142 Al-Qaeda militants enter India
Islamabad: Daily Jasarat, May 05, 2010. 142 al-Qaeda militants have entered India, even though Indian intelligence agencies continue to refute the development. According to media reports, they have infiltrated India's western coastline in Sri Lankan fishing boats. It is reported that thirty al-Qaeda men have infiltrated Rajasthan, fourteen in Uttar Pradesh, 15 in Hyderabad, 12 in Maharashtra, and about forty into southern states. Indian security forces in Indian occupied Kashmir killed two terrorists recently. Meanwhile, Hyderabad police arrested 34 year old Lashkar-e-Tayeeba activist Mohammad Ziaul-Haqu from Andhra-Karnataka coastal region and recovered a Chinese pistol, ammunition and a mobile phone from him.
Taliban have entered United States
Peshawar: Daily Jasarat, May 06, 2010. At last, Americans have admitted that the Taliban has entered US and other Western countries, as evidenced in the failed terror attack in Times Square in New York. Taliban has also begun organizing camps to train terrorists from Europe and India. They especially attract a growing body of youth that that blames the United States for waging war against Islam.
Taliban set up parallel judiciary
Peshawar: Daily Khabrain/Ausaf, May 06, 2010. Taliban refuses to surrender before the Pakistan Army in Orakzai, and in fact, has set up parallel Shariah Courts. The group cut the hands of three suspected thieves in district Kohat. Amal Khan, a local activist, said that the Taliban has captured judicial courts in many villages and is killing opponents in the name of Islamic judicial mandate.
Taliban Laboratory: A profile of the Orakzai Agency
Peshawar: Deenislam.com, May 04, 2010. Orakzai is one of the seven agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas or FATA. It is the only agency that does not share a border with Afghanistan, and until a couple of years ago, was almost untouched by Taliban activity. Of the nearly five lakh tribesmen residing in Orakzai, 20 percent follow Shiite Islam. One fifth of the population is dependent on narcotics trade and an equal number works in the Persian Gulf. The agency is surrounded by Kohat, Hungu, Khyber, and Kurrum Agency and is 140 kilometers away from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.
Shia-Sunni communal tensions have increased in the past few years. Even though Taliban commander Mawlana Mohammad Nabi Hanfi alias 'Nabi Mullah' has surrendered to the government, and Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistan Taliban's leader killed last year, Orakzai has become a safe refuge for insurgents feeling military operations elsewhere.
Pakistan Foreign Minister calls on Kashmiri leaders
Islamabad: Daily Ausaf/Jasarat, May 06, 2010. Pakistan External Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has termed Kashmir as a basic element of Pakistan's foreign policy and wants to resolve it peacefully. He expressed differences with Musharraf's policy of back channel diplomacy and expressed confidence on a new relation with Kashmiri leadership. He pledged separatist leaders support on the issue of plebiscite.
Sayed Ali Gilani writes to OIC
Muzaffarabad, PoK: Daily Ausaf, May 03, 2010. In a letter to the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), leading Kashmiri separatist leader Sayyed Ali Shah Gillani urged the body to give greater support to the Kashmiri cause. He highlighted that even though the entire South Asian region wholeheartedly supports the movement for Palestine's independence, OIC members still refrain from openly raising the Kashmir issue.
Allah will punish those who burned Jamaat-i-Islami's flag
Karachi: Daily Jasarat, May 04, 2010. Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Hamidullah Khan said that those involved in the recent burning of the party's flags will be punished by Allah, and accused them of pleasing Americans and the Ahmadiya community. He was addressing a JI rally held in Karachi.
Shahid Raheem is a media researcher with ORF |
