Shias were dropping bombs on Taliban in Parachinar??? That is a pathetic excuse for this savage behaviour by your boys.
^Neither are worthy of kind words. No one is following the rules.
On the one hand, US calls it a War, then why be surprised when you suffer casualties? On the other hand, they say Taliban are regrouping and attacking. Isn't that what happens during the war?
Sad to say, too many innocent civilians (shia, sunni, kids, elderly, tribals, pakistanis), who have nothing to do with this are often and usually caught in the crossfire. Life has no value anymore :( it's simply termed 'Collateral Damage'. And same goes for Taliban too, they too commit heinous acts which are not permissible in any form of Islam, no matter how you interpret it.
How is this related to US war? How can you term these Shia truck drivers collateral damage in the cross fire? This is barbaric savagery by Sunni Taliban again Shia tribals inside Pakistan. No need to bring the big bad USA in this discussion to excuse the savagery.
Re: How taliban treat shia in pakistan
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is against the Taliban and for stability. The Taliban is fighting for instability, any member furthering Afghanistan's movement towards stability is a legitimate target. From Truck drivers who deliver goods to teachers who teach girls. Truly barbaric.
This may be lil out of the context but want to share beautiful lyrics from a song:
Black eyed peas
What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek
Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)
It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations droppin' bombs
Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin'
in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all
People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek
Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)
I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' our wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality
Instead in spreading love we spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found
Re: How taliban treat shia in pakistan
firstly this is barbaric and perhaps the type of pretext required to systematically end the tribal culture by applying laws and guidelines to the tribal communities of pakistan.
tribalism is barbaric and the best short term answer is for a group such as the taliban to implement a set of rules to control its tribal population (but i guess you know what the tribals will do to anyone that breaks these rules!)
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is against the Taliban and for stability. The Taliban is fighting for instability, any member furthering Afghanistan's movement towards stability is a legitimate target. From Truck drivers who deliver goods to teachers who teach girls. Truly barbaric.
These truck drivers were taking supplies to Parachinar which is in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. The supplies were meant for the local population which happen to be mostly shia. They have been under a blockade by the sunni Taliban for a while as the only road to Parachinar goes through Taliban controlled area. This had nothing to do with Afghanistan or US or war on terror.
Here is a report about the situation in Parachinar.
Afghanistan sends medical aid to Kurram Agency
Bureau Report
PESHAWAR, July 8: The Afghan government has sent life-saving drugs and surgical equipment to avert a humanitarian crisis in the strife-torn Parachinar and other parts of the Kurram Agency, where hospitals are running short of medicines because of a nine-month-old blockade of the area by local Taliban militants.
Sources said that President Hamid Karzai had sent the medicl consignment valued at Rs8 million to Parachinar, the agency’s headquarters, on humanitarian grounds. It was handed over to tribal elders on Tuesday on behalf of the Afghan president.
Hospitals in the Kurram Agency are facing an acute shortage of medicines and people injured in clashes and other patients could not be taken to Peshawar and other parts of the country because of the closure of the main Thall-Parachinar road by Taliban.
Doctors at the Agency Headquarters Hospital feared that any further delay in the supply of medicines and essential equipment could create a humanitarian crisis. Sources said the government was yet to take affective measures to open the main road for resumption of supplies of medicines and essential commodities to the area.
The main road, the only supply line, has remained blocked since November following clashes in the area and the Afghan government has allowed the people stranded in Parachinar and other parts of the Kurran Agency to travel to Peshawar via Afghanistan.
A convoy carrying food items was attacked by Taliban militants near Sadda town last month. The militants killed 12 drivers and set 14 trucks on fire.
Afghanistan sends medical aid to Kurram Agency -DAWN - National; July 09, 2008