Pakistan's Descent into Chaos: Terrorist & Drone Attacks

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Although the dead toll it pretty low by porki standards. At least 100 pigs should be killed . :devil:
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride! :biggrin2:

100 pigs killed won't make any difference. But 100 pigs of the Islamic Army of Jihadi Porkistan should be killed instead. And that would be sweet!
 

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If the ISI has links, then it follows that it supports terror groups to the hilt. Who's this ass Gafoor trying to kid?
 

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Coup talk

THERE’S a template for a coup and it goes something like this. The government is paralysed, Nawaz is on the warpath, the boys have had enough, the chief moves in.

Good enough for before, good enough for again.

Throw in a bit of anti-US and anti-India hysteria and you may even wonder why we haven’t already had a coup.

But the story has deviated a bit. No one seems to be cheering on the only chap who can pull the trigger.

It’s as if we still have a new chief; a fresher still finding his feet.

What’s really needed is an institutional intervention, folk are suggesting. This is bigger than any individual, folk are cautioning. Many will have to work together if the country is to be saved, they are advising.

It’s as if no one wants the chief to become chief executive.

Something is off. Rewind to Kayani and his ascent some 11 years ago; a reluctant transfer of military power by Musharraf in the midst of a desperate struggle to cling to political power.

It took a while for Kayani to settle in and assert control. There were the snide remarks about the son of a JCO not being the best fit for the most prestigious post in the land.

There were questions about whether a direct move from the ISI to GHQ was a sound idea. There were murmurs of favouritism for political reasons and debates about whether Musharraf had been conned.

Kayani eventually overcame all of that. But he had to work at it. Hard.

He declared a Year of the Soldier. He won over the troops with pay raises and focusing on military matters. He cultivated the media. He developed a professional mystique — the thinking soldier.

And he eventually figured out how to navigate institutional factions and political circles to the point that pulled off the greatest of cons, a second term for himself.

More than a decade later, the stain of the second term and political tumult at the time of his ascension have obscured the original reality: Kayani had an uncertain start as chief.

But then came Raheel. And the script was replayed.

Raheel too took a while to settle in and assert control. His pedigree was impeccable but his intellect was questioned. Why had a mediocre general superseded at least one perfectly good candidate and been picked ahead of a couple of quality options below him?

Was he the right man for the job? He wasn’t going to be Nawaz’s man, but had Nawaz figured out that apolitical was all that he needed in his war against Imran?

As the original dharna neared, the doubts deepened and the dissent threatened to spill out into the open. Rumours of a cabal of generals trying to pressure their boss into doing their bidding were unleashed.

Like Kayani before him, Raheel eventually overcame all of that. But he too had to work at it. Hard.

After an uncertain 10 months or so, Raheel figured out that to be king you had to make sure people knew you were king and feared you as a king. The cult of Raheel began to be born.

Operation Zarb-i-Azb was its crown jewel and ThankYouRaheelSharif its tagline.

And now to the problem. The same thing has happened with Bajwa. He came in under a cloud of suspicion. How had number six been elevated to number one? Why were Nawaz and co so sure he would be their man?

To the suspicions was added a bit of aggravation. There had been an heir apparent. He was thought to have Raheel’s support and was a favourite of the troops.

He had the right credentials, the right reputation and the right approach. But he was wronged; humiliatingly superseded for no other reason than civilian cherry-picking.

And perhaps most of all for the unlucky Bajwa, he’s had to deal with the shadow of Raheel and the seemingly never-ending strength of his faction.

Still, nothing that could not be overcome. And nothing fundamentally different to what Kayani and Raheel had to endure.

The problem: the chief doesn’t seem to be overcoming his uncertain start.

There’s a political war out there, a foreign crisis brewing in Afghanistan and DC, and institutions under attack. That’s the kind of stuff out of which reputations are made.

Even better, all the events have been slow-moving and relatively easy to predict. Ten months in, it was set up rather nicely.

Chief becomes more assertive, a fawning public and braying media exhorts him to do more and then — the chief either decides to let democracy continue out of the goodness of his heart or goes in for the kill.

Except, this time no one seems to be cheering on the only chap who can pull the trigger. It’s as if no one wants the chief to become chief executive. It’s as if we still have a new chief; a fresher still finding his feet.

