Video - Politicians in #pakistan debating policy matters

Non-reform of #pakistan's blasphemy laws tells a wider story of religious persecution #Christianity #Jesus

The case of Aasia Bibi, a Christian farmhand who was sentenced to death in Pakistan, teaches us how difficult it is to bring law, democracy and an end to extremism to the country

Suspected Islamic terrorists caught by Swedan had earlier been released by #pakistan

Arrested, but later released by Pakistan last year and spent 10 days in a Pakistani prison last year for having entered the country illegally.

2011 Shaping Up as One Long Corridor of Uncertainty for #Pakistan

As a dismal year draws to a close, Pakistani cricket fans may be hoping that 2011 will bring a little respite from the torrent of bad news that has engulfed their national team.

The lesson of Pakistan’s recent cricket history, though, is that however bad things may seem to be, there is often worse to come.

Yet another setback for the cricketing nation where things all too often go from bad to worse.

"terrorists have a good thing going in #Pakistan. Why move out of the comfort of 1 cave to take up residence in another"

- The real threat is Pakistan

#fact Widespread concerns about illegal detentions & humanright abuses by #pakistan's #military

Widespread human rights abuses, bordering on pogrom & genocide, carried out by the predominantly Sunni Punjabi pakistan Army on its other ethnic minorities in order to maintain their pre-eminence in their control of affairs of the Islamic Republic of pakistan

Alcoholism, prohibited in #Islam, a major problem in #pakistan

Beneath the veneer of possessing & upholding puritanical Islamic values, the citizens of the Islamic Republic of pakistan are known to engage in every possible vices prohibited in Islam & often on scale far greater than what is considered normal by communities that consider no such prohibition.

#pakistan and its Hindus have a problem #religion #Islam #persecution @UN

Twenty-seven Hindu families from the troubled province of Balochistan in Pakistan have sought political asylum at the Indian high commission in Islamabad. These families have cited an increase in rapes, kidnappings, and murders of members of their community, and an unresponsive administration.

It is true that Pakistan has not worked out a harmonious way of integrating its minorities, an issue that its leaders and people have to solve for themselves. Christians experience the same sense of insecurity that the affected Hindu and Sikh families have experienced in recent times.

As #pakistan approaches bankruptcy, patience of foreign lenders wears thin

Hindus fleeing #pakistan to escape brutal persecution & killing

More than two dozen Hindu families have asked for visas and political asylum in India because of kidnappings and target killings are on the rise, officials say.

As many as 27 Hindu families from Balochistan have sent applications to the Indian Embassy for asylum in India

Persecution of non-Muslims, including Shia & Ahmediyya Muslims, is rampant an considered as an act of serving God by the dominant Sunni Muslim population in the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

#pakistan's blasphemy law seen as tool of oppressing Non-Muslims #Religion #Islam #Christianity #Jesus

Muslim cleric Muhammad Salim isn't worried that a court or Pakistan's president might spare a Christian woman from this village who has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges.

After all, if Asia Bibi, a mother of two, escapes the hangman's noose, he's confident someone else will kill her.

"Any Muslim, if given the chance, would kill such a person," Salim said calmly, seated cross-legged on a straw mat at a mosque here. "You would be rewarded in heaven for it."

A cleric in Peshawar has offered 500,000 rupees, or $6,000, to anyone who kills Asia Bibi, if her execution doesn't take place. Other hard-line clerics have warned they would mobilize nationwide protests against the government if President Asif Ali Zardari pardoned her.

The nation's Shiite Muslim minority has been victimized by extremist Sunni Muslim groups for years. Members of the smaller Ahmadi sect, viewed by most Pakistanis as traitors to Islam because they revere another prophet in addition to Muhammad, have been frequent victims of suicide bombings, kidnappings and other attacks.

Last year, in the central Punjab city of Gojra, a mob of 1,000 Muslims set fire to more than 40 Christian homes, killing seven people.

Various subsections of the law carry different penalties, but under the section Asia Bibi was prosecuted, the only sentence is death.

The law dates to the 1980s and the rule of Gen. Zia ul-Haq, who instituted a policy of Islamization to placate hard-line religious parties in exchange for their political support.

Human rights advocates say the law is frequently used by Pakistanis embroiled in property disputes or as a tool to bully Christians, Ahmadis or other minorities. Usually, evidence in blasphemy cases is scant, apart from the accounts given by the accusers.

Asia Bibi's husband has received death threats and has had to go into hiding with the couple's two teenage daughters.

Keeping the law on the books in effect sanctions the marginalization of minorities

"Kill three million of them & the rest will eat out of our hands"

- #pakistan's General Yahya Khan

"[General] Yahya [Khan] hasn’t had so much fun since the last Hindu massacre"

- Henry Kissinger #pakistan

Leading journalists in #pakistan use Twitter to mock Balochistan's freedom struggle #fail

Leading Pakistan journalists appear to be privately concerned about the goings-on in Balochistan, but still poke fun at Baloch leaders past and present, their tweeting on twitter Tuesday revealed.

#pakistan: The Blasphemous Use Of Blasphemy Law #Religion #Christianity #Islam #Jesus

The brutal oppression, persecution & discrimination of Non-Muslims, including Shia & Ahmediyya Muslims, takes on varied forms in the Islamic Republic of pakistan in the hands of its over-overpoweringly dominating Sunni religious clerics & millionaire Army Generals.

