Shia holocaust in Pakistan: Taliban raze entire village to the ground in Hangu

Why is the Pakistani media silent? Why are pro-Taliban fascists such as Hamid Mir, Shahid Masood, Javed Chaudhry and Ansar Abbasi silent? Where are Imran Khan, Munawar Hassan, Aslam Beg, Hamid Gul and the likes?

Is it something less important than the NRO or Kerry-Lugar Bill?

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

("First they came ..." is a popular poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.)

Village razed to the ground in Hangu

By Abdul Sami Paracha
Monday, 02 Nov, 2009 (Dawn)

KOHAT, Nov 1: Militants razed a whole village to the ground in Shahu Khel area by conducting a series of blasts on the third consecutive night in Hangu district on Saturday.

The village had roughly 100 houses and families belonging to a rival sect had been migrating after the Taliban started target killings and kidnappings a few months ago.

The TTP is in complete control of Shahu Khel and its militants started blowing up houses after security forces and police started operations against them and eliminated some of their important training camps and hideouts. They had planted 40 bombs and blown up as many houses on Saturday night. Earlier, they had destroyed two schools, an Imambargah, two houses and a basic health unit on Friday night.

Blasts continued since Saturday night and by Sunday the entire village was razed to the ground. No casualties were reported from the area as the entire village was empty after the migration of the entire population to safer places.

Leaders of the Qaumi Wahdat Council have been urging the government to improve its writ in Shahu Khel so that the people displaced by the Taliban could return to their village.

Security forces have often used artillery fire to stop the Taliban from blowing up houses, but with little success.

It is the same area where a renowned cleric and office-bearer of JUI-F, Maulana Muhammad Amin, was killed in an air strike in his Jamia Yousufia seminary in June last year.

At least 13 people, including children, eight women and prominent religious leaders, were killed and several injured in shelling by helicopter gunships in Hangu.

Maulana Muhammad Amin, whose 12-year-old nephew was also killed in the air strike, was also the deputy chairman of Sunni Supreme Council. During shelling at another seminary in Shahu Khel, three women were killed when a house was hit by helicopter gunships.

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Pakistan (establishment) willing to tolerate a level of anti-Shia violence if it does not bother the government.

Foretold death in Kohat-Hangu

Sectarian violence has been brewing in the NWFP for a long time. Now it has delivered a savage blow to the security of the province. On the holy last Friday of Ramazan, a suicide vehicle destroyed an entire market on the Kohat-Hangu Road and killed 33 people. Needless to say, the shops were mostly Shia-owned and those who died were Shia too. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has added “al-Alami” to its name and owned the attack.

Pakistan lost the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to the Taliban as a result of its “strategic depth” doctrine during the 1990s. The NWFP lost its normally administered areas like Kohat, Hangu and Dera Ismail Khan to the Taliban spill-over from FATA. The sharp edge of conflict in these areas was provided by the sectarian organisation brought into existence by the state in 1985 in Jhang in Punjab: Sipah-e-Sahaba.

Despite the fact that the area contained an important cantonment and an air base, it was handed over to the sectarian terrorists on a platter. The state was willing to tolerate a level of anti-Shia violence if it didn’t bother the government. Centuries of coexistence between the Sunni and Shia communities was thus sacrificed. Onwards from Kohat-Hangu, the tribal agency of Kurram is lost to Pakistan in consequence of this policy of offering the Shia as sacrificial lambs to the Taliban.

Both Kohat and Hangu have mixed Shia-Sunni populations. Several villages that dot the Kohat-Hangu road are alternately Shia and Sunni. If a tension of power maintained the order of peace between the two in the past, it has now been broken by “outsiders”. The Hangu valley is literally watched over by the Orakzai Agency where the Shia-Sunni violence became endemic after the Taliban became strong there. The killers come from Orakzai where warlords have arisen to fame because they kill the Shia as far as Parachinar in Kurram.

Pakistan’s pride over ousting the Soviet Union from Afghanistan has to be qualified in the light of the price that was paid for it. In the 1980s, Afghan refugee camps were established on the main road from Kohat to Darra Adam Khel, close to new Kohat Town. There are two Afghan refugee camps on Darra Adam Khel Road, one on Hangu Road, and one in Sheikhan village and another on Rawalpindi Road. New madrassas were allowed to be built near these camps. Deobandi madrassas gained the upper hand; the old Barelvi madrassas languished inside in the city. The new madrassas continue to be dominated by students from FATA and Afghanistan.

Sectarian personalities like one well known lawyer arose to fame from Kohat. Known as the scourge of the Shia, the man openly declared war against them and Iran while the state watched. He was known as the “Al Qaeda lawyer” because he defended the Arab warriors in trials against them in Pakistan. He was one of the many violent patrons of the Lal Masjid in Islamabad and continues to be a strongman in the Kohat-Hangu area, reportedly guiding the administration.

The Shia festival of Nauruz of 21 March has been forcibly stopped. The Al Quds Day on the last Friday of Ramazan ordained for the Shia by Imam Khomeini — and observed as well by the Sunnis of the world — should have brought the two communities together but the extremists have not let that happen. And one big Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader is reportedly about to be let off from a court in Multan because he is too powerful to be kept in the death cell.

If the NWFP has lost its entire territory lying on the road to Kurram, the federal government has lost the territory of Kurram to the blood-thirsty Taliban led by warlords Hakimullah Mehsud, Qari Hussain and their lower-echelon commanders. The Shias of Parachinar returning to Kurram can no longer reach their home through Pakistan. They have to land in Afghanistan and then make their way home through high passes. The new practice is that the Taliban catch them on the border in Paktia and behead them.