Something is off. And it may not be good for any of us.

The best-case scenario is a chief who is sure he can’t take over, whether he wants to or not. We’re clearly no longer in that terrain.

The next best thing is a chief who is sure he can take over, but doesn’t want to take over. If we were blessed, that’s where we’d be right now.

But in the realm of a chief who everyone thinks is too soft to take over and in any case don’t want him to take over?

We may be tempting the gods.
 

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Pak media-अमेरिका पाकिस्तान के खिलाफ बड़ा GAME करने के लिए अफ़ग़ानिस्तान में रुका है !!

Pak media speaker realises that America is moving towards expanding "War on Terror" deep inside Pakistan and intervene just like in Iraq,Libya

 

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The take-over

We are fast becoming an island under attack from an endless tsunami of fake news, fraudulent analyses, and fraudulent theories. The rising tide has overwhelmed the space for truthful debate and destroyed our collective sense of reality of the present. There is a deluge of delusions drowning voices of dissent and disagreement. The result is an intellectual wasteland where lies sprout at will and facts die before birth.

Allah willing, like every tsunami this too shall pass. This is the idea that keeps the hope alive of us surviving as a balanced and reasonable species whose critical faculties are intact, and which retains the ability of course correction in rough weather. However, the damage done is quite vast. As the calamity of misleading narratives continues to strike, there is every reason to entertain the fear that regaining our consciousness as a thinking nation will take much longer than allowed by circumstances. We will pay a heavy cost of living in denial through a constant dose of self-defeating claims of how well we are coping. Some of this cost of fake news, fraudulent analysis and false narratives is already upon us; and we are paying it through our nose.

Consider this. Since gaining independence, our strategic goal linked to our survival has always been that we should avoid being caught in a vice-like situation where our enemies (real and imagined both) are in a position to squeeze us from both sides of the borders. Every day the nation was told that we had achieved tremendous success in defeating “the nefarious designs of ill-wishers” and had “succeeded in securing our core national objective of border security.” In peace or in war time, in defeat or in victory, we never let go of the claim that we have done wonderfully well in preserving and securing our territory. We said the same thing even when we lost half of the country.

Later in national life, we created for ourselves a nuclear deterrent – the ultimate weapon (capability) of total offence and complete defence. We spread the nuclear shield all over the country to ensure that borders remain stable and we remain secure. We did other things as well. We sat in the American boat of counterterrorism and deployed all our resources on the border with Afghanistan in the name of creating security on the western front.

However, thousands of martyrs, billions of dollars and zillions of claims of success later we continue to face hostility and existential threat from that side. More troops are deployed on that side of the territory than on the border with India, our arch enemy. There too things are only partially stable. We have seen more attacks across the Line of Control and on the Working Boundary in the last few years than ever before, peaking this year. We are in a classic pincer-like situation – exactly what we wanted to avoid and what we claimed to have been our prime achievement.

This is not all. More layers of threats have been added to the traditional threats on both sides of our borders. The border with Iran has become more volatile, necessitating extraordinary measures like additional deployments and planning a visit of the army chief to the country to cool down temperatures. More critical is the lengthening possibility of the US striking inside our country in addition to the hundreds of drone strikes that they have already carried out here without a single word of apology or remorse ever expressed at any level. Now the entire defence establishment in Washington is swinging towards ‘punitive measures’ against Pakistan in the coming months. These are serious possibilities but we at home continue to distribute the all-is-well opium through press statements.

We have wrongly reduced this new global challenge to our security to the Trump Administration’s legendry stupidity, and have deliberately suppressed the context in which Washington is making these threatening plans. This context is not just the zealotry of the Trump Administration: it is set by the G-20 and Brics declarations and now the India-EU cooperation on countering terrorism (read the document to know which way the world is turning.) There is a global groundswell of concern that has started to concentrate on Pakistan which we continue to ignore and paddle-down because the truth of it is too inconvenient to accept.

