Pakistan's Descent into Chaos: Terrorist & Drone Attacks
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Allah Hu Akbar 
The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has warned Chinese nationals and organizations in the country to maintain a heightened sense of security awareness and avoid populated places due to alleged plans by terrorists to attack Chinese
The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has warned Chinese nationals and organizations in the country to maintain a heightened sense of security awareness and avoid populated places due to alleged plans by terrorists to attack Chinese
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WTF dude ....so many terrorists in one pic. This photographer must have steel balls.Allah Hu Akbar
The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has warned Chinese nationals and organizations in the country to maintain a heightened sense of security awareness and avoid populated places due to alleged plans by terrorists to attack Chinese
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'Mullahs are pushing Pakistan to the Edge'
The template - marching on Islamabad and/or staging a prolonged sit-in disrupting the normal life of ordinary citizens — adopted by the new Islamist kid on the block in Pakistan (the Barelvi Sunni Muslim political party/movement Tehrik Labbaik Ya Rasul Allah Pakistan) for de-stabilising a government isn’t new; the abject capitulation of the Pakistani state in the face of street pressure mounted by the clerics is certainly stupefying.
Prowess
The sight of the Pakistani state, whose security forces are renowned for their prowess in repeatedly conquering and brutally suppressing their own people and country, grovelling before a bunch of fulminating fanatics, was quite breathtaking.
In fact, some Pakistani analysts have compared the surrender in Islamabad with the surrender in Dhaka nearly 50 years ago.
Of course, Pakistan government ministers defend themselves by saying that they capitulated because the alternative was a civil war, especially after widespread disturbances broke out all across Pakistan following the badly botched crackdown by the police and civilian paramilitary forces on the protesters blockading the main access road between the de facto capital (Rawalpindi) and de jure capital (Islamabad).
The sheer incompetence of the civilian law enforcement agencies asides, the street power of the mullahs, coupled with tacit backing they got from the military which defied orders of the government to crackdown on the demonstrators forced the government to throw in the towel.
By succumbing to the demands of the Barelvi zealots, the Pakistani state might have gotten over the immediate political and law and order crisis, but it has in the process sown the seeds and saplings for far greater virulence and violence in the future.
Indications that the Barelvis had transformed into a potent force in Pakistani power politics had become known even before their resounding victory in Islam- abad.
But the reverberations of the terms of surrender they forced on the government will be felt for years to come. The government not only accepted responsibility for mishandling the clerics protest, but also agreed to pick up the bill for all the damage and loss caused to public and private property.
Apart from the mullahs forcing the ouster of the law minister in exchange for not passing any fatwa on him, they got the government to agree to the formation of a virtual ‘inquisition council’ that will have a bunch of mullahs examine the ‘Muslim-ness’ of a powerful Punjab minister, Rana Sanaullah.
The fear is that such ‘inquisition councils’ could easily become the new normal for certifying the degree of ‘Muslim-ness’ of any individual. After all, if someone as powerful and well-connected like Sanaullah can be forced to explain himself, who will be able to defy the mullahs and tell them to mind their own business?
This isn’t all. The Tehrik Labbaik Ya Rasul Allah Pakistan (TLYRA) will now nominate two representatives who will recommend changes in school syllabus to ensure it is ‘Islamic’. The government has also turned the clock back on the misuse of loudspeakers in mosques and given a free run to the clerics.
Conflicts
A few things are likely to happen in the weeks, months and years ahead. First, while sectarian conflicts between Shia and Sunni will continue, there is every possibility of greater intra-Sunni conflicts between the Barelvis, Deobandis and Wahabis.
The Barelvi religio-political assertion is bound to be challenged and resisted by the Deobandis and Wahabis. Despite being in minority, the Deobandis and Wahabis exercised much greater influence in religious and political matters than the Barelvis.
They are unlikely to cede the space they have captured without a fight, and they have the guns and the jihadist cadre while the Barelvis have only the numbers. Of course, if the ‘deep state’ is now propping the Barelvis as a counter-weight to the other two, then that will give them a leg up. Conflict is inherent in this situation.
