Sunday, 18 January 2009

Karachi, the heaven for Taliban

The presence of Extremist religious outfits and8-22-2008_23277_l the member leaves of Taliban tree in Karachi is once again got proved On 15th of January 2009 when an encountered held at the Sohrab Goth, the same area which according to Herald is a Heaven for Taliban and Al Qaida, and a famous home for many illegal activities including drug dealing.

This time the news was much bigger iran_flagbecause this operation soon becomes a ‘failed’ rescue operation for the kidnapped Iranian commercial attaché Hashmatullah Atharzadeh who was kidnapped on November 13 2008 from Hayatabad, Peshawar after killing his guard.

Geo reported that incident on Thursday, November 13, 2008:
PESHAWAR: Investigation into the kidnapping of Iranian Commercial Attaché has gone underway after the incident took place here on Thursday. … Unknown gunmen kidnapped Commercial Attaché of Iranian Consulate, Hashmatullah Atharzadeh after killing his guard here from Hayatabad earlier today, police said.

Our security agencies and police were busy in founding the kidnapped attaché in NWFP while he was easily shifted to Karachi bypassing all the security checks. This phenomenon of shifting Kidnapped attaché from Peshawar to Karachi explains that terrorists feels and thinks Karachi as much safer place for them as compare to Peshawar.

The encounter at Sohrab Goth, Karachi occurred on Thursday morning when militants opened fire in police party who was there to investigate the kidnapping of Iranian policecommercial attaché. Two policemen were killed and eleven others were injured during this operation and around 35 suspected people including four militants belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and different banned religious outfits, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) have been arrested. 20090116_31

Daily Times: Shootout at Sohrab Goth

The situation of Karachi has got very sensitive and it’s getting ripped day by day. It’s not the first time when any extremist group has caught on picnic in Karachi, from the Encounter of Shah Latif Town on 29th January 2008 where five people, two of them policemen, were killed in an encounter with Jandullah a nn_myers_taliban_051227.300wbanned outfit, to this incident of 15th January 2009 where two police officials were killed in an encounter with the militants of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and different banned religious outfits, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), it is a long list of such incidents which clearly points towards the activities of Extremists terrorists and militants. But despite of all this over Government says ‘No, there isn’t any evidence of the presence of Taliban in Karachi’.

  • The question is what our government is doing?

  • How did those terrorists make there way safe to Karachi?

  • Is it compulsory for taking action to wait until these terrorist warns girl’s schools of Karachi to be shutoff?

The situation is bad and getting worse, These extremists are penetrating in Karachi like a Trojan while our Government who are supposed to be our Anti virus are in 'inactive' mode.

Monday, 12 January 2009

Lahore Blasts and the terrorist activities of Jamat-e-Islami and Shabab-e-Milli.

Jamat-e-Islami and its armed wing Shabab-e-Milli’s hatred against art and cultural events is very old they have always moved in a terrorize way to stop cultural and fun activities in the area.

Express news Shabab e MilliOne of its example is their warning to Karachiites for not celebrating new years night, and to stop people from doing this they declared an "armed 'Danda bardaar' force" which will stop people from doing such celebration activities, this statement of them was showed over television and also in the print media below is the link to the ‘Daily Express’ news of their warning.

After the warning of not celebrating New Year’s Eve they also gave another threatening warning for stopping theater shows in Lahore which they believe to be un-ethical and 'not allowed' according to their own theory and this time unlike the fortunate new year's night the warning was followed by a ringer,as after few days of their warning Lahore’s Drama Theaters were rocked by a series of Bomb Blasts.

"Six blasts rock Lahore theaters: The first four blasts happened outside the Al-Fallah theater in the heart of the heavily populated city on Friday. The fifth and sixth blasts occurred at Mazang Chungee near Tamaseel Theatre two hours after the four blasts outside the Al-Fallah theater hall."


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