Pakistan is terriorist state.

Stop killing of innocent human.

Military Operation in Gebun Area of Turbat, Heavy weapons are being used against civilians

Turbat (05-12-12) : Pakistani occupying forces has surrounded the house of Shahsawar Baloch in Gebun area of Turbat early morning today. Intense firing by Pakistani military is continue, women and children are trapped in. It's pertinent to mention here that Pakistani occupying forces had previously killed the son of Shahsawar Baloch, Aslam along with three other friends, Mohammad Hussain S/o Sher Mohammad, Adam S/o Mayar and Ali Baloch S/o Mohammad in same Gebun village on 27th April 2012. Pakistani media is reporting two causalities so for, however nothing could be verified from independent sources, due to intense firing.

Baloch nation is facing serious survival challenges, as Pakistani State is carrying out a systematic genocide of the nation. Civilized world failed to stop the crimes of terrorist state against the humanity. International bodies including United Nations should step forward to take tangible measures.

The Exodus of Hindus

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  By Muhammad Akbar Notezai:

 “Minorities to whichever community they may belong, will be fully safeguarded their religion or faith or belief will be secure. There will be no interference of any kind with their freedom or worship. They will have full protection with regard to their religion, their faith, their belief and culture. They will be in all respects the citizens of Pakistan without any distinction of caste and creed,” said The Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in a Press conference held in New Delhi on 14^th July, 1947.

After elapsing 65 years, Pakistan’s minorities, especially the Hindus, are compelled to leave their indigenous places in recent time. Because both their neither religion nor faith is safeguarded over here, and they have been facing great hardships to dwell anymore in their own indigenous places. Also, they are not being considered to be the citizens of Pakistan in the country. That is why their abduction and forcible conversion is on the surge. There is no one to have Quaid-i-Azam’s 1947’s speech that they would raise voice on the soul harrowing exodus of Hindus.

For knowing the causes behind Hindus’ exodus, this scribe spoke to Balochistan based Hindu intellectual, Mr. Sham Kumar, who briefly discussed this key issue. It is given below.

According to Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, in the very commencement, Hindus were living on this land, i.e., Balochistan. After that, Balochs settled to this land, but Hindus are pioneers of this land. Besides it, Balochistan’s elders and intellectuals show great respect for Hindus.

On the other hand, in Sindh, before the arrival of Arabs, Hindus were living in Sindh with Buddhists. But after Raja Dahir’s defeat, Muslims began to settle in Sindh.

The Hindus of Balochistan, from the very beginning, are traders, shopkeepers and grafters. As a matter of fact, those who belong to these professions are always land lovers and invest their energy in the economic and social activities of the region. Similarly, Hindus have also been working for the welfare and prosperity of Balochistan from the very beginning.

Gone are the days when peace thrived in Balochistan as compared to other provinces of Pakistan. In other provinces, especially in Sindh, turmoil, uproar and kidnapping for ransom, cases were prevalent. It was 1970s, 1980s and 1990s period. While in Balochistan, this disease broke out in 1990s; because in Ex General Zia-Ul-Haq’s regime two worst tribulations got birth, the Kalashnikov culture and heroine or drug culture. Unluckily, these tribulations were spreading slowly and gradually. Later on, cases of Kidnapping for ransom also began to exist in which Hindus would be targeted. Then the disease converted into cancer in Ex General Parvez Musharraf and President Asif Ali Zardari’s regime.

Moreover, slowly and gradually some other diseases got birth, these diseases are: Kidnapping for ransom, targeted killing, ethnic and sectarian violence, missing persons’ cases, throwing of decomposed bodies and extortion, etc. Accordingly, Hindus are being victimized for kidnapping for ransom and threatened to give money, or they get killed when they show little resistance in this regard.

In addition, the cases of Hindus being converted forcibly are increasing day by day in Sindh and Balochistan. They especially convert immature and mature Hindu girls’ religion.

In these inhuman crimes, administration, judiciary and other government institutions seem to be helpless. It is also to be claimed that establishment is involved in these illegal, unethical, unconstitutional and non-religious affairs.

Keeping in view the above mentioned compulsions, Balochistan’s peaceful Hindus are feeling themselves “undesirable and unwanted” on their own land. Also, they are being given indication in undeclared words to leave their mother land and get lost, otherwise, their business, life, and property will be devastated.