Second, the TLYRA has managed to create a climate of fear and trepidation. Everyone seems terrified to confront the mullahs lest they issue a fatwa of blasphemy or deviation or even defection from the rightful Islamic path.
With the state seen as cringing and cowering before the clerics, the man on the street is hardly likely to pick up cudgels against the religious storm-troopers. As it is, the slightest of criticism of the method of the mullahs doesn’t extend to questioning their madness.
The media invariably prefixes its rather soft criticism by mouthing inanities like “me and my entire family, and future generations are ready to be sacrificed in defence of the Prophet”.
Sentiment
The police, according to a top cop in Punjab, feel burdened by religious sentiment to not act against the clerics.
The army, which is quick to use disproportionate force against the Pakistani Taliban, doesn’t bat an eyelid before massacring Baloch freedom fighters or putting them in Pakistani Gulags, is loath to using force against the mullahs — “our own people”, as they call them.
The politicians are terrified of both the personal and political damage that these extremists can cause. In short, there is an open field for the mullahs to peddle their poison.
Thirdly, the mullahs have tasted the fruit of their street power and will now use it to gain political power, or at least prominence. Their political prospects will have improved after this victory because they will be seen as players, not bystanders, much less supplicants.
Finally, the paring down of the state, coupled with the success of holding the Capital hostage, will now make it tempting for any Islamic group with a modicum of public support to replicate the TLYRA template.
The choice before the state at that stage will be: Either crush the protests (and set an example), or cave in yet again. The first will set off a spiral of violence and undermine the state; the second will anyway undermine the state
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/article-5157337/Mullahs-pushing-Pakistan-edge.html
The template - marching on Islamabad and/or staging a prolonged sit-in disrupting the normal life of ordinary citizens — adopted by the new Islamist kid on the block in Pakistan (the Barelvi Sunni Muslim political party/movement Tehrik Labbaik Ya Rasul Allah Pakistan) for de-stabilising a government isn’t new; the abject capitulation of the Pakistani state in the face of street pressure mounted by the clerics is certainly stupefying.
Prowess
The sight of the Pakistani state, whose security forces are renowned for their prowess in repeatedly conquering and brutally suppressing their own people and country, grovelling before a bunch of fulminating fanatics, was quite breathtaking.
In fact, some Pakistani analysts have compared the surrender in Islamabad with the surrender in Dhaka nearly 50 years ago.
Of course, Pakistan government ministers defend themselves by saying that they capitulated because the alternative was a civil war, especially after widespread disturbances broke out all across Pakistan following the badly botched crackdown by the police and civilian paramilitary forces on the protesters blockading the main access road between the de facto capital (Rawalpindi) and de jure capital (Islamabad).
The sheer incompetence of the civilian law enforcement agencies asides, the street power of the mullahs, coupled with tacit backing they got from the military which defied orders of the government to crackdown on the demonstrators forced the government to throw in the towel.
By succumbing to the demands of the Barelvi zealots, the Pakistani state might have gotten over the immediate political and law and order crisis, but it has in the process sown the seeds and saplings for far greater virulence and violence in the future.
Indications that the Barelvis had transformed into a potent force in Pakistani power politics had become known even before their resounding victory in Islam- abad.
But the reverberations of the terms of surrender they forced on the government will be felt for years to come. The government not only accepted responsibility for mishandling the clerics protest, but also agreed to pick up the bill for all the damage and loss caused to public and private property.
Apart from the mullahs forcing the ouster of the law minister in exchange for not passing any fatwa on him, they got the government to agree to the formation of a virtual ‘inquisition council’ that will have a bunch of mullahs examine the ‘Muslim-ness’ of a powerful Punjab minister, Rana Sanaullah.
