Political leaders condole Pagara’s departure

Political leaders condole Pagara’s departure, The death of PML-Functional chief Pir Pagara has received messages of condolence from almost all the political parties as well as other social groups across the country, Geo News reported.

President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf leaders Imran Khan & Khurshid Qusoori, PML-Q’s Chaudhry brothers, Pakistan Awami Tehrik’s Allama Tahir-ul-Qadri, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Munnawar Hassan, and many other prominent leaders have expressed a deep sense of sorrow and grief over the leader’s death in separate messages.

In his message, Nawaz said the country “has lost an experienced politician”. Similarly, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad also expressed deep sorrow over the death of the Pir Pagara.

Pakistan Drone Airstrike

Pakistan Drone Airstrike, A spokesman for Pakistani Taliban denied on Sunday an announcement earlier by the deputy head of the militant group that he was in peace talks with the competing claims are government.The a clear sign of divisions within the movement, which could make it more difficult for Islamabad to reach an agreement to end the violent insurgency gripping the country – even if, perhaps, easier to remove it militarily.

The Pakistani government said that during this time the United States struck an air base that was used by U.S. drones. Islamabad had ordered the Americans in retaliation for U.S. air strikes last month, who accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistan’s conflict with his branch of the Taliban is closely linked to the American-led war in Afghanistan. After informal cease-fire have made it easier for Afghan militants sheltered by their Pakistani counterparts to attack U.S. forces across the border.

Therefore, while the U.S. has pushed for peace talks between the Afghan branch of the Taliban in Kabul, the possibility of similar talks between Islamabad and the Pakistani branch could affect Stoke in Washington.

From the perspective of Islamabad, the rise of anger against the Americans increases the incentive to enter into an agreement with the Taliban, like many leaders of the conflict on their government’s alliance with Washington.

However, the government’s ability to negotiate with the underground movement activists are much more complicated by the Taliban command structure disorder and the difficulty is if the commanders who say they are willing to make peace that have authority over the field.

Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, who was recognized by activists and officials such as deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban said Saturday that the group was in negotiations with the government. Mohammed, the first commander called to confirm the talks said a deal to end the country’s brutal four-year insurrection was within striking distance.

Ehsanullah Ehsan spokesman denied the claims of Mohammed, saying that there would be no negotiations until the government imposed Islamic law, or sharia, in the country. The group says it wants to install an Islamic extremist regime.

Ehsan has repeatedly over the last six months has rejected reports of peace talks with militant commanders and anonymous intelligence officials.

“The talks with a handful of people with the government can not be regarded as the talk of the Taliban,” Ehsan The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.

The group, which is closely allied with al Qaeda, was behind much of the violence tearing Pakistan on the 4 1 / 2 years. At least 35,000 people were killed in suicide bombings, insurgent attacks and other attacks of the army.

But military operations and U.S. drone strikes have weakened the Pakistani Taliban, which has splintered into more than 100 small factions, according to security officials,*n*lysts and tribal insurgents from the heart.

Main area of ??the Taliban, deputy commander of the forces of Mohammed was the Bajur tribal area along the Afghan border, but would have fled to Afghanistan in recent years to escape military operations. It has long been identified as the leader of the Pakistani Taliban in the Bajur and said an agreement with the government there could be a “model” for the rest of the border region.

But another commander, Mullah Dadullah, has also now claims to be the leader of the Taliban in Bajur. Dadullah contacted the AP on Sunday and denied the group, also known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban, or TTP, was negotiating with the government.

“As a responsible leader of the TTP Bajur, I am categorically saying there are no ongoing talks between the government and the Tehrik-e-Taliban in Bajur or central level,” said Dadullah, also speaking an undisclosed location.

Ehsan, the spokesman said Dadullah, rather than Muhammad was the leader of the Pakistani Taliban in the Bajur.

