“And do not say of those who are slain in the way of Allah, ‘they are dead’. In fact, they are alive but you do not perceive that life.” Quran (2:154)
Chalay jo hoge shahadat ka jaam pi ke tum,
Rasool Paak ne baanhon mei le liya hoga,
Ali tumhari shahadat pe jhoomte hongein,
Hussain pak ne irshaad yeh kiya hoga
tumhe khuda ki Razayein salam kerti hein
Ae Rah-e-Haq Kay Shaheedon, wafa ki tasweeron,
tumhe watan ki hawayein salam kehti hein [listen]
چلے جو ہوگے شہادت کا جام پی کے تم
رسول پاکصلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے باہوں میں لے لیا ہوگا
علی تمھاری شجاعت پہ جھومتے ہونگے
حسین پاک نے ارشاد یہ کیا ہوگا
تمھیں خدا کی رضائیں سلام کہتی ہیں
اے راہ حق کے شھیدوں، وفا کی تصویروں
تمھیں وطن کی ہوائیں سلام کہتی ہیں
PKKH, with deep sorrow, enlists the martyrs of the cowardly terrorist attack on Lahore Police Academy:
Amir Munir (Kasur)
Muhammad Ilyas (Rahim Yar Khan)
Ghulam Mohi‑ud‑Din, Drill Instructor (Rahim Yar Khan)
L’aal Khan, Drill Instructor (Jhang)
Abid Hussain Son of Akbar Ali (Gujrat)
Rafiq‑ur‑Rehman (Okara)
Rohail Fayyaz Son of Muhammad Fayyaz
(Gulshan‑e‑Ravi Lahore).
The funeral prayers of seven police officials,who embraced martyrdom while fighting during the terrorist attack on Police training centre Munawan, was offered in Lahore today at the Police Lines Qila Gujjar Singh. Their coffins were wrapped in the national and police flags. After the prayers, the police presented guard of honour to the martyred officials who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause.
Inna lillah wa inna ‘ilayhi raji’un. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of our martyrs. May Allah grant them patience and ease their pain. We stand united with you in this time of sorrow.
Forget ‘Af-Pak’. Let’s talk about the ‘Am-Brit’ mess in Afghanistan. The Anglo-American media won’t cover this. But we will. If America occupies Afghanistan and uses that country as a base for covert operations against neighbors, that’s not meddling. But if Pakistan, a next door neighbor, tries to protect its legitimate interests, Washington calls it meddling. We have no problem with Afghan Taliban. And we don’t want to see Hoolbrooke or any other ‘Special Af-Pak envoy’ stepping on Pakistani soil again. Pakistani government and military should shut down CIA stations in the country. Pakistanis don’t want an alliance with a country that is stabbing us in the back and supporting terrorists against us.
Ahmed Quraishi
You have to give it to the American propaganda machine. U.S. officials and America’s long list of self-styled ‘Pakistan experts’ are advising Islamabad to stop meddling in Afghanistan. But it is kosher for the U.S. military to travel half the world to occupy Afghanistan and that’s not meddling. Well guess what, Pakistan has more pressing interests as a next door neighbor of Afghanistan and it will protect its interests. Who says CIA’s interests in Afghanistan are more sacred than ISI’s?
The US has ignored intensifying efforts by India, Iran, and Russia to expand their influence in Afghanistan. Washington sees Pakistan only as a way of advancing its own interests in Afghanistan, not as a loyal old ally.
President Barack Obama announced that more US troops and civilian officials will go to Afghanistan, and more billions will be spent sustaining a war against the largely Pashtun national resistance in Afghanistan and Pakistan. None of this will benefit Pakistan. In fact, America’s deepening involvement in what is now called ‘Afpak’ in Washington brings the threat of growing instability and violence, even the de facto break-up of Pakistan.
The chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, has told the BBC his group was behind Monday’s deadly attack on a police academy in Lahore. [BBC]
It has emerged that atleast one of the terrorists arrested yesterday is an Afghan national [The News]. Meanwhile, the authorities continue to question the arrested terrorists captured during a police academy siege on the outskirts of Lahore. [Dawn]
Read this remarkable expose by a renowned American journalist as he paints a picture of our ally, the United States, waging two wars: one against the enemies of its occupation of Afghanistan, and another covert war against Pakistan that involves a lot of psyops backed by sponsored terrorism. Chamberlin writes, ‘“Al Qaida” is an invention of the Bush/Cheney cabal. It never existed before 1999-2000. The bin Laden group, which has been dubbed “al Qaida” is a CIA fabrication, used as a conflict generator/force multiplier. The incident that began Bush’s terror war was also a manufactured event.’
If the Afghans hadn’t been able to defend their land and force the Soviets out, what would it have meant for Pakistan?
We’re faced with a very similar situation today in Afghanistan. Another superpower is engaged in battle on the land which is known as the ‘graveyard of empires’.