The fear is that such ‘inquisition councils’ could easily become the new normal for certifying the degree of ‘Muslim-ness’ of any individual. After all, if someone as powerful and well-connected like Sanaullah can be forced to explain himself, who will be able to defy the mullahs and tell them to mind their own business?
This isn’t all. The Tehrik Labbaik Ya Rasul Allah Pakistan (TLYRA) will now nominate two representatives who will recommend changes in school syllabus to ensure it is ‘Islamic’. The government has also turned the clock back on the misuse of loudspeakers in mosques and given a free run to the clerics.
Conflicts
A few things are likely to happen in the weeks, months and years ahead. First, while sectarian conflicts between Shia and Sunni will continue, there is every possibility of greater intra-Sunni conflicts between the Barelvis, Deobandis and Wahabis.
The Barelvi religio-political assertion is bound to be challenged and resisted by the Deobandis and Wahabis. Despite being in minority, the Deobandis and Wahabis exercised much greater influence in religious and political matters than the Barelvis.
They are unlikely to cede the space they have captured without a fight, and they have the guns and the jihadist cadre while the Barelvis have only the numbers. Of course, if the ‘deep state’ is now propping the Barelvis as a counter-weight to the other two, then that will give them a leg up. Conflict is inherent in this situation.
Second, the TLYRA has managed to create a climate of fear and trepidation. Everyone seems terrified to confront the mullahs lest they issue a fatwa of blasphemy or deviation or even defection from the rightful Islamic path.
With the state seen as cringing and cowering before the clerics, the man on the street is hardly likely to pick up cudgels against the religious storm-troopers. As it is, the slightest of criticism of the method of the mullahs doesn’t extend to questioning their madness.
The media invariably prefixes its rather soft criticism by mouthing inanities like “me and my entire family, and future generations are ready to be sacrificed in defence of the Prophet”.
Sentiment
The police, according to a top cop in Punjab, feel burdened by religious sentiment to not act against the clerics.
The army, which is quick to use disproportionate force against the Pakistani Taliban, doesn’t bat an eyelid before massacring Baloch freedom fighters or putting them in Pakistani Gulags, is loath to using force against the mullahs — “our own people”, as they call them.
The politicians are terrified of both the personal and political damage that these extremists can cause. In short, there is an open field for the mullahs to peddle their poison.
Thirdly, the mullahs have tasted the fruit of their street power and will now use it to gain political power, or at least prominence. Their political prospects will have improved after this victory because they will be seen as players, not bystanders, much less supplicants.
Finally, the paring down of the state, coupled with the success of holding the Capital hostage, will now make it tempting for any Islamic group with a modicum of public support to replicate the TLYRA template.
The choice before the state at that stage will be: Either crush the protests (and set an example), or cave in yet again. The first will set off a spiral of violence and undermine the state; the second will anyway undermine the state
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/article-5157337/Mullahs-pushing-Pakistan-edge.html
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If Pakistan shoot US drone,then US will wipe out whole PAF in 30 minutes-Pak media
good discussion,do watch
good discussion,do watch
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I very much doubt that...but the economic sanctions will send them back to stone age
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USA doesn't own the world. As long as Saudi and other Arabs side with Pakistan, Pakistan will thrive. USA can't unilaterally impose sanctions
Defer all non-essential travel to Pakistan, US tells citizens
WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday advised its citizens to defer all non-essential travel to Pakistan, saying that foreign and indigenous terrorist groups continue to pose a threat to them throughout the country.
In warning --- issued after a gap of seven months -- the State Department warned the US citizens against all non-essential travel to the South Asian country comes in the wake of increasing terrorist violence, including sectarian attacks, in Pakistan.
Terrorists have targeted US diplomats and diplomatic facilities in the past, and evidence suggests they continue to do so, the travel warning said, adding that terrorists and criminal groups have resorted to kidnapping for ransom.
Sectarian violence, the State Department said, remains a serious threat throughout the country, and the Pakistani government continues to enforce blasphemy laws.
Religious minority communities have been victims of targeted killings and accusations of blasphemy, it added.