The battle against the Taliban is clearly laid out; the battle against sectarian terror is less coherent. Populations have already retreated into ghettos in Quetta, Dera Ismail Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Bhakkar (Punjab), Gilgit, Kohat-Hangu, and Parachinar, and are waiting for the state of Pakistan to rise from its “writ-less” slumber to come to their rescue. When will that happen? (Daily Times)

Kohat attack

Dawn Editorial
Sunday, 20 Sep, 2009

Pakistani villagers load the body of a victim killed in a suicide bombing in Kohat, 65 kilometers (40 milies) from Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 into a vehicle. The suicide car bomb destroyed a two-story hotel and several shops. -Photo by AP

PAKISTAN

Kohat blast death toll rises to 40

YET more carnage has visited Kohat district where a suicide bomber killed at least 40 people in a bazaar on Friday. The victims were mostly Shia. Meanwhile in Hangu district, which borders Orakzai and Kohat, the district nazim and head of an aman committee trying to broker peace between Sunnis and Shias was also killed on Friday. Together the attacks are another grim marker in the long-running feud between militant Sunnis and Shias in the area. But there is more. A hitherto unknown faction of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Al Almi, has claimed responsibility for the bombing in Kohat and, perhaps unsurprisingly to knowledgeable observers, the call was placed from a public call office in North Waziristan. The caller apparently spoke fluent Urdu, adding weight to the argument that the Waziristan agencies have become a haven for militants from south Punjab. So what we appear to have are sectarian attacks being launched inside Pakistan from a base in the tribal belt by groups that are not indigenous to those areas.

Which raises the question, is the state’s strategy — or what is known of that strategy — against militancy in Waziristan on the right course? At the moment, it appears the state is making two demands of the Waziristan tribes: root out the foreigners and Al Qaeda types living in their midst and stop their fellow tribesmen from attacking targets, particularly sec- urity targets, inside Pak- istan. But it is increasingly clear that the south Punjab militant nexus is a growing presence in the Waziristan agencies and that they may be providing the manpower to execute attacks on behalf of other networks in addition to continuing their own ‘jihad’ against Shias inside Pakistan. So whatever the successes against the Al Qaeda and tribal networks, and there have been significant ones, a third emerging monster appears to be escaping the state’s attention for now. That must change.

The state’s patchy record against militancy has certainly improved over the last year, but there is a lingering suspicion that the state only acts when a crisis has peaked and its effects become unbearable. Baitullah Mehsud, Fazlullah, the foreigners and Al Qaeda elements in Fata — each has been attacked or weakened after they had grown in strength and could project their power outside their originally small bases. We cannot afford a repeat with the south Punjab militants setting up a base in the Waziristan agencies. They must be tackled directly as well as indirectly with the help of the local tribes. And they must be tackled now, before the country is sucked into the next vortex of violence. (Dawn)

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Taliban cum sectarian terrorists kill the district mayor (Nazim) of Hangu in Etekaf

'Anti-sectarian violence' Pakistani official killed

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:11:06 GMT

The aftermath of the mosque explosion which killed Haji Khan Afzal and injured three others.

A bomb explosion at a mosque in northwest Pakistan has killed a popular official well-known for trying to curb sectarian violence in the country.

The bomb exploded on Friday night at the mosque in Wuch Bazaar near Hangu town before midnight, killing the district mayor head of the Hangu Peace Committee, Haji Khan Afzal and wounding three others, police official Gul Jamal said.

According to local media, a little known Sunni group called as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al-Almi claimed responsibility for the blast. The outfit is apparently linked to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned Sunni extremist group with ties to al-Qaeda.

The Pakistani daily the Dawn described Haji Khan Afzal as “a popular leader [who] enjoyed immense respect in religious and political circles because of his role in negotiating and maintaining peace between Shia and Sunni sects.”

Recent incidents in northwest Pakistan come after a string of sectarian attacks on Shia Muslims in the recent months which undermined the already deteriorating security of the violence-torn country.

The Taliban-linked Wahhabi groups in Parachinar, Hangu District and much of the Kurram tribal agency have mounted a series of violent attacks against the region's Shia Muslims.

In the latest series of such incidents a suicide bomber blew up an explosives-laden car on Friday at a market in a Shia dominated town on the outskirts of Kohat town in the village of Usterzai in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and injuring 70 others.

Some local sources say more than 2,000 Shia community members have been killed in the region since 2007.

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Hangu district nazim killed in bombing

By Our Correspondent
Saturday, 19 Sep, 2009

Haji Khan Afzal was killed and three other people were injured when a bomb exploded in a mosque in Wuch bazaar.—Reuters/File

KOHAT: District Nazim and head of the Hangu Peace Committee, Haji Khan Afzal, was killed and three other people were injured when a bomb exploded in a mosque in Wuch bazaar on Friday night.

Haji Afzal, who was in etekaf in the mosque, was standing near the gate when the bomb was detonated by remote control. He was injured seriously and taken to hospital where he succumbed to the injuries.

Hangu which has suffered severe sectarian clashes since 1998 was again in grip of fear and tension.

Haji Afzal was a popular leader and enjoyed immense respect in religious and political circles because of his role in negotiating and maintaining peace between Shia and Sunni sects.

He headed several peace jirgas and complained that the government was not making serious efforts to defuse sectarian tension in Orakzai and Kurram agencies and Hangu district.

He was among a few leaders who enjoyed widespread respect.

He played an important role in freeing government employees and other people kidnapped by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan during and after clashes with security forces in Doaba area last year.