Massive protests in #pakistan over Govt's attempt to prevent misuse of blasphemy law for oppressing non-Muslims

Pakistani Islamists are demanding the government leave the country's laws against blasphemy alone.

Thousands rallied in Karachi and other cities Friday to warn government officials any effort to repeal the laws would have serious consequences.

One Pakistani cleric has said if the government fails to go ahead with the hanging, his mosque will offer $6,000 to anyone who kills her. 

Convictions under the law are common

Protest leaders are calling for a nationwide strike if the government tries to heed calls from the West to change the blasphemy law.

Pakistan's Christians, who make up less than 5 percent of the country's 175 million people, have long complained of discrimination.

Tense #Christmas Weekend Ahead In #pakistan #Jesus #Christianity #Islam

Christians in Pakistan face tense Christmas weekend because of the possibility of violence by Islamists.

#China pulls a fast one on #pakistan - refuses to import goods from pakistan even after promising to do so

China has withdrawn its unilateral offer to facilitate import of an additional 263 items from Pakistan out of Free Trade Agreement (FTA), sources in Commerce Ministry told Business Recorder. In the middle of current year, Commerce Secretary Zafar Mahmood had announced before the Advisory Council of Trade Policy that China would facilitate import of a number of additional items out of FTA.

Despite widespread impoverishment & economic disarray #pakistan to increase defense budget

Outcome when a country is held in the vice-like grip of its Army, who constitute the richest citizens of the country.

US Commandos given the go-ahead to hunt down terrorists in #pakistan's Quetta region

Pakistan has finally bowed its head to U.S. demands to take on the dreaded Quetta Shura, the cream of the Taliban based in the Balochistan capital Quetta, the WorldNetdaily publisher Joseph Farah has reported.

600 industries, 380 CNG stations, 0.1 million powerlooms shut down in #pakistan

More than six hundred industrial units including 100,000 Powerlooms remained closed on third consecutive day, here on Saturday, while 380 CNG Station were remained closed on second day. Resultantly, 400,000 workforce most of them daily wagers becomes jobless and prevailing situation creating worst ever financial crisis for small-scale textile ancillaries.

#pakistan's industries to get no special preferance from the European Union

The Council meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has rejected the move of the European Union (EU) to offer Generalised System of Preference (GSP) facility to Pakistan for 75 of its export items.

Musharraf [@PMpakistan] bribed with alcohol & cigars to appear in documentary #pakistan #Islam

The makers of an acclaimed documentary on slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto claim they had to resort to "much flattery", a bottle of Chivas and Cuban cigars to get former president Pervez Musharraf to do a short interview for the film.

"There is mistrust for #pakistan all over. It's from neighbours, from allies, from everywhere"

- Ahmed Rashid

#China's Hong Kong tennis team refuses to visit #pakistan to play matches

Polio vaccine developed to immunise human children mostly ineffective in #pakistan

Authorities in Pakistan have come out with a shocking figure about polio cases. More than 78 percent of such confirmed cases in the country involved children who had been administered polio drops, raising questions about the efficacy of vaccine.

Banks in #pakistan to register lowered profits

Misallocations of resources by the pakistani govt and its military establishment, towards supporting Islamic Terrorist activities around the world forces it to borrow heavily from its banks which in turn force the banks to raise lending rates to the common citizens of pakistan, deterring people from taking loans in the first place, thereby causing losses or lowered profit to banks operating in the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

Chinese Company caught smuggling #Nuclear material to #pakistan

The United States on Tuesday fined the Chinese subsidiary of a US firm nearly four million dollars for exporting coatings to a Pakistan nuclear site.

PPG Paints Trading in Shanghai, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PPG Industries, agreed to pay 3.75 million dollars over the exports

Support for Islamic Terrorists forcing #pakistan to shut down its Rail network

Shortage of Electricity caused by rising impoverishment owing to diverting disproportionate amount of its meager resources towards supporting Islamic Terrorism worldwide, has forced the authorities in the Islamic Republic of pakistan to progressively shut down rail connectivity throughout the country.

#fact Girl in #pakistan gang raped in one of its most affluent areas #fail

Some car-riding criminals, allegedly, gang-raped a girl after abducting her from Clifton, a posh area of Karachi, and later left her at Sea View and fled.

poverty-stricken terrorism-sponsoring #pakistan begging IMF to defer loan repayment

Having diverted majority of its resources towards sponsoring and supporting Islamic Terrorism around the world, the Islamic Republic of pakistan is left with no more money to repay the multi-billion dollars worth of loans it has been borrowing from multiple International donors

#Iran ready to control border if #pakistan shirks its duty

Tehran regards ties with Islamabad as important, but Pakistan does not deal with terrorists seriously.

If Pakistan does not take serious measures to halt terrorist activities along the border with Iran, Iran will take control of the borders.

2 Ways of Looking at America's Covert War in #pakistan #Terrosism

Our country is fighting a covert war in Pakistan, commanded by clandestine operatives. The Pakistanis know this. We know this. The people of indeterminate nationality who are being blown up by drones know this. From whom is the war a secret, that it has to be fought by secret agents?

Perfidious Musharraf ( @PMpakistan ) & his Recent TV Interview - Part I #pakistan

Fisking the former Dictator of the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

#pakistan lines up for #China's cash

Okay, so the signs, from the original title, has been changed to lines just to let you know what the article is all about.

