorous pursuit of militants” or the like. Read more….

Barbarism in our age.

Some of the 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union. Sydney Morning Herald

Israel has Pakistan in its tight grip through the US as has been Iraq. It is chocking and inching towards its demise. Thanks to the sold out rulers and indifferent masses. Displaced persons never go back. Instead the UN comes in. This is how a country is internationalized before beign balkanized. Then camps are used to create more trouble, more resistance, more terrorists and they are talking of taking over nukes now which is a long awaited mission to be realized in the near future.
Shame on Pak Press that is silent.

List of 140 Afghan Killed In US Attack Includes 93 Children
By Reuters

KABUL Ninety-three children and 25 adult women are among a list of 140 names of Afghans who villagers say were killed in a battle and U.S. air strikes last week, causing a crisis between Washington and its Afghan allies.

….The youngest was listed as 8-day-old baby Sayed Musa, son of Sayed Adam. Fifty-three victims were girls under the age of 18, and 40 were boys. Only 22 were men 18 or older.

The U.S. military continues to dispute the toll and a military spokesman said some of the names could be fake.

….The Afghan government has endorsed the list, and Karzai went on U.S. television to call for an end to all U.S. air strikes, only to be rebuffed by Washington. Afghan officials say the issue helps insurgents by turning the public against foreign forces.

Since last year, U.S. officials adopted new procedures for investigations of civilian casualties designed to ensure their statements agree with those of the Afghan government.

Nevertheless, Washington has continued to dispute the death toll. U.S. military spokesman Colonel Greg Julian said villagers had an incentive to invent names of dead relatives in the hope of collecting compensation.

….”Conditions exist that encourage exaggeration,” Julian added.

“If you say that the Taliban killed your family you’d get nothing. If you say the Americans killed your family, you might get assistance, whether they existed or not.”

Israel also blames the victims and accuses Palestinians of faking injury as well as numbers and identities of dead and injured. They also try to claim the moral high ground by insisting that they don’t target enemy civilians even though their evil enemy does and even targets their own civilians. It’s an “occupation thing”, apparently. It’s what occupiers do to distract public attention away from the very basic terrible truths about what they are doing and why, and the obvious and indisputable atrocities they are committing in the process of their criminal invasions and occupations.

See Psychopaths Always Blame Their Victims. Only bad people resist invasion and occupation, you know. It’s the same excuses whether in Afghanistan and Palestine, whether the forces are US/NATO or Israeli.

“The area where the fighting is taking place is very crowded,” a source said. “The terror organizations are knowingly operating near civilians and putting them in danger. We are thoroughly looking into the circumstances of the incident.”

And this -

Defense Minister Ehud Barak placed the blame squarely on Hamas.

“We see Hamas as responsible for everything that happens there, for all injuries,” he said while on a tour of an Israeli weapons factory, as reported on Israeli radio. “The army is acting and will continue to act against Hamas, including inside the Gaza Strip.”

could just as easily read: Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen placed the blame squarely on the Taliban. ”We see the Taliban as responsible for everything that happens in Afghanistan, for all injuries and deaths. Liberation forces are acting and will continue to act against the Taliban, including inside Pakistan.”

The importance of liberating these lands from the uncivilized masses who inhabit them cannot be overstated. Poor and uncooperative survivors must be kept in concentration refugee camps (known in the US as “reservations”) while cooperative elites can be allowed to roam freely between their mansions in multiple countries. ~SuZ

Winter Patriot

On April 8, 2009, amid a blaze of publicity, police in the north of England arrested 12 men who were Officially Described As (ODA) “terror suspects”.

England’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, congratulated the police and intelligence agencies on having broken up “a very big plot”.

Police spokesmen were mostly mum but anonymous sources told the British media that the authorities had foiled an imminent attack which would have involved multiple suicide bombers.