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’ہنگو کے ناظم اعتکاف میں قتل‘

عبدالحئی کاکڑ

بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، پشاور

صوبہ سرحد میں اس سے پہلے بھی مساجد پر حملے ہو چکے ہیں

صوبہ سرحد میں پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ ایک حملے میں ضلع ہنگو کے ناظم حاجی خان افضل ہلاک اور ان کے تین رشتہ دار زخمی ہو گئے ہیں۔

دوسری طرف ضلع کوہاٹ میں تشدد کے دو مختلف واقعات میں ایک پولیس اہلکار سمیت چار افراد ہلاک اور تین پولیس والے زخمی ہوئے ہیں۔

ضلع ہنگو پولیس کے ترجمان فضل نعیم نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ حاجی خان افضل وچ بازار کے علاقے میں اپنے گھر کے قریب واقع مسجد میں اعتکاف میں بیٹھے ہوئے تھے۔ عشاء کی نماز کے بعد وہ وضو کرنے غسل خانے کے قریب پہنچے کہ اس دوران دھماکہ ہوا۔

پولیس کے مطابق دھماکے میں حاجی خان افضل موقع پر ہلاک جبکہ ان کے تین رشتہ دار زخمی ہوگئے جن کی حالت خطرے سے باہر بتائی جا رہی ہے۔

انہوں نے مزید کہا کہ ابھی تک ملزمان کا پتہ نہیں چلایا جاسکا ہے اور نہ ہی کسی پر شک ظاہر کیا گیا ہے۔ تاہم ان کے مطابق یہ قتل ملک میں جاری دہشت گردی کے وارداتوں کے سلسلے کی ایک کڑی ہے۔

اگر چہ ان کا اپنا تعلق سنی مسلک سے تھا مگر علاقے میں سرگرم سنی شدت پسند تنظیموں کا ان پر یہ الزام تھا کہ وہ شیعوں کے بہت قریب ہیں۔اس قسم کے الزامات کے تحت ماضی میں بھی کئی ایسی شخصیات کو قتل کیا جاچکا ہے جن میں چند ماہ قبل ہلاک ہونے والے نثار ایڈوکیٹ بھی شامل ہیں

حاجی خان افضل کا تعلق جمعیت علماء اسلام( ف) سے تھا اور انہوں نے دو مرتبہ صوبائی اسمبلی کے انتخابات بھی لڑے ہیں جس میں وہ کامیاب نہیں ہوسکے تھے۔ وہ تقریباً ڈیڑھ سال سے ضلع ہنگو کے ناظم تھے۔

انہوں نے پشاور کے مشہور تاریخی اسلامیہ کالج سے اس وقت گریجویشن کی تھی جن دنوں میں صوبہ سرحد کے دور دراز کے علاقوں کےبہت ہی کم لوگ اس کالج میں تعلیم حاصل کرنے کے لیے آتے تھے۔

وہ علاقے کے انتہائی متحرک سیاسی شخصیت تھے اور فرقہ ورانہ فسادات اور قبائلی جھگڑوں میں صلح کرنے والے جرگوں میں پیش پیش رہتے تھے۔

اگر چہ ان کا اپنا تعلق سنی مسلک سے تھا مگر علاقے میں سرگرم سنی شدت پسند تنظیموں کا ان پر یہ الزام تھا کہ وہ شیعوں کے بہت قریب ہیں۔اس قسم کے الزامات کے تحت ماضی میں بھی کئی ایسی شخصیات کو قتل کیا جاچکا ہے جن میں چند ماہ قبل ہلاک ہونے والے نثار ایڈوکیٹ بھی شامل ہیں

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Talibans publicly execute couple in Hangu !!! Is this a conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan too ???

Maulvi Imran Khan, Munawwar Hassan, Gen Hameed Gul, Federal Interior Sect. Kamal Shah and yellow journalists Ansaar Abbasi, Shahid Masood, Javed Chaudhry, and Hamid Mir please tell us
Is this video also fake ?
Is this again a conspiracy to defame Islam and Pakistan ?
Aren't RAW, CIA, MOSSAD and enemies of Islam behind this conspiracy ?

Video shows killing of man and woman

KOHAT, April 17: A video footage sent by some unidentified people to Dawn on Friday shows Taliban firing squad killing a man and a woman after accusing them of having committed adultery.
The two, who appeared to be in their 40s, were gunned down in the presence of their relatives. According to sources the incident took place in Hangu district a few days ago.
In the video, the woman is heard appealing to the Taliban for mercy. “Have mercy on me, please have mercy, the charges against me are false and no man has ever touched me.” Taliban first pump bullets into woman’s chest and then fire a burst from Kalashnikovs at her and the man. As the woman appeared to be breathing, some Taliban are heard shouting, “she is alive, kill her”. —

Daily Dawn ---- 18th April, 09

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Daily Express ---- 19th April, 09


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جوڑے کو ہلاک کرنے کی ویڈیو
عبدالحئی کاکڑ