Despite recording the Taliban of indiscriminate violence, largely directed against civilians, it is political and public support for peace talks. In September, the weak civilian government announced it was ready to “Give Peace a Chance” with the militants, to comply with the Islamic right-wing parties and their supporters.

Activist government negotiations could strain already tense relations between Pakistan and the United States

Ties suffered a severe blow when NATO airstrikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the army two positions along the Afghan border on November 26. Pakistan has responded by closing its border with Afghanistan to supply NATO and to boycott an international conference aimed at stabilizing Afghanistan.

He also gave the U.S. until December 11 to release an air base used by U.S. drones in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.

The Pakistani military said the last flight carrying U.S. personnel and equipment left Shamsi, Sunday, and the base was taken over by the army.

The U.S. ambassador had said before the United States would do all he could to evacuate the base prior to maturity. A representative of the U.S. Embassy could not be reached for comment Sunday.

Shamsi cancellation is not expected a significant reduction in drone attacks in Pakistan. The U.S. military has used drones in the service which took off from Afghanistan to the border region, and then could not make it back to base because of mechanical difficulties or weather.

Wife Cooks Husband Pakistan

Wife Cooks Husband Pakistan, A Pakistani woman has been detained on suspicion of killing her husband, cutting him and trying to cook the pieces, police in Karachi said Friday.Zainab Bibi, 32, was arrested in connection with the murder of her Tuesday husband Ahmad Abbas, police said.

His 22 years old nephew, Zaheer Ahmed, is accused of stabbing to death helped Abbas Bibi and sculpt his body into small pieces.

Police said she wanted to cook parts of her husband’s body so that it can dispose of it without getting caught.

Neighbours raised the alarm when they detect a foul odor in the neighborhood, police said.

Pakistan domestic satellite channel ARY News spoke to Bibi in the police station where she is detained in the southern city of Karachi.

In an interview broadcast Thursday night, she claimed to have killed her husband because he wanted a physical relationship with their daughter – and said she does not regret her actions.

“I killed my husband before daring to touch my daughter,” she said ARY News.

Islamabad: Osama Bin Laden

Islamabad: Osama Bin Laden, As news of the death terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has repercussions in Pakistan, embassies are closing here, hotels are increasing power safety, restaurants are reporting canceled reservations and public gatherings such as games, concerts and lectures, are reported. Lahore is the feeling of familiarity: it’s liked the fear that persists over the city in the days after he suffered a massive terrorist attack.

This time, however, the attack has not occurred, and the spans of fear throughout the country. Pakistanis know they can pay the blood money for killing bin Laden. Called a mirror was broken. Bad luck can be expected.

Yet as I talk to friends and visit the market, there is resignation, as well. After a decade of slaughter many here think that the terrorists are already striking in Pakistan as hard as they can, and further that al-Qaeda is more powerful than other militant groups. The most common sentiment I hear is that nothing much will change.

It depends, of course, on how the U.S. responds. Barack Obama noted in his speech that “anti-t*rror*sm cooperation with Pakistan have helped lead to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding.” But he also said that “a small team of Americans conducted the operation” itself. Between these two statements is an open space with a horde of questions.

Ben Laden was not killed in the tribal areas near the Afghan-Pakistan border. He was killed in Abbottabad, a place of my last visit some years ago. In my childhood, Abbottabad was known as a pleasant mountain resort, a rest area not far from Islamabad along the legendary Silk Road, which snakes through China and the mighty Karakoram Himalaya. Rapid population growth and climate change has seen a decline in desirability as a tourist destination.

But any property from Pakistani tourists will flock in Abbottabad in the past, he remained in the country famous for its proximity to the Pakistan Military Academy, located a few miles away. Hunting for a wanted terrorist is in Abbottabad, in terms of American or British, as the chase near West Point or Sandhurst.