No Cricket Borad agreed to #pakistan's fantasy of hosting a tournament in 2012

The Sri Lankan cricket team came under attack from Islamic Terrorists, initially reared and nurtured by the pakistan Army to do its bidding in neighboring countries, in midst of a tournament.

The Islamic Republic of pakistan remains the nerve center of Islamic terrorism, receiving state patronage and support from its military establishment as long as they focus their attention on other countries and attempt to further pakistan's nefarious intentions.

#Iran may be forced to launch an attack on #pakistan

Pakistan should destroy all terrorist training centers on its soil, “otherwise Iran has the right to defend its citizens through making the atmosphere unsecure for terrorists,” spokesman for the Parliament's (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Sunday.

#WikiLeaks sanitary napkins sold exclusively in #pakistan

It will not begin leaking until Julian Assange releases it

12 suspected terrorists of #pakistan origin arrested in Britain #Terrorism #Religion

British counter-terror police arrested 12 men early Monday in a "large-scale, pre-planned, intelligence-led" operation, they said.

The suspects are all of Pakistani descent, a security source tells CNN

U.S. Taxpayers Help Create Seven Pakistani Billionaires #pakistan

Pakistan Grabs U.S. Aid - Keeps Taxes Low for its Rich

US is paying for #pakistan protection racket #Terrorism

US aid, particularly military aid, flows to Pakistan in huge quantities and senior American government and military figures accentuate the positive, rhetorically at least, in public endorsements of Pakistan and its civilian and military leaderships. Behind the scenes however is a blunt and unflattering characterization of Pakistan, of the corruption and incompetence of its elites, of its erratic behaviour – not least with respect to nuclear weapons – and, above all of Pakistan relations with, and use of, terrorist and insurgent groups as instruments of state policy.

Pakistan supports at least four terrorinsurgent groups – the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, the Hekmatyar network, and Lashkar-e-Taiba – but there is nothing the US can do to affect Pakistan's support for these groups.

US is paying to defeat its own objectives in Afghanistan and paying to support state-backing for regional and global terror movements that pose a real threat to US and wider western interests. The US knows this, Pakistan knows this, but still the aid and supportive rhetoric flows.

Policy-makers questioning the wisdom of continuing with this kind of support would do well to reflect on the outcome of the Bush administration's $11-billion military aid to Pakistan between 2001 and 2008. Most of that money was spent on India-centric weapons, on bridging Pakistan's balance of payments gap and on vastly expanding the Pakistan army's economic and financial assets. Only a small proportion was spent on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency inside Pakistan. Even the latter contained absurdities like the US paying Pakistan to patrol its own borders, something which, outside the Kafkaesque world of Pakistan, most states take for granted as part of their duty in relation to the maintenance of internal and external state sovereignty.

Given Pakistan diverts military aid away from its principal donor's most pressing security concerns and given the US acknowledgement that Pakistan supports terrorist groups, is it time to ask if US military aid be stopped?

First, despite the rising tide of Islamic extremism and terrorism in Pakistan, the Pakistan army and government, and Pakistani analysts routinely excoriate the West for exaggerating the threat to Pakistan's stability from terrorism and extremism. The argument they make is that Pakistan is robust, that the army and ISI can handle extremism and terrorism, and that the risks of Pakistan breaking up or falling to militant Islam are miniscule. If this rebuttal is accurate then the US can safely withdraw military aid. If it is not, then the US would still be better off putting aid into civilian programmes that undercut radicalization and, above all, into policing, which is the better response to terrorism.

Second, while Pakistan is undoubtedly providing some assistance with the war against al-Qaida, there is evidence also that it is aiding al-Qaida and its affiliates, and that bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are being sheltered somewhere in Pakistan. To the degree that Pakistan has its own interests in combating al-Qaida there is no axiomatic reason why cooperation with the US against al-Qaida should not continue even if US military aid is stopped.

Third, Pakistan regularly reassures the world that its nuclear weapons are safe and that the safety measures it has in place to defend and protect its nuclear weapons are fool-proof. Again, accepting Pakistan's rebuttal as accurate there can be no reason to believe that ending US military aid would, per se, jeopardise the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

Fourth, as the US and Nato begin the drawdown in Afghanistan from July 2011, and as logistical land-routes through the Central Asian states mature over the next few years, the reliance on Pakistan as logistic and over-flight space is certain to diminish and thus the fourth argument for open-ended military aid to Pakistan weakens and falls.

Finally, the US has already all but lost its struggle with China for durable influence in Pakistan. While the US spends billions pursuing short-term interests in the AfPak region, China is laying the foundations for a long-term primary partnership with Pakistan building sustainable infrastructure, pipelines, the giant port at Gwadar, economic and resource investment, and a rapidly increasing intelligence presence. China is tellingly wasting few resources -- at present -- on military aid to the Pakistan army and ISI

Taken together these arguments suggest that US military aid could be stopped without the security situation in Pakistan deteriorating significantly or the role Pakistan plays in relation to the war on terrorism and the war in Afghanistan changing substantively (for good and ill) either. Pakistan complained bitterly about the strings attached recently to US military aid, but if the piper is not playing the tune then why continue to pay the piper?

