The Name is Khan, Taliban Khan

By Anas Abbas

Source: Dawn

If nothing else we Pakistani agree on one thing. Whatever little hope there appears is the last hope. A recent example of this was the invention of water as fuel for cars, which soon came crashing down. When we are too desperate for hope that is what happens. We believe it even if all evidence goes against it. But desperation is such a state that never lets a people learn. They bow down to miracles of crackpots just so that things change without their having to invest in knowledge and scientific progress.

Lately Pakistani urban youth has obsessed with another “Last Hope” who is an ideological lapdog of Hamid Gul and Jamaat-e-Islami whose looks and past athletic achievements are

Origin of Pakistani Taliban

The following is an excerpt from the book Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

 

The Taliban’s new model for a purist Islamic revolution has created

immense repercussions, in Pakistan and to a more limited extent in the

CentralAsianRepublics. Pakistan, an already fragile state beset by an

Peace deals signed by Pakistan with Terrorists in FATA

Sourced from Syed Saleem Shahzad’s book Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11.

Srarogha peace deal in February 2005.

It was a six-clause, written agreement which included:
• Baitullah and his group would neither harbor nor support any
foreign fighter in his area.

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Senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 – 2012

 

Sourced from: The Long War Journal 

 

Killed in 2012:

Abu Yahya al Libi
Abu Yahya was a Libyan citizen, and served as al Qaeda’s chief of staff and senior cleric and ideologue.
Date killed: June 4, 2012.

Abu Usman Adil
Abu Usman Adil was the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and spearhead the expansion of the group’s operations in Afghanistan.
Date killed: April 29, 2012.

Ahmedis versus the wrath of Pakistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Anas Abbas

Courtesy: Viewpoint

If you are an Ahmedi and by chance you are in Pakistan, the land of conspiracy theorists, non state actors and religious predators then please prepared to face the following:

• Religious and social oppression
• Discrimination and slander
• Grave evacuations
• Massacres and Illegal detentions
• Brutal tortures and extra-judicial murders
• Pogroms and state-sanctioned religious apartheid

Hazara holocaust and the deafening Pakistani silence by Anas Abbas

Courtesy: Viewpoint

In Pakistan, the non state actors who implement the policy of “Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die,” have been belligerently persecuting the Hazara community since 1998. A concise historical persecution account of the Hazara people was well documented by Dr Saleem Javed in his Friday Times article. He writes: “On July 4, 2003, 53 people died and 150 were hurt in a suicide attack on a Hazara mosque in Quetta. It was the first attack of its kind. Since then, more than 700 Shias, most of them Hazaras, have been killed in violent mass killings and suicide bombings in Balochistan”.