Due to these reasons, after knocking the doors of all higher authorities, so far nothing has happened. That is why in present 21^st century, Hindus are running from pillar to post to find a safe place to settle.

Hindus’ exodus, before me, is like the exodus of Hazrat Musa’s nation, which is mentioned in the Old Testament of Bible. In Hitler’s regime, Jews were forced to leave Germany, so Hindus’ exodus seems like that as well.

Lastly, I extend my humble request to the U.N.O, Amnesty International and International Court of Justice to intervene in this key issue so that this peaceful minority’s exodus may stop.

(Courtesy to: Daily Balochistan Express Quetta)

http://akbarnotezai.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/the-exodus-of-hindus/

How the Taliban Turned Against Pakistan's Right-Wing Journalists

Pakistan has announced a reward of 50 million rupees (approximately $520,000) for anyone with information about people involved in a failed plot to assassinate a renowned television journalist last week in Islamabad, the nation's capital.

Geo Television, Pakistan's first 24/7 private news channel, said Hamid Mir, the host of popular talk-show Capital Talk was the prime target of a car bomb plot. The attackers had fixed a bag with a half kilogram of explosive material below the senior journalist's car seat, which was immediately removed by the bomb disposal squad after Mr. Mir's neighbors spotted the suspicious bag.

The Pakistani Taliban have accepted responsibility for attempting to kill Mr. Mir, saying that they have some other journalists on their 'hit-list.' The Taliban spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, did notdisclose the names of other journalists his group intends to target in the future.

According to Pakistani newspaper the Express Tribune, "Mir was on his way to his office and the bomb was apparently planted when he stopped at a market."

Mr. Mir, who has worked with Pakistan's largest media conglomerate, the Jang Group, for several years as a talk-show host and a columnist, has recently been publicizing the death threats he has been receiving, presumably from the Pakistani Taliban.

On December 20, 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published the details of the warnings Mr. Mir had received but, at the same time, acknowledged the grim reality that "Pakistan's journalists cannot rely on the government for their own protection, and the threats at times even seem to come from the government." The CPJ, nonetheless, admired Mr. Mir's courage to speak in public by describing his immediate response as "a textbook case of how to handle the steady stream of intimidation that journalists face."

In a column published in the Urdu language Daily Jang on October 18, 2012, Mr. Mir once again informed his readers that he had received a fresh seven-page long letter from the Pakistani Taliban entailing death threats. Publicly confronting the Taliban, the senior journalist wrote, "as far as death threats are concerned, you [Taliban] are not more powerful than General Pervez Musharraf. We were not afraid of him nor can you intimidate us. You can kill me but cannot suppress my voice."

While I have extensively written about the issues of press freedom, censorship and deadly attackson journalists in Pakistan, Mr. Mir's case, on its part, merits special attention because it reflects the new dynamics of a worsening relationship between the Pakistani State, the press and the non-state actors.

The military has historically pampered the clergy and sections of the media to consolidate its grip over political power and promote the pan-Islamic and anti-India socio-political philosophy. While doing so, the military patronized Islamic groups, such as the Taliban, and members of the media. Over the past decade, the balance of power has drastically shifted in Pakistan where the Taliban and the media have not only emerged as strong centers of power but they have also significantly minimized sole reliance on the military for their survival.

Hence, gone are the days when the Pakistani military micro-managed the clergy and the media. But it also does not mean that the latter have fully divorced the powerful military. What is different this time is the uncompromising desire of each of these entities to remain fiercely independent without necessarily endorsing and blindly following the policies of other power centers.

That said, the military, the media and the Taliban are all in a state of cold war with each other. They have not broken up ideologically. They still share the same pan-Islamic and anti-India, anti-U.S.A. vision. What they are unwilling to do is to work together in an old fashion. They believe it is the time to gain more power instead of sharing it.

In the past ten years, since the liberalization of the media in Pakistan, journalists have increasingly become popular, powerful and partisan.

