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Bol Ke Lab Azad Hain Tere – January, 2010

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Bol Ke Lab Azad Hain Tere – January, 2010

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  • afzaalkhan says:

    ARY: Nine killed in Lakki Marwat suicide attack

    At least nine people have been killed and another 20 wounded in a suicide attack here Friday evening, reported ARY NEWS.

    According to preliminary reports, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the outer wall of a ground in Shah Hassan Khail area.

    Nine deaths have so far been confirmed in the attack while more than 20 others were injured who were rushed to District Hospital and other nearby medical facilities.

    Police, other law enforcement agencies’ personnel and paramedics arrived at the scene soon after the attack and carried out emergency relief activities. The area has been cordoned off, it was reported.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Geo: Death toll in Laki Marwat blast climbs to 47

    LAKI MARWAT: At least 47 people were killed and several other wounded on Saturday after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a volleyball ground in Shah Hassankhel town of Laki Marwat.

    The blast took place at a time when a volleyball match was in progress at the targeted ground.

    Laki Marwat DPO Ayub Khan confirmed that 47 people had died in the deadly suicide attack.

    The DPO said the injured were shifted to the Laki Marwat District Hospital.

    According to reports a nearby house was also collapsed due to the blast.

    The Shah Hassankhel is said to be the hub of militants who were forced to flee the area with the help of peace committees.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @nota

    Geo group hai bhayya “aman ki aasha”. Geo ko phir doora para freindship ka. India isliye khara hota hai humarey sir par we keep dying for freindship. States donot have freindships they have mutual intersts. Pakistan and India has no mutual interests and frankly speaking I want to have complete cross border blockade on both sides. Only flying available. Jisko dostee ka shouq hai india ja ke rahey.

  • taukeer says:

    Ralph Nader of the Uncle Tom fame spelling it out for those who can’t see.

    Looks like Obama is going to be one term president. You heard it here first!!!

    Breaking With Obama?

    By Ralph Nader

    January 01, 2010 “Information Clearing House” — Those long-hoping, long-enduring members of the liberal intelligentsia are starting to break away from the least-worst mindset that muted their criticisms of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign.

    They still believe that the President is far better than his Republican counterpart would have been. Some still believe that sometime, somewhere, Obama will show his liberal stripes. But they no longer believe they should stay loyally silent in the face of the escalating war in Afghanistan, the near collapse of key provisions in the health insurance legislation, the likely anemic financial regulation bill, or the obeisance to the bailed out Wall Street gamblers. Remember this Administration more easily embraces bonuses for fat cats than adequate investment in public jobs.
    Of all the loyalists, among the first to stray was Bob Herbert, columnist for The New York Times. He wondered about his friends telling him that Obama treats their causes and them “as if they have nowhere to go.” Then there was the stalwart Obamaist, the brainy Gary Wills, who broke with Obama over Afghanistan in a stern essay of admonition.

    If you read the biweekly compilation of progressive and liberal columnists and pundits in The Progressive Populist, one of my favorite publications, the velvet verbal gloves are coming off.

    Jim Hightower writes that “Obama is sinking us into ‘Absurdistan.’” He bewails: “I had hoped Obama might be a more forceful leader who would reject the same old interventionist mindset of those who profit from permanent war. But his newly announced Afghan policy shows he is not that leader.”

    Wonder where good ol’ Jim got that impression—certainly not from anything Obama said or did not say in 2008. But hope dims the memory of the awful truth which is that Obama signed on to the Wall Street and military-industrial complex from the getgo. He got their message and is going after their campaign contributions and advisors big time!

    Norman Solomon, expressed his sharp deviation from his long-time admiration of the politician from Chicago. He writes: “President Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while delivering—to the world as it is—a pro-war speech. The context instantly turned the speech’s insights into flackery for more war.” Strong words indeed!

    Arianna Huffington has broken in installments. But her disillusionment is expanding. She writes: “Obama isn’t distancing himself from ‘the Left’ with his decision to escalate this deepening disaster [in Afghanistan]. He’s distancing himself from the national interests of the country.”

    John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine, was never an Obama fan and has been upset with what he calls “the liberal adoration of Obama.” In a piece for the Providence Journal, he cites some writers still loyal to Obama, such as Frank Rich of The New York Times, Hendrick Hertzberg of The New Yorker, and Tom Hayden, who are showing mild discomfort in the midst of retained hope over Obama’s coming months. They have not yet cut their ties to the masterspeaker of “Hope and Change.”

    Gary Wills has crossed his Rubicon, calling Obama’s Afghanistan escalation “a betrayal.” Wills is a scholar of both the Presidency and of political oratory (his small book on Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is a classic interpretation). So he uses words carefully, to wit: “If we had wanted Bush’s wars, and contractors, and corruption, we could have voted for John McCain. At least we would have seen our foe facing us, not felt him at our back, as now we do.”

    Rest assured the liberal-progressive commentariat has another two years to engage in challenge and chagrin. For in 2012, silence will mute their criticisms as the stark choices of the two-party tyranny come into view and incarcerate their minds into the least-worst voting syndrome (just as they have done in recent Presidential election years).

    It is hard to accord them any moral breaking point under such self-imposed censorship. Not much leverage in that approach, is there?

  • jazoo says:

    ISRAEL DENIES OPERATING ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

    AIMED AT UNITED STATES

    BBC Middle East

    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence. Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group’s links with Israel, a regional enemy of Yemen. The arrests were connected with an attack on the US embassy in Sanaa last month which killed at least 18 people, official sources were quoted saying.

    Israel’s foreign ministry has rejected the accusation as “totally ridiculous”.

    “A terrorist cell was arrested and will be referred to the judicial authorities for its links with the Israeli intelligence services,” Mr Saleh told a gathering at al-Mukalla University in Hadramawt province.

    “Details of the trial will be announced later. You will hear about what goes on in the proceedings,” he added.

    The 17 September attack was the second to target the US embassy since April. Militants detonated car bombs before firing rockets at the heavily fortified building.

