The guy doing the robbery looks sindhi (not that it matters).
Looks more like Farooq Sattar to me.
Re: Taliban, Karachi and Banks
[note] People please stick to the topic. khoji being anti mqm doesn't mean he is against all Urdu speaking people.[/note]
Re: Taliban, Karachi and Banks
Back to reality. Karachi has become taliban vacation spot as they can hide in certain areas with ease. This also proves that drone attacks work, as they are all trying to run away from such attacks.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Taliban heading to Karachi for safety
- Taliban member says they come in different batches to Karachi to rest, seek money, get medical treatment
KARACHI: Taliban fighters seeking money, rest and refuge from US missile strikes are turning up in increasing numbers in Karachi, according to the Taliban, police officials and an intelligence memo.
The Taliban presence in the port city shows how quickly their influence is spreading throughout the country.
Karachi is critical because it is the main entryway for supplies headed to US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and is the country’s financial hub.
Few believe the Taliban could actually take over Karachi, but there is fear that they could destabilise it through violence.
Although a modern city by all standards, Karachi still remains the place where US journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and found beheaded in 2002. Al Qaeda operatives including suspected September 11 attack plotter Ramzi Binalshibh have been arrested from the city, which is believed to have been a launching pad for the attackers who killed 164 people in the Mumbai attacks. As the military intensifies its attacks in the north and the US continues with missile attacks, more Taliban are seeking safety in Karachi and other urban areas, their member said.
Batches:** “We come in different batches to Karachi to rest and if needed, get medical treatment, and stay with many of our brothers who are living here in large numbers,” 32-year-old Taliban Omar Gul Mehsud told AP.**
Shah Jahan, a 35-year-old who said he commands about 24 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan Agency, said the Taliban were scattering throughout Pakistan to avoid the US missile strikes. He said groups of 20 to 25 fighters would fight for a few months, then take leaves of up to one month in cities including Karachi.
“We are more alert and cautious following the drone attacks, and we understand that it is not a wise approach to concentrate in a large number in the war-torn areas,” he said.
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On the outskirts of Karachi, large settlements of Afghan refugees and displaced Pakistani have swelled over the past year by as many as 200,000 people. These refugees and IDPs are mostly Pashtun. An intelligence report obtained by the AP warned that such neighbourhoods had become favoured hideouts for the Taliban linked to Baitullah Mehsud.**
The report from the police’s special branch said Mehsud-linked terrorists were arriving in batches of 20 to 25 every 30 to 35 days “for rest as well as for generating funds”. It added that the Taliban made money “through criminal activities like kidnapping for ransom, bank robbery, street robbery and other heinous crimes”.
The Sohrab Goth neighbourhood is next to Super Highway, a major thoroughfare for materials heading to Afghan-based US and NATO forces. Past ethnic violence in the area, including as recently as December, has led to shutdowns of the highway.
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Senior police officer Raja Omar Khattab said investigations showed earth-excavation companies owned by members of the Mehsud tribe were helping fund the Taliban.**
“Forcibly or voluntarily, they are bound to pay 40 percent of their earnings to Baitullah because they belong to that tribe and they are concerned about their survival and their links to their tribe,” he said.
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AD Khwaja, another senior police official, said up to a third of Karachi bank robberies in the past two or three years were believed to have helped fund terrorist groups, including the Taliban.**
Analysts, political leaders and security officials agree that the Taliban have a network in Karachi, but differ on their actual numbers and the immediacy of the threat.
Khwaja estimated hundreds of Taliban, while leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement said the Taliban presence was in thousands, warning that the Taliban could find support among the countless students who attend Karachi’s 3,000 madrassas. ap
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Local al-Qaeda leader arrested in Karachi
Local al-Qaeda leader arrested in Karachi
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They need to make it illegal for 4 or more men to live together. Bust their hide-outs by following people after they leave the hospital, and anyone getting any medical treatment needs to show serious documentation that they're Pakistani.
They so much as have an accent when they talk, they need to be scanned and go through a full security check at the hospitals.
A lot of medical care in Karachi is provided pro bono - these hell-bound khambakhats don't even stop taking advantage of the goodness of the Karachiitte people. Today they get free med care from Karachi and live in its sanctuary only to bomb it tomorrow? Karachi gov't needs to get some serious security measures in place. They'd catch more people that way.
They need to make it illegal for 4 or more men to live together. Bust their hide-outs by following people after they leave the hospital, and anyone getting any medical treatment needs to show serious documentation that they're Pakistani.
They so much as have an accent when they talk, they need to be scanned and go through a full security check at the hospitals.
A lot of medical care in Karachi is provided pro bono - these hell-bound khambakhats don't even stop taking advantage of the goodness of the Karachiitte people. Today they get free med care from Karachi and live in its sanctuary only to bomb it tomorrow? Karachi gov't needs to get some serious security measures in place. They'd catch more people that way.
mashaAllah :)
"these" people are not all Taliban, unless you and Mustafa Kamal can prove it. the day we start labeling criminal elements of our society as their ethnicity, and assume the entire ethnic group is like that, we'll officially be a divided society and sad to say this but Mayor of Karachi has been doing exactly that. if beard, topi, and a different accent was to become the definition of being a taliban a whole lot of us are in trouble.
"these" people are Pakistani until otherwise proven and Karachi is every Pakistani's city just as lahore/islamabad or any other city is. so please, enough with the "we vs. them" we're all one.
these criminals and others like them need to be arrested, prosecuted, and served justice regardless of caste/color/race/creed/origin and/or political affiliation. period.
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^ spot on.
I am tempted to believe that the post you quote was an attempt at satirising american right wingers who advocate the same policies for Muslims/Mexicans.