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Wednesday 8 April 2009

"Talibans would take their war to Islamabad and the day is not far when the capital will be in the hands of Talibans"-- Claims Mullah Nazeer



Pakistani Taliban said moving closer to capital


MINGORA: Pakistani Taliban are moving into a new area in northern Pakistan, clashing with villagers and police in a mountain valley, police and district officials said on Wednesday.
Separately, a Pakistani Taliban commander said the Pakistani military and the United States were colluding in US drone aircraft attacks and the militants would take their war to the capital, Islamabad, in response.


Surging militant violence across Pakistan is reviving western concerns about the stability of its nuclear-armed ally.Pakistan is crucial to US efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, were in Pakistan for talks on security strategy this week.


In a development that will deepen the west's concerns, scores of Taliban have moved into Buner district, 100 km northwest of Islamabad, from the Swat valley where authorities struck a peace pact in February aimed at ending violence.
‘About 20 vehicles carrying Taliban entered Buner on Monday and started moving around the bazaar and streets,’ said senior police officer Israr Bacha.
Villagers formed a militia, known as a lashkar, to confront the Taliban and eight of the insurgents were killed in a clash on Tuesday, police said. Two villagers and three policemen were also killed. ‘People don't like the Taliban,’ Ghulam Mustafa, deputy chief of Buner, told Reuters by telephone.
Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman in Swat, was defiant. ‘What law stops us going there?’ Khan said. ‘Our people will go there and stay there as long as they want.’



MISLEADING


Authorities agreed in February to impose Islamic law in Swat to end more than a year of fighting.
Critics said appeasement would only embolden the militants to take over other areas.
Pakistan's western allies fear such pacts create safe havens for Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.

Pakistani Taliban commander Mullah Nazeer Ahmed said in an interview with al Qaeda's media arm, Al-Sahab, that Pakistan was behind US drone attacks on militants.Authorities were misleading the public by saying it was the United States carrying out the strikes, he said, and it was the Pakistani army that sent spies to facilitate them.
‘All these attacks that have happened and are still happening are the work of Pakistan,’ Ahmed said, according to a transcript of the interview posted on Al-Sahab's website.
Alarmed by deteriorating security in Afghanistan, the United States has since last year stepped up drone strikes in Pakistan.
Pakistan objects to the strikes, calling them a violation of its sovereignty that complicates its effort to fight militancy.
Other Taliban commanders said recent violence in Pakistan has been in retaliation for the drone attacks and threatened more.
Ahmed said Pakistani Taliban factions had united and would take their war to the capital: ‘The day is not far when Islamabad will be in the hands of the mujahideen.’
Ahmed also blamed the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency for sowing divisions between factions, saying the ISI was the Taliban's main enemy.
Some US officials have said recently the ISI maintained contacts with militants and there were indications ISI elements even provided support to the Taliban or al Qaeda militants.
Such accusations have angered Pakistan, although a military spokesman denied reports that ISI chief Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha had snubbed Holbrooke and Mullen by refusing to meet them on Tuesday.



Source: Daily Dawn



http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/pakistani-taliban-said-moving-closer-to-capital--qs





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Taliban will soon capture Islamabad, says Mullah Nazeer


MINGORA: Pakistani Taliban commander Mullah Nazeer Ahmed said in an interview with Al Qaeda’s media arm, Al-Sahab, that the Taliban would soon capture Islamabad.Pakistani Taliban factions had united and would take their war to the capital, he said.“The day is not far when Islamabad will be in the hands of the mujahideen.”He accused the Pakistan Army of sending spies to facilitate US drone strikes against Al Qaeda and Taliban, and said Pakistani authorities were misleading the public by saying it was the United States carrying out the attacks.“All these attacks that have happened and are still happening are the work of Pakistan,” he said, according to a transcript of the interview posted on Al-Sahab’s website.Alarmed by deteriorating security in Afghanistan, the United States has since last year stepped up drone strikes in Pakistan. Pakistan objects to the strikes, calling them a violation of its sovereignty.Mullah Nazeer Ahmed also blamed the Pakistani military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency for sowing divisions between factions, saying the ISI was the Taliban’s main enemy.