    Mr Saleh did not identify the suspects, but official sources were quoted saying it was same cell – led by a militant called Abu al-Ghaith al-Yamani – whose arrest was announced a week after the attack.

    An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said the Yemeni president’s statement was without foundation.

    “To believe that Israel would create Islamist cells in Yemen is really far-fetched. This is yet another victory for the proponents of conspiracy theories,” Igal Palmor said in remarks reported by AFP.

  • jazoo says:

    U.S. – Israeli Complicity in Terror Plots Exposed, FBI, Media Cover-Up Flight 253 Plot

    01 Jan, 2010 OM Reporting Desk

    Uncomfortable facts are emerging from the terror plot on Delta Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit

    High-level help in yet another terror plot is emerging, along with U.S. F.B.I. and D.O.J. cover-up of the facts and outright involvement. History is rife with examples of intelligence agencies setting up terror plots – sometimes with unintended victims and consequences – and the Delta 253 terror plot is the latest such plot to have gone wrong.

    Evidence is mounting of U.S. and Israeli complicity [link] in this latest plot. The father Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab of the young terrorist, is an accomplished Nigerian banker [link] and ran the national arms industry (DICON) in patnership with Israel, Nigeria has extensive intelligence links to Israel [link].

    The young man, son of the above, who tried to blow up the plane is a 23 year old Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab; he has attended the British International School, Lome, Togo and studied engineering at the University College, London and was a master’s in international business degree student at the Dubai campus of an Australian University [link].

    A wife of his father, is from Yemen, and frequently travels to the United States, and Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab holds a Nigerian passport with a mutiple entry visa to the United States, which is valid until June 2010.

    The young man fell out with his father, and chose to visit Yemen and mix with islamist terrorists, to join with those he believed to be at the opposite end of his father’s allegiences (money, USA, banking, arms industry). He will not have known that those terrorists in Yemen are supported [link] by Israel’s MOSSAD.

    From there the young Mutallab sent a text message to his family in Nigeria renouncing them, which led his father, who is received as a VIP by the U.S. embassy in the capital Abuja, to visit that embassy to alert the U.S. of his son’s activities in Yemen, on November 19.

    As a result this information is shared by the U.S. embassy with U.S. agencies, resulting in the son being placed on a terror watch list. For this reason, the son cannot show that passport or he would be unable to board the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, where he flew after returning via Nigeria from Yemen.

    (It is claimed by U.S. media that in Yemen he even met up with some of those released [link] without charge from Guantanamo. 92% of those held and tortured by the U.S. for many years, were innocent of any terrorism, 6% were involved with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and at most 2% were said to have anything to do with Al-Qaida. We can trust the U.S. to have released any real terrorists, and to continue to hold any innocents.)

    Instead of thus trying to fly on his compromised passport, the disheveled and poor-looking Mutallab is escorted by an expensively clothed Indian-looking man of around 50 years of age, who tells the boarding gate check box that Mutallab is a Sudanese and needs to board without a passport, and that “we do this all the time.” Mutallab is silent and obedient, the Indian does all the talking.

    The check in staff at the gate, naturally refuses, but takes the pair away to see their superior to deal with this case, and the entire conversation up to that point was overheard, unfortunately for the conspirators as it turns out, by successful Michigan lawyer Kuret Haskell, who is sitting a few feet away with his wife Lori, on their way home to the U.S. after a visit to Africa.

    Naturally, as all things at European airports, all movements of all people are recorded on CCTV video, so it would be easy to track and identify the “Indian” accomplice of the bomber-to-be. Yet, as happened in London with the infamous 7/7 bombings, this material appears to be withheld from media and the public, and we are told to believe “authorities” there that there is no Indian and no accomplice.

    Remarkable too is that these security companies involved with European airports are often Israeli, and run by ex-military or ex-MOSSAD Israeli agents, on the pretext that the threat is from islamist terrorists, an area Israel has experience with, but which then does not allow for checks against Israeli MOSSAD “false flag” operations, with ever tighter measures implemented against the public.

    Meanwhile while the public is subjected to ever more discomforts and irrational fake security measures whilst keeping the terror threat alive, but military jets, private aircraft, and CIA-rented aircraft freely enter and leave European and other airports, often without any security checks or searches, with “VIP” passengers thus able to enter and leave countries often without any visa, as we learnt from the “extra-ordinary” rendition of U.S. abducted prisoners through Europe.

    Back to the terror plot under examination. Shortly after the young Mutallab terrorist and his wealthy VIP “Indian” handler disappeared down the corridor to see higher-ups, the passengers along with the Haskells, boarded the flight. As there was no delay for departure to wait for the terrorist, it is evident that clearing the terrorist with the higher-ups took a matter of a minute or so – the “Indian” obviously has a high-level pass (CIA, MOSSAD or high level security clout).

    Then the flight proceeds over the Atantic Ocean with no peculiar events, except for one man sitting somewhere in front of row 19 – the row the young terrorist is seated in – who films much of the flight on his cam corder, always facing back wards toward the terrorist, whom he is recording with extensive video footage. This passenger too, we are not told about, are not to ask about, and we do not get to see his video.

    In a CNN News program [LINK], passenger Richelle Keepman states, “There was a man that, when we first took off, I noticed about 10 seats ahead of us to the left-hand side. He had a camcorder. I thought maybe this was his first flight and [he] was just excited. And then, when the actual incident occurred, I looked up, and he was the only one standing and filming the entire thing.” In another CNN article [LINK], she states, “I don’t know why he was standing up [when] we were supposed to be seated, and he was filming it.”

    The Haskells are sitting 8 rows behind, in row 27. Kurt Haskell does not notice the young terrorist again until shortly before landing, when passengers have already been instructed to buckle up for landing. A stewardess walks past mumbling something about the smell of smoke, and sure enough fire flames errupt from around the seat of the young Abdul-Mutallab, who is subdued immediately by passengers, the small and now wounded man offering no resistance.

