ANP pounces back, MQM ridiculed

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ANP hits back at MQM

Friday, April 17, 2009
by Tauseef-ur-Rahman

PESHAWAR: Reacting to the criticism of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) over the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, the Awami National Party (ANP) Thursday said a person spending luxurious life in Britain could not realize the ground realities in Swat region.

“ The MQM stance on the Regulation was not much astonishing for us because it has a long history of brutalities against Pakhtuns in the port city. Instead of seeing nightmares about the entrance of Taliban into Karachi, the MQM chief should immediately stage a comeback to Pakistan and face the ground realities,” NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Bilour said while talking to The News by phone.

He said ANP always stood for protection of human rights and rule of law in the country. “Our elders rendered unmatchable sacrifices for independence of the sub-continent, spent decades in jails to win freedom for the country,” he said.

He said that MQM was criticizing the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation just to appease the West, particularly the United States. He dispelled the MQM’s impression that due to the agreement with Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Talibanisation would creep into other parts of the country. “Altaf Bhai is a terrorist and the entire country knows about the real face of his party,” he said and added that such statements from MQM leadership would create hatred and provoke people, which will prove detrimental to the future of the country.

Provincial Minster for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain also came down hard on the MQM, saying that they were now shedding crocodile’s tears on the agreement. He added that the party should have moral courage to oppose the peace deal on the floor of the House instead of boycotting it.

He said that the soul of Bacha Khan would be extremely happy as he was the sole custodian of peace and being follower of his philosophy of non-violence, the ANP used peaceful means instead of force to stop the bloodshed of Pakhtuns.

He said the provincial government was proud of striking peace deal and promulgating of Nizam-e-Adl Regulation as it fulfilled the longstanding demand of the people of the Malakand region as well as saved lives of Paktuns.

“It is beyond comprehension that the people of the area where the Regulation is imposed are happy, but the MQM, which is only a Karachi-based party, is making unnecessary hue and cry on it,” he said.

Responding to the MQM’s statement that the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation was a truce for further bloodshed, he said that the party was altogether unaware about the Swat situation. “The Regulation is just a system of dispensation of expeditious and inexpensive justice, which was the decades-old demand of the residents of the Malakand division,” he said. He said that the MQM could not call itself as the real follower of Bacha Khan because he (Bacha Khan) was a great freedom fighter who believed in fighting for the rights of Pakhutns non-violently, while the MQM has taken the whole Karachi hostage at gunpoint. “They have nothing to do with the philosophy of non-violence of Bacha Khan because killings and torture is the raisin d’etre of the MQM, which was created and nourished by military dictators,” he said.

ANP hits back at MQM

Damn straight! MQM and its publicity stunts. It should’ve had the courage to vote NO instead of walking out. When you’re opposed to something, you vote No and let it show in the record that you voted No.

Will Altaf Hussain now resume eating, or continue on the “food strike”? Or maybe he’ll finally muster up enough courage to return to the nation and face the music and lead his party like the rest of the crowd.

Don’t hold your breath though, we’re talking about a man who calls the making of this nation a mistake.

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Altaf Hussain will soon start eating, once his stomach allows him to... untill then he is enjoying juices..

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Article saved. This will come back to haunt the ANP in the coming months and years.

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^^ One thing you don't understand or you may not want to understand, if the peace is not re-stored the Army will get back in the Swat!! and then their will be no more moral support for this thugs.. but i guess this is what you fear atmost.. that the peace is not going to be restored and this time Army will go their with the moral support of their countrymen... and these thugs will be derived out of that region... and peace will restore...

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Sure. ANP is powerless in front of Taliban supporters. They have to justify their surrender in some way off course.

Fact is that this surrender to Taliban will be the end of Pakistan’s rule in its own territories. Now it will not be Pakistan government appointing the judges but the Taliban.

Look at the language these fanatics are using against judges appointed by Pakistan. They are threatening a bloodshed.