So, a debate raged in Pakistan about what really happened. Conspiracy theories abound. Some say that Pakistani intelligence agencies discovered bin Laden, but the U.S. wanted to take responsibility for his assassination in order to blunt a possible reaction against Pakistan. Others argue that it is inconceivable that American helicopters have penetrated so deep into Pakistani airspace without being detected by the Pakistani army and air force (in the past, incursions U.S. helicopter near the border between Afghanistan were sent back to warning shots), and that the operation must be co-permitted.

But there are other, really scary theories, such as that even in a city as dense as a military presence Abbottabad, Bin Laden escaped to Pakistan’s security forces, suggesting a remarkable degree of incompetence. More frightening still would be if there was official complicity in accommodation, putting Pakistan on a collision course with the United States. Pakistan hoped that neither is true.

Because Pakistan is suffering badly. The crowds are rightly celebrates the death of bin Laden in downtown Manhattan, where a decade ago Al Qaeda terrorists infamous massacre of nearly 3,000 people.

Less known is the statistic that since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after the terrorists killed nearly five times that number of people in Pakistan. The annual number of deaths in Pakistan against t*rror*sm has surged from less than in 2003 to nearly 1,000 in 2006 to more than 3,000 in 2009. In total, since more than 30,000 died here in terror and violence against-t*rror*sm killed by bombs, bullets, guns and drones. America’s 9 / has given way to the Pakistan -7-365. The battlefield has moved. And Pakistan, it is much more bloody.

If the death of Osama bin Laden wants to say that war in South and Central Asia can now start to finish, that America can begin withdrawing its forces from the region and that Pakistan and Afghanistan can somehow find peace, then one day there may be celebrations here as well.

Meanwhile U.S., Pakistani, Afghan commanders and terrorists will go on conducting their operations, slaughter will continue, and human beings – all equal, all equal – will continue to die, they die mostly invisible to the outside world, but at a rate reminiscent of a line stretching devices in the distance on the bottom of the lap after lap after lap. Bin Laden is dead. But many Pakistanis feel the imminent arrival of another deadly plane headed their way.

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Pakistan Earthquake

Pakistan Earthquake, (AP) – A major earthquake of magnitude 7.2 rocked a remote area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the UAE.

The earthquake was centered in the province of Baluchistan, the area in the country’s most sparsely populated, “said United States Geological Service, occurring at 01:30, local time, at a depth of about 50 miles (84 km .

Its epicenter was located in a remote area south-west about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the capital of Baluchistan is Quetta, said the Pakistani leader Arif Mahmood meteorologist, near the Afghan border.

The nearest town to the epicenter was Dalbandin, with a population of about 15,000 people and is so remote that the hills surrounding the site were Chagai Pakistan’s nuclear tests in 1998.

There was no word on damage in Dalbandin. But another town near the epicenter, Karan has not suffered major damage, “said Fateh Bangar, Deputy Commissioner Karan. The city was some 45 miles (70 kilometers) from the epicenter, “he said.

Nasir Baluch, a police officer in Karan said mud houses collapsed or were damaged in an area outside the city called Mashkil. There was not in the immediate victims, but the region is sparsely populated, “he said.

There was no significant damage in Quetta, either, but the earthquake caused widespread panic in the city, residents said.

Local television reports said the quake was felt in several other provinces as well. Many residents in the largest city, Karachi, ran into the streets after the earthquake started, “said the report.

Karachi resident Mohammad Zubair said he was watching a cricket match on television when his bed began to shake.

“I jumped out of bed realizing that it was an earthquake,” said the 28-years. “My mother started reciting verses from the Koran, and we rushed outside.”

Tremors lasting at least 20 seconds were also felt as far away as Dubai in the UAE and in the Indian capital, New Delhi.

Earthquakes frequently rattle the region. An earthquake measuring 7.6 on October 8, 2005, killed about 80,000 people in northwest Pakistan and Kashmir and left more than 3 million homeless.

Associated Press writer Ashraf Khan contributed to this report from Karachi.

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