    Throughout this incident however, the man continues recording the terrorist, calmly and without interruption. Very unusual behaviour, as observed by many other passengers on board this flight. Then the pilot comes onto the intercom, somewhat nervously, to briefly announce an immediate landing, and the plane is floored, but then remains on the tarmac for 20 minutes before anyone is allowed to leave.

    This 20 minute delay, is only something that can happen at a U.S. airport, the inefficiency of security and systems in the U.S. are well known to the world, both pre-9/11 and after it. Anywhere else in the world, such an aircraft with a subdued terrorist on board, would be evacuated immediately, and anywhere else in the world, passengers would be told to leave all baggage behind. Not so in the U.S.A.

    After that 20 minute delay putting all passengers at danger of further fire as it had not been established that the aircraft was safe or that the fire had not spread out of sight into the skin of the craft or toward the fuel tanks, or bombs that may be stashed and detonate, the passengers are made to sit with all their luggage for around six hours as they are slowly interviewed by FBI agents and others.

    After around an hour, dogs that arrived, sniffing for explosives, loved the smell of explosive substances in an Indian looking man’s bag (Haskell confirms this Indian is much younger than the one in Amsterdam, who was not on board the flight) and this Indian is taken away in handcuffs. Yet, after this too, we no longer can hear any information about this Indian or what happened to him.

    After that incident, an FBI officer makes an extraordinary announcement [LINK] to the passengers, which Haskell recounts to popular alternative media investigative journalist Alex Jones during an extensive interview [link] also detailing his FBI [link] interview, moving them to another location for the remaining 5 hours, and out of sight.

    Although very important and reliable witnesses with essential testimony, the Haskells are not contacted for several days. Then the FBI pays a visit [LINK] to their law offices, show them various photographs, attempt to impeach them, and fail to produce any video from Holland or anywhere else for that matter, fail to show full body photographs of the terrorist, only facial shots. They clearly are fishing for how much the Haskells saw, and not for the (Indian [link]) accomplice(s) [link], at least one of which is obviously working with the full protection of the authorities.

    CONCLUSIONS

    Other parts of the story can be guessed at or surmised, for example, that the “Al-Qaida” claims [link] are the work of MOSSAD with its agents in the CIA, and are designed to garner public support for stepped up U.S.-Israeli involvement in the recent war between the Yemeni government and those terrorists, which have consistently been supported by London and covertly by Israel. Or that the young terrorist thought he would really be blowing himself up and that the well dressed 50-ish year old Indian escort of his was a high-level “Al-Qaida” officer sent to help him and that he was really on a jihad mission and destined for Paradise. Or even that he was hypnotised [LINK] or drugged. That his handlers knew full well that smoke and burns would only result as they ensured the device would not work (a would-be suicide-bomber can never test their equipment in advance, for obvious reasons), and that they would have a wall-to-wall TV worldwide coverage of the ongoing threat of Al-Qaida, terrorism, and of the “need” to take away further liberties in order to defeat it.

    The timing of the latest terror threat could not be more convenient for the US terror and war industry: only two weeks prior president Obama was refused an extension and expansion [link] of the infamous Patriot Act rushed in after 9/11 and since then used extensively for spying [link] on the American populace. At the time the administration was only granted a 60 day extension until February. The broadcast of a “live” terror attack on an American aircraft will ensure that the CIA gets everything they ask for next time round. It will also boost the calls for a direct American involvement in Yemen, where the Obama administration has started a proxy war through Saudi Arabia, and it will give the security industry the green light for installing the body scanners they trialled in various countries amidst concerns of invasion of privacy. Amsterdam Schiphol has already announced their immediate deployment – this news item incidentally also notes a dutch investigation concluded that it was American security officials at Schiphol, who cleared the passengers to board the flight.

    The cat is now literally out of the bag and cannot be put back. The awareness of people of all walks of life, like the Haskells, who are able to observe and think logically, ensures that sound conclusions are drawn on at least some issues such as this one. Several gaping holes are blown in the official version of events: the failure to produce the airport security video from Amsterdam Schipol, the “video passenger” on the plane, and the disappearing Indian(s). This awareness offers some faint glimmer of hope that one day enough people will put their trust, support and money into true news media networks such as Mathaba to stay informed rather than continue to swallow the misleading disinformation and continuously forgive the 3-letter money slave media (MSM) networks for their repeated and ongoing failures to cover news and issues that matter.

    Mathaba urges any other witnesses at the airports at Amsterdam and Detroit as well as any passengers or crew from the Northwest Airlines flight, or anyone else with direct information to come forward via our secure contact form and to share that. Mathaba is the only news agency with a secure contact form so that witnesses and whistle-blowers can provide information without fear of being traced by their government, terrorists, or hackers. General contact is also available. We ask that you supply your contact details so that we can follow up and verify, and assure you that we honor the journalist tradition of confidentiality – whatever is told to us in confidence or not to be on the record, is not disclosed. We hope that more good citizens will come forward to back up existing testimonies or offer any further information that may help.

    Note: For those wanting to delve deeper into the details of facts, opinions and logical deductions surrounding this case, the links in the article above serve as good starting points for further research.
    Mathaba Report

  • taukeer says:

    Gilani and Mukhtar Mediating!!!!! Like “galti per tail dalna” These dumb asses wont know what hit them even if it came and whispered in their ears.

    I am sorry but sitting where I am I can’t see anyone in PPP with the political sophistication to firefight this situation. If they stay in power it is / will not be due to their own political capabilities.

  • taukeer says:

    My exact thought! What amazes me is the audacity of their thought process!!!!

  • taukeer says:

    I had suspected PPP (especially Mirza Sindhu Desh’s) connection in whole of this episode.

  • taukeer says:

    Listen to this moron.

    Does this not follow in the great tradition of the “Great” Leader of the Idhur Hum Udhar Tumm.

    • taukeer says:

      CAN WE START A FEHMEEDA MIRZA (The bitch) NA-KHAPEY campaign.