Unfortunately, most people at gupshup seem to be happy at their threats against Pakistan.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/19/content_11215760.htm

Pakistani cleric calls for withdrawal of judges

A top Pakistani cleric, who struck a deal with the government to enforce Islamic system and end fighting in the northwest in February, Sunday asked withdrawal of all judges from parts of the northwest, declaring their system as un-Islamic.

"**I ask all the judges in Malakand division to withdraw from the area by April 23. If they did not the government will be responsible for any consequences**," said Sufi Muhammad, chief of the banned Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM).

He told a huge public meeting in Mingora, the main city in the restive Swat valley, that the current judicial system in supreme and high courts was un-Islamic.

He said that only Islamic judges or Qazi had the right to deliver verdicts and other judges had no right to work in the region.

**Sufi warned that the government would be responsible of the bloodshed if the peace deal was failed.**

**But the cleric did not make any appeal to the Taliban-linked militants to lay down arms, which was expected as he had termed the rally as a peaceful move.**
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ANP has never got more than 3 NA seats in past, it was their first ever illection when they got 13+ seats, but it was not because they were best for the votes, if JI, TIP and other parties who boycotted instead if they were taking part in election then numbers would be much different, ANP got the votes from frustrated population who wanted to vote but but their parties were out of the playing field! ... ANP should not count these as their own vote bank, next election will tell the reality when JI and other will be in the election process! ...

Coming back to the comments made about MQM, I would say its some cheap and low level comments, ANP being pathan party and ruling party and so called allied party should teach their so called spoke person some manners while passing some comments, trhate not only personal attacks but also shows mentality and hate which they try to hide when sit together with MQM... instead ANP should try to convince about their decision using some sensible logic and wordings, and try to answer the whole nation whose bigger part is silent on this issue due to many reasons! ... talk like a man instead insulting and retaliation! Nation has issues which need to be answered instead of diverting their attention towards MQM using cheap comments! ...

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We have never talked against MQM: Asfandyar

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So you admit that the ANP/PPP/Army just surrendered the region to thugs? Good, MQM agrees too.

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Theres a lot of things I have seen in life but none are as hilarious as an MQM supporter trying to purify his party.

I dont know what gives any MQM voter self-righteousness. MQM are no better than the Taliban. Just because islamic extremism is hated in the international community, it does not mean that MQM racist policies are anywhere near good.

The problem is your living your life by defining what the powerful say is right and wrong, and not what actually is right and wrong. MQM has a history which is a smaller version of Nazism.

In a way the ANP are right - why are the MQM getting so bothered about what happens in Swat when they cant even take care of Karachi. But then again in the long-run the MQM have every right to be angry as the taliban will use swat to spread and their actvities in Karachi will increase. more so because Karachi has a large population of people from Swat and the tribal belt, the current breeding grounds of the Pakistani Taliban.

*Its funny how none of you can see what the game is. Cry Taliban and receive more funds. Musharaf and the Army made a packet from this game, at the cost of peoples lives. It looks like the ANP/PPP are using the same tactic to receive extra funding, which the public wont see at all. The MQM are also crying Taliban so the USA will give them money to strengthen "law and order". *

*No wonder the Taliban are allowed to spread - for some its good business. *

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anp, mqm, pml,ppp.. let them fight against each other liek rabid dogs. They may not realize but it is not longer the days of past where all u need to do was finger pointing and having internal dheenga mushti...there are real threats, and that is the best they can do?
shameful pathetci behavior. Everytime I watch Geo or Ary and these talk shows with assorted jokers from assorted parties posturing like phannay khan, I just want to reach in and just pimp slap them.

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You just love contradicting yourself in every one of your paragraphs. Swat matter is of great concern to people of urban Sindh, but also rural Sindh, as the stated goal of TTP/TNSM is to spread their terror through the sword.

Who would be foolish enough to think that jihadi mentality stops at the border of Pakhtunkhwa?

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Certainly... Apparently, the brave Pashtun party is cowardly where it truly matters. It speaks volumes for them to actually play this as a victory..

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Lets hope that turns out to be the case.. But whats the point of a peace, when the entire region is effectively a seperate state unto itself?!?! It has its own army, its own legal system, and the Pakistani state has no writ what so ever..