The only difference is that the war isn’t being fought in just Afghanistan any more, Pakistan and Afghanistan are part of the same war to according to the new US ‘Af-Pak’ strategy.
According to news correspondents who are inside premises of the Academy, commandos of elite force and army have captured the terrorists alive.
Reports suggest that 4 of the terrorists were taken down by Police snipers, 3 blew themselves up while 4 have been captured alive.
Earlier, hundreds of local residents had gathered to form a security cordon around the area and the police helicopters and to provide refreshments and snacks to the policemen and news reporters. Some of these locals helped capture one of the arrested terrorists as he tried to lob a grenade towards the police helicopter on the ground.
After clearing the compound and arresting the terrorists, the commandos fired in jubilation and screams of “Allah Akber” and “Pakistan Zindabad” could be heard all over.
According to sources, the operation has been successfully completed after eight hours of intense gun battle.
LATEST: FOUR Terrorist Arrested
LAHORE: Security Forces have arrested four terrorists, described as Afghan nationals, during the operation against terrorists entrenched in Manawan Police Training Centre in Lahore. Official sources have not yet confirmed the arrests, however we have information that four terrorists have been arrested and sent to an undisclosed location by helicopter.
Time to cut off rail, air, and road links with India, including denying Indian airlines the right to use Pakistan airspace and denying Indian overland trade to Central Asia pending the investigations and a review by Pakistan of Indian activities inside and around Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A second Mumbai-style attack in Lahore in less than a month, both targeting Lahore, a city that has traditionally bore the brunt of Indian-inspired terrorism inside Pakistan.
The level of training of these people and the choice of targets leaves little doubt that someone is trying to teach Pakistan a lesson. It is baffling to see Interior Advisor Rehman Malik so eager to quickly pin the blame on groups such as Lashkar Tayyeba or Lashkar Jhangvi that were active in the Kashmir freedom struggle in the past and are dormant now. Accusing these groups is an indirect swipe at the Pakistani security and intelligence agencies that implemented State policy in the past of supporting the freedom fighters inside the disputed territory with India.
On January 25th this year, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik received a death threat from an Indian extremist group, threatening to bomb:
Pakistan’s Parliament
Pakistani High Commission in Delhi
Major Pakistani cities
Other targets
The threat, made by a previously unknown group ‘All India Anti-Terrorism Group’ (AIATG), prompted a strong reaction by Islamabad, which lodged a protest with New Delhi and asked for better security for the envoy.
The three-page threatening letter delivered by surface mail at Pakistan’s high commission asked the high commissioner to leave Delhi in three days or else face dire consequences.
“We don’t need to make any kind of relation and also no place for any Pakistani in our country (sic),” a person claiming to be the chief of AIATG wrote in the letter, further warning that if the threat is taken lightly “it is 200% sure” he would be killed. Additionally, the letter threatened bombing of the parliament in Islamabad, high commission in Delhi and other places in Pakistan. For this purpose, the letter said, the sub-groups of AIATG namely Students of Hinduism Movement in India and Pakistan, Students Against Terrorism, and Pride of India were already active. The letter gave 11 reasons for forming the anti-Pakistan group and said: “you can understand we have many reasons to take lethal steps towards you and your country, so tell your government that we are mad, zealot and thirsty of Pakistani blood (sic).”
The AIATG is widely believed to be a front for the Indian ‘Research & Analysis Wing’, which has a history of involvement in terrorist activities inside Pakistan.
Block India’s Land And Air Routes until Pending Investigations
This is the Indian surgical strike, second in row after the attack on Sri Lankan Cricket team. This is the topper from RAW in addition to the insurgency created across Pakistan. We need to rise as one nation, well over our personal strifes and interests. ‘Human Intelligence’ should be the order of the day; people fully backing the government with knowledge, wisdom, vigilance and unity, and the government assigning full support in letter and spirit to the ISI and Armed Forces of the country. The media, emissaries, diplomats and special delegations must strongly speak of Pakistan’s case in the historic perspective and present situation. The land and air passage given to India for access to Afghanistan should be immediately stopped, war alert be declared, and special prayers be offered seeking blessings and help from God The All Mighty to save the honor and sovereignty of our most beloved motherland. Welfare and Sovereignty of Pakistan is of paramount importance for the world, particularly for the region and the West, take my word for this.
Pakistani television commentators and anchors are acting like a herd of sheep.
Half a million Pakistanis are homeless. Our media calls them “Internally Displaced Persons” [IDPs] or “tribal refugees”, as if they are some ‘thing’ and not our fellow citizens.
We Pakistanis must not let the U.S. and British media numb us into using such terms about our own people. The mistakes of the American and British occupation commanders and soldiers in Afghanistan have led to tragedies in our entire western region. If you can, telephone and email these newspapers and TV anchors. Tell them that you are offended as a Pakistani when they call the Pakistanis in our tribal belt as ‘IDPs’ or ‘Pashtun refugees’. Tell them they must be called ‘Pakistanis in our tribal belt.’