      This Daku blackmailer family will now determine the fate of the entire nation. And the “sound effect”. This f***** and his bitch can be employed as villain in a third rate Punjabi / Sindhi film.

  • taukeer says:

    Mossad false flag operations are becoming too common place and predictable. I am not at all surprised about their involvement in Yemen. What better excuse for occupation of the Arabian peninsula then the tried and tested old trick of “attack on the homeland”.

  • taukeer says:

    The rich are the new poor. This IS Orwell’s Animal farm!

  • afzaalkhan says:

    OMG are these guys really sane?

  • jazoo says:

    Mirza stands no chance
    Raja Riaz outstanding

  • jazoo says:

    According to ABC news, the Al Qaeda leaders running the insurgency in Yemen were released from Guantanamo, although two of the highest ranking known terrorist there, without trial.

    Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody.

    Both of the former Guantanamo detainees are described as military commanders and appear on a January, 2009 video along with the man described as the top leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, Abu Basir Naser al-Wahishi, formerly Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary.

    With all the hoopla about trials in New York, not a word is said when top level terrorists are released to Saudi friends of the Bush family who let them go. We are now fighting these two Bush friends in Yemen. They are running a major insurgency there. We have been using Cruise missiles and our jets to attack their bases in the last weeks.

    CIA, ISRAEL AND YEMEN

    It is claimed by groups claiming to be Al Qaeda in Yemen that the Detroit attack was in retaliation to US attacks on bases in Yemen run by Al Qaeda leaders released by Bush.

    The government of Yemen, as reported in the BBC , says that the Al Qaeda terrorists, led by those released by Bush, are really Israeli agents though they have organized attacks against US targets:

    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence. Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group’s links with Israel, a regional enemy of Yemen. The arrests were connected with an attack on the US embassy in Sanaa last month which killed at least 18 people, official sources were quoted saying.

    “A terrorist cell was arrested and will be referred to the judicial authorities for its links with the Israeli intelligence services,” Mr Saleh told a gathering at al-Mukalla University in Hadramawt province. “Details of the trial will be announced later. You will hear about what goes on in the proceedings,” he added.

    The 17 September attack was the second to target the US embassy since April. Militants detonated car bombs before firing rockets at the heavily fortified building.

    Mr Saleh did not identify the suspects, but official sources were quoted saying it was same cell – led by a militant called Abu al-Ghaith al-Yamani – whose arrest was announced a week after the attack.

    With continual reports from Pakistan that India and Israel have been involved in terrorst attacks against US supporters there and the recent reports that the Detroit bomber was assisted by an Indian while boarding in Amsterdam and partially confirmed reports that a second bomber, an Indian, was arrested and taken from the plane in Detroit. MILive broke this story in the US which originated with Reuters

    http://www.mathaba.net/go/?http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9951&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

    • jazoo says:

      Either its propaganda site or not…site of sorts is not very clear accusation.
      Now whats propaganda.
      ABC did not say Al-Qaeda leaders released from Gitmo are running the insurgency in Yemen???????…Theres a hyperlink you will be redirected to the source of so called propaganda.

      President Saleh did not say whats quoted through BBC ?????? Theres again a hyperlink.

      I would understand its propaganda if they are just posting one sided opinion and not quoting the news.

      • afzaalkhan says:

        @nota

        LOL. Its like austin power’s movie # 2 man. In Iraq they were killing alqaeda no.2 every other week. Eventually even americans started to ask WTF lol

      • jazoo says:

        This site is far more reliable than the one hellbent against Aitezaz you brought…that site purely based on speculation without substantiating their claim with viable news.

        We have only one way of learning i.e. news rest is our speculations.
        What the website quote was news and what you wrote against that news.

        “Sure ABC said that but does that make it fact? Do you seriously believe “Al Qaeda leaders ARE running the insurgency in Yemen”? Oh come on!”

        So the fact is not what the news says…fact is what nota speculate….no u give me a break.
        Do I ,nota or anyone else has to believe

        “Al Qaeda leaders ARE running the insurgency in Yemen”

        All of us can speculate but the fact remains what the news says.

        Western news media is very articulate…they can twist the meanings by choice of calculated words but that twist is for readers perspective…it does not change the essence of event or make it an outright lie.
        Recently we had a news about Jundullah and they were termed as “Sunni Militants”.
        Theres no doubt Jundullah belong to sunni but as Jundullah they are ethnic minority not a sunni minority.
        Facts remains the same they are sunni and they are militants but the use of words were to twist the whole idea of reporting for readers perspective.

        You deny the news then put some substance in your speculation…why you think Al-Qaeda can not be in bed with Saudis and Americans…its not enough because nota thinks so.

        • nota says:

          “Western news media is very articulate…they can twist the meanings by choice of calculated words but that twist is for readers perspective…it does not change the essence of event or make it an outright lie.”

          “Theres no doubt Jundullah belong to sunni but as Jundullah they are ethnic minority not a sunni minority”.

          Man, do you even understand the meaning of what you are typing. This is so fvcked up. Please DO ignore my comments as you will NOT comprehend them. We exist on different planes….

  • taukeer says:

    I never knew this guy!

    Mubashar Luqman lays into Fauzia Wahab!

  • jazoo says:

    Pl someone tell me if Al-Qaeda really exist.
    Wheres there head office how they function and how they get resources.

    Who is incharge of Banking and funds and how they communicate.
    Who supply them arms.

    World powers may be helpless to catch Bin Ladin but failure to cut their workability is nothing but a chota mota very big nota joke.

    • afzaalkhan says:

      If u believe Al-Qaeda dun exist then u seriously has a problem. As for capturing Osama Bin laden u might want to read new congressional hearing documents realeased which detaisl how Osama escaped from tora bora.

      BTW were u aware that Mullah Omar under Taliban had no problem handing Osama and Co to
      a) KSA
      b) another muslim country
      c) To international court.

      There will be no love lost this tiem around if Taliban comes back to power they will not hesitate to go after AL-Qaeda as it is Gulbadeena nd Haaqaani network are already Al-Qaeda’s sworn enemies.

