Journalist Hayatullah's murder...

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See why he was killed:

n his last assignment in the lawless tribal region of North Waziristan, Hayatullah Khan filed photos and a story indicating a U.S.-made Hellfire missile had struck a home in the town of Miran Shah, killing senior al-Qaeda figure Hamza Rabia. The story, which appeared in the widely read Urdu-language daily Ausaf, and the pictures, distributed by the European Pressphoto Agency, contradicted the Pakistani government’s official explanation that Rabia had died in a blast caused by explosives located in the house.

The next day, December 5, 2005, five gunmen ran Khan’s car off the road, abducting the journalist as his younger brother Haseenullah watched helplessly. Six months passed amid a swirl of rumors about Khan’s fate before the phone rang at his family’s home at 4:40 p.m. on June 16. A Pakistani intelligence officer identifying himself as Major Kamal said Khan’s body had been dumped in Miran Shah’s marketplace. With that, the officer said, his responsibility to the family had ended.

This is from pbs documentary, Return of Taliban.
An excerpt from Musharraf’s interview with Martin Smith.

MARTIN SMITH: Can I bring up the case of the journalist Hayat Ullah Khan? Are you familiar with him?

Pres. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: No.

MARTIN SMITH: He took the pictures of the U.S. missiles at the Abu Hamza-where he was killed. And those pictures were then shown, and then a few days after that, he disappeared. Journalists’ organizations, his family have all appealed to you to respond, to investigate. Are you familiar with this situation?

Pres. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: Not at all. And I don’t know at all. We don’t know about it. If he disappeared, well, he may have disappeared. I don’t know it.

MARTIN SMITH: But I am surprised that it’s not something you are aware of.

Pres. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: No, no. I am not really aware of.

NARRATOR: But after the next question, Musharraf seemed to know something about the case.

MARTIN SMITH: I was told by an American official that he was in Pakistani custody.

Pres. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: Not at all. That’s not the case.

When Bush was asked if Americans will go in Pak territory if they knew OBL was there, he twice replied, “Absolutely”. Even though it was denied by Pak, records inidicate that Pak does have such an agreement with the US.
Admitting publicly of American raid within Pak will be an embarassment to the government. This was precisely the reason why HAYATULLAH KHAN, a Journalist from Waziristan, was killed by notorious Army agencies.

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I am all for actions against extremism, but it does not mean that we give up our honor as a sovereign nation.
Killing of a journalist would have been a MAJOR PR disaster for a government in any developed country, but not in our country.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGASA330302005

On 3 July 2002, Hayatullah Khan was
arbitrarily arrested by US personnel after trying to interview guards at a US
camp in Afghanistan. When he showed his ID and press card, he and his two
guides and a driver were detained and accused of being informants for terrorist
organizations. They were interrogated by US and UK personnel, and Hayatullah
Khan’s address book containing telephone numbers of Afghan and Pakistani
religious leaders whom he had interviewed in the course of his journalistic
work was taken as evidence of his terrorist activities. During interrogation,
Hayatullah Khan was repeatedly told by US soldiers to “prepare to die”.
International organizations and Pakistani journalists lobbied against his
arbitrary detention. On 7 July the detainees were released but on his return to
Pakistan, Hayatullah Khan was detained for several hours by Pakistani
paramilitary forces and accused of providing US troops with information on the
movement of the Pakistani army.

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The agencies have been out of control, a usual.

Time for the rogue Army to become a professional Army again.

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he showed that pak army are bunch of cowards because outside armies come and kill their people and army sits with chooriyan on, and when they are exposed they take their anger out on inoocent journalist who was just doing his job!

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How can you blame the army, Army did what they are ordererd to do like a true professional army.
We have to blame the policy makers and not the executers.
Hidayatullah had nothing with Maj Kamal, Maj Sahab just obeyed the orders of someone.

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i am beginning to trust musharraf less and less as days go by.

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Do you think he got his orders from some political party? some local police authority? local wadera? local post-office? Of course he got his order from higher-up in the ARMY... so ARMY is to blame.

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good job paki army
keep killing your own people

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^ Bharatis need to stay out of this debate. They should clean their own mess in Kashmir, and try to be a real secular state.

ان سالے بھارتیوں کی وجھ سے ہی اردو میں لکھنا زیادہ بہتر ہوتا ہے

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What an excuse :rolleyes:

As another poster mentioned, the orders came from Army, Army does not listen to anoyone else

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If the ISI is so cunning, why did this major reveal his id and hence 'declare' it was all done by the army...? What good did that do to them...? Had they really been behind this murder, wouldnt they have been better off not leaving any clue...? there are 3 parties that should share the suspicion and it could have been either one.
btw, if 'ISI detains so many ppl wiothout trace' couldnt they have let him stay at some prison? the ISI hasnt killed big time alqaeda ppl or bombers, why they would kill this small time journalist who by choice took risks playing dangerous games? apparently for a fertile mind, late Hayatullah had become the greatest gravest threat tha just ad to be removed and then the ISI had to own the good deed too! God...

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How can you sau ISI hasn't killed any big time Al-Qaeda people?!

people such as yourself, with your pro-Army views would not believe it if they saw it in front of their own eyes

There are things in our country which we don't want to admit. Sometimes the truth hurts.

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Not really,
they got orders from Captain1,
Do you think they are operating in Waziristan by the orders of a local commander?
They are in Waziristan by a political decision. Now dont tell me that Musharaf is mil person. He takes political decisions and hardly has any time for military decisions.

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Whose "political decision" was it? A political party? Senate? National Assembly? Provincial Assembly? None but only military dictator's own, if he took the "political decision" to remove someone he still needs to order it, he may not have ordered which chopper, which bomb/missile/weapon to use during fighting/resistance but he wanted the "result".

PS: Refrain from personal attacks.

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who you calling an indian?

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Sorry if you are hurt.
You are right, a dictator is a dictator whether a military or civilian, hardly make any difference.
So you should blame Musharraf, his policies and his dictatorial role.
I have all my sympathies with that poor journalist but if there is one person to be blamed that is the policy maker and it is immaterial whether he is in uniform or in civvies.
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Whether the Pakistani Army killed the al-qaeda operative or the US , it does not make a difference, at the end of the day we got rid of a civillian terrorist. Pakistan Army supports US's War on terror whole hartedly. Pakistan Army will take every possible measure to make sure that terrorists and their sympathizers are dealt with an iron fist.

As it was mentioned on CNN's website , I hope the FBI and the CIA are still following this website.

Note To FBI and the CIA: Please take note, Most of The posters in this thread, are against president musharrafs tuff stance on terrorism. The sad and dangerous part is most of these posters are posting from western countries. These are the people you should be extreemly careful about. These are the so called "home grown terrorists". Effective intelligence and intense scrutiny of these Pakistanis will give you allot of viable information.

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:omg: :rotfl:

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i think every1 puts entire blame on ISI, but MI also are huge n these 2 work seperately, i think in this particular case MI might have been involved!

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Please dont assume that being pro-Mush or pro-Army means we're blindfolded or lack the capacity to reason. When the Army or Mush are at fault, they are clearly and openly condemned without bias.
However, the pro or anti stance is adapted only after good reasoning, and not just blindly...