The United States fears Pakistan's coercive options: that it might enhance its support for terrorism and insurgency still further and become a greater challenge to the US and the West, and that Pakistan might even be incentivized to transfer nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons know-how to terrorist or insurgent groups.

In other words the United States is being subjected to an old-fashioned protection racket by Pakistan: pay up or things could go bad for you. Those making money out of extortion and blackmail always come back for more. It's a measure of the US's waning global strength that it seems to have no option other than to keep paying.

Munni’s Darlings Sell The Silver: leaks expose #pakistan’s double game, tarnishes leaders

Why Pakistanis Are Hopping Mad

* Gen Kayani wanted to depose Zardari. Has provided bases for US drones and allowed the special forces to operate in the tribal areas.
* Nearly allowed the US to take out spent fuelcontaining uranium from Pakistan’s nuclear facility
* ISI maintains links with Israel
* Zardari said he wouldn’t make any political move without consulting the US, promised to grant Musharraf immunity from prosecution
* Gilani says he would protest the US drone attacks in Pakistan but later forgets about it

#pakistan newspapers confess to being complicit in publishing fake #WikiLeaks cables

Leading Pakistani newspapers have admitted to publishing articles citing fake, non-existent WikiLeaks documents, containing crude anti-India propaganda.

#pakistan in a vice-like grip of extermist Islamist religious lobbies #fact

After years of nurturing by its military establishment in an effort to impose an identity that seeks to recognize itself as not-Indian, the religious Wahhabi Sunni Islmist organizations now run the writ in the Islamic Republic of pakistan, brutally & without disdain crushing all non-Muslim religious identities, including that of Shia Muslims & Ahmediyya Muslim who are not even recognized as Muslims in pakistan, in spite of worshiping Allah as their god.

Calls for Asia Bibi, a Christian, to be executed under draconian blasphemy laws show religious leaders have no answer to Pakistan's crises

#Pakistan media caught publishing fake #WikiLeaks cables

Under orders from their all-power quasi-dictator military Generals, the subservient media houses of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan have taken to publishing false news reports claiming to have sourced them from WikiLeaks documents, in their attempt to further the illusion of invincibility of their military, ensuring their preeminence in the state of affairs in its misgovernence, while providing no references to the original WikiLeak document they claim to be quoting in their articles.

[Photographs] #pakistan Army surrendering to the Taliban #fact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fatwa passed in #pakistan legalising marraige with own sister #fail #Islam #debased

A #pakistan-Sponsored Hell in Af-Pak region

The Human Rights Watch report focuses attention on atrocities committed against Afghan civilians during the 1990s by various warlords, most of whom operated under the guidance and support of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI). The report is titled "Blood Stained Hands" and includes tales of people being rounded up simply on the basis of their ethnicity and locked into cargo containers, which were then destroyed with rocket propelled grenades. In some instances, groups of civilians were thrown into prison cells and sprayed with machine gun fire. Militias indiscriminately rocketed residential neighborhoods. All the while, Gulbaddin Hekmatyar's cannons showered the entire city of Kabul with a hail storm of missiles from the surrounding hilltops. The report reveals that the killing, maiming, raping and beating of civilians was widespread.

Spreading terror and creating chaos are the job for which the Taliban are paid by Pakistan's ISI. In 2008, Atia Abawi of CNN reported that two young men, who were arrested for throwing corrosive acid in the faces of teenage schoolgirls in Kandahar, admitted that a man from the Pakistani Consulate had offered them $2,000 to commit the crime. This same man also offered them $4,000 to kill a school teacher and $10,000 to burn down a school. For the pro-chaos movement to promote the notion that Afghans want to live under such conditions is to callously and chauvinistically suggest that some 30 million Afghans are suicidal.

Both Afghan and Pakistani Pashtun sources claim that keeping Afghanistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of northwest Pakistan weak and unstable are key elements of ISI's "strategic depth" policy for countering a purely theoretical Indian invasion.

The Taliban, Haqqani Network and HIG are all Pakistani paramilitary groups trained, funded and supplied by ISI for the purpose of destabilizing Afghanistan and suppressing the separatist inclinations of Pakistan's own Pashtun population.

If NATO withdraws before the Afghan government can effectively defend Afghanistan against the ongoing attacks by Pakistan's proxies -- including the Taliban, HIG and the Haqqani Network -- the groups which committed the atrocities described in the Amnesty and HRW reports will fall all over each in a bloody competition for power, even worse than the 1990s, and Afghanistan will experience another holocaust.

New Light on the Accuracy of CIA’s Predator Drone Campaign in #pakistan

Widely-cited reports of the inaccuracy and disproportionality of civilian to militant deaths in the CIA’s ongoing Predator drone campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan are grossly misleading. The most detailed database compiled to date, assembled by the authors of this article, indicates (among other important findings) that the strikes have not only been impressively accurate, but have achieved and maintained a greater proportionality than either ground operations in the area or targeting campaigns elsewhere.

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State sanctioned brainwashing of #pakistan's children through distorted curricula

An educational curricula for the children of the Islamic Republic of pakistan that seeks to inculcate a feeling of religious superiority supremacy of Islam and the Punjabi race amongst them using assertions of subterfuge, lies, half-truth along with intolerance and ignorance about non-Muslim individuals.