صوبہ سرحد کے ضلع سوات میں ایک لڑکی کو سرعام کوڑے مارنے کی ویڈیو کے منظر عام پر آنے کے بعد اب ضلع ہنگو میں بھی ایک ایسی ویڈیو سامنے آئی ہے جس میں ایک ایسے جوڑے کو سرعام گولیاں مار تے ہوئے دکھایا گیا ہے جس پر مبینہ طور پر’جنسی تعلقات‘ رکھنے کا الزام لگایا گیا ہے۔
جائے وقوعہ پر بنائی گئی ویڈیو ضلع ہنگو میں موبائل فون پرعام لوگوں اور مقامی صحافیوں کے پاس دستیاب ہے۔ ایک صحافی نے بتایا کہ موبائل فون سے بنائی گئی اس ویڈیو میں ایک خاتون اور مرد کو دوڑتے ہوئے دکھایا گیا ہے جنہیں پیچھے سے بعض افراد کلاشنکوف سےگولیاں مار رہے ہیں۔
ان کے بقول گولیاں مارنے کے بعد دونوں زمین پرگر پڑتے ہیں اور خاتون گولی لگنے کے بعد بھی چیختی چلاتی ہوئی کہتی ہے’مجھ پر رحم کرو، میرے خلاف الزامات بے بنیا ہیں، کسی بھی مردنے مجھے چھوا تک نہیں ہے‘۔
ویڈیو میں دکھایا گیا ہے کہ خاتون زمین پر لیٹی تڑپ رہی ہے جبکہ اس دوران وہاں پر مجمع سے ایسی آوازیں آتی ہیں کہ’ وہ ابھی تک زندہ ہے، مار دو گولی‘۔
مقامی لوگوں کا کہنا ہے کہ یہ واقعہ تیرہ جنوری کو ضلع ہنگو سے تقریباً بیس کلومیٹر دور اورکزئی ایجنسی کی سرحد پر واقع کاہی کے علاقے میں پیش آیا ہے۔
اس سلسلے میں سرکاری موقف جاننے کے لیے ہنگو کے ایس پی شیر اکبر، کاہی پولیس چوکی کے اے ایس آئی غلام رسول سے رابطہ کیا گیا مگر شیر خان کا کہنا تھا کہ انکی مارچ میں ہی ہنگو منتقلی ہوچکی ہے اس لیے انہیں واقعہ کا علم نہیں جبکہ غلام رسول نے واقعہ سنتے ہی فون بند کردیا۔
تاہم اس بابت جب کاہی کے قریب واقع توغ سرئی پولیس اسٹیشن سے رابطہ کیا گیا تو وہاں پر موجود ایک اہلکار نے واقعہ کی تصدیق کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ ان کے پاس اس کی ایف آئی آر درج ہوئی ہے۔ ان کے بقول مقتول مرد کا نام لعل منشاء ہے اور اسکے بھائی نے ایف آئی آر میں کہا ہے کہ کسی نے انہیں ان کے بھائی کی قتل کی اطلاع دی اور جب وہ جائے وقوعہ پر پہنچے تو انہوں نے اپنے بھائی اور ایک خاتون کی لاشیں دیکھی۔
ان کے مطابق مقتول کے بھائی نے ایف آئی آر میں کسی کو بھی نامزد نہیں کیا ہے البتہ کہا ہے کہ جب بھی انہیں کسی پر شک ہوگا وہ پولیس اسٹیشن آکر ایف آئی آر میں نام شامل کردیں گے لیکن تقریباً تین ماہ گزرنے کے باوجود بھی وہ ملزمان کی نامزدگی کرانے نہیں آئے ۔انہوں نے مزید کہا کہ اس کیس کے تفتیشی آفسر بختیار خان ہیں لیکن جب ان سے فون پر رابطہ کیا گیا تو ان کا فون بند آرہا تھا۔
تاہم ہنگو پولیس کے ایک اور تفتیشی آفسر نے نام ظاہر نہ کرنے کی شرط پر بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ تیرہ جنوری کو کاہی علاقے کے قبائلی مشران اور تقریباً سو عام لوگوں کی موجودگی میں ایک چالیس سالہ خاتون ملیاز بی بی اور پینتالیس سالہ لعل منشاء کو قتل کردیا گیا۔
ان کے مطابق دونوں پر الزام تھا کہ ان کے مبینہ طور پر ’ناجائز تعلقات ہیں‘ لہذا دونوں کو اپنے اپنے رشتہ داروں کے ہاتھوں سرِ عام قتل کردیا گیا۔
یاد رہے کہ صوبہ سرحد میں گزشتہ کچھ عرصے کے دوران اپنی نوعیت کی یہ دوسری ایسی ویڈیو سامنے آئی ہے جس میں خواتین کو سرعام سزائیں دیتے ہوئے دکھایا گیا ہے۔اس سے قبل سوات میں ایک لڑکی کو کوڑوں کی سزا دینے والی ایک ویڈ یو منظر عام پر آئی تھی جس پر پاکستان میں سول سوسائٹی اور بعض سیاسی جماعتوں نے غم و غصے کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے احتجاجی مظاہرے منعقد کیے تھے۔
بعد میں چیف جسٹس افتخار محمد چودھری نے اس واقعہ کا از خود نوٹس لیا تھا ۔ کیس کی سماعت کے موقع پر صوبہ سرحد کی حکومت نے ویڈیو کو جعلی قراردیا تھا تاہم عدالت نے صوبائی حکومت کی تفتیشی رپورٹ کو رد کرتے ہوئے سماعت پندرہ دن کے لیے ملتوی کردی تھی۔

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2009/04/090418_couple_killed_nj.shtml

Also Read:
http://letusbuildpakistan.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-rules-orakzai-agency-talibans-or.html

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Pakistani bloggers' blackout on Shia killings...

While Pakistani media, politicians, civil society and most of the bloggers remain focused on the Long March, political battlefield in Punjab and perhaps certain other regions such as Gaza and Kashmir, the plight of Shias of Pakistan remains grossly ignored.



While blogging is an alternative, powerful media, I wonder why is the dominant majority of Pakistani bloggers silent on Shia killings in Pakistan at the hands of the Taliban and their allied network of sectarian and jihadi organizations.



While we spend hours and hours on discussing or contemplating the Long March, marks of Farah Dogar, attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team etc, what about the thousands of Shias who have been ruthlessly massacred by the Taliban in the last few years through numerous attacks on mosques, Imambargahs, funerals, houses, school vans, muharram processions, political meetings, jirgahs etc.

Kohat, Hangu, D.I.Khan, Quetta, Parachinar. Why are these regions and events happening in these regions not worthy of our attention?