The State Department said insurgent and terrorist groups conducted numerous suicide bombings, hand grenade attacks, and ambushes on Pakistani security forces and civilians over the past six months in Balochistan.
A suicide bomber in Quetta targeted senior police officers near Shuhada Chowk, killing 14 people and wounding 30. In Chaman, another suicide bomber attacked a police convoy, killing three police officials and injuring 20 others, it said while giving details of terrorist attacks in Pakistan's restive Balochistan and FATA.
Two hand grenade attacks in Gwadar and Mastung injured 41 people. In Quetta, a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 45 in an attack on the Pishin bus terminal, the State Department said.
Similarly, a suicide bomber in Jhal Magsi attacked worshippers at the Sufi shrine of Pir Rakhyal Shah in the Fatehpur area, killing 19 and injuring 30. Another suicide bomber in Quetta attacked a police convoy on the Sibbi Road in the Saryab mill area, killing seven and wounding 23, it said.
In Punjab province, three suicide bombings targeting police and military officials in Lahore killed at least 47 and injured more than 100 others.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and the Federally Administered Tribal areas (FATA), there have been numerous recent attacks by insurgent and terrorist groups targeting government officials, NGO and aid workers, religious minorities, and civilians. Also 148 occurrences of small arms fire, over 67 improvised explosive devices (IED) explosions, 28 known assassination attempts, and 17 kidnappings were reported, the State Department said.
Assassination and kidnapping attempts are common throughout these areas, it added.
The Department said terrorist organisations operating in the area have not discriminated between government officials and civilians.
Since May 2017, the following significant attacks have occurred: in Parachinar, an IED targeting the Tori Market killed 67 civilians and injured 75; in Jamrud, an IED attack targeting peace committee workers killed at least five civilians; in Charsadda, at least five IEDs exploded, injuring 14 people; IEDs targeting Peshawar Hospital injured five people; and in Peshawar the detonation of a "toy bomb" killed one child and injured six persons, it said.
WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday advised its citizens to defer all non-essential travel to Pakistan, saying that foreign and indigenous terrorist groups continue to pose a threat to them throughout the country.
In warning --- issued after a gap of seven months -- the State Department warned the US citizens against all non-essential travel to the South Asian country comes in the wake of increasing terrorist violence, including sectarian attacks, in Pakistan.
Terrorists have targeted US diplomats and diplomatic facilities in the past, and evidence suggests they continue to do so, the travel warning said, adding that terrorists and criminal groups have resorted to kidnapping for ransom.
Sectarian violence, the State Department said, remains a serious threat throughout the country, and the Pakistani government continues to enforce blasphemy laws.
Religious minority communities have been victims of targeted killings and accusations of blasphemy, it added.
The State Department said insurgent and terrorist groups conducted numerous suicide bombings, hand grenade attacks, and ambushes on Pakistani security forces and civilians over the past six months in Balochistan.
A suicide bomber in Quetta targeted senior police officers near Shuhada Chowk, killing 14 people and wounding 30. In Chaman, another suicide bomber attacked a police convoy, killing three police officials and injuring 20 others, it said while giving details of terrorist attacks in Pakistan's restive Balochistan and FATA.
Two hand grenade attacks in Gwadar and Mastung injured 41 people. In Quetta, a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 45 in an attack on the Pishin bus terminal, the State Department said.
Similarly, a suicide bomber in Jhal Magsi attacked worshippers at the Sufi shrine of Pir Rakhyal Shah in the Fatehpur area, killing 19 and injuring 30. Another suicide bomber in Quetta attacked a police convoy on the Sibbi Road in the Saryab mill area, killing seven and wounding 23, it said.
In Punjab province, three suicide bombings targeting police and military officials in Lahore killed at least 47 and injured more than 100 others.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and the Federally Administered Tribal areas (FATA), there have been numerous recent attacks by insurgent and terrorist groups targeting government officials, NGO and aid workers, religious minorities, and civilians. Also 148 occurrences of small arms fire, over 67 improvised explosive devices (IED) explosions, 28 known assassination attempts, and 17 kidnappings were reported, the State Department said.