Please Answer to a Baloch Sister? #pakistan #humanrights

West Must Excise Cancer Of Terrorism In #pakistan Or Brace For Grand Strategic Failure

A very disturbing news is resurfacing that Pakistan's infamous military Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) is killing every Taliban leader who dares to reach out to the Western-backed government in Kabul. Worse still, the spy agency encourages those Afghan Taliban who cross the border and launch deadly attacks on NATO and coalition troops in Afghanistan.

It is an undeniable fact that most of the Taliban leaders are living in Pakistan under ISI protection. Why are Taliban leaders in Pakistan? Following the collapse of the Taliban regime in Kabul in 2001, the ISI managed to beguile the key Taliban leaders and their families to find shelter in Pakistan. This was part of Pakistan's strategy to have the Taliban leadership under its control in order to retain the greatest capacity to influence Afghan internal politics. The Taliban one-eyed leader, Mullah Omar is now virtually a prisoner to the ISI and has no ability to act on his own.

The former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Salam Zaeef who is living in Kabul said recently that there are about 2,500 Taliban in Pakistani sepulchral prisons across the country. They are kept for future use in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's drumbeat of claims that every peace effort in Afghanistan will doom to failure without Pakistan's participation self-evidently explains the ISI enormous leverage on the Taliban.

ISI has already begun relocating Haqqani network. The Pakistani military might launch a few mock operations in north Waziristan as decoys to ensure the flow of the American cashout. This is Pakistani opus operandi, as Stephen P. Cohen writes in The Idea of Pakistan, "Pakistan's officials like Pakistani beggars, become alert when they see Americans approaching."

Pakistan's history offers an easy answer for this country has traditionally been an American regional tool to promote its global imperial ambitions. Since its creation in 1947, Pakistani state has been an Anglo-American regional espionage cathedral and military cantonment. Thus, the war in Afghanistan may be a side show of the real drama of saving Pakistan.

Right from the day one of its birth, Pakistan has been a basket case and without the American money it would have been very hard to survive.

Facts of Pakistan's underhanded way of dealing with the Taliban fly in the face of President Obama's recent statement "We need to make clear to people that the cancer is in Pakistan...We also need to excise the cancer in Pakistan."

Western success in Afghanistan hinges on how soon we can excise the cancer from Pakistan. If the West fails to clear Pakistani soil of these terrorist networks and its relevant cancerous ideology, we have to be bracing for a grand strategic failure. Many Western commentators believe that Pakistan's core demand is to make Afghanistan free of India. However, in truth Pakistan wants to perpetuate its control over Afghanistan. By controlling Afghanistan, Pakistan essentially wants to control the Pashtuns, who like Baluchis see the Pakistani military as an occupying force. Pakistan has nuclear weapons to hedge against India, but the demise of Islamic militancy, which will spark Pashtun nationalism, could bring a real doomsday to Pakistan. This is Pakistan's empty nest syndrome.

#fact Balochistan: endless despair #pakistan #humanrights #violence #crime

The appalling poverty, desolation, unemployment, worsening health conditions, malnourishment, tribal in-fighting, mounting corruption, support for drug barons and religious fundamentalism in historically peaceful and secular-oriented Baloch society are the domino effects of systematic policies imposed by the Islamabad super-establishment.

The citizens of Balochistan, all Muslims, are engaged in a freedom movement that is being brutally suppressed by the pakistan Army, through political assassinations, attacks on Baloch territories using Artillery shelling & Nuclear-capable F-16 aircrafts, all supplied by the United States of America, the self-proclaimed vanguard of democracy and human rights worldwide. News of rampant sexual abuse of Baloch women at the hands of the Sunni Punjabi pakistan Army, who kidnap these women and ensnare them into the world of sexual slavery, are all suppressed by the Army whose powers exceeds all of the others in the country.

Initially, the central government and its operational arms, i.e. military and paramilitary troops and security agencies, used co-option as a powerful instrument to buy sympathy for Islamabad’s colonial policies. They also practiced the policy of ‘divide and rule’ by instigating inter-ethnic and tribal rivalries to undermine the Baloch people’s logical movement for the right to self-determination.

After successive failure in both strategies to intimidate moderate political activists and co-opt the legitimate Baloch leadership, the Centre is applying new tactics to create mass fear and eliminate forward thinking Baloch nationalists.

The military unleashed an unjustified air and ground operation against the people of Dera Bugti and Kohlu in December 2005. The disproportionate and indiscriminate use of power by troops against the civilian population was immense. The operation resulted in loss of life, property, displacement and killing of veteran Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and Mir Balaach Marri.

Government-backed serial killers are openly targeting senior Baloch leaders, and security agencies are ‘disappearing’ and then throwing the mutilated bodies of political activists on the streets.

The cold-blooded murder of Balochistan National Party (BNP) leaders, i.e. Mr Habib Jalib Baloch in July 2010, Haji Liaquat Mengal in July 2010, Attaullah Baloch in August 2010, Mir Noordin Mengal in October 2010, and the recent target killing of National Party senior leader Maula Bakhsh Dashti in July 2010 in Turbat, BNP Karachi president Zahid Baloch in 2008, brutal daylight abductions and killing of three senior Baloch leaders in April 2009, Rasool Bux Mengal in August 2009 and assassination attempt on prominent Baloch intellectual Jan Mohammad Dashti in February 2009 and on Baloch Student Organisation vice-chairman Rasheed Baloch in Khuzdar represent a fraction of the systematic and slow-motion genocide in Balochistan.