Eleven of the suspects were ODA Pakistani nationals living in the UK on student visas. Sources told the British papers the suspects came from the “lawless tribal region” of northwest Pakistan and were linked with the al Qaeda terrorists whose global headquarters is ODA in the same region. Read more…

Chris Floyd

Throughout the long history of the Afghan War, the United States has never accused the Taliban of using white phosphorus weapons — until now. Suddenly, after the emergence of glaring evidence of Afghan civilians being seared and maimed by these chemical weapons following American airstrikes and combat operations, the Pentagon has released “classified information” claiming that the Taliban have actually been using white phosphorus weapons for six years, since 2003: a practice that the Pentagon — which has been using white phosphorus weapons in Afghanistan since 2002 if not before — denounced as “reprehensible.”This is very curious. The bipartistan managers of the Terror War have always been eager to trumpet — even exaggerate — the atrocities committed by the various armed groups opposing the imposition of foreign troops in Afghanistan. But now we are to believe that the Pentagon has been keeping evidence of the Taliban’s chemical weapons use — chem weapons! WMDs! — under wraps for years.

The “classified intelligence” was released in friendly territory: The Times (UK), owned by Fox News’ own Rupert Murdoch.

(By the way, isn’t it strange that super-duper top-secret material which would threaten the very existence of the United States and its way of life if it were divulged to, say, lawyers for torture victims or members of the public who’ve been illegally spied upon, can always be released when there are PR gains to be made? Why, it almost makes you think that

Arthur Silber might be right when he tell us that “the ’secret’ knowledge, which goes by the viciously misnamed designation ‘intelligence’ …  is almost always wrong… and is primarily used as propaganda, to provide alleged justification to a public that still remains disturbingly gullible and pliable — and it is used after the fact, to justify decisions that have already been made.”Could that really be true? Would they really, you know, just lie and exaggerate and make things up? Read more…

Chris Floyd
Day after day, week after week, Barack Obama’s “Overseas Contingency Operations” keep churning through the bodies of children: sometimes with chemical weapons that sear their flesh and leave them maimed and disfigured for life; sometimes with carefully aimed bullets ripping through their organs and leaving them dead right on the spot.And in every such case, our brave and noble Terror Warriors — who, lest we forget, are upholding the highest values of world civilization, bringing hope and change to benighted lands and defending our sacred way of life — run screaming like spinsters in a hissy fit from the slightest hint of responsibility for their actions. Their first response, always, is to blame someone else: either the designated enemy of the day — or else the burned and shredded children themselves.

This tendency was on vivid display this week in two stories from separate fronts in the ever-spreading Terror War. (Both pieces, from and Reuters, come Read more…

Some American analysts think they are smarter than those who run the official policies and strategies. Juan Cole is one of them. now that reports are out that the invading Pakistan armies have killed hundreds of “Taliban” - only God knows the exact number of victims and the “Taliban” among them - Juan coles writes:

I am fearful that in order to root out a few thousand Taliban, the Pakistani military has been induced by Washington to create a new and massive social problem in the NWFP, which could create a whole new recruiting pool for radicals. The displaced Afghans of the 1980s, after all, were the group from which the Taliban were later drawn. It will be key, in avoiding this scenario, to have good swift repatriation programs when the fighting is over. And, the Pakistani military will have to learn to stick around instead of hurrying back to the border with India, in order to keep the militants from just coming right back in and terrorizing locals again.

This is so naive on the part of Juan Cole. Does he think the US establishment and the warlords behind the scene do not know the consequences of their over and covert actions in the war on Pakistan? They know exactly what they are doing. They are looking for exactly the same consequences on a consistent basis. What Juan Cole doesn’t know is that this is a war on Pakistan, which was planned long long ago but was delayed first due to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Dealing with Soviet Union was a priority. Then Iraq became a priority, whereas establishing frontlines in Afghanistan was planned prior to 9/11 - not to eliminate the Taliban or smoke out al-Qaeda bogey monster, but to set the stage for Pakistan after Iraq. Afghanistan was the softest of all targets.

The funniest part in the comments on Juan Cole is the hope expressed in these words: “when the fighting is over…..” I don’t think that will happen before de-nuclearizing or/and balkanizing Pakistan. By then the suggestion of “swift repatriation” of the millions displaced Pakistanis would have lost it value.