Mr. Mir is one such victim of Pakistan's changing political and security landscape. Now, the old trick to remain closely associated with one power center in order to stay safe does not seem to be working well for journalists. For instance, Syed Saleem Shahzad of the Asia Times, who was murdered last year, was believed to have very close contacts within his country's military. When, Mr. Shahzad crossed the 'red lines,' as they are unofficially defined by the military, and went on to expose al Qaeda's penetration inside the army, the reporter was immediately killed and the army was suspected of orchestrating the gory murder.

Mr. Mir, who escaped Monday's plot, is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. While his old allies, the army and the Taliban, seem to have detached him, the Pakistani liberals no longer sympathize with him, either, because Mr. Mir, a die-hard right-wing journalist, calls them all "liberal fascists."

Mr. Mir has remained such an avid admirer of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and regularly refers to him him as "Sheik" [a respected elder] out of respect in his columns. On May 5, 2011, he glorifiedthe world's most wanted terrorist as a 'smiling man' who had ended up as "truthful" after being killed by the United States.

"The Abbottabad Operation has given al Qaeda one such martyr that even the world's strongest army was scared of his dead body. The level of fear [of bin Laden among the American soldiers] was so high that they did not have the courage to bury his dead body anywhere in the world... bin Laden's killing is not the victory of the Americans; it was their defeat," he wrote.

In another column, on October 18, 2012, Mr. Mir recalled his meetings with the al Qaeda chief and insisted that the Taliban should learn to respect women the way "Sheik Osama" did.

Some of Mr. Mir's recent articles depict him as more of a right-wing provocateur than a professional journalist. Besides his praise of bin Laden, Mr. Mir's glorification of those who kill fellow citizens in Pakistan under the infamous blasphemy law is also deeply disconcerting.

While writing in Daily Jang on November 1, 2012, Mr. Mir opposed the supporters of a secular Pakistan because, according to him, a secular state does not protect zealot Muslims who kill the people that commit blasphemy against Islam. Citing and glorifying at least two instances when Muslim extremists killed alleged 'blasphemers,' Mr. Mir described one such Muslim zealot, Ghazi Ilm-ud-din (1908-1929), as a "martyr," indicating that Pakistan should retain its current blasphemy laws.

Furthermore, Mr. Mir regularly uses his editorial space in support of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists who was sentenced to 86 years by a Manhattan judge in September 2010 for shooting at U.S. agents.

"I feel as much sorry for my sister [Afia Siddiqui] as a brother does for his sister," he wrote in his October 18, 2012, column, "it is this reason when [C.I.A. contractor] Raymond Davis was arrested, I suggested that Dr. Afia should be released in return of Davis' handover to the United States." On November 15, 2012, he alleged that Pakistani "liberal fascists" were portraying 'C.I.A.'s lies" against "that oppressed woman" because... in the first place, they don't like her for the headscarf she wears." On November 8, Mir expressed his displeasure over President Obama's reelection for the same reason.

"I am not happy over Obama's election," he wrote, "because I am sad over the rejection of Dr. Afia's appeal [in the court]... as long as Dr. Afia remains in the American custody, spending billions of aid in Pakistan will not help to improve America's image in Pakistan."

It is important for the Pakistani government to take quick measures to ensure the safety of Mr. Mir and all other journalists in the world's most dangerous place for reporters. This case raises the fundamental question of whether or not journalists should publicly eulogize and glorify people who either call for violence against humanity or have been convicted of having links with terrorist groups. The other crucial question is how journalists should draw a line between journalism and activism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malik-siraj-akbar/how-the-taliban-turned-against_b_2195549.html

Birgitta shot in Pakistan

A gunman on a motorcycle shot and severely wounded an elderly Swedish woman who worked at a church in eastern Pakistan on Monday, officials said.
The woman, who was identified by Pakistani police as Bargetta Emmi, was getting out of her car in front of her home in the city of Lahore when she was shot in the neck by an unknown assailant. 

http://www.gp.se/gptv?path=gptv.abcdn.net/TV-ARKIV/Varlden&playfile=18870_Birgitta_skjuten_i_Pakistan_138575.pls&autostart=1#abPlayer_main_1354697215907

http://www.gp.se/nyheter/varlden/1.1153026-ud-personal-besoker-skjutna-svenskan

http://au.christiantoday.com/article/swedish-christian-worker-shot-in-pakistan/14569.htm

http://www.thelocal.se/44826/20121203/#.UL8MnOTAedA