Besides this, the pakistan Army is also engaged in resettling the Pashutn Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters from the North of pakistan in to the sparsely populated Baloch province, bring about demographic changes to suppress the freedom movement being waged by the citizens of Balochinstan against the brutla oppression and occupation of its country by the Punjabi pakistan Army.

The government and its armed militias, reluctant to curb Taliban activities in Balochistan, are ‘heroically’ employing the policy of ‘collective punishment’ against the innocent Baloch civilians. During a recent military operation in district Awaran’s Mashkay area, security forces burnt shops of those who had been selling cloth resembling nationalists’ flags, and torched tailors’ machines on suspicion of their sewing the flags. Moreover, they set on fire the property and houses belonging to family or clan members of political activists.

Instead of being protected by the law and the judiciary, the Baloch are actually harassed by the law enforcement and legal institutions.

Enforced disappearances in Balochistan continue unabated as the situation worsens and the recovery of a number of bullet-riddled bodies in the province is at an all-time high. Twenty-one bullet-riddled bodies of missing persons, including two lawyers, have so far been found from different areas of Balochistan, including Quetta, Mastung and Khuzdar since July 4, 2010. Invariably, all victims were Baloch and were killed in a similar manner.

Tthe security establishment is using dummy organisations such as the Baloch Musalla Defai Tanzeem (BMDT), the Sipah-e-Islam and the Ansar-ul-Islam to eliminate forward-looking Baloch nationalists. It is a known fact that these ‘killer squads’ are the brainchild of the FC and the intelligence agencies.

The international community and international organisations, including human rights mechanisms’ negligence and silence are adding to the Baloch miseries.

Inattention of the international community will further aggravate the current instability and a rapidly developing Darfur and Somalia-like situation in Balochistan will have serious implications for long-term peace and stability in the region.

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#fact Police in #pakistan gang rape teenage boy & upload video on the Internet #fail

Three officers arrested a boy, beat and raped him in custody, and distributed a video of the rape. A year later the boy is still in remand and the policemen have not been charged.

#fact Teenage boy in #pakistan gangraped by the Police - now missing #fail

Stifling segregation of the sexes in the Islamic Republic of pakistan, in compliance with their interpretation of Islam, coupled with unquestioned & unlimited power bestowed upon the forces in that country liberates the powers that be to indulge in debauched decadence with absolute gay abandon.

#fact [Video] Alarming Increase in number of Male Sex Workers in #pakistan 04 #Islam

#fact [Video] Alarming Increase in number of Male Sex Workers in #pakistan 2 #Islam

#fact [Video] Alarming Increase in number of Male Sex Workers in #pakistan 01 #Islam

#fact [Video] Alarming Increase in number of Male Sex Workers in #pakistan 03 #Islam

#fact [Video] Father in #pakistan rapes 13-year old daughter & forces her in to sexual slavery #fail

" #pakistan remains a state sponsor of terror & continues to use terror as an instrument of state policy"

- Nightwatch

"Islamabad [#pakistan] spends more on its soldiers than on its school teachers; Dhaka [Bangladesh] does the opposite"

- Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More

#fact Al Faida – how #pakistan milks the US & NATO by @acorn

NATO’s supply route through Pakistan is a gravy train for the military establishment…and the Taliban.

"Americans are the allies #pakistan love to trash in public while taking as much aid as they can get"

- Nightwatch

#pakistan Goes Rogue #terrorsim

" #pakistan's problem is that it has no identity except an artificial Islamic one, which has also shred since Bangladesh separated from it"

- No trade-offs on J & K

Saudi Arabia & #pakistan: The Epicenters of Terrorism #fact #fail

Saudi Arabia is the motherland of all terro-dollars that can be used to finance the global Jihad. But the main problem is this: Arabia has been, and still is a third world country with a highly undecuated population. Arabs are not known for their work ethic, their intelligence or their ingenuity.

Formed from the remnants of the British Colonization of India, Pakistan was created on the sole basis of religion. The people themselves are descendants of the Hindus from the great Indus Valley civilization, whose ancestors were forcefully converted to Islam by invading arab/turk armies. They are exactly similar to their brethrens in Northern India, speak the same language, but differ in religion and live with a very tangible inferiority complex. They advocate themselves as descendants of the great Arab rulers (who are they kidding? they are Indians, except for the experiment that went hay-wire: Pakistan) and love Arabs to the point of obsession.

Pakistan was the world's largest non-arab muslim population in the world and had unconditional love for the Arabs. The rest is history. Terro Dollars starting flowing into Pakistan for a specific reason: Pakistan represented the best hope for the muslim world to restart global Jihad.

Pakistan boasts the highest number of madrassas that teach Wahhabism in the world. Pakistan has the biggest and most potent military of all muslim nations. Pakistan has become the military arm, the sword of the Islamic Caliphate, whose office lies in Riyadh.

Indoctrinated with extreme fundamentalism from the Arabs, the Pakistanis soon forgot the secular ideals of Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan and started madrassas at every street corner to teach an army of jihadists the concept of martyrdom in Islam's name so that they can go on to wage global Jihad in India and the rest of the world.

Just like a fungus spreads millions of spores an each one of them turns into another fungus, Pakistan's madrassas have bloomed with a hundreds of thousands of youngsters whose primary objective in life is to die in Allah's name.

