The PKMAP is a staunchly nationalist Pakhtun party, so these comments by it’s Senator reflect that his people know the government was right on this count.
Bajaur divides Senate across party lines
The Senate resumed debate on the Bajaur and Dargai incidents on Tuesday with some treasury members joining the opposition’s demand for a parliamentary and judicial inquiry into the Bajaur madrassa airstrike. A rift was witnessed among the opposition parties when the Pukhtoonkhawa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) backed President General Pervez Musharraf’s decision of launching a crackdown on madrassas and the airstrike on the madrassa suspected of being a training camp for militants in Bajaur Agency. The PkMAP’s Raza Muhammad Raza criticised previous government’s for supporting jihadis in Afghanistan and claimed that he had evidence of a “terrorist network” set up by Pakistani secret agencies in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion. He said that terrorists had used mosques and madrassas as sanctuaries and 80,000 foreigners had been employed by the “terrorist network” to execute the policies of the Pakistani secret agencies. “Maulvi Liaqat (caretaker of the bombed madrassa in Bajaur Agency) was a terrorist. He had links with Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahri. The same network is responsible for the suicide attack at Dargai,” he said, adding that terrorists would have become more powerful than the state if Musharraf had not initiated a military campaign against them. Raza supported the presence of allied forces in Afghanistan, saying that the coalition forces were in Afghanistan under a UN mandate and that intervention in Afghanistan’s affairs must be stopped to bring peace to the war-ravaged country.
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Spot on mAd_ScIeNtIsT. Let us also remember that the Pukhtoonkhawa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) is a consistently anti-military party, so the it’s comments are more interesting and noteworthy.
Now even residents in the tribal area’s are voicing what so many of us said at the time of the Bajur attack, namely of the activities of these militant groups in the area.
Teenaged boys being ‘trained’ by militants
The residents of the Frontier Region Dara Adamkhel have expressed concern about the future of their school-going children who are allegedly taken to an undisclosed location by a militant group preaching `hatred-based’ education. According to the information gathered from the tribal area, many boys aged between 13 and 20 are taken for some time to the base camp of the unidentified militant group. Parents complained that the self-styled champions of morality, who have become active in Dara Adamkhel for the past few months, had taken children from schools and streets to the unknown location. The parents and community people fear that their children may be motivated for training on subversive activities. Sources said that the group had focused its attention on schools to collect the children. Recently, two children were picked up from a school in the town. The boys came back after spending over 20 days at the unknown place. Locals said that Dara Adamkhel had become a hub of militants’ activities and they had established their presence particularly in the villages perched along the rugged mountains. The militants warned people in some localities against sending their girls to schools and asked barbers not to shave off their customers’ beards. The barbers have put such notices at their shops.
The sources said that the group had increased their activities in four localities – Bazi Khel, Shiraki, Bosti Khel and Zore Kali – where they attracted teenaged boys to take them along. “Unidentified people picked up my nephew, a sixth class student, from his school. He returned home after three weeks,” said a tribesman. “We can’t challenge the powerful extremists who enjoy all kinds of facilities. Even the local administration condones their training activities,” complained a perturbed parent. “The boy does not tell us much about the activities of his captors. He keeps silent. He has not divulged anything about the mysterious people,” he said. The sources said that the family members of some missing children had even gone to the North and South Waziristan Agencies and other areas in search of their sons. “I have searched various areas in the North, South Waziristan and Frontier Region Tank to find my child. I have also sought help from militants, but they have refused to share my worries. They asked me to leave the area,” said a father.
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You mean Muhajirs (or MQM) also strap bomb and blow themselves up to kill innocent men, women, and children worshiping in mosque or involved in their daily life, having no enmity with Muhajirs (or MQM)?
If Muhajirs (or MQM) are doing that then they are also terrorists, but I have never heard that anyone other then retarded terrorist Mullahs do that. This self-destruction kama-kazi behaviour of blowing oneself into pieces to kill others is envious trademark and distinction of retarded terrorist Mullahs and their mentally handicap terrorist stooges.
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More evidence on the terroristic behaviour of militants in Bajur.
Jamaat threatens to disrupt by-poll in Bajaur Agency
A jirga organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday threatened to besiege the homes of candidates taking part in a by-election for the National Assembly seat from Bajaur Agency vacated by Sahibzada Haroonur Rashid in protest against an airstrike on a madrassa in which more than 80 people were killed a few weeks ago. The jirga demanded the government cancel the by-election and warned that the tribesmen would destroy ballot boxes at the polling stations if the election were conducted. The jirga warned people against filing nomination papers for the constituency, saying that those participating in the election would be considered enemies of the madrassa air raid victims. Addressing the jirga, former MNA Haroonur Rashid said that he had promised the people of his constituency that he would avenge “the blood of martyrs” and had resigned from the National Assembly in protest against the airstrike. He said that the government had announced a by-election in the area to divert people’s attention and urged the people not to participate in the polling.
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I do not support killing of civilians, bombing schools ie application of unneccessary force. Then again, both sides are guilty of the same crime. Every day we hear of so-called 'American agents' killed, attack on military garrisons, convoys, President, PM, core commander, public schools, foreign workers etc etc. Now if there is a setup involved in anti-state activities that can threaten its jurisdiction and endanger the lives of its citizens then state can and does exercize force.
Instead of focusing on one event, it would be better if we considered all facts and history of events. Its quite clear that the state of Pakistan is reaping what it had sowed, but then again does that mean state sud do nothing or take action?
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If Muhajirs (or MQM) are doing that then they are also terrorists, but I have never heard that anyone other then retarded terrorist Mullahs do that. This self-destruction kama-kazi behaviour of blowing oneself into pieces to kill others is envious trademark and distinction of retarded terrorist Mullahs and their mentally handicap terrorist stooges.
Good points. It must also be noted that in their pusuit against MQM terrorists the Sindhi PM Benazir and her Pashtun Interior Minister Naserullah Babar ordered the slaughter of thousandsof innocent Mohajirs between 1993 and 1996. In fact their operation in Karachi was many times the scale (in death and destruction) of all the actual anti-terrorist operations carried out by the Musharraf govts since '99.
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No one has killed more mohajir's than the MQM.
The Karachi operation by BB and Gen.Babar saved Karachi from the rampaging terrorists's. Something those who live in Karachi are grateful for.
Sounds familiar, same language used by Bush & Co to justify their actions in Iraq. Facts are very different, Today Iraq is in tatters and Mqm continues to dominate Karachi and urban Sindh. On the one hand, RD u condemn action taken by the state in Bajaur yet find justice in Karachi, what happened to the priniciple of universality?
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For your information, I hate MQM terrorists. But it does not get away from the fact that the PPP government became notorious the world over for it's extra-judicial killings, mass torture, and kidnapping of thousands of innocent Mohajirs. It was we ordinary Mohajirs that got caught in the cross fire of a historical ethnic-political feud between the racist Sindh waderi Benazir, backed by her Pashtun butcher Babar (who personally stood over the bodies of dead Mohajirs) against the facist Altaf and his MQM gangsters.
I wonder why they support this action.