JULY 19, 3:25 PM NY Time
One of our team members based in Pakistan reported today that a highly influential leader of a student political organization, was picked up by plainclothes policemen from a Cyber Cafe in Okara for having sent text messages (SMS) to Rehman Malik slandering him and the government for Cyber Crime Law against MMS, Emails, etc.
The individual kept shouting at the Cyber Cafe that he was being picked up for directly text messaging to Malik.
The incident took place Sunday late evening around 9pm Pakistan Standard Time.
Our team member was witness to the arrest of this individual who while being pushed into the police van kept slandering Rehman Malik and accused President Zardari of being complicit in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
According to our reporter, witnesses at the scene were of the opinion that the political individual may have been the President of the Okara PSF but independent verification of this information has not been possible yet.
The arrested individual was taken to the Police Station and it is expected that he will emain in police custody.
More information to follow as we monitor the developments..
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
No light at the end of tunnel in Afghanistan.
JULY 17- Bob Woodward of Watergate fame appeared on Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room this afternoon. He has recently returned from Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan too.
Told Blitzer that the US commanders in Afghanistan are deeply worried. It's a primitive country- big difference between Afghanistan and Iraq. Said Iraq had oil money to fund the war against the militants. In Afghanistan there are no such situation. "Every body is growing poppy there. And if you try to stop that the local populace turns against you," Woodward quoted one of the US commanders as telling him.
Woodward said the commanders want to make sure that Obama's new policy is implemented right - that both military and economic steps are simultaneously taken. Woodwrd says "it is Obama's war now and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. On Blitzer's query if US will succed, Woodward said he wont bet on it. Said Zardari doesnt know much about governing. "He's a businessman, not naturally a politician. His only credential is that he is Bhutto's husband.
Told Blitzer that the US commanders in Afghanistan are deeply worried. It's a primitive country- big difference between Afghanistan and Iraq. Said Iraq had oil money to fund the war against the militants. In Afghanistan there are no such situation. "Every body is growing poppy there. And if you try to stop that the local populace turns against you," Woodward quoted one of the US commanders as telling him.
Woodward said the commanders want to make sure that Obama's new policy is implemented right - that both military and economic steps are simultaneously taken. Woodwrd says "it is Obama's war now and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. On Blitzer's query if US will succed, Woodward said he wont bet on it. Said Zardari doesnt know much about governing. "He's a businessman, not naturally a politician. His only credential is that he is Bhutto's husband.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Was Maulana Naeemi Silenced?
JUN 12 - Was Maulana Naeemi, a renowned Ahle Sunnat Barelvi anti-Taliban and anti-US cleric silenced?
The News reported today that only 48 hours before his death, while addressing “Save Pakistan Ulema Convention” in Lahore, Dr Naeemi warned that if Pakistan did not stop fighting the US war and plug the money and arms supply to the Taliban from the US, India and other countries, the country’s nuclear assets and integrity would be at stake.
Did he know too much that he needed to be silenced by the dark forces and the murky pinheads? Baitullah Mehsud's TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban) claimed today the responsibility for the suicide bombing attack in Naeem's mosque-office after Juma prayers.
Maulana Naeemi suspected American and Indian hands behind the present Taliban insurgency and till his last breath was demanding exposing the elements responsible for directly supplying arms and money to the Taliban.
He has been a critic of the US presence in the region and opposed Gen Musharraf’s decision to shoulder the US war on terror in Afghanistan, and had to pay the price for his opposition by serving terms in prison.
Naeemi's attacker was clean-shaven, not bearded like many religious Pakistanis, reported the New York times citing the police and mosque officials who saw the attacker’s head after the blast. He appeared to be about 18 to 20 years old, the police said. They said the bomber was a resident of southern Punjab.
Naeemi followed a school of thought within Sunni Islam, the Barelvi, which is at odds with the more fundamentalist Deobandi school observed by the Taliban. In 2007, he and other clerics issued an edict against suicide bombing, saying that only the state can wage jihad, not individuals or groups such as the Taliban.
He had supported the military offensive in Swat and had termed Taliban a “stigma on Islam.” This month, he and other leading clerics led a rally in Lahore condemning the Taliban as “enemies of Islam and traitors.”
The News reported today that only 48 hours before his death, while addressing “Save Pakistan Ulema Convention” in Lahore, Dr Naeemi warned that if Pakistan did not stop fighting the US war and plug the money and arms supply to the Taliban from the US, India and other countries, the country’s nuclear assets and integrity would be at stake.
Did he know too much that he needed to be silenced by the dark forces and the murky pinheads? Baitullah Mehsud's TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban) claimed today the responsibility for the suicide bombing attack in Naeem's mosque-office after Juma prayers.
Maulana Naeemi suspected American and Indian hands behind the present Taliban insurgency and till his last breath was demanding exposing the elements responsible for directly supplying arms and money to the Taliban.
He has been a critic of the US presence in the region and opposed Gen Musharraf’s decision to shoulder the US war on terror in Afghanistan, and had to pay the price for his opposition by serving terms in prison.
Naeemi's attacker was clean-shaven, not bearded like many religious Pakistanis, reported the New York times citing the police and mosque officials who saw the attacker’s head after the blast. He appeared to be about 18 to 20 years old, the police said. They said the bomber was a resident of southern Punjab.
Naeemi followed a school of thought within Sunni Islam, the Barelvi, which is at odds with the more fundamentalist Deobandi school observed by the Taliban. In 2007, he and other clerics issued an edict against suicide bombing, saying that only the state can wage jihad, not individuals or groups such as the Taliban.
He had supported the military offensive in Swat and had termed Taliban a “stigma on Islam.” This month, he and other leading clerics led a rally in Lahore condemning the Taliban as “enemies of Islam and traitors.”
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