This post is dedicated to the 4 unfortunate Shia children who were kidnapped by the Taliban on 27 February 2009.


Hangu abducted students couldn’t be recovered

HANGU: The situation in the district here remained heated and tense, following the abduction of the students and firing on the school van on 27 Feb 2009...

ہنگو کے مغوی بچوں کا پتہ نہیں

دلاورخان وزیر بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، پشاور

	بچوں کی بازیابی کے لیے سکیورٹی فورسز کوشش میں لگی ہیں

صوبہ سرحد کے ضلع ہنگو میں بارہ دن پہلے سکول بس سے اغواء ہونے والے چار بچوں کو تاحال بازایاب نہیں کرایا جاسکا۔ پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ بچوں کی بحفاظت بازیابی کے لیے قومی سطح پر کوششیں جاری ہیں۔

سکیورٹی فورسز کے مطابق قبائلی عمائدین اور علماء کا ایک جرگہ دن رات اس کوشش میں مصروف ہے لیکن ابھی تک جرگے کو ناکامی کا سامنا ہے۔

پولیس کے ایک افسر سعید خان نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ ستائیس فروری دو ہزار نو کو ایک سکول کی بس پر شہر کے قریب حملہ کر کے سکول کے چار بچوں کو اغوا، ڈرائیور کو ہلاک اور دو بچوں کو زخمی کردیاگیا تھا۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ اغواء ہونے والے سکول کے بچے تاحال بازیاب نہیں ہوئے ہیں۔

ان کا کہنا تھا کہ بچوں کی بازیابی کے لیے قومی سطح پر کوششیں جاری ہیں جس کے لیےمقامی عمائدین اور علماء پر مشتمل ایک جرگہ دن رات اس کوشش میں ہے کہ وہ اغواء کاروں کا سراغ لگایا سکے لیکن ابھی تک جرگہ کی کوششیں ناکام دکھائی دیتی ہیں۔

ابھی تک نہ حکومت نے کوئی ٹھوس قدم اٹھایا ہے نہ میڈیا نے اس پر توجہ دی ہے۔ بس پہلے دن کے خبر کے بعد خاموشی ہے۔ بس اللہ سے دعگا مانگتے ہیں۔غریبوں کا اللہ کے سوا کوئی نہیں ہے۔ مغوی بچے کے والد ریاست علی

پولیس افسر کے مطابق تاحال یہ بھی معلوم نہیں کہ بچے کس کے پاس ہیں اور کسی نے اس واقعہ کی ابھی تک ذمہ داری قبول نہیں کی ہے۔ پولیس کے مطابق بچوں کے اغواء کے بعد علاقے میں سخت کشیدگی پائی جاتی ہے۔ پولیس نے سکولوں کے قریب اور سڑکوں پرگشتی ٹیموں میں اضافہ کردیا ہے۔

سترہ سالہ طلب علم سیّد حلیم شاہ بھی اغواء ہونے والوں میں شامل ہیں۔ان کے والد سید ریاست علی شاہ نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ بچوں کے اغواء کے بعد سے وہ حیران و پریشان بیھٹے رہتے ہیں۔ان کے دو بیٹے اور ایک بیٹی ہے۔

ایک بیٹا اغواء ہوا ہے دوسرا گھر میں ہے جب وہ شام کو اپنے گھر پہنچتے ہیں تو بچوں کا سامنا نہیں کرسکتے۔انہوں نے کہا کہ ان کے بیٹے کے اغوا سے پہلے جب وہ گھر جاتے تھے تو بچے ان سے پیار کے لیے آگے آتے تھے۔اب جب وہ گھر پہنچتے ہیں تو بچے رونے لگ جاتے ہیں جس کی وجہ سے پورے گھر والوں کو پریشانی کا سامنا ہے۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ وہ پولیس کی کاروائی سے مطمئین نہیں ہیں اور پولیس ان کی بات سننے کے لیے بھی تیار نہیں ہے۔ ریاست علی شاہ کے مطابق جرگے کی کوششیں بھی مؤثر نہیں کیونکہ علاقے کے ہر ایک باشندے کو پتہ ہے کہ بچوں کو ہنگو کے طالبان نے اغواء کیا ہے اور بعد میں اورکزئی ایجنسی منتقل کردیا ہے۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ بچوں کے اغواء کے بارہ دن پورے ہوگئے ہیں۔’پتہ نہیں کہ ان کے علاقے میں اس کے بعد سے لوگوں پر کیا گزر رہی ہے لیکن ابھی تک نہ حکومت نے کوئی ٹھوس قدم اٹھایا ہے نہ میڈیا نے اس پر توجہ دی ہے۔ بس پہلے دن کی خبر کے بعد خاموشی ہے۔ بس اللہ سے دعا مانگتے ہیں‘۔

یاد رہے کہ ستائیس فروری دو ہزار نو کو بروز جمعہ ضلع ہنگو کے علاقے میروباک میں نامعلوم افراد نے سکول کی بس پرحملہ کیا تھا جس میں ڈرائیور ہلاک جبکہ دو بچے زخمی ہوگئے تھے۔اس کے بعد فائرنگ کرنے والوں نے چار بچوں کو اغواء کیا اور انہیں نامعلوم مقام کی طرف لے گئے تھے۔

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2009/03/090309_kids_kidnap_sz.shtml

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The following is a rare media report on the state of Shia killings in Pakistan .

Media blackout on Parachinar Shia killings

Leading Pakistani scholars strongly condemn the ‘western media censor-policy’ over the Shia Muslim killings in the northwestern city of Parachinar.

Political experts and religious scholars, attending a summit in the Iranian city of Qom, emphasized on the necessity to launch a regional media campaign to raise global awareness about the issue.