A sizeable number are professionals with college degrees who whenever given the chance migrate to the civilized world and act as sleepers ready to be fielded to the battlefield upon signal from Islamabad, or from Riyadh, or from the dude hiding in the caves along the Pak-Afghan border.

The reason why Pakistan became the US ally in the war on terror - another farce just to avoid facing US wrath and to continue receiving billions of dollars in "aid" to finance its activities.

The epicenter of terrorism in the world is not Iraq, Afghanistan or Iran for that matter. It is Pakistan, which is a direct subject of the Saudis. Remember, Saudi Terro Dollars + Pakistan = Terrorists Factories churning Jihadists by the thousands and unleashing them onto the civilized world!

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Excessive Defense Expenditures & Economic Stabilization: The Case of #pakistan

Defense expenditures are an obvious candidate for expenditure reductions. As noted in the next section, the country's defense burden is one of the heaviest in the world. At around 7 percent (1992) of Gross (GNP), it is more than twice that of India. Moreover, while over recent years global defense expenditures have been declining, Pakistan's has expanded: From 5.4 percent of GNP in 1980, it reached 6.8 percent in 1985.

" #pakistan has used terrorism as an instrument of policy against India for 20 years to try to press India into flexibility over Kashmir"

 - Robert Blackwill, former U.S. ambassador to India

"What #pakistan does not want, as a matter of faith, is a unified Afghan government...." #Afghanistan

- Dennis Blair, former Director of National Intelligence, USA

"..but #pakistan is living a lie..."

#pakistan's Cricket captain is leader of match-fixing racket, acknowledges player

pakistani player Mohammed Amer has confessed that the team's captain Salman Butt is the kingpin in the match-fixing scandal, where the Islamic Republic of pakistan has been caught red-handed accepting money to lose matches, a crime with long historical precedence, a near tradition, a given, in pakistan.

Take a lesson from #pakistan: Taxes are for suckers

#pakistan: A black hole for foerign aid

Providing aid to the Islamic Republic of pakistan with an aim to uplift it from dire impoverishment, even while effecting cuts in your own country's social welfare programmes, is an exercise in futility that simply helps aiding corruption by lining up the pockets of pakistan's rich and extremely powerful Army and feudal lords [for whom the practice of keeping bonded labors and slaves continue to form part of their entitlements] who pocket the maximum portion of the billions of dollars in foreign aid that pakistan receives from well-meaning donor countries.

"it is no longer possible to deal with a Government of #pakistan - you need to deal with different institutions at their own level"

- Time to throw away the old text-book on Pakistan

Women are stoned to death in #pakistan #fail

A woman was executed by being stoned because she was seen out with a man.

International Cricket Umpire: #pakistan's cricket players 'cheats, frauds & liars'

#fact [Video] #pakistan Army caught performing cold-blooded mass-murder #fail #NSFW

 

[photograph] #pakistan Army Chief being reprimanded by Gen. Petraeus

 

Refusing to convert to Islam, Christian man burnt alive in #pakistan & wife raped by the police

Just another day for Christians in the Islamic Republic of pakistan

in #pakistan: A husband, a wife, a compliment [& a shower curtain] #fact

England demand full apology from #pakistan for hurling abusive accusations at them

#pakistan will always support the Taliban #fact #fail

The Islamic Republic of pakistan has vowed to continue its support for the Taliban Islamists responsible for the butchering thousands of US & NATO troops stationed in Afghanistan & played host to the Al-Qaeda who plotted the September 11 attacks on USA while in Afghanistan with the full patronage & support of the Taliban who were ruling Afghanistan at that time

#pakistan no longer welcome to play cricket matches in England any more

After hurling accusations at England, who had been gracious enough to let the cricket team of the Islamic Republic of pakistan play their matches in their country, following the complete breakdown in pakistan and anarchy reigning supreme, of accepting money to deliberately lose their matches, the England Cricket Board has announced they they will no longer allow the pakistan cricket team to enter their country to play their home matches on English ground.

Sir Ian Botham call for banning #pakistan from International Cricket #fact

By repeatedly indulging in fixing their matches & accepting money to lose, the Cricket team of the Islamic Republic of pakistan have caused irreparable damage & shamed the game of cricket beyond any imaginable proportions causing International greats of the sport to call for banning their team from particiapting in any form of official cricket tournament.

World turning blind eye to 0.2 million Baloch displaced by #pakistan Army's brutal campaign

0.2 million Baloch’s from Dera Bugti and Kohlu, who have been categorized as Internally Displaced Persons after Pakistani Army excesses during the Dictator Musharraf era remain homeless as their makeshifts have been inundated due to devastating floods. They live in appalling conditions in areas bordering Sindh and Punjab.

#pakistan on the brink of an energy crisis #fact #fail

Rampant corruption, absolute lack of competence or foresight and complete misallocation of financial budget, with the major chunk of its minuscule revenues [majority of which constitutes foreign aid] being pocketed by its rich, powerful & corrupt Armed Forces to buy military hardware the country can ill-afford, has thrown the Islamic Republic of pakistan in a state of dire crisis where it runs the risk of its electricity power plants being shut down due to lack of fuel to run them as the country's plant operators have defaulted on paying their fuel suppliers due to lack of money.