Assassination and kidnapping attempts are common throughout these areas, it added.
The Department said terrorist organisations operating in the area have not discriminated between government officials and civilians.
Since May 2017, the following significant attacks have occurred: in Parachinar, an IED targeting the Tori Market killed 67 civilians and injured 75; in Jamrud, an IED attack targeting peace committee workers killed at least five civilians; in Charsadda, at least five IEDs exploded, injuring 14 people; IEDs targeting Peshawar Hospital injured five people; and in Peshawar the detonation of a "toy bomb" killed one child and injured six persons, it said.
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Second Lt, sepoy killed as terrorists open fire on army vehicle in North Waziristan
Two soldiers were martyred when terrorists opened fire on an army vehicle in Noth Waziristan on Tuesday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
Second Lieutenant Abdul Moeed and Sepoy Basharat, both 21, were killed in the incident, the Pakistan Army's media wing added in its statement.
Lt Moeed, a resident of Burewala, Vehari, had recently passed out from the Pakistan Military Academy. Sepoy Basharat, a resident of Danyor village, Gilgit, had been serving in the military for three years, the ISPR statement read.
"Freedom is not free, it costs sons of the soil. Freedom that we enjoy today is owed to so many such brave hearts. Salute to our martyrs," Chief of Army Staff Qamar Jawed Bajwa was quoted as saying in a tweet by Director-General ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor.
Earlier this month, six were killed when an improvised explosive device, reportedly targetting a military vehicle, went off in North Waziristan. The vehicle was carrying three civilian candidates seeking recruitment in the army. The candidates and three bystanders were killed in the attack.
On October 9, in the first major incident in North Waziristan agency's Razmak subdivision since the army launched Zarb-i-Azb military operation in June 2014, three soldiers were martyred and seven others were injured when attackers opened fire on a vehicle of the Frontier Corps.
Two soldiers were martyred when terrorists opened fire on an army vehicle in Noth Waziristan on Tuesday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
Second Lieutenant Abdul Moeed and Sepoy Basharat, both 21, were killed in the incident, the Pakistan Army's media wing added in its statement.
Lt Moeed, a resident of Burewala, Vehari, had recently passed out from the Pakistan Military Academy. Sepoy Basharat, a resident of Danyor village, Gilgit, had been serving in the military for three years, the ISPR statement read.
"Freedom is not free, it costs sons of the soil. Freedom that we enjoy today is owed to so many such brave hearts. Salute to our martyrs," Chief of Army Staff Qamar Jawed Bajwa was quoted as saying in a tweet by Director-General ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor.
Earlier this month, six were killed when an improvised explosive device, reportedly targetting a military vehicle, went off in North Waziristan. The vehicle was carrying three civilian candidates seeking recruitment in the army. The candidates and three bystanders were killed in the attack.
On October 9, in the first major incident in North Waziristan agency's Razmak subdivision since the army launched Zarb-i-Azb military operation in June 2014, three soldiers were martyred and seven others were injured when attackers opened fire on a vehicle of the Frontier Corps.
Don't enjoy dealing with Pakistan: Rex Tillerson
Two things US secretary of state Rex Tillerson doesn't enjoy about his job - dealing with North Korea and dealing with Pakistan , reported CNN.
Look, this is a hard job...The actual task at hand, dealing with North Korea, I don't enjoy that... Dealing with Pakistan, I don't enjoy," said Tillerson at a town hall meeting with state department employees earlier today.
Pakistan has allowed so many terrorist organizations to find safe haven within its territories, and these organizations are growing in size and influence, that at some point I have said to the leadership of Pakistan, you may be the target, and they turn their attention from Kabul and decide they like Islamabad as a target better," said Tillerson.