The summit held in Iranian city of Qom under the banner “Holocaust of Shias in Parachinar,” came in the wake of the killings of hundreds of Shia community-members over the past six months in Parachinar and Hangu.

Pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants, who are reportedly behind the killings, have imposed an economic blockade against the Shia-dominated population areas.

The frequent incidents have raised concerns among human rights group, while moderate Pakistani Sunni groups have described the issue as a conspiracy against the country.

Taliban leaders, who were toppled in the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, took refuge to tribal regions in Pakistan and rapidly began to extend heir influence from tribes to major towns and cities.

The pro-Taliban anti-Shia groups have launched a violent campaign against the Shia Muslims, and are stretching the campaign toward the restive southwestern Pakistan as well.

Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province has witnessed several instances of violence directed against the Hazara Shia community in recent months.

Several Shia religious gatherings have also been targeted in central province of Punjab over the past some months.

Tehran has repeatedly cautioned Islamabad over the ’silent massacre’ of its Shia community by the Taliban in the country. “The incidents that have occurred against Pakistan’s Shia community are a plot to create conflict between the region’s Sunni and Shia population,” said Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani.

“We have warned Islamabad over the incidents and we will follow up on the matter,” he added.

Shia sources say they make up one-third of Pakistan’s population of nearly 160 million. Since the 1980s, thousands of people have been killed in sectarian-related incidents in Pakistan.

Also read:

Ammar360: Holocaust of Shias in Parachinar

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The massacre the world ignored: Parachinar

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4 Shia children kidnapped by Taliban in Hangu not found yet

Why is the Pakistani and international media silent on the systematic killings of Shia in Pakistan?

4 students kidnapped in Hangu not found yet

HANGU: The four students kidnapped in district Hangu have not been recovered yet.

The driver of a van was killed and four students were kidnapped in Hangu district on Friday. Two students of were injured in the attack near Moebak Kandao. The efforts of the recovery of abducted students are still underway.

Meanwhile, 12 tribesmen kidnapped in Tut Kas area of Kurram Agency a week ago have not been recovered so far. The local administration is negotiating with abductors for the release of kidnapped persons. (The News)

http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=70158

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مغوی بچے تاحال بازیاب نہیں ہوئے

دلاورخان وزیر بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، پشاور

	ابھی تک جرگے کو ناکامی کا سامنا ہے

صوبہ سرحد کے ضلع ہنگو میں جمعہ کو سکول بس سے اغواء ہونے والے چار بچوں کو تاحال بازایاب نہیں کرایا جاسکا۔پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ بچوں کی بحفاظت بازایابی کے لیے مقامی عمائدین اور علماء کا ایک جرگہ اورکزئی ایجسنی پہنچ گیا ہے۔لیکن ابھی تک جرگے کو ناکامی کا سامنا ہے۔

پولیس کے ایک افسر سعید خان نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ جمعہ کو ایک سکول کی بس پر حملہ کرکے ڈرائیور کو ہلاک گیا جبکہ دو بچوں کو زخمی کردیاگیا تھا۔پولیس افسر کے مطابق اس وقت چار بچوں کو اغواء بھی کیا گیا جو تاحال بازیاب نہیں ہوئے ہیں۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ بچوں کی بازیابی کے لیے مقامی عمائدین اور علماء پر مشتمل ایک جرگہ دو دن سے اورکزئی ایجنسی میں موجود ہیں۔ان کا کہنا تھا کہ جرگہ یہ سراغ لگانے میں ناکام ہے کہ بچے کس کے پاس ہیں۔پولیس کے مطابق بچوں کے اغواء کے بعد علاقے میں سخت کشیدگی پائی جاتی ہے۔

چودہ سالہ سید شاہی عباس بھی اغواء ہونے والوں میں شامل ہیں۔ان کے بوڑھے داد سید سجاد حُسین نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ بچوں کے اغواء کے بعد صرف ان کے والدین نہیں بلکہ پورا علاقہ غم میں ڈوبہ ہوا ہے۔انہوں نے کہا کہ یہ تو سکول کے بچے ہیں ان کا کیا قصور ہے۔

انہوں نے بتایا کہ جب ان کو معلوم ہوا کہ سکول کے بچے اغواء ہوئے ہیں۔ وہ فوراً سکول پہنچ گئے لیکن سکول میں ان کا نواسہ نہیں تھا۔ان کے مطابق کسی کو معلوم نہیں کہ بچے کس نے اغواء کیے ہیں۔ان کا کہنا تھا کہ ’ہم تو گھر میں بیھٹے ہیں لوگ تسلیاں دینے کے لیے آتے ہیں۔وہ کیا کرسکتے ہیں۔بس اللہ سے دعگا مانگتے ہیں۔غریبوں کا اللہ کے سوا کوئی نہیں ہے‘۔

ان کا کہنا تھا کہ علاقے میں حالات بھی اچھے نہیں ہےکسی بھی وقت کچھ بھی ہوسکتا ہے۔

یادرہے کہ گزشتہ جمعہ کو ضلع ہنگو کے علاقے میروباک میں نامعلوم افراد نے سکول کی بس پرحملہ کیا تھا جس میں ڈرائیور ہلاک جبکہ دو بچے زخمی ہوگئے تھے۔اس کے بعد فائرنگ کرنے والے چار بچوں کو اغواء کر کے انہیں نامعلوم مقام کی طرف لے گئے تھے

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2009/03/090302_hangu_kidnaped_nj.shtml
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Pakistani school children killed in ambush
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:44:50 GMT

The only fault of these children is that they are Shia.


Unidentified assailants have reportedly ambushed a van carrying Shia children to school in the troubled tribal region of northwest Pakistan.

