Ulema or Terrorist?
Karachi: Karachi Updates, March 11, 2010. Sipah-i-Sahaba leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor, his two sons, and four prominent religious scholars, including Sayed Ahmad Jalalpuri, were killed in two separate terrorist attacks. Ahl-e-Sunnat wal-Jamaat accused Blackwater operatives of killing clerics who opposed the pro-US government of Asif Ali Zardari. Jamaat-i-Islami chief Munawwar Hussain, and JUI Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman criticised the government for treating all Islamic clerics as terrorists.
Osama’s secretary Abu Yahiya arrested
Karachi: Daily Jasarat, March 08, 2010. Intelligence agents in Karachi reportedly arrested Osama’s private secretary Abu Yahiya A’zam. Al-Qaeda commander Abu Yahiya was arrested from a building located near Sohrab Gotha and Nuriabad. Abu Yahiya, along with his two accomplices, was transferred to Islamabad for further interrogation. The high-profile terrorist leader was under the scanner of counter terrorist agencies in many countries.
Taliban claims attack on police investigation agency
Lahore: Daily Ausaf, March 09, 2010. A safe house of the police’s Special Investigation Agency was destroyed in a suicide blast at Model Town, killing 15 officials and three women and injuring six others. Tahreek-i-Taliban Pakistan immediately claimed responsibility, and vowed to continue attacks to take revenge against drone strikes.
Logic behind suicide attacks
Islamabad: Daily Nawa-i-Waqt/ Karachi updates, March 11, 2010. The history of suicide attacks began during the Second World War when Japanese fighter pilots flew their aircraft directly into their targets. Indian soldiers, strapped with bombs, also lay under Pakistani tanks during 1965 Indo-Pak war. Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was also killed by a suicide bomber in 1991. Iraqis started the tactic of suicide bombings soon after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Now Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq face increasing number of suicide attacks. Analysts claim that the basic strategy behind the bombing is to pressurise the government to change its policies.
Shahid Raheem is a media researcher with ORF |
