Pakistan News and Discussion-8

[Naresh]

<b>Muslim found unsafe to guard British PM</b>

<b>Fury at 'moral grounds' cop out</b>

Cheers:beer

[Guest]

<b>Suicide attack at Pak army camp; 20 dead</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a Pakistan army training base in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 soldiers and wounding several others, security officials said.</span>No one claimed responsibility for the attack at Dargai, a town about 100 kilometres north of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.

A security official said troops had cordoned off the area.

Army spokesman Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan only confirmed that an incident had occurred at the base, but did not elaborate. "Something happened there, but we don't have any details," he said.

But the security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to media, said the suicide attacker had struck the army's main training center in the high-security area of Dargai.
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[Guest]

<b>Blast kills 35 at Pakistan army camp</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"It was a suicide attack. The bomber wrapped a chadar (cloak) around his body and came running into the training area and exploded himself where recruits had gathered for training," a military official said.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->No one claimed responsibility for the attack in Dargai, but the town about 60 miles north of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, is the stronghold of an outlawed Islamic group, <b>Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi, or Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law</b>, which has been fighting government forces in tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Looks like Bajaur revenge.

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Wednesday, November 08, 2006 
<b>Kabul rejects proposal to fence border</b>
KABUL: Afghanistan said on Tuesday it would “never accept” the fencing of its border with Pakistan after Islamabad renewed the proposal amid pressure to stop the cross-border movement of militants.

The border, called the Durand Line, was drawn by the colonial British more than a century ago and is not accepted by Afghanistan, which is suspicious of attempts to have it internationally recognised. Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Sunday repeated his country’s proposal to fence the 2,500-kilometre border. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai reiterated strong rejection of the idea, saying the militancy must be stopped at its roots. “Terrorism cannot be rooted out by fencing the Durand Line,” Karim Rahimi told reporters. afp<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

<b>PAF officers tried to kill Musharraf: UK paper</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LONDON: Several young officers from the Pakistan Air Force with access to President Pervez Gen Pervez Musharraf’s innermost security circle were among 50 people arrested for trying to assassinate him soon after he returned from a visit to the US and Britain in late September, according to a report published in The Sunday Telegrph on Sunday.

The rocket strike was aimed at the president’s high-security personal residence-office in Rawalpindi. “About 50 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the September attack, which involved a battery of Russian-made 107 m projectiles launched by a signal from a mobile phone,” Pakistani intelligence sources were quoted as saying by The Sunday Telegraph.

“Alarmingly, many are understood to be young officers serving in the Pakistan Air Force, some of whom have access to high-security zones of the presidential offices, parliament and the intelligence service,” they said.
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It was allegedly run by Liaquat Hussain, a fugitive cleric who was a purported associate of Ayman Al Zawahiri. Residents and local religious parties claimed the victims were either “innocent Islamic students or teachers”. They allege the strike was carried out at the direction of the US military.

<b>Maulana Faqir Muhammad, a pro-Taliban militant commander, described Musharraf as an “American agent” who was “killing innocent people at the US behest”. Another cleric, Maulana Inayatur Rehman, said that he had prepared a “squad of suicide bombers” to target Pakistani security forces. Agencies</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They are suspect.
Paki newspaper is pretty silent on yesterday's attack.

[Guest]

<b>Afghanistan strikes back at Pakistan</b>

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Nov 8 2006, 02:47 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Nov 8 2006, 02:47 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The border, called the Durand Line, was drawn by the colonial British more than a century ago and is not accepted by Afghanistan
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Afghanistan does not accept Durand Line as border? They claim some territory under Pakistan's control as their own? Is it Baluchistan/NWFP they claim?

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Afghanistan does not accept Durand Line as border? They claim some territory under Pakistan's control as their own? Is it Baluchistan/NWFP they claim? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They claim or historically NWFP and part of Balouchistan was part of Afghanistan. Durand divided them during British rule as McMohan did between India and China.

[Guest]

<img src='http://www.dailypioneer.com/images4/home_stories/front_page/big/story3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Suicide attack at Pak army camp kills 42 </b>
Riaz Khan | Dargai
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at the Pakistan army's main training base on Wednesday, killing at least 42 soldiers and injuring 20 as they started their callisthenics exercises, the military said.

"A man wrapped in a cloak came running into the training area and exploded himself where recruits had gathered for training," the army said in a statement. 

No one claimed responsibility for the explosion that occurred north of Peshawar, the capital of North West Province. If it is confirmed that Islamic militants carried out the attack, it would be the deadliest so far by the insurgents on the Pakistani army.

Shortly after the explosion, security agents captured an alleged accomplice of the suicide bomber after chasing him into a nearby village, an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to speak to the media.

The official didn't reveal the identity of the suspect, and only said he had been moved to an army detention facility for questioning.

<b>Local resident Lal Zaman, 25, told The Associated Press that he was sitting at a nearby shop when the attack occurred. "I saw body parts and injured people everywhere in the ground where soldiers exercise every day," he said. "I helped soldiers transport the bodies and wounded soldiers to hospitals."

Inside the grounds, an AP reporter saw officers collecting shoes and other belongings of the dead and injured soldiers. The military has been waging a campaign to clear pro-Taliban militants from the border region, which it says is used as a staging area for attacks into Afghanistan.</b>

Dargai is also a stronghold of an outlawed Islamic group, Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi, or Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law, which has been fighting Government forces in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan since 2002.

The group's fugitive leader, Faqir Mohammed, vowed last week to retaliate against the army with suicide bombers for an October 30 Pakistani army raid on an Islamic school that killed 80 people and sparked furious protests across the country.

Pakistan Government said the school in the Bajur tribal region, about 75 kilometres (45 miles) from Dargai, served as a front for training militants. Local people and an Islamic opposition party said almost all the victims were children or teenagers studying at the school.

The drill area where Wednesday's attack occurred is not fenced off and is surrounded only by trees and bushes. An official said a search had been launched for other possible accomplices of the attacker.

Pakistan Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao condemned Wednesday's explosion and said it was linked to the Bajur attack. In an interview with Pakistan's private Geo television, he said the religious school in Bajur was targeted after authorities received intelligence reports that "miscreants there were receiving training for suicide attacks."
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[acharya]

http://www.indiatogether.org/2006/jul/fah-shakti.htm

Three, a theoretical premise is that preparedness enhances deterrence. However, South Asia is a live problem area with a brittle peace. The region has witnessed one war, one near war and an ongoing proxy war over the last decade. This makes the new fangled offensive doctrine that takes the war to the enemy camp at the very outset itself, practiced in the exercise, dangerous. The Army's hope is that those doing the watching Islamabad's General Head Quarters (GHQ) get the message on India's preparedness and resolve. This would wean them away from banking on jehadis to deliver up Kashmir.

The contrary is more likely. GHQ planners would prefer to think up other ways to tackle India's military power. They have already succeeded in tying India's Army down in Siachen since the Eighties, in Kashmir through the Nineties and ironically also in Kargil since their unceremonious exit. After the 1971 war, India gave itself a Northern Command. After Kargil, another Corps to guard the heights was created. After Op Parakram, another two commands have been created. In effect, even as India has responded with conventional buildup, there has been no let up in its security problematic. The conclusion is that, taken holistically, India's reflexive conventional muscle building and flexing are not necessarily benign for national security.

[Guest]

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