      • jazoo says:

        Lollllzzzz afzal khan

        I was not talking about their mere existence…..Off course they exist as long as Bin Ladin is not willfully caught I was talking about their workable existence as a potent terrorist organization.

        • afzaalkhan says:

          well then u need to learn abt movements wat in urdu we cal tehreek. Osama can be killed and al-qaeda top ldeaership can be wiped out, but thier ideology and structure will remain intact. Alqaeda in arabian penisula has no direct linkage to osama or the one in somalia, they have just taken the ideology and running with it. Al-qaeda strength has always been independent and autonomous confined cell, who do thier own stuff. That wat made alqaeda so successfu, every tom dick and harry using alqaeda name for thier activity.

  • jazoo says:

    BTW I hate to use stupid lolz but to match afzal khan high intellectuality I have to elevate myself to lolllzzzz

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Knock it off guys or exchange phone numbers and show ur love there. Come on now guys.

  • jazoo says:

    “Man, I had a good one”

    You haven’t seen yet

  • mayoos-paki says:

    Yaar guys please be civil to each other. At least stop swearing.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    ARY: Appeal filed against Murtaza Bhutto case verdict

    An appeal has been filed in Sindh High Court on Tuesday against the verdict of Mir Murtaza Bhutto murder case.

    Noor Mohammed, a personal servant of Murtaza Bhutto, has filed appeal against acquittal of accused in the case.

    A Karachi court in its verdict on December 05 last year, acquitted 22 police men named in the case.

  • taukeer says:

    I second that!!! I know I know! Anyway we should all be kinder to each other!

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Qts? NS gonna contest?

    Geo: ECP set Feb 24 for by-polls on NA-55

    RAWALPINDI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced to hold by-elections for the National Assembly’s constituency NA-55 on February 24.

    According to the ECP, appeals against approval or rejection of the nomination papers can be submitted by January 25.

    It said that decisions on appeals would be announced by January 29 while nomination papers can be withdrawn by February 1.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    i hope when he said “fitree ittihadi” he talking abt democratic partner instead of political partues being same. Oh Man kia hoga humaree qaum ka

    • afzaalkhan says:

      ROFL. Didn’t read that ganja buhat rami hai, me likey that statement very much pissing off ppp lolz

    • jazoo says:

      I think NS is cautious with his statements.
      Democracy could be compromised against corruption
      Pakistan is more important than democracy

      Now sticking with Zardari…actually he made a political statement…intentionally he did not say “sticking with PRESIDENT of Pakistan” because he was in Sind and among top PPP provincial leadership.
      When he said Zardari dumped by his party…in reality he hit the whole party as bunch of opportunist.

      Resident mukhans said

      “Now that speaks volumes as far as I am concerned”

      Now who told this mukhanas to write few of his own lines besides copy paste.

  • jazoo says:

    I never said
    AA is as pure as captain afzaal khan
    That site you brought on definitely was a propaganda site and cheap as you are

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @nota

    wassup with AA bashing? I mean is hamam main sab he nangey hain atleast he did kuffara with judicial movement. Am not saying make him PM, which btw could be on horizon if zardari continues with madness. Not trying to defend AA was just wondering wassup?

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @nota

    yaar u have a serious problem. Ur idea is right of revolution and getting rid of the whole crop. The implementation is not feasible for variety of reasons and I think u smart enuff to know them.

    Media ki bhi majboori hai, Talat wrote a column few days ago lamenting same thing, saying we know but our hands tied cuz if we start exposing everyone noone will be left behind. They need to keep AA clean as alternative. AA has firmly gone with establishment he has infact become establishment. I will once again reiterates till we get a messiah, which I dun see coming any time soon, why not legalize corruption as west has done. End of all problems.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    ARY: US embassy complains of harassment of diplomats

    The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad complained Thursday that its diplomats are being harassed and detained as they travel in the country, illustrating heightened tensions between the allies as America expands its presence here.

    The rare public protest reflects the rising frustration among U.S. officials over alleged Pakistani efforts to stymie Washington’s moves to add hundreds more staff and more space to its embassy in Islamabad.

    U.S. officials say they need more room and people to help disburse a $7.5 billion humanitarian aid package to Pakistan, whose cooperation Washington needs to fight al-Qaida-allied militants along the Pakistan-Afghan border.

    But suspicion of U.S. motives abounds among Pakistanis: Many believe the U.S. is simply flooding the country with more spies whose ultimate aim is destabilizing Pakistan and taking over its nuclear program.

    In recent weeks, American diplomats have faced lengthy delays in receiving approvals for visas and visa extensions. Some also have been stopped at checkpoints by police who have in a couple of cases temporarily confiscated their vehicles. Some of the incidents have been publicized in the Pakistani press.

    On Wednesday, two Pakistani employees of a U.S. consulate and their police escort were detained while traveling in Baluchistan to prepare for a visit involving a development project, an embassy statement said. It called upon Pakistani officials “to cease these contrived incidents involving U.S. mission vehicles and personnel.”

    The statement also quoted U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson as pushing Pakistan to implement an agreement to identify diplomatic vehicles in a safe manner.

    The agreement lets those vehicles carry normal Pakistani license plates on the outside — so as not to be identified as U.S. vehicles and easily targeted by militants — while carrying special diplomatic plates inside to show polices, embassy spokesman Rick Snelsire said.

    “There was an agreement on that,” Snelsire said. “We’re waiting for the agreement to be implemented.”

    The Pakistani Foreign Ministry’s spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.

    Snelsire said U.S. Embassy employees were still experiencing delays in visa approvals, despite appeals to Pakistani authorities.

    “They don’t tend to reject visas; they just don’t issue them,” Snelsire said. “We’re still working on refining the process.”