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They surrendered karachi to MQM and it's thugs a long time ago, with no-go areas and the fact that nothing gets done without altaf bhai's storm troopers' consent...why should malakand be any different...

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Karachi is free. In fact, people from other parts of Sindh and rest of Pakistan come to Karachi to escape their own sufferings every single day. Try to go to Swat or FATA and see how welcomed you are.

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^ not to go too far off topic, but thats a misleading argument. People flocked to Karachi in the 90s too, when it was one of the most violent parts of Pakistan. People dont come to Karachi for the 'freedom', they come there for the economic oppurtunities.

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Because the goons in Karachi are not a threat to anyone outside Pakistan, or for that matter anyone outside Karachi really. They are not launching attacks on NATO forces next door

That is why it should be any different

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Actually our minds are so much diluted by this corrupted media that being Muslims we see these things as brutality and insanity. I am sure you all would know about Hadood Ordinance (Zina Bil Raza)? Did media raise this issue? This ordinance was a pill of poison to our system and society and most Pakistnais of westernised Ideology wellcomed this ordinance.

Where were your expressions and Pakistani media at the time when they, The Zionist US and NATO, bombard Bajaur in a wedding ceremony and killed more than 40 people, 27 of them were children alone and the rest were women and they said, there were Talibans. Where is Justice? Where are the human rights now? Where were the President of Pakistan? Who himself was condemning this act in Swat and delayed in signing the peace deal, which the people of swat demanded. Where is a so called Democracy?

I don't know whether you people are aware of the Black Banner Army before the emergence of Imam Al-Mahdi and as prophesised by our Propht PBUH in numerous Hadiths and that army, for a reason, would consist of these Great Pashtun people.

If one can dehumanize Pakistanis it is easy to kill them with drones and bombs. If one can show that the Pashtun are ruthless, it is easier to murder them via remote control.

As the end of times is near, the Genocide of these Pashtuns are hitting peak both in Pakistan and Afghanistan and which looks like a part of the scheme for the arrival of Anti-Christ(Dajjal) and I feel pitty and shamefull that my fellow Pakistanis so called Muslims fell victims to the media and are moaning like pigs against their own people in support of their westernised Ideas and NATO.

You are those, who sit infront of their PCs all the time, browsing here and there, licking the toes of western controlled medias and on the basis of that, type in some useless, baseless and idiotic comments to make themselves happy as to, they have done a great deal of favor to Pakistan and Islam.

Shame on you people.

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Economic freedom is very much related to human freedom. Their are also many cases of rural Sindhis and others coming to Karachi for escape potential honour killing threats from their families.

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So has the taliban police been inducted into the state apparatus or are they already defying this so called “peace” deal?

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

Swat’s Taliban expand operations

  • Set up checkposts in Swat
  • Start patrolling in Buner as policemen stop performing duties

LAHORE: After a peace deal with the NWFP government, the Swat Taliban are expanding their operations into nearby regions.

Dozens have been streaming into the Buner district to take over mosques and government offices, BBC reported.

On Tuesday, local sources told Daily Times the Taliban were patrolling bazaars in some tehsils of the Buner district. They said armed Taliban were guarding the entry and exit points of Gadezai, Salarzai and Ghashezi tehsils and other areas of the district.

Checkposts: The Taliban have also set up ‘checkposts’ in Kanga Gul village on Malakand’s border, at Naway Dhand village on the border of Mardan and Tutalai village on the border of Swabi district, they added. Policemen have stopped attending their duties in the district.

**Also on Tuesday, Taliban kidnapped four men including servants of ANP leader Afzal Khan Lala from Drashkhela area of Matta tehsil of Swat.
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Armed Taliban are patrolling Kabal, Matta, Charbagh, Khawzakhela, Shamozo, GT Road and Qambar and have set up checkposts in many areas. They have also set up courts in Imamdheri Markaz in Swat which are deciding cases. **They also presented four soldiers kidnapped from Khawazakhela tehsil of Swat. They were identified as Lieutenant Najam, Lieutenant Junaid, Naik Shahid Rehman and Lance Naik Shakeel. **daily times monitor/staff report