Daily Times: 9th April, 09


http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\09\story_9-4-2009_pg1_8



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طالبان کا بونیر خالی کرنے سے انکار
عبدالحئی کاکڑ
بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، پشاور


صوبہ سرحد کےضلع بونیر میں ایک طالبان پولیس اہلکار کی لاش کے قریب کھڑا ہے

صوبہ سرحد کے ضلع بونیر میں مقامی لشکر اور سوات کے طالبان کے درمیان مذاکرت کا ایک اور دور شروع ہو گیا ہے۔
طالبان کے ترجمان مسلم خان نے کہا ہے کہ طالبان بونیر سے نہیں جائیں گے اور کوئی انہیں وہاں سے نکال نہیں سکتا۔ حاجی مسلم خان نے کہا ’ ہم پاکستان کے کسی علاقے میں بھی جا سکتے ہیں۔‘
پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ پیر کے روز سوات سے آئے ہوئے طالبان اور مقامی لشکر کے درمیان ہونے والی جھڑپ کے بعد پیر اور منگل کو فریقین کے درمیان مذاکرات میں کسی قسم کی کوئی پیشرفت نہیں ہوسکی ہے۔ ان کے بقول مذاکرات میں سوات کے طالبان کے نمائندوں نے واپس جانے سے انکار کردیا ہے۔
ان کے بقول ان کا کہنا ہے کہ وہ ضلع بونیر میں قاضی عدالتوں کے قیام اور نگرانی کرنے کے لیے آئے ہیں جبکہ مقامی لوگوں کا مؤقف ہے کہ یہ کام حکومت خود کرسکتی ہے جس سے ان کی حمایت بھی حاصل ہوگی۔
حکام کا کہنا ہے کہ طالبان نے تین پولیس اہلکاروں اور دو رضا کاروں کی لاشیں دو دن کے بعد بدھ کو حوالے کردی ہیں۔ ان کے مطابق طالبان نے شرط عائد کردی تھی کہ لاشوں کو وصول کرنے کے لیےصرف ایک گاڑی بھیجی جائے جس میں صرف ڈرائیور سوار ہو۔
مقامی لوگوں کا کہنا ہے کہ سوات کے طالبان اور مقامی لشکر کےدرمیان کشیدگی بدستور برقرار ہے۔ طالبان نے سوات اور بونیر کو ملانے والے پہاڑی سلسلے کے کئی مقامات پر مورچے سنبھالے ہوئے ہیں جبکہ مقامی لشکر کے درجنوں مسلح رضا کار نیچے اپنے اپنے گاؤں میں پہرے دینے میں مصروف ہیں۔
فریقین کے درمیان مذاکرات کے پہلے دور کی ناکامی کے بعد شانگلہ سے ایک مشہور عالم دین مولوی کابل گرامہ بونیر پہنچ چکے ہیں جو بات چیت کو کامیاب بنانے کی کوشش کریں گے۔
یاد رہے کہ بونیر کے عوام اور سوات کے طالبان کے درمیان پہلے سے ہی اختلافات چلے آ رہے ہیں اور فریقین کے درمیان کئی مسلح جھڑپیں ہوئی ہیں۔ پچھلےسال بونیر میں قومی اسمبلی کے ضمنی انتخابات کے موقع پرطالبان نےشل بانڈئی میں پولنگ اسٹیشن پر مبینہ خودکش حملہ کیا جس میں تقریباً چالیس سے زائد افراد ہلاک ہوئے تھے۔
سوات میں امن معاہدے کے بعد یہ پہلی مرتبہ ہے کہ سوات کے طالبان مسلح صورت میں کسی دوسرے ضلع میں داخل ہوئے ہیں۔ مبصرین کا کہنا ہے کہ اس سے بعض حلقوں کے یہ خدشات تقریباً درست ثابت ہو رہے ہیں کہ امن معاہدے کے بعد طالبان دوبارہ منظم ہوکر دیگر علاقوں میں پھیل سکتے ہیں۔

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2009/04/090408_bunair_taliban_rh.shtml

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