A suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday targeted Shiite Muslims, a Sunni militant group’s spokesman told CNN in claiming responsibility for the attack….
Meanwhile, police in Karachi, another major Pakistani city, said one police officer was killed and five people were injured in an explosion. Authorities were investigating the cause.
Meanwhile, the relatives of “victims” in drone strikes against Pakistani targets are suing the US. I guess the lawyers haven’t found a way to make a buck by suing Tehrik-i-Talibani or Jaish Muhammad yet.
Since the aftermath of Salman Taseer’s assassination has firmly established the wild popularity of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, perhaps it is to be expected that they will see even more use. The blasphemy bandwagon has become a popular place to see and be seen.
Huge rallies continue in support of assassin who killed the moderate Governor who spoke out against the death penalty for a Christian woman accused of blasphemy.
Many Pakistanis say they are ready to kill just on suspicion of blasphemy. But Obama remains silent about the persecution of Christians in Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq (and every other Muslim country), he just keeps sending them more of our money.
Kashmiri Pandit Human Rights Advocate Ashok Pandit’s Documentaries on the “Jihad” Waged Against Kashmiri Pandits
“Abu Hurayrah…said that the Messenger of Allah…said, “A group of you will conquer India, Allah will open for them [India] until they come with its kings chained – Allah having forgiven their sins – when they return back [from India], they will find son of Maryam [PD: 'Isa bin Maryam, aka the Islamic "Jesus"] in Syria.”"–“al-Fitan”, Na’im bin Hammad
“Thawban…[said] that the Messenger of Allah…said, “Two groups of my Ummah Allah has protected from the hellfire: a group that will conquer India and a group that will be with ‘Eessa son of Maryam.”"–“Tarikh al-Firishta” and “Tarikh al-Baghdadi”; Ahmad, an-Nisa’i, and at-Tabarani
“Abu Hurayrah said, “The Messenger of Allah promised us the conquest of India. If I was to come across that I will spend my soul and wealth. If I am killed then I am among the best of martyrs. And if I return then I am Abu Hurayrah the freed.”–Ahmad, an-Nisa’i, and al-Hakim
Watch Ashok Pandit’s documentaries, posted below, for some heart-rending revelations on the plight of the forgotten and forsaken Kashmiri Pandit Hindu refugees Read the rest of this entry »
(Times Online) Riots erupted in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi yesterday after a suicide bomber attacked a Shia religious procession, killing at least 30 people in the latest sectarian atrocity.
More than 50,000 Shias, 15 per cent of Pakistan’s population, marched through the city whipping themselves to mark the holy day of Ashura.
The bomber managed to get into the procession despite the presence of more than 10,000 paramilitary troops. The attacker blew himself up at the front of the procession in the city centre.
Witnesses and police said that the streets were strewn with body parts. Women and children were among the dead and about 60 people were injured in the attack.
‘I fell down when the bomb went off with a big bang. My mind stopped working,’ said Naseem Raza, a 26-year-old who had been in the procession. ‘Sometime later, I stood up. People were running. I saw walls stained with blood and splashed with human flesh. I saw bloodstained people lying here and there.’
nvestigators have discovered a “Jihadi village” of white German al-Qaeda insurgents, including Muslim converts, in Pakistan’s tribal areas close to the Afghan border
Pakistan to West: Stop lecturing us; help us $$$$!!!
In other words, stop it with the demands to root out Talibani terrorism, and just pay up already. “Stop lecturing, help us, Pakistan tells West,” from Times of India, April 26: via JW
Blowing up schools is a speciality of the Taliban, also known as “students of Islam”
I tell ya, if you live in Britain…this story from The Long War Journalhas to do two things: 1. Send a shiver down your spine 2. Get you plenty irate at the Pakistani government. Basically what has happened is that 20 or so British muslims travelled to Pakistan, trained in terrorism by the likes of al Qaeda and then returned to Britain…to…well, you can imagine. Here’s the killer – the Pakistani government via their intelligence service KNEW about these guys and didn’t say a word to the British until too late, when these terrorists had already gotten back into Britain. Here’s some of the details from the article: Read the rest of this entry »
Pakistan has defied India’s request for the hand over of 20 Lashkar e-Taiba terrorists and leaders today. This refusal to extradite these jihadists to India is only going to fuel the tensions between the two countries. Here’s some of the details from DEBKA:
President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday, Dec. 3, rejected New Delhi’s demand to extradite Lashkar e-Taiba chief Hafiz Mohd Sayeed and 19 other fugitives implicated in the Mumbai and other terrorist outrages in India. He said that if evidence were provided, they would be tried in Pakistani courts.
In New Delhi, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice pledged Washington would work with India and Pakistan to find the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack and bring them to trial. She landed in the Indian capital as Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs, arrived in Islamabad to defuse the war tensions between the two subcontinental nuclear countries.
India’s wanted list includes also Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar. In demanding the fugitives’ handover, Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee said his country has every right to protect its territorial integrity and would take appropriate action to deal with terror strikes emanating from Pakistan. He did not rule out military strikes against terror camps across the border.
Now, this doesn’t surprise me in that I doubted that Pakistan would just comply 100% with this demand of India’s but at the same time, one has to believe that Pakistan’s government isn’t dumb enough to just refuse this without some sort of alternative plan. Pakistan has to realize that the Indians are dealing with a public that is going to get only more enraged and demanding of heads to roll. I don’t see how the trying of any convicted terrorists in Pakistan of these terrorists will appease India. The crimes were commited in India!
At the same time, this is really Pakistan’s new government’s first real international crisis where they find themselves having to make some tough decisions. In the past six months, we have seen the Pakistani government back down in most cases – they’ve backed down on threats to the U.S. over UAV strikes inside the country and we’ve also seen them back down to the Taliban in several NW provinces.
I would guess that if India’s response is adamant enough, we will see some sort of compromise come out of this.
All of this over a movie? Wow they are insecure about there beliefs.
A Few Disgruntled Pakistanis Protest Fitna: “Only around 25,000 made it to the rally today…
More than 25,000 people rallied in the largest protest in Pakistan so far against an allegedly anti-Quran film made by a Dutch lawmaker, urging their government to expel the Netherlands ambassador. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)”
From the Jama’t-ud-Da’wah site in Pakistan comes this poll (thanks to Miss Kelly). There are only 197 respondents as of this writing, but the Tiny Minority of Extremists™ are way out in front:
What should be the response of Muslim Ummah to the blasphemous caricatures published in Denmark?
1 Boycott Danish products and Services 23 11.68%
2 Expel Danish ambassadors from Muslim countries 10 5.08%
3 Kill the Cartoonist and the Editors who published it 123 62.44%
4 Ignore this nonsense and keep preaching Islam with peace 41 20.81%
But the Vast Majority of Muslims Who Abhor Violence and Terrorism can still make themselves heard. Come on, guys!