At the same time, we continue to struggle and sacrifice precious blood and money against domestic terrorism whose ugly head refuses to disappear. Attacks like the one that killed at least 22 in Jhal Magsi at the Naseerabad Shrine last week rip through official stories of fascinating success and yet the mantra of glory continues to pore out without any let or hindrance. After seventy two years in existence, Pakistan in 2017 is facing dangers on all its borders; it is in the eye of the storm of global manoeuvres and has to deal with a tricky and partially-managed internal threat from myriad terror outfits at home. Is this success of policy or a woeful tale of failure? Is this the basis for claiming crowns or grounds for inquiry? Is this cause for calm and self-assuredness or for alarm and deep concern?

The right answer is well-known, but the right answer will never be at the centre of debate in the country today because the centre is dominated by a long and oft-repeated tale of the unjustness of the international community that we say does not acknowledge our sacrifices. We call this lament, this petition of being wronged by the world, ‘our narrative’. We have built an echo chamber for ourselves where we continue to shout out about our sacrifices (which are totally genuine) in the hope (which is false) that the world will realise that we have a case. Repeating the data of national sacrifice is not a ‘narrative’. In a world governed by dodgy diplomacy and economic interests, there are no takers of how much a nation has lost for what cause unless that nation is able to demonstrate its case successfully at different levels.

In World War 1, Germany alone lost over two million men while twice as many suffered injuries. Its economy was devastated and there were dislocations at a mass scale. It was not alone in triggering the war nor was it the only one suffering the losses but when the Treaty of Versailles was negotiated Germany was not even invited and was singled out along with its allies as the cause of all trouble. Its human and material losses were set aside in favour of the plan to neutralise it as the factor of trouble in Europe. It was made to suffer. Under the treaty after the war, it lost ten percent of its land and all of its territorial possessions (colonies) abroad. Almost 13 percent of its population was distributed in different regions and newly created countries and almost one fifth of its precious coal fields and industry went away because of territorial adjustments in its borders. Germany’s lament that it was a victim fell on deaf ears. Germany fell to regional politics head-down and emerged only with Hitler causing even greater and longer distress to the nation.

The point is that the complexity of global and regional politics requires talking to the world in a language other than that of victimhood. It also requires smart and intelligent debate within, one that is not grounded in grandiosity and a self-serving parade of achievements. This in turn can only happen when there is appetite and space for brutally honest introspection, shunning fakeness and pretention.

It is regrettable that, instead of looking ourselves in the mirror and acknowledging our weaknesses, a new season of hollow bombast has arrived. Our ‘narrative’ is akin to the dialogue of the deaf with himself. He cannot even hear what he is saying to the world outside much less appreciate that words spoken without facts on the ground are mere sounds without meaning.

Military takeovers destroy democracies as completely as information take-overs destroy critical national faculties like thinking, reflection, debate. They detach collective wisdom from reality and spread the disease of self-deception via fake news and fraudulent theories. Of the two takeovers it is hard to tell which one is worse. We have suffered one type of takeover in the past. We are suffering the other type at present.
 

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3 Hazaras among 5 shot dead on Quetta's Kasi road

At least three members of the ethnic Hazara community and two other Shias were killed, while one other was seriously injured on Quetta's Kasi road on Monday morning as unidentified armed men opened fire at their vehicle, police said.

According to the police, armed motorcyclists sprayed bullets at the vehicle and fled the scene unhurt.

Police reached the spot and started an investigation into the incident.

The Hazara community staged a protest at Alamdar road and demanded protection while chanting slogans against the government and the law enforcement agencies.

The protesters dispersed after Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti visited them and promised them the government's support.

Balochistan has been experiencing incidents of violence and targeted killings since more than a decade. More than 1,400 incidents targeting the minority Shia and Hazara community have taken place in the province during the past 15 years.

While sectarian terrorism in Balochistan has disproportionately targeted the Hazara community, easily identifiable because of their distinctive physical appearance, other Shias — especially pilgrims travelling to and from Iran — have not been spared either.
 

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Former ISI chief Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar takes early retirement from army

Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar on Saturday requested early retirement from the Pakistan Army citing "pressing personal commitments".

Akhtar, who was replaced by Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar as director general (DG) ISI.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1362474/f...izwan-akhtar-takes-early-retirement-from-army

Retired due to 'personal commitments' my ass! The truth is that he was sacked for the fukups created at the LoC! And these will continue with the new incumbent too! How many pansy Porki Generals therefore are they going to sack? :tongue:
 

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Maybe, but in large part it's due to the impeding Trump administration ban on Napaki officials for aiding and abetting terrorists and terrorism. Akhtar was believed to be instrumental in safehousing OBL and also others.

This is just to distance him from ISI as an institution.
 

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Four Ahmadies were arrested over blasphemy. One was shot dead in custody.

Their crime : They tore down anti Ahmadi posters.
Feels good, Ahmadies were the part of originators of idea of Pakistan.

Karma

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Feels goooood ,maaaaaaan:hat:

More dead porkis
 

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Two security personnel martyred in FR Bannu IED blast

PESHWAR: Minutes after five policemen were martyred in Quetta, two security personnel were martyred in an IED blast in FR Bannu.


According to government officials, the vehicle of the security personnel was attacked near Jalal check post by a remote-controlled IED.

The two security personnel were identified as Sepoy Tasawar Ali and Sepoy Ghulam Rabani.
 

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Pakistan: Attack on workers at Gwadar port for Chinese project; 26 injured



Meanwhile,Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Chaudhary Thursday called on US Senator Elizabeth Warren

1. Aizaz briefed the Senator about Pakistan’s unmatched sacrifices in war against terror.
2. Pakistan’s forces have successfully wiped out all terrorist groups from its territory.
3. Pakistan and its people have suffered the most from four decades of foreign intervention and civil wars in Afghanistan
4. Aizaz Chaudhry said that no one desires peace in Afghanistan more than Pakistan
5. Pakistan is ready to work with Afghanistan and other countries
 

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1. Aizaz briefed the Senator about Pakistan’s unmatched sacrifices in war against terror.
:pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound: I mean really who are they trying to kid

Pakistan’s forces have successfully wiped out all terrorist groups from its territory.
a small correction Pakistan has wiped out all the "Bad" (according to the ISI off course) terrorist while all the good ones are sitting in Quetta and Muzaffarabad respectively

Pakistan and its people have suffered the most from four decades of foreign intervention and civil wars in Afghanistan
it is to be remembered that it was the ISI that started tango ops in Afghanistan in the early 1970's a classic case of the pot calling the kettle back

Aizaz Chaudhry said that no one desires peace in Afghanistan more than Pakistan
which is a straight faced lie :pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound:
Pakistan is ready to work with Afghanistan and other countries
sorry have heard that a billion times :hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:
 

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And now being pissed off at the Porki Army, even a Paki Parliamentarian resigns!! Lol!


PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar resigns from defence committee

PPP's Senator Farhatullah Babar resigned from the Senate's Standing Committee on Defence on Friday.

He refused to comment on the reasons for his resignation but raised questions over parliamentarians visiting the General Headquarters (GHQ).

When the GHQ was asked to produce documents by the parliament, it was informed that sensitive documents cannot be brought out of the GHQ, Babar said while talking to DawnNews after his resignation. "Can the GHQ not ensure security of sensitive documents for even 15 kilometres?" Babar asked.

He said that he would not have gone to the headquarters if he was a member of the committee, adding that the "GHQ should come to the parliament rather than the parliament going to the GHQ".

https://www.dawn.com/news/1365064/ppp-senator-farhatullah-babar-resigns-from-defence-committee

Well, not so surprising seeing that the Islamic Army of Porkistan rules the roost! Paki Parliamentarians are just puppets on a string. Since the 1950s!
 

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Must watch भारत नहीं छोड़ेगा पाकिस्तान को, पाक फौज से परेशानी यह नेता तोड़ेंगे, PaK media

 

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Chinese embassy says its envoy may be attacked, requests more security

The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has requested more security for its ambassador in the wake of information that he is likely to be attacked.

Quoting sources, Express News reported that in a letter written to the interior ministry, the Chinese embassy has said that a terrorist had entered the country to attack Yao Jing.

The embassy has requested the government to take immediate action on the intelligence information, and provide security to the ambassador.

The letter, the sources said, written by the focal person for CPEC, Ping Ying Fi, identifies the militant as Abdul Wali who belongs to the banned East Turkestan Independence Movement (ETIM) – an extremist group which largely operates in the border Xinjiang region. The memo has demanded his immediate arrest and handover to the Chinese embassy.

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will connect this region of China with Pakistan’s seaport Gwadar through a network of rail, road and pipeline projects.
 

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