Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts

Saturday, January 24, 2015

It's not the protests--it's the Islamic inspired violence

January 24, 2015 Charlie Hebdo , Khurram Shahzad 0 Comments
Charlie Hebdo Protests Erupt Across Southern Asia

Khurram Shahzad, Jan. 23, 2015, AFP

The clashes broke out when police fired smoke canisters and shot into the air to disperse a group of protestors who began chanting "Down with Charlie Hebdo" after emerging from mosques.

Friday's rally in Islamabad was led by the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party, and though peaceful demonstrators burned French, British and American flags, while urging Pakistan to cut ties with Paris and calling for a boycott of French products.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Okay to kill journalists who "insult"

January 20, 2015 Charlie Hebdo , Hafiz Saeed 0 Comments
Anti-Charlie Rally In Pakistan Draws 5,000

Mubasher Bukhari, Jan. 18, 2015, Reuters

On Friday, protesters trying to storm the French consulate in the southern city of Karachi shot and injured a photographer working for French news agency AFP.

Saeed called for more rallies next Friday. He says he has no links to militancy these days and only runs a charity, which is banned by the U.S. government for suspected militant links. The U.S. government has offered $10 million for information leading to Saeed's conviction.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Get in line, Pakistan

December 30, 2014 Homeland , Jamie Schram 0 Comments
Pakistani Officials Furious Over ‘Homeland’

Jamie Schram, Dec. 27, 2014, New York Post

They complained directly to producers of the Emmy-winning drama, but their gripes fell on deaf ears, Pakistani sources said.

“Maligning a country that has been a close partner and ally of the US . . . is a disservice not only to the security interests of the US but also to the people of the US,” Pakistan Embassy spokesman Nadeem Hotiana told The Post.

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

When is she moving?

September 27, 2014 Afghanistan , Daniel Greenfield 0 Comments
Sen. Gillibrand: Pakistan and Afghanistan Better For Women Than USA

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
By Daniel Greenfield, Sept. 26, 2014, Frontpagemag.com

Oddly Gillibrand insists on living in the United States instead of in the more progressive Pakistan under the notoriously feminist Sharia law.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, appointed to her position via Senator Schumer as a favor for a politically connected clan, changed all her political positions and is working hard to pretend that she’s a serious legislator.

Mainly by repeating stupid thingsthat other people have said.
The most animated speaker was Gillibrand, who condemned opposition to expanding paid family leave across the country. 
The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act would establish a national paid family and medical leave insurance program so workers would not have to choose between a paycheck and caring for themselves or a family member, said Gillibrand. 
“In every other industrialized, wealthy country in the world they have paid leave,” the senator said. “Europe has up to six months. Even Afghanistan and Pakistan have paid leave, but we do not have paid leave in this country, and because of that when forced to meet a family need, an urgent care need, often times women are forced to leave the workplace because they cannot take that time off unpaid.”
Sure Pakistan and Afghanistan are fantastic for women.

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Illegals coming in from Middle East

July 31, 2014 Dictionary , Illegal Immigration 0 Comments
Urdu Dictionary Dropped By Smuggler In Texas



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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Pakistan Family Slits Throats Of Young Couple Over Love Marriage --Who Are We To Judge?

June 28, 2014 Honor Killing , Human Rights Commission of Pakistan 0 Comments
By Mubasher Bukhari, Jun. 27, 2014, Reuters / Yahoo.com

LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - A young couple in Pakistan were tied up and had their throats slit with scythes after they married for love, police said Saturday.

The 17-year-old girl and 31-year-old man married on June 18 without the consent of their families in eastern Pakistan's Punjabi village of Satrah, police said.

The girl's mother and father lured the couple home late on Thursday with the promise that their marriage would receive a family blessing, said local police official Rana Zashid.

"When the couple reached there, they tied them with ropes," he said. "He (the girl's father) cut their throats."

Police arrested the family, who said they had been embarrassed by the marriage of their daughter, named Muafia Hussein, to a man from a less important tribe.

Cultural traditions in many areas of Pakistan mean that killing a woman whose behavior is seen as immodest is widely accepted.

Immodest behavior that sparked recent killings included singing, looking out of the window or talking to a man who is not a relative. For a woman to marry a man of her own choice is considered an unacceptable insult by many families.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said 869 so-called "honor killings" were reported in the media last year - several a day. But the true figure is probably much higher since many cases are never reported.

The weak Pakistani government, battling with a troubled economy and a Taliban insurgency, does not collect centralized statistics and has no strategy to combat the killings.

Pakistani law means that even if a woman's killer is convicted, her family are able to forgive the killer.

Many families simply nominate a member to do the killing, then formally forgive the killer.

That's what happened earlier this week, a lawyer said, when a tribal council in central Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district sentenced another young couple to death for marrying for love.