At least four students lost lives and five others sustained injuries as gunmen fired bullets at the school van outside the town of Hangu. The driver was also killed in the attack, Press TV's Muhammad Shafiq, reported.

The report added that seven students appear to have been kidnapped by the attackers.

The school van was traveling from Hangu to Kohat when it came under attack. The bodies and the wounded were shifted to Hangu's Civil Hospital.

Meanwhile, local police station chief Saeed Khan noted that authorities have closed all entry and exit points in the town, launching search operations in the nearby mountains to recover the kidnapped children and capture the attackers.

Hangu is located about 175 km (109 miles) west of Islamabad in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan and is plagued by sectarian, pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked violence.

MP/MMN

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=86955&sectionid=351020401

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Hangu kidnapping of Shia School Students by Taliban

Hangu kidnapping

Sunday, March 01, 2009 In what appears to be another act of sectarian violence in the Hangu area, which has seen over a year of conflict between tribes divided along the lines of sect, a van driver was killed and seven students abducted by armed men who ambushed the vehicle taking the pupils to their college. The incident has triggered angry public protests. It also demonstrates the failure to restore any kind of real order in the area. While tribal intervention last year brought a halt to conflict, the fact is that people across Orakzai Agency live in fear. One reason for this is the failure to back ceasefires with longer-term measures that can ensure continuing calm. These should include a ban, under relevant laws that exist on our statute books, on the incitement of hatred. In Hangu and elsewhere, the dissemination of literature promoting hatred was said to be commonplace. CDs, videos and other material also remained widely available. (The News) The deliberate attempt to build tension is fanned by the wide circulation of such material. The use of the media by extremists to build support for their cause has been extensive and has proved very effective. An effort must begin to counter it, in places like Hangu, Parachinar and Dera Ismail Khan which have a long history of violence. Scores have died in these places as a result of clashes, targeted killings and terrorist attacks. Only when there is an end to such mayhem can we hope to stop incidents such as the one that took place in Hangu and to restore the capability of people to live in peace with those who hold views different to their own.

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Hangu: Taliban attack a school van killing 3 Shia children, kidnapping 6 Shia children

Gunmen ambush Pakistan school minibus, 3 Shia students killed, 6 taken captive

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Shia children injured in a previous bombing at the Bari Imam shrine in Islamabad. Photograph: AP

27 Feb 2009 update

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Gunmen on Friday ambushed a minibus carrying children to school in remote northwest Pakistan, killing the driver, wounding two children and apparently kidnapping six others, police said.

The bus was ambushed outside the town of Hangu in the country's troubled North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan and is plagued by sectarian violence as well as Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.

"Unknown gunmen fired at the school van carrying Shiite students. The driver was killed, two children were injured, while six appear to have been kidnapped by the attackers," local police station chief Saeed Khan told AFP.

"Police are searching for the attackers in the nearby mountains," he added, saying he had no further details about the missing students.

Hangu, which has been a flashpoint for sectarian violence in the past, is located about 175 kilometres (110 miles) west of the capital Islamabad.

Shiite and Sunni Muslim groups signed a peace accord in Hangu last month after days of sectarian clashes in which at least nine people were killed.

Shiites account for about 20 percent of Pakistan's 160-million-strong, Sunni-majority population.

The groups usually coexist peacefully but outbreaks of sectarian violence have claimed more than 4,000 lives across Pakistan since the late 1980s.

AFP 27 Feb 2009

Meanwhile, gunmen opened fire on a school van near the northwestern town of Hangu on Friday, killing its driver and injuring three students before abducting six other children, police officer Arshad Khan said. Those abducted were between the ages of nine and 18, he said.

Pakistan's northwest is a violent, lawless region, where criminal gangs and Islamist militants take refuge.

Associated Press writer Hussain Afzal contributed to this report from Parachinar.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD96JO5900

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Driver killed in Hangu school van firing

Updated at: 0955 PST, Friday, February 27, 2009 HANGU: A driver was killed and two students sustained injuries when unknown persons opened fire at a school van in Hangu. The attackers also kidnapped six students.

Police sources said a school van travelling from Hangu to Kohat when unidentified persons opened fire at van near Merobik Banda area killing driver Asghar Ali on the spot and injuring two students Zafar and Farhan.

Eyewitnesses said the attackers also abducted six students. The body and injured were shifted to Civil Hospital. Heavy police contingents launched search operation for the recovery of the children.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=69844

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12 men abducted in Hangu

HANGU: Unidentified armed men on Monday opened fire on a Peshawar-bound vehicle before abducting 12 of its passengers near Kurram Agency’s border with Hangu district, officials said. An official told Daily Times that the vehicle was on its way to Peshawar when the armed men intercepted it in Tootkas area and abducted 12 of its 15 passengers.Hangu District Police Officer Sajjad Khan confirmed the incident. He added that even though the Khasadar force was deployed in the area, the Taliban were openly operating there. saboor khan (Daily Times)

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\02\24\story_24-2-2009_pg7_28

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Kurram Agency Toori abducted persons couldn’t be recovered

The News, 27 Feb

PESHAWAR: Even after lapse of five days twelve abducted persons of Toori tribesmen could not be recovered.

Sources said that that some armed persons had abducted twelve persons of Toori tribesmen on way from Kuram Agency to Peshawar from Tootkas area and one trying to escape was shot dead. Despite lapse of five days, the kidnapped persons could not be recovered.

Toori tribesmen have demanded immediate release of the abductees and ensuring safe travel on the Peshawar-Kurram main highway.

