Re: I know who are behind blasts
Than why did she put so many lives at stake???
Re: I know who are behind blasts
BB is for hire by anyone that can pay including the Americans and the Indians.
Re: I know who are behind blasts
Who are Pakistanis?
Re: Benazir accuses supporters of Zia-ul-Haq of being behind this latest atrocitymer
Dr Shahid Masood asked Ejaz Haq last night if one of the 3 names Benazir sent Mush was his...?
I think it's foolish to think Ejaz would plan something like this now...
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I think it's foolish to think Ejaz would plan something like this now...
True. I think someone like Hamid Gul is more likely suspect.
Re: Benazir accuses supporters of Zia-ul-Haq of being behind this latest atrocity[mer
http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/24/top7.htm
PPP denies blaming CMs, IB chief
By Ashraf Mumtaz
In what appears to be a shift in Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) stand, Benazir Bhutto’s security adviser Rehman Malik said on Tuesday that the party had not accused the chief ministers of Punjab and Sindh or the director-general of Intelligence Bureau of masterminding the Oct 18 bomb blasts in Karachi. Talking to Dawn, he said the party was awaiting the outcome of police investigations into the incident. Mr Malik and PPP president Makhdoom Amin Fahim are reported to be holding talks with the government on the formation of a caretaker set-up to supervise the general elections.** “We have not mentioned any names in the FIR lodged with police. We have not accused the Punjab and Sindh chief ministers or the head of Intelligence Bureau of planning the tragic incident. We have also not said anything against the former NAB deputy chairman. All press reports in this regard are speculative and baseless,” said the PPP leader.**
Asked who could be involved in the incident, Mr Malik said the PPP was waiting for the result of police investigations. He said a number of innocent people and policemen had been killed in the incident and, therefore, the party would urge the government to investigate the matter properly. “The government should ensure that such tragic incidents do not take place in the future.” About the names of people Ms Bhutto had reportedly mentioned in her letter to President Gen Pervez Musharraf ahead of her arrival in Pakistan, Mr Malik said she had expressed apprehensions that some people could try to assassinate her. However, he claimed that no names had been mentioned. Mr Malik said nobody had claimed responsibility for the Oct 18 blasts, and since Baitullah Mehsud and Taliban had also denied any role, it would be easier for police to apprehend the culprits. He said he himself was in contact with the interior secretary to know if there was any progress in the investigations. He said the party was also investigating the matter on its own.
He called for a ‘ceasefire’ among all parties, saying that nobody should level allegations against anybody. “The country needs a consensus and instead of making allegations and counter-allegations, we should wait for the police report on the incident.” He said PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif should be allowed to return and participate in politics for the sake of national reconciliation. He said Gen Musharraf had advised the PPP chairperson to delay her return to Pakistan ‘for security reasons’. He said so far the PPP had not told the government which party leader should head the caretaker set-up.
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*. All press reports in this regard are speculative and baseless,” said the PPP leader. *
This is exactly what I have been saying.
Re: Benazir accuses supporters of Zia-ul-Haq of being behind this latest atrocitymer
^ Then who are these three people she suspects of being involved in the Oct. 18 tragedy? She was saying all this on BBC TV. I think she's just back tracking now. Don't give her more credit than she deserves. She is one ruthless, cunning and conniving lady, a liar who will use every option to capture power thru the back door.
Re: Benazir accuses supporters of Zia-ul-Haq of being behind this latest atrocity[mer
^ Then who are these three people she suspects of being involved in the Oct. 18 tragedy? She was saying all this on BBC TV. I think she's just back tracking now. Don't give her more credit than she deserves. She is one ruthless, cunning and conniving lady, a liar who will use every option to capture power thru the back door.