    The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad has plans to go from about 500 American employees to more than 800 over the next 18 months, largely to accommodate the aid package, which provides $1.5 billion annually over five years for economic and social programs.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @nota and Jazoo

    Stop Swearing guys am tired of deleting ur comments. U both are adults and enuff is enuff no needs to swear at each other. Plz be considerate. I have been asking very politely from both of you. I respect ur opinions and comments plz respect mine. Thanks.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Damn all I can say

  • mayoos-paki says:

    Seems I have been missing action between nota and jazoo.
    Admin, why are you deleting the golden words?

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Here we go haroon Rasheed bhanda bhreeing – LOL

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    • jazoo says:

      HR is one of the few honest journalists we have

      20 Tons daily quota means
      20000 kg @profit of Rs 21/kg
      Rs420000/daily profit
      1.26 crores monthly profit
      Now how much he needs for bacha fee

      That was quote of the day

      “Zardari was stunned and talk to one of his friend I was planning to take care of his expenses for the next century.”

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Shireen Mazari: The Ann Coulter Of Pakistan

    Ok the whole article is full of BS and outright lies, I will quote some passages from the article those who interested can read it fully. But that is to be expected from a rag called The New Republic, I am posting Huffpo link below too plz do read comments and check out the liberal, woman right US population’s thinking.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/shireen-mazari-the-ann-co_n_416279.html

    Hamid Mir, the host of “Capital Talk,” showed video footage of Islamabad’s most expensive neighborhoods, featuring multi-story villas with high walls and satellite dishes. The homes looked like any other on the street. But red arrows, superimposed on the screen, pointed to allegedly incriminating electrical generators and surveillance cameras perched atop the walls. “American undercover people are coming,” Mazari said. “They are renting homes, and Blackwater is providing security, running death squads and assassination squads … It is an occupation, by default.”

    The low point, however, came a couple of weeks earlier, when The Nation fronted a story titled “journalists as spies in fata?”–a reference to Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas–that cited anonymous law enforcement sources accusing Matthew Rosenberg, an American correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, of working as a “chief operative” for the CIA, Blackwater, and the Mossad. “We put in a question mark,” said Mazari, referring to the punctuation at the end of the headline, when I asked her whether she realized she was endangering Rosenberg’s life. (Daniel Pearl, also a Journal reporter, was kidnapped in Karachi in early 2002, accused of being a CIA agent, and beheaded.)

    The country does not exactly have a free press–this fall, Reporters Without Borders ranked Pakistan in the bottom 10 percent of its Press Freedom Index, squeezed between Uzbekistan and Equatorial Guinea–but there is no shortage of dissenting opinions aired on any of the country’s myriad private TV channels. Over the past couple of years, much of the commentariat’s energy has gone into denouncing President Asif Ali Zardari and U.S. foreign policy. It’s an effort that Mazari, whose articles often criticize the country’s civilian leadership and breathlessly recount CIA plots to dismember Pakistan and seize its nuclear weapons, has played a large part in leading.

    That doesn’t mean that Mazari’s charges are all without merit. There is, of course, a U.S. military and intelligence presence in Pakistan, and, two weeks ago, the New York-based liberal magazine The Nation–no relation to its Pakistani namesake–published a lengthy article alleging the activities of Xe/Blackwater in Pakistan on behalf of the U.S. military. Xe and the U.S. government deny the charges, but, when I spoke with Mazari soon after, she said, “I certainly feel vindicated.” She later added, “Our interests and the Americans’ interests don’t coincide.”

    Already, the Taliban have seized on the propaganda opportunity that Mazari has opened. When a bomb ripped through a Peshawar market in late October, killing more than 100 people, the Taliban, increasingly concerned about alienating the Pakistani public, refused to take credit for the blast. Instead, Mehsud’s successor, the Fu Manchu–styled Hakimullah Mehsud, blamed Blackwater. If that line becomes accepted, then not only will Pakistan continue to burn, but the U.S.-Pakistan relationship may burn along with it.

  • jazoo says:

    The Dark Side of the “Special Relationship”
    By Justin Raimondo,
    http://intifada- palestine. com/2009/ 10/27/the- dark-side- of-the-special- relationship% e2%80%9d/

    A silent battle has been raging right under our noses, a fierce underground struggle pitting the U.S. against one of its closest allies. For all its newsworthiness, the media has barely noticed the story — except when it surfaces, briefly, like a giant fin jutting above the waves. The aggressor in this war is the state of Israel, with the U.S., its sponsor and protector, playing defense. This is the dark side of the “special relationship” — a battle of spy vs. spy.
    Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard — now serving a life sentence — stole secrets so vital that an attempt by the Israelis to get him pardoned was blocked by a massive protest from the intelligence and defense communities. Bill Clinton wanted to trade Pollard for Israeli concessions in the ongoing “peace process,” and he was only prevented from doing so by a threat of mass resignations by the top leadership of the intelligence community.

    The reason for their intransigence: among the material Pollard had been asked by his Israeli handlers to steal was the U.S. attack plan against the Soviet Union. According to Seymour Hersh, then-CIA director Bill Casey claimed Tel Aviv handed over the information to Moscow in exchange for relaxation of travel restrictions on Soviet Jews, who were then allowed to emigrate to Israel.

    The Pollard case is emblematic — but it was just the beginning of a years-long effort by U.S. counterintelligence to rid themselves of the Israeli incubus. Law enforcement was — and presumably still is — convinced Pollard was very far from alone, and that a highly placed “mole” had provided him with key information. In his quest to procure very specific information, Pollard knew precisely which documents to look for — knowledge he couldn’t access without help from someone very high in government circles.

    In addition, the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted a phone conversation between an Israeli intelligence officer and his boss in Tel Aviv, during which they discussed how to get hold of a letter by then-secretary of state Warren Christopher to Yasser Arafat. The Washington spy suggested they use “Mega,” but his boss demurred: “This is not something we use Mega for,” he averred.