In a separate address, also earlier today, Tillerson spoke more about India's neighbour, saying that the US cannot for long continue dealing with Pakistan which allows terrorist safe havens within its borders
As for India, Tillerson had a lot more positive things to say, including that the US is very keen to add India to its existing strong trilateral relationship with Japan and Australia.
We've long had a trilateral relationship in the Indo-Pacific between Japan, Australia, and the U.S., and we're now working towards whether this will become a quad relationship to include India because of the importance of India's rising economy as well and I think shared national security concerns that we have with India," said Tillerson.
Two things US secretary of state Rex Tillerson doesn't enjoy about his job - dealing with North Korea and dealing with Pakistan , reported CNN.
Look, this is a hard job...The actual task at hand, dealing with North Korea, I don't enjoy that... Dealing with Pakistan, I don't enjoy," said Tillerson at a town hall meeting with state department employees earlier today.
Pakistan has allowed so many terrorist organizations to find safe haven within its territories, and these organizations are growing in size and influence, that at some point I have said to the leadership of Pakistan, you may be the target, and they turn their attention from Kabul and decide they like Islamabad as a target better," said Tillerson.
In a separate address, also earlier today, Tillerson spoke more about India's neighbour, saying that the US cannot for long continue dealing with Pakistan which allows terrorist safe havens within its borders
As for India, Tillerson had a lot more positive things to say, including that the US is very keen to add India to its existing strong trilateral relationship with Japan and Australia.
We've long had a trilateral relationship in the Indo-Pacific between Japan, Australia, and the U.S., and we're now working towards whether this will become a quad relationship to include India because of the importance of India's rising economy as well and I think shared national security concerns that we have with India," said Tillerson.
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Assemblies might not complete tenure, fears Ayaz Sadiq
ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday feared that the assemblies might not complete their term, adding he was seeing a ‘greater plan’ in the offing.
Speaking on Geo News show “Aj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath”, the Speaker said that all the opposition parties except the one intend to see the government to complete its tenure.
“Disappointment is a sin but for the first time in my political career now I am disheartened,” Sadiq added.
He said that whetever was happening was not only damaging for one institution but for the entire country. The prevailing situation is not normal, but unnatural. Pakistan is surrounded by enemies, the Speaker maintained.
Our internal challenges are bigger than those of external, Sadiq said.
“I always ask the political parties that the system should be strengthened for over all improvement in the country,” he said.
I pray for the stability of Pakistan as our country is everything for us, the Speaker said.
ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday feared that the assemblies might not complete their term, adding he was seeing a ‘greater plan’ in the offing.
Speaking on Geo News show “Aj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath”, the Speaker said that all the opposition parties except the one intend to see the government to complete its tenure.
“Disappointment is a sin but for the first time in my political career now I am disheartened,” Sadiq added.
He said that whetever was happening was not only damaging for one institution but for the entire country. The prevailing situation is not normal, but unnatural. Pakistan is surrounded by enemies, the Speaker maintained.
Our internal challenges are bigger than those of external, Sadiq said.
“I always ask the political parties that the system should be strengthened for over all improvement in the country,” he said.
I pray for the stability of Pakistan as our country is everything for us, the Speaker said.
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Isn't there a case going on against him in pak? How the hell is he going to come back?
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WASHINGTON: Shifting between soft persuasions and tough advice, the United States is now saying that Pakistan could lose control of its territory if it does not sever ties with the Haqqanis and other terrorists.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — who issued the advice at a Washington think-tank earlier this week — also said the militants who were focusing on Kabul might one day decide that Islamabad was a better target.
The warning followed a Pentagon statement, which said the new US strategy for Afghanistan had “fundamentally changed the battlefield in favour of Afghan national security forces” and the Taliban militants were now on the retreat.
And this change happened because the new strategy made it clear that US forces would stay in Afghanistan for as long as it took to stabilise the country and also because it gave American troops more power to confront the enemy, the Pentagon added.