GA Bhaijan, with BB one can never be sure which three people she meant. The names could change as quickly as Pakistani openers? Now that Imran Khan has blamed BB for the blasts, maybe she will name him as one of the culprits as well. :)
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\25\story_25-10-2007_pg3_1
Real threat to the BB-PPP
New revelations now point directly to Taliban-Al Qaeda as the origin of threat to the PPP leader Ms Benazir Bhutto. This confirms a Daily Times report on October 5 that she would be attacked by elements from the Tribal Areas that serve Al Qaeda. Indeed, even on October 19, the day after the attack, Daily Times’ lead story pointed the finger at Al-Qaeda. We now learn that a letter posted in Rawalpindi received in the Bar Council room in Islamabad by Ms Bhutto’s lawyer has threatened her with death while announcing that the writer is “the head of suicide-bombers and a friend of Al Qaeda and Osama”. There is more evidence incriminating Al Qaeda. A mysterious car found at the place of the October 18 blasts in Karachi has been traced by the authorities to the Tribal Areas; three suspected occupants of a hotel in Larkana a day before the arrival of Ms Bhutto have been arrested and one of them is an Afghan national. In Mardan, a similar group led by an “Afghan national” has also been apprehended. Forensic and terrorism experts in the Karachi administration have appeared on TV to say that the October 18 blasts were similar to the eight earlier cases of terrorism in Karachi which were cracked and the culprits apprehended. It was disclosed that the manual trigger for causing explosion used by one suicide-bomber on Shara-e-Faisal was also similar to the ones used in earlier cases. The Taliban-Al Qaeda signature was thus unmistakable.
Accordingly, the PPP has wisely revised its threat perception in light of the new information. Mr Rehman Malik, who is Ms Bhutto’s security adviser, said on Tuesday: “We have not mentioned any names in the FIR lodged with police. We have not accused the Punjab and Sindh chief ministers or the head of the Intelligence Bureau of planning the tragic incident. We have also not said anything against the former NAB deputy chairman. All press reports in this regard are speculative and baseless”. Ms Bhutto is also rethinking her electioneering strategy and might agree to a new style of campaigning to minimise the risk of letting Al Qaeda succeed in its nefarious plans. As the PPP is busy negotiating an interim set-up with the government, the new dimension to her threat perception should be helpful.
There is a tendency in Pakistan to understand Taliban and Al Qaeda separately, in line with the strategy used by the two to hide the joint use they make of funds and weapons at their disposal. What happens in Pakistan is also coordinated with what the Taliban are doing in Afghanistan although it is also “received wisdom” unfortunately that our Taliban are “different” from the Afghan Taliban. But the fact is that the Taliban act as one and Al Qaeda serves as the cement that binds the two. The bombing of girls’ schools have taken place simultaneously in areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan where there was a firmly established local tradition to educate girls. And the bombings in the Tribal Areas and the NWFP have paralleled the bombings in Herat where the Taliban tried but failed to ban female education when they were in power. Our short public memory has set aside the almost daily reports after 2001 that many of Pakistan’s sectarian organisations were serving the cause of Al Qaeda; and there was a blanket name, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, given to the large number of Pakistanis who were being funded by Osama bin Laden. The beheadings and the suicide-bombings had begun then and carried the Al Qaeda signature. Money was behind the manufacture of suicide-bombers. This money is being paid to the organisers and the minders of the bombers while the bombers themselves are supposed to be moved exclusively by religious passion. In this context, we might recall the statement of the Lal Masjid cleric Rashid Ghazi that he could convert an acolyte into a suicide-bomber in thirty minutes.
As for “negotiating” with those behind the Talibanisation of Pakistan, which some well meaning but clueless people advocate, the time for that is long over. Indeed, a majority of commentators who recommend “negotiation” do not care even to spell out the limits of this parley. From the position of weakness that Pakistan occupies vis-à-vis Al Qaeda, such “negotiation” is bound to revolve on whether or not Pakistan will accept the transformation of the territory lost by it and sit back while the Taliban extend their Islamic character to the rest of our lands. Thus by chiming in with the public passion in Pakistan today, the biggest “conditionality” in this “negotiation” will come to relate to a change in Pakistan’s foreign policy with adverse impact on our national interest. Of course, a corollary to this “conditionality” would be the exclusion of the PPP from any Pakistani negotiating team. And that cannot be acceptable in any transition to democracy in the country. *
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Now another amazing back track by the PPP. Has BB not said over and over again that the Taliban were a threat to her?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\26\story_26-10-2007_pg7_18
Taliban pose no threat to Bhutto, says PPP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party on Thursday ruled out any threat to its chairwoman Benazir Bhutto by Pakistani Taliban and extremist religious elements. “Pakistan Taliban and religious fundamental elements pose no threat to Bhutto. We’ve already conveyed our concerns about her security to the president,” said PPP-Parliamentarians Secretary General Raja Pervez Ashraf told reporters at the party’s media centre. He said Bhutto had blamed no one for the bombing in the letter and the names reported by the press were just the ‘guess work’.