    The search for Mega and his underlings continues to this day, as U.S. counterintelligence attempts to rip up what appears to be a vast Israeli spy operation by its very deep roots. That’s why they went after Ben Ami Kadish, who handed over U.S. secrets to Tel Aviv and shared a handler with Pollard, and why they indicted Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group. That’s why they were listening on the other end as Jane Harman promised an Israeli agent to intervene in the Rosen-Weissman case. And now a new front has been opened up in this subterranean war with the arrest of Stewart David Nozette, a top U.S. scientist who worked for the Pentagon, had access to the most closely guarded nuclear secrets, and was the lead scientist in the search for water on the moon.

  • jazoo says:

    The more thrilling and latest espionage with continuation of above story is here.

    Nozette’s case is interesting because of his impressive resume: he held top positions with the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and NASA, and he served on the White House National Space Council under George H.W. Bush. From 1989 until March 2006, he held “Q” clearance, which means he had access to “critical nuclear weapon design information” and vital information concerning 20 “special access programs” — secrets only a very few top government officials had knowledge of.

    In other words, this wasn’t just some mid-level schmuck who wanted to sell out his country for cash: he was one of the big boys — the principal author of the Clementine biostatic radar experiment, which allowed U.S. scientists to discover water on the moon — a kind of J. Robert Oppenheimer figure, whose singular contributions to the U.S. space program and its military applications granted him security clearances available to a very select few.

    The affidavit in support of the criminal complaint [.pdf] alleging espionage is terse, vague in parts, and brimming with implication. Taking their cues from the Department of Justice press release, most news reports state, “The complaint does not allege that the government of Israel or anyone acting on its behalf committed any offense under U.S. laws,” leaving out the last three words in the DOJ’s sentence: “in this case.”

    In this particular case, it’s true, prosecutors are going after Nozette for violations that occurred while they were reeling him in, with a federal agent pretending to be a Mossad officer offering him money (not very much, by the way) in exchange for secrets. The real question, however, is what caused them to zero in on Nozette? A Washington Times piece cites Kenneth Piernick, a former senior FBI agent, who opined:

    He must have made some kind of attempt, which triggered the FBI’s interest in him. They cut in between him and whoever he was trying to work with and posed as an intelligence officer, agent, or courier to handle the issue, and then when he delivered what he intended to deliver to that person, his contact was likely an undercover FBI agent or [someone from] another U.S. intelligence service
    Yet Nozette may have made more than a mere “attempt.” The affidavit alleges that, from 1998 to 2008, he served as a consultant to “an aerospace company wholly owned by the government of Israel,” during which time “approximately once a month representatives of the aerospace company proposed questions, or taskings, to Nozette.” He answered these questions, and, in return, received regular payments totaling $250,000.

    This indicates the Feds had been on to Nozette for quite some time, and with good cause. The affidavit also notes that, at the beginning of this year, he traveled to “a different foreign country” in possession of two computer “thumb” drives, which seemed to have mysteriously disappeared upon his return some three weeks later. What was on the drives — and who were the recipients?

    In 2007, federal authorities raided the offices of Nozette’s nonprofit company, the Alliance for Competitive Technology (ACT), purportedly because ACT, having procured several lucrative government contracts, had defrauded the federal government by overcharging. The affidavit cites an anonymous colleague of Nozette who recalled the scientist said that if the U.S. government ever tried to put him in jail he would go to Israel or another foreign country and “tell them everythingâ€� he knows.

    Perhaps the real reason for the raid, however, had to do with the FBI’s growing suspicion — if not certainty — he was funneling U.S. secrets to Tel Aviv. ACT is a curious creation, a “nonprofit” group that nevertheless generated over half a million dollars last year according to documents filed with the IRS, with over $150,000 in salary and benefits paid out to Nozette. But it wasn’t just about money. ACT’s mission statement reads like a spy’s dream come true:

    “The Alliance for Competitive Technology has been created to serve the national and public interest by conducting scientific research and educational activities aimed at expanding the utilization of National and Government Laboratory resources. The National Laboratories possess significant technology, technologists, and resources, of great potential value to growing U.S. industrial organizations, both small and large. Recent changes in national policy (the Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1986 and the NASA Technology Utilization Program) have sanctioned the pursuit of technology transfer from these organizations. However, the capabilities and resources present in National Laboratories are often difficult to access by small and medium sized organizations with limited resources. ACT will research the best mechanisms to facilitate this transfer through focused research on technology transfer mechanisms, and educational and instructive programs on technology transfer from National Laboratories. In addition, ACT will enable U.S. organizations to utilize the resources of National Laboratories through existing established mechanisms (e.g., the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Technology Affiliates Program). Transfer of commercially valuable technology is significantly enhanced by such direct support of private sector efforts.”

    In short: ACT is all about technology transfer — from the U.S. to Israel. This, as is well-known, is one of the favored activities of the Israeli intelligence services, which regularly pilfer the latest American technology (especially military applications) to such an extent that a General Accounting Office investigation once characterized the effort as “the most aggressive espionage operations against the U.S. of any U.S. ally.”

    ACT had contracts with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It is hardly a leap of faith to conclude that vital data flowing from these projects was fed directly into the waiting maw of the Mossad.

    Nozette was a key figure in developing and promoting the “Star Wars” ballistic missile defense system. His colleague in the “High Frontier” movement — and the official director of ACT — is one Klaus Heiss, like Nozette an enthusiast [.pdf] of space colonization (who also has some strong views on other subjects).

    Contacted by an FBI agent masquerading as an Israeli intelligence agent, Nozette didn’t blink when told his lunch companion was from the Mossad: “Good,” he said. “Happy to be of assistance.” This was well before the issue of money was raised. Later in the conversation, Nozette boasted of his top-level security clearances and the range and depth of his knowledge of U.S. secrets, adding, “I don’t get recruited by the Mossad every day. By the way, I knew this day would come.” Questioned further by the undercover agent, Nozette said, “I thought I was working for you already. I mean, that’s what I always thought [the foreign company] was — just a front.”

    Which it no doubt was.

