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The threat from madrassas
Vol. I Issue. XX
March 27, 2010
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Senior Taliban commander and Al-Qaida leader arrested
Karachi: Daily Ausaf/ Khabrain, March 27, 2010. Former shadow governor of the Afghan province of Oruzgan, Maulana Abdul Hai Salik, along with Misry Rais and Zaki Izzat were arrested in Karachi last evening. Intelligence officials confirmed that five kilograms of RDX, one laptop and important documents were also recovered. Abdul Hai readily accepted that he masterminded numerous attacks on US-NATO forces in Afghanistan. He is accused of leading attacks on Pakistani security forces after the death of Commander Nek Mohammad in a drone attack in 2004. The other arrested militant, Zaki Izzat is a known Egyptian millionaire who came to Afghanistan to fund al-Qaida.
Osama threatens to kill Americans held in Taliban's custody
Islamabad: Daily Jasarat/Jang, March 26, 2010. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin laden has warned in his latest audio massage that if 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad is executed, all Americans under Taliban's captivity will be killed. The audio massage aired by a Cairo based Arabic Channel accused US President Barack Hussein Obama of following the policies of George Bush by supporting Israeli expansion into Palestinian territories and waging war on the Muslim world.
Sayed Ali Gillani meets Pakistani leaders in Delhi
Muzaffarabad: Daily Khabrain / Deenislam.com, March 26, 2010. An All Party Hurriyat Conference delegation led by Chairman Sayed Ali Shah Gillani met Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Mallik in Delhi. Gillani demanded that Pakistan should raise the Kashmir issue and highlight human rights abuses committed by Indian security forces.
Gillani is also believed to have insisted on the demand for plebiscite to resolve the Kashmir dispute. Some of the Indian Muslim leaders are said to have supported the idea during dinner hosted by the High Commission.
'Mujahideen will win the Afghan & Kashmir war soon'
Karachi: Daily Jasarat, March 22, 2010. Spokesperson of Jamat-i-Islami Fareed Ahmad Paracha said that the Mujahideen of Afghanistan and Kashmir splintered Soviet Russia in the past and will similarly break America soon. He was addressing the Martyred conference held at Karachi. He also predicted defeat of Indian forces in Kashmir. He argued that in spite of 26 countries' presence in Afghanistan, the Taliban was still winning and pledged more sacrifices in the war against the 'infidel'.
Madrasas will overrun non Islamic outfits
Lahore: Daily / Nawa-i-Waqt, March 27, 2010. Jamat-i-Islami chief Sayed Munawwar Hussein said that nobody will be able to undo the Islamic principles of Pakistan and enslave it. He said that the students of madrasas will defeat the 'non-Muslim empires' and claimed that the huge following of Jamaat's 'Go America Go' agitation justifies the movement of the Afghan Taliban. The JI chief argued that America's technological superiority enabled it to defeat the communist ideology in the past; and that America now seeks to destroy the Islamic ideology. He also said that that American attempts to 'purchase' the Taliban will not succeed.
Foreign Minister has no parliamentary mandate on strategic issues
Islamabad: Daily Khabrain/ Deen-Islam.com, March 25, 2010. Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that the parliament had not appointed Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to spearhead the recently concluded Pak-America strategic dialogue and that he did not have the support of legislators. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan complained that the Foreign Office did not bother to take the establishments committee, external affair secretaries, and allied party leaders on the issue into confidence.
India conspiring Balochistan split
Islamabad: Daily Ausaf, March 23, 2010. Interior Minister Rehman Mallick has accused India of supporting separatists in Balochistan. He noted the new trend of targeted killing of non-Baloch residents. He said that the new government of Yousaf Raza Gilani was carrying out a program of reconciliation with the Baloch people. Rahman was briefing media persons on the subject of Indian involvement in Balochistan in Islamabad press club.
Shahid Raheem is a media researcher with ORF |
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