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سکول بس فائرنگ میں ڈرائیور ہلاک

دلاورخان وزیر بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، پشاور

	ضلع ہنگو سُنی شیعہ فسادت کے لحاظ سے انتہائی حساس ہے

صوبہ سرحد کے ضلع ہنگو میں پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ نامعلوم مسلح افراد نے سکول کے بچوں کی ایک گاڑی پر فائرنگ کی ہے جس کے نتیجہ میں گاڑی کے ڈرائیور ہلاک جبکہ دو بچے زخمی ہوگئے ہیں۔زخمی بچوں کو ہنگو کے سول ہسپتال میں داخل کرا دیاگیا ہے۔

پولیس کے ایک اہلکار عمر حیات نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ جمعہ کو ہنگو شہر سے چار کلومیٹر دور جنوب کی جانب بہادر بانڈہ کے علاقے میروباک میں نامعلوم مسلح افراد نے سکول کے بچوں کی ایک گاڑی پر فائرنگ کی جس کے نتیجہ میں گاڑی کے ڈرئیور ہلاک جبکہ دو بچے زخمی ہوگئے ہیں۔

پولیس اہلکار کا کہنا تھا کہ اس واقعہ کے بعد ہنگو سے پولیس کی بھاری نفری علاقے میں پہنچ گئی اور مختلف راستوں میں ناکے لگا کر تلاشی شروع کر دی۔لیکن تاحال کسی قسم کی گرفتاری عمل میں نہیں آئی ہے۔انہوں نے کہا کہ فائرنگ کرنے والے مسلح لوگ پیدل تھے اور فائرنگ کے بعد فرار ہوگئے ہیں۔

علاقے میں موجود ایک مقامی صحافی نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ جمعہ کی صبح آٹھ بجے مسلح افراد نے سکول کے قریب ایک سپیڈ بریکر کے اوپر گاڑی پر فائرنگ کی جس کے نتیجہ میں گاڑی کے ڈرائیور اصغر خان ہلاک جبکہ دو بچے ظفر علی اور فرحان علی زخمی ہوگئے۔انہوں نے کہا کہ بچوں کا تعلق اہل تشیع سے بتایا جاتا ہے جو ایک گاؤں سے سکول جا رہے تھے۔انہوں نے کہا کہ علاقے میں سخت کشیدگی پائی جاتی ہے۔اور اس واقعہ کے بعد تمام راستے غیر اعلانیہ طور پر بند کر دیےگئے ہیں۔

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2009/02/090227_schoolbus_attacked_as.shtml

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Another Shia killed, eight abducted from Hangu - Terror of Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba reigns the NWFP; Pakistan Army is a silent accomplice....

One killed, eight abducted from Hangu

Staff Report

HANGU: A person was killed and eight others abducted in several incidents of violence in Hangu district of NWFP, official sources said on Thursday.

They said unidentified armed men opened fire on a vehicle near Tutkas graveyard in the district’s Tal tehsil. The passengers were travelling from Kurram Agency to Hangu.

A man, Johar Ali, was killed in the firing, while the assailants abducted the other three men, identified as Malik Askar Ali, Syed Ali Shah and Haji Mali Khel, the sources said.

Separately, unidentified men abducted two persons from Tura Waray road in the Doaba police station precincts. An Afghan private security guard, Syed Agha, was abducted from Tal city, while unidentified men abducted a government contractor, Fazal Akbar, and Imtiaz, an employee of NADRA in Orakzai Agency, from separate areas of the district.

Meanwhile, the Taliban in the neighbouring Orakzai Agency took over two checkposts vacated by security personnel, official sources and locals said.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the locals said there was no writ of the government in Orakzai, as security personnel have vacated checkposts for fear of the Taliban. The Taliban announced the imposition of sharia in the agency last month, barring women to visit bazaars and banning all modes of audio and video entertainment. (Daily Times)

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PAKISTAN: 2 EXECUTED BY TALIBAN IN TRIBAL AREAS

(AGI) - Miranshah, Jan. 29 - Pakistani Taliban are on the attack in the tribal areas, the remote and wild mountain regions at the Afghan border, where the central government has little to say. According to security sources, the guerrillas have captured and executed two individuals accused of collaborating with the authorities. One, a young man in his thirties, was suspected of spying for the American troops, he was shot near Daigan, a village around 40km north of Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan. The other, a policeman, suffered a similar treatment. He was captured together with four others in Tal, 45km north-east of the capital. The five, all Shias, were on their way to Parachinar, capital of another tribal area, Kurram. The policeman was killed, his companions were kidnapped and taken to an unknown location. The Taliban, like their allies of al-Qaeda, are all Sunnites who accuse the Shias of heresy. Meanwhile around 50 rebels have started a raging battle against the regular troops of Pakistan near Bannu, in the north-western province of North West Frontier, close to the border with North Waziristan. The rebels were forced to withdraw after two hours of fighting however, leaving two dead and five injured behind.

http://www.agi.it/world/news/200901291550-pol-ren0038-art.html

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Nawaz Sharif threatens Asif Zardari? An analysis of "Long March"

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Tanvir Qaiser Shahid



Some Comments:

Mohammad Musa Islam Islam Says:

To those who love nawaz shareef: that is your right but don't deny the histry.

1. who was with general jeelani,

2. who was with general zia ,

3. when general zia dismissed junejo government who was with general zia.

4.who was in IJI , it was made by general aslam beg and hameed gul,

5.who supported midnight jackals and main culprits of that action major amir and bregadier Imtiaz were with nawaz shareef or PP

6. relations with COAS from aslam to musharaf were not good at all why,

7. attack on supreme court and relations with sajjad ali shah and finally removal of sajjad ali shah from cj.

8.talking against PCO judges and nominating saeedu zaman siddiqui for the post of president of pakistan who was also a pco judge, he took oath of zia pco now my dear read this and think again

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