    Nozette agreed to be a regular “asset,” yet he clearly felt his position was increasingly precarious. He inquired about the right of return and raised the possibility that he might go to Israel. He wanted a passport as part of his payment, in addition to the few thousand dollars the FBI was putting in a post office “dead drop” for him on receipt of stolen secrets.

    Well, then, so what? Don’t all nations, even allies, spy on each other? What’s the significance of this particular case?
    On the surface, our relationship with Israel is encompassed by the terms of the “special relationship, ” which has so far consisted of the U.S. giving unconditional support to Tel Aviv’s every action, no matter how brutal [.pdf] or contrary to our interests — and tolerating, to a large degree, its extensive covert operations on U.S. soil (or, at least, keeping quiet about them). On a deeper level, however, the tensions in this one-way love affair have frayed the specialness of the relationship almost to the breaking point.

    This is not just due to the election of Barack Obama, who is widely perceived in Israel as being biased against the Jewish state. These tensions arose during Bush’s second term, when U.S. policy began to perceptibly tilt away from Tel Aviv. A particularly telling blow to U.S.-Israeli relations was the decision by the U.S. to clamp down on visa requirements for Israelis entering the U.S.: potential visitors from Israel are now required to undergo an interview, restrictions on their length of stay have been extended, and admission to the U.S. is no longer assured.

    In the secret world of spooks spying on one another, the U.S.-Israeli relationship is increasingly adversarial, while in the diplomatic-politica l realm, it has nearly reached the point of open hostilities. This is thanks to the objective conditions that determine relations among nations: in the post-Cold War world, Israel necessarily became much less of an asset to the U.S. In the post-9/11 world, as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have so trenchantly pointed out, it is an outright liability.

    Our self-sacrificial policy of unconditional support for Israel has earned us implacable enemies in the Arab world and granted our adversaries a priceless propaganda prize — and the growing awareness of this disability is something the Israelis no doubt find disturbing. The distortion of our foreign policy by the power of the Israel lobby is also being widely noted, and this is their real Achilles heel.

    In this case, too, the Lobby will no doubt rush to exert their influence to downgrade Nozette’s crime and even depict him as an innocent victim of entrapment. Defenders of the AIPAC duo conjured a vast “anti-Semitic” conspiracy within the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI to explain the alleged persecution of Rosen and Weissman, and the same tactics are bound to be trotted out in this instance.

    That is nonsense. The FBI didn’t just pick Nozette arbitrarily and conjure his crimes out of thin air. Their target was already deeply involved with the Israelis, and this is what brought him to their attention in the first place.

    The nature and extent of Israeli spying in the U.S. is not a subject you’ll see the “mainstream” media very often touch with so much as a 10-foot pole, but when it does the results can be ominously disturbing. I, for one, haven’t forgotten Carl Cameron’s four-part series on Israeli spying in the U.S., broadcast by Fox News in December 2001. According to Cameron, his sources in law enforcement told him the Israelis had been following the 9/11 hijackers and had foreknowledge of their plans but somehow neglected to tell us. And then there were those dancing Israelis, leaping for joy at the sight of the Twin Towers burning!

    This is the dark side of the “special relationship, ” so dark that hardly anyone wants to acknowledge it, let alone consider its implications.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Haven’t we seen this movie b4?

    Geo: MQM MPs ready to sit in Opposition

    Members of National Assembly and Senate belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have strongly demanded of the party’s Rabita Committee that they should be allowed to sit in the Opposition over irresponsible attitude of the Sindh Government.

    In a joint statement issued from MQM’s Headquarter Nine Zero on Saturday, the MQM’s Parliamentarians, drawing the Rabita Committee’s attention toward current spree of target killing, said that an important figure of the federal government was repeatedly informed about the irresponsible attitude of the Sindh government. However, it is regretted the federal government failed to take any concrete step in this regard.

    According to the statement, everybody in aware that PPP is in power both in federal as well as provincial governments.

    “The terrorists of Lyari gang war and other criminal groups have continued to kidnap and kill the innocent activist of the MQM. While some elements of the provincial government are patrioinsing these elements,” it said.

    On Jan 8, the Lyari-based terrorist killed five MQM’s workers after kidnapping them. While a day earlier, these criminals kidnapped another activist of the MQM’s Lyari Sector, Sector Unit-2 and subjected him to brutal torture before beheading him.

    The MQM’s parliamentarians have demanded of the Rabita Committee that they should reconsider its decision and sit in the opposition benches.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Karachi Ashura video

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @nota

    wat say u? :)

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    • mayoos-paki says:

      Thank you for putting thos article here. Haroon Rasheed is stupid not that I am defending AA but HR barks without confirmation, he is rapidly losing his credibility especially after appearing on Dunger Daaktar’s comedy show every week.

    • jazoo says:

      I don’t know why AA spend a good deal of time talking about fee.
      In fact HR exactly said what AA defending…..Zardari case needed 24 hrs work and AA had to feed his family i.e. he was not expecting fee.
      Now this defense which was not needed make him a suspect….playing with words and laffazi is not a good defense.

      I tend to believe HR that Gas permit was issued in BB tenure not in Musharaf tenure.
      AA defend that his rivals and arch enemies came to power but they could have revoked quota base permit.
      First thing he is shrewd enough not have an enemy…he is known for planting his legs on both sides of fence.

      • afzaalkhan says:

        laffazi works both way. HR accused him of fees and AA has explicitly denied that the issue is not fees. Now i like HR but he has mad mistakes in the past he has reported erroneously. Thats the problem with pakistani nation and most muslims we tend to worship personalities. Which btw HR been complaingning abt. But he accused AA of corruption and money hungry stance. All AA did was clarify his position with solid defence so why is that I should not take his words over HR? Is it not feasible HR made mistake or HR has now been included in same list as hadrath maulana CJ (RA) and thus has become innocent and never to commit any mistake lolz

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Now this fatwa should be backed by all ulema in pak and propagated all over pak.

    Geo: Saudi cleric bans Muslims from joining al-Qaeda

    A prominent Saudi scholar has issued a fatwa banning Muslims from joining al-