India-Pakistan |
Malik demands Afghanistan to hand over Maulvi Fazlullah |
2012-12-05 |
![]() Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. on Tuesday demanded Afghanistan to arrest and hand over Pak Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah who, he said, is based in Kunar province. ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... How about in exchange for Jalauddin Haqqani? Sound pretty fair? Addressing a presser, Malik said the bully boyz are launching attacks on Pak villages and security posts along the Pak-Afghan border in Bajour, Dir and Chitral areas from inside Afghanistan. The interior minister said the Afghan government should cooperate in sealing the Pak-Afghan border as it is necessary to control terrorism. Commenting on war against terrorism, Malik said the bully boyz have been defeated and they are on the run now, adding that around forty thousand Pak nationals have sacrificed their lives for the cause. Vowing to continue the governments efforts against terrorism, he said that all those young man, who have been engaged by the Death Eaters, would be given employment opportunities if they end their links with them. Answering a question, Malik said that investigation on Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... liquidation has been finalised and it will be made public with permission of the court. Earlier, the minister inaugurated Pak Origin Cads (POC) for overseas Paks and their spouses. He also launched the Smart Card to replace the existing Computerized National Identity Cards (NIC). The new card would hold thirty eight features. |
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India-Pakistan |
Blasts hit Haqqani compound |
2008-09-08 |
Several explosions reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned US drone aircraft hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. An intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of his job, said at least six people were killed, including three foreigners and two children, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by US forces on Islamic militant havens in Pakistan's tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan. The targets apparently belonged to Jalauddin Haqqani, a veteran of the jihad against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s who American commanders describe as one of their most dangerous foes. Haqqani and his son, Siraj, have been linked to attacks this year including an attempt to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a bold attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul. Haqqani network operatives plague US forces in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province with ambushes and roadside bombs. |
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Afghanistan |
Pak clerics squeal like pigs over raids |
2002-04-27 |
"The Pakistani forces with the help of American soldiers on Friday stormed a religious school at Darpa Khel to search for al-Qaida men," said Maulvi Abdul Hafeez, a prominent cleric in Mir Ali, about 200 miles southwest of Peshawar. "We condemn this Pakistan-U.S. operation." That's because you're on the other side. We can tell that. The building was empty and no arrests were made, Hafeez said. The school was set up by prominent Taliban leader Jalauddin Haqqani years ago during the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, he added. Oh, the Pak intel guys got word to you in time, did they? At MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Commander Frank Merriman, a spokesman at the Central Command headquarters of Gen. Tommy Franks, said "We really can't confirm ongoing operations." He would not comment further. That's military talk for "Butt out. Don't jiggle my elbow while I'm workin'." Hafeez said the tribal elders and religious leaders were appealing to the Pakistan government to refrain from conducting more operations, as al-Qaida men or Taliban are not hiding there. Only chickens. Nobody there but them chickens. "In order to prevent these kind of raids in future, we have started consulting other tribal elders and clerics. We will not let American forces operate in our areas," Hafeez told The Associated Press by phone Saturday. Only al-Qaeda. And Taliban. And Lashkar-e-Taiba. And Jaish-e-Mohammad. You got turbans, you can come in. Otherwise, stay the hell out of our Islamic paradise. |
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