Let’s not compromise on showing compassion to those Pakistanis whose lives have been destroyed because of America’s cruel and unjust war. | Ahmed Quraishi’s Lounge
The central government is weak, corrupt, ineffective and impotent. Kashmir is on fire, as is Assaam and Bihar. 250 million Dalits do not feel “Indian”. The 150 million Muslims have been so mistreated that they are in abject generational penury. It will take more than 3 centuries to pull the poverty stricken out of destitute living. The media focuses on “Incredible India”, a figment of the imagination of the West.
These are difficult and worrisome times for Pakistan. The rhetoric emanating from western capitals has not been very reassuring. An impression is being created that Pakistan is somehow ‘out of control’. Attempts are being made to accuse and isolate the army, an important element of stability in the country. A possible motive could be to exert pressure to keep it committed to the West’s war of occupation in Afghanistan. It has serious implications for discipline and morale of the troops as well as for peace, unity, security and economic well-being of the country as a whole.
Finally, news is trickling in about a deal that sealed the fate of the incomplete Long March on Mar. 16. The new information suggests that Mr. Nawaz Sharif, Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan and the Zardari government ensured that Ali Ahmed Kurd, the supposed leader of the lawyers’ movement, was prevented from reaching Lahore or Islamabad so that the Nawaz-Aitzaz-Zardari deal on the lawyers’ movement can be sealed. The new deal calls for burying the NRO issue for good and diverting people’s attention by legally pursuing Mr. Musharraf on charges of leading a military coup. Welcome again to Pakistan’s dirty politics. We told you this failed political system does not deserve to be rescued. The political wolves have eaten the lawyer hens.
This picture saddened me no end. The proud tribesmen of Pakistan, those who beat the English and the Russians and fought their way to liberate half of the Indian occupied Kashmir are now facing an American conspiracy and a Pakistani complacency.
From day one, I had no doubt that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was no hero. Only the images of his harassment by the police under Musharraf’s orders turned this close friend of a dictator into a champion of democracy. This is Pakistan, where crooks are perfectly matched with a fake democracy designed to fool the masses and deliver nothing except crises and destruction.
The contention that a judge who stands up to a ruler and refuses to resign is washed of all his sins is as lame as a three-legged horse. All PCO judges are the same. Chaudhry Iftikhar can’t be absolved of PCO just because he said no to a dictator when his job was on the line. If he really had a reawakening, why didn’t he say no earlier while taking oath on PCO? Clearly, Kayani is the most powerful Pakistani. Most embarrassingly clear is that it is America that really runs Pakistan. Its clear too that its agents and stooges have delivered and delivered admirably by getting rid of Musharraf who had drawn a line in the sand which he would not allow America to cross. That line has now been obliterated.
Pakistan’s leading English Daily DAWN has confirmed PKKH’s Report from March 4th that the weapons recovered in the immediate aftermath of the Lahore Attacks on Sri Lankan Cricket Team are of Indian origin.
According to a forensic report, four rocket-launchers and nine explosives seized from the scene are factory-made and used by Indian forces. Full Report
Musharraf exemplifies a further quality Indian politicians would do well to emulate. He’s prepared to face up to his critics, take their hostile questions and spend hours defending his position whilst attempting to change theirs.
I have to admit, I’ve never come across someone like Pervez Musharraf. This is not necessarily a compliment. It’s simply a statement of fact.
US ignorance regarding the ground realities of Pakistan is a source of major threat to Pakistan, both in terms of its internal dynamics and external security concerns. Taking the internal dynamics first, there were the crude US interventions during the nation’s reassertion of its self in the context of the long march and the demand for the restoration of the constitutional chief justice – with members of the US Administration trying to bulldoze the opposition political leaders into abandoning the march to Islamabad and into making unholy compromises with their present favourite Pakistani – President Zardari. It is a testimony to the Pakistani people that the US failed in its nefarious designs and at the end of the day had to make conciliatory statements regarding the restoration of Chief Justice Chaudhry. But imperial hubris could not resist sending the CIA chief to Islamabad to coincide with the CJP’s date of restoration of office.
Forget ‘Af-Pak’. Let’s talk about the ‘Am-Brit’ mess in Afghanistan. The Anglo-American media won’t cover this. But we will. If America occupies Afghanistan and uses that country as a base for covert operations against neighbors, that’s not meddling. But if Pakistan, a next door neighbor, tries to protect its legitimate interests, Washington calls it meddling. We have no problem with Afghan Taliban. And we don’t want to see Hoolbrooke or any other ‘Special Af-Pak envoy’ stepping on Pakistani soil again. Pakistani government and military should shut down CIA stations in the country. Pakistanis don’t want an alliance with a country that is stabbing us in the back and supporting terrorists against us.