[Infograhpic] #pakistan's strategic assets kept safe & dry during floods #pkfloods

#fact Refusing to convert to #Islam, 7-year old Christian toddler raped in #pakistan

The family has now received asylum in Canada

#pakistan Army officers brutally beat up 16-year old Baloch citizen #fact #Fail

The overwhelmingly Punjabi dominated pakistan Army is engaged in a brutal & ruthless suppression of the freedom struggle being waged by the citizens of Balochistan since its occupation by the Punjabi pakistan Army in 1947.

Gangraping women, kidnapping and killing resistance fighters, often engaging in mass killing of Baloch citizens using American supplied F-16 fighter aircrafts & AH-1 Cobra Helicopter gunships, are some of the methods being employed by the pakistan Army to subjugate & smother the aspirations of the Baloch, something they have been trying to do since 1947 & yet continue to fail.

"steady disintegration of #pakistan as an effective state, raising the desperate possibility of its nuclear weapons falling into the hands of crazed Muslim fundamentalists"

Ian Aitken:

South Africa reluctant to play the corrupt #pakistan cricket team

Caught throwing away matches in return for money & bringing unmitigated shame to the game, the pakistan cricket team are quite understandably being viewed with intense suspicion, with cricket teams expressing unwillingness to associate themselves with the pakistan team engaged in criminal activities.

#fact Church being set on fire in #pakistan #religion #Jesus #Christianity

Brutal persecution of people not identifying themselves as Sunni Muslims is rampant & silently condoned by the dominating Sunni Muslim Punjabi power structure of pakistan's ruling military & feudal elite, who choose to look the other way when becoming aware of such acts [if they themselves had not planned i] in their desperate attempt to remain in the good books of the Wahhabi espousing Saudi Arabia, a major benefactor that is nearly completely bankrolling the affairs of the anarchy-ridden, near-dysfunctional nation.

#pakistan is not a country but a piece of land ruled by the military #fact

#pakistan says it has no money & begs for it, yet buys news F-16s; is it lying about having no money?

In spite of claiming that it has no money to care for its flood-stricken citizens, the Islamic Republic of pakistan has purchased around 20 new F-16 Fighter aircrafts.

It begets a question - how does a so-called impoverished country like pakistan afford these aircrafts. Or odes it mean that it has all the money it requires but it is lying through the skin of its teeth to get all the aid it can get to fill up the coffers of its rich and powerful.

Donors demand #pakistan to tax its rich & powerful

the Islamic Republic of pakistan has one of the worst taxed to untaxed ratio with the majority of the untaxed include the extremely corrupt & powerful feudals & Armed forces personals, between whom is amassed the majority of pakistan's wealth & all of its powers, but are exempted from paying any taxes, because they themselves are also the individuals whose involvement or approval is needed to draft any laws.

#fact [Video] Disintegration & Balkanisation of #pakistan

[Video] #akistan destroys Gilgit Baltistan's heritage #fact #fail

Official ICC Umpire: #pakistan Bowlers bowled deliberate no-ball against England

New Zealand umpire Tony Hill suspected Pakistan bowlers were deliberately sending down no-balls against England last month but did not link the tactic to corruption, a report said Thursday.

#pakistan emerges as leader in transiting narcotic drugs around the world #fail #terrorism

Yet another case where pakistan is the leading entitiy in an activity that does nothing but cause destruction - a slow, painful destruction made possible by the involvement of the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

#pakistan threatens the world with terrorism if they fail to pay up more money #pkfloods

Continuing with its posture of threatening the world by holding a gun to its own head, the Islamic Republic of pakistan announced that if the countries of the world failed to give them more aid, it would feign inability to stop its people from taking up the cause of Islamic terrorism that threatens the world.

Note: This fake posturing & desperation for aid by Pakistan stands exposed when it refuses a $25 million USD aid for its people from India. Genuineness of need for aid would not have permitted such a stand.

#pakistan witnesses 225 suicides in a month #fact

Absence of any semblance of administration or social welfare coupled with rising poverty, unemployment, utter corruption where the country's military & feudal elite pocket all the wealth increasing the chasm between the obscenely rich and poor has created a situation of utter despair and hopelessness to escape which the vast majority of its population existing in a state of perpetual impoverishment are increasingly resorting to suicide.

Times Square Bomber received large sums of cash from #pakistan #terrorism #fact #fail

The money launderer who facilitated the transfer has now been charged.

Every single case of Islamic terrorism, either successful or thwarted before success, produces leads that takes one to the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

pakistan is the common denominator in the evil called terrorism,

despite religious persection, Church sending relief supplies to help #pakistan #Christian

The minority Christian community in the Islamic Republic of pakistan suffer from the worst form of quasi-state -sponsored form of religious persecution, where minor, pre-pubescent Christian girls being kidnapped, gang-raped & forcibly converted to Islam are hardly rare occurrences.

Crimes against the persecuted Christian communities in pakistan not being reported or at the very best under-reported is a norm rather than exception in the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

At least 71 Universities in #pakistan to shut down #Education #fact

Rising poverty, skewed prioritization during budgetary allocation resulting in the education sector receiving a pittance compared to its defence allocations, coupled with a general tendency of considering education an unnecessary, almost useless, indulgence has lead to a situation where a minimum of 71 Universities are to cease operation in the Islamic Republic of pakistan, a country where the estimated literacy rate in a realistic figure hovers around 30%.

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