The couple's lawyer, Zia Kiyyani, said the two had appealed for police protection after their marriage on June 21, but had not received any.

The 19-year-old girl's family came to take her from her husband's family, swearing on the Koran that they would not harm her and would hold a proper wedding ceremony, he said.

"During this the girl shouted, cried and mourned for her life and her husband's life because she knew that they will kill both of them," he said.

The girl, named Mehreen Bibi, was shot by a member of her family when she returned home, police said. Her husband went into hiding and her father registered the murder complaint so he could forgive the killer, Kiyyani said.

"That will end the case," he said.


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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Al Qaeda Isn’t ‘On Its Heels’ --As much as he would like to, Obama cannot wish terrorism away

June 12, 2014 Afghanistan , al Qaeda 0 Comments
By Reza Jan, May 27, 2014

President Barack Obama told U.S. troops in Afghanistan on May 25, 2014 that the United States has “decimated the al Qaeda leadership in the tribal regions” of Pakistan.1 While conceding that the al Qaeda network elsewhere in the world poses an increasing threat to U.S. interests, the U.S. government frequently touts the progress it has made in neutering al Qaeda’s senior leadership in Pakistan — as it narrowly defines it.2 These talking points increasingly seem based on a picture of al Qaeda’s South Asian network that is at least several months out of date, however. They do not appear to account for al Qaeda’s well-known ability to repair damage to its network, that network’s improving position in Pakistan, or an apparent strategic pause in both U.S. and Pakistani operations against al Qaeda in the region. The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and all it entails, not only increases al Qaeda’s operating room in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but has already severely degraded the intelligence infrastructure that helped support the drone and covert operations campaign that contributed heavily towards the success now claimed by the president.

Rhetoric Based on an Old Snapshot of the Network

President Obama described al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan variously as being “on its heels” and “on the ropes” in his speech on Sunday.3 The president and members of the administration have often used similar language to describe the effects of U.S. policies on al Qaeda in South Asia, though they have moderated these optimistic assertions with admissions that al Qaeda elsewhere in the world continues to pose a threat to the United States.4

The administration attributes Al Qaeda’s supposed near-defeat in Pakistan to the death of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in a one-off Special Operations Forces strike deep inside Pakistan in 2011 and to the U.S. drone campaign inside Pakistan’s tribal areas, which has been underway since 2004.5

The U.S. drone program has, in fact, inflicted heavy casualties on al Qaeda in Pakistan over the years.6 It has killed top al Qaeda leaders and facilitators including Ilyas Kashmiri, Abu Yahya al Libi, Atiyah Abd al Rahman, and Abu Zaid al Kuwaiti, as well as successive leaders occupying the organization’s operational command or “number three position,” a feat that has had a serious impact on al Qaeda attempts to conduct attacks from Pakistan against U.S. interests outside the region.7 Before Kashmiri’s death in June 2011, bin Laden had reportedly tasked the senior operative with plotting an attack against President Obama.8

There are problems with using drone kills as metrics for success against the network, however. The first concerns the definition of what is, in fact, considered to be “al Qaeda.” The Obama administration has defined the group in extremely narrow terms: it considers al Qaeda primarily to be the group of individuals comprising its leadership during, and having involvement in, the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, as laid out in a recent report by Mary Habeck.9 This narrow definition excludes new leaders and operatives who have since come to prominence in the network and key facilitators and supporters that make possible al Qaeda’s survival and reconstitution.10Current U.S. strategy against al Qaeda fails to account for the change in the group’s basic structure from a rigid, hierarchical organization into a more fluid organism, interconnected with and often dependent upon local affiliates with which it does not necessarily have a formal association, but with which it shares an ideology, fighters, facilitators, infrastructure, and space, as laid out in an AEI Critical Threats report by Katherine Zimmerman.11

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

'Honor Killing': Pakistani Woman Stoned To Death By Family For Marrying Man She Loved --Hello, Hollywood? N.O.W.?

May 27, 2014 Ashe Schow , Hollywood 0 Comments
By Ashe Schow, May 27, 2014, Washingtonexaminer.com

A Pakistani woman who married a man she loved has been stoned to death by her family, according to the Associated Press.

Farzana Parveen, 25, married Mohammad Iqbal against her family’s wishes, and so they attacked the couple outside a court building in Lahore with bricks, according to a police official.

“We were in love,” Iqbal told the AP. “I simply took her to court and registered a marriage.”

The couple went to court that day to register the marriage and for Parveen to give a statement regarding her father's allegations that Iqbal had abducted her.

Parveen’s family waited outside the court for the couple to arrive. They fired into the air and attempted to grab Parveen from Iqbal. She resisted, so they killed her.

Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was killed.

“Honor killings” such as this are a regular occurrence in Pakistan, with 869 women being killed in the name of honor in 2013, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Killing in the name of honor is supposed to be treated like murder, however, it is often ignored.


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