The two statements follow the Trump administration’s repeated calls to Pakistan to do more to destroy the alleged safe havens that Afghan militants still retain in parts of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a charge Islamabad strongly denies.
“Pakistan has allowed so many terrorist organisations to find safe haven within its territories, and these organisations are growing in size and influence, that at some point I have said to the leadership of Pakistan, you may be the target, and they turn their attention from Kabul and decide they like Islamabad as a target better,” Secretary Tillerson said.
In his remarks on “Meeting the foreign policy challenges of 2017 and beyond” organised by the 2017 Atlantic Council-Korea Foundation Forum, Mr Tillerson said that Pakistan’s relationship with the Haqqani network needed to be altered. “I understand that this is a relationship that has emerged probably for, in their view, good reasons a decade ago, but now that relationship has to be altered because if they’re not careful, Pakistan is going to lose control of their own country,” he said.
The top US diplomat assured Pakistan that Washington wanted to work with Islamabad to “stamp out terrorism within their boundaries”, but Pakistan had to “begin the process” by changing its relationship with the Haqqani network and with others.
Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2017
Unless there is a paradigm shift in Pak's policy of sponsoring terrorism to achieve its goals which needless to say is a mirage, nothing is going to change. These organizations are deemed Pak's 'strategic assets' which they will be loathe to dispense with.
Pak has turned itself into a security state where the Army with its short sighted Generals holds the reins. And as they say, a leopard can never change its spots. (Though the Pak Army is more of a mouse than a leopard!). Countries have an army but in Pak, the Army has a country. So it will be more of the same till kingdom come.
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Former Pak diplomat terms Pakistani Army as ‘arsonist’ in Afghanistan; heres more
Former Pak diplomat terms Pakistani Army as ‘arsonist’ in Afghanistan; heres more
Even as the US is now increasing the pressure on the Pakistan to rein in the terror groups within its territory, former Pakistan Ambassador to United States has yet again made startling revelations.
He said that Pakistani Army is the arsonist in Afghanistan which also wants to be part of the fire brigade.
The remarks by Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the US, came as several American experts highlighted the role of the Army in the country’s decision.
Haqqani said Pakistan was an ally of convenience during the Cold War but Pakistan’s main objective to compete with India has never been an American objective.
Even Bill Milam, former US Ambassador to Pakistan, concurred that Army has had crucial role to play in Pakistan ever since the country came into existence.
Former Pak diplomat terms Pakistani Army as ‘arsonist’ in Afghanistan; heres more
Even as the US is now increasing the pressure on the Pakistan to rein in the terror groups within its territory, former Pakistan Ambassador to United States has yet again made startling revelations.
He said that Pakistani Army is the arsonist in Afghanistan which also wants to be part of the fire brigade.
The remarks by Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the US, came as several American experts highlighted the role of the Army in the country’s decision.
Haqqani said Pakistan was an ally of convenience during the Cold War but Pakistan’s main objective to compete with India has never been an American objective.
Even Bill Milam, former US Ambassador to Pakistan, concurred that Army has had crucial role to play in Pakistan ever since the country came into existence.
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Could be another terror attack. Developing story.
Explosion, gunshots heard near Quetta's Imdad Chowk
Dawn.comDecember 17, 2017
An explosion has been reported near Quetta's Imdad Chowk Sunday afternoon.
Police and rescue teams have been dispatched to the site of the incident and there are reports of an ongoing gunfight in the area.
It is unclear what the nature of the explosion was, but its sound was heard in a large radius.
A church and a railway station are located in the vicinity of the area where the explosion occurred.
Explosion, gunshots heard near Quetta's Imdad Chowk
Dawn.comDecember 17, 2017
An explosion has been reported near Quetta's Imdad Chowk Sunday afternoon.
Police and rescue teams have been dispatched to the site of the incident and there are reports of an ongoing gunfight in the area.
It is unclear what the nature of the explosion was, but its sound was heard in a large radius.
A church and a railway station are located in the vicinity of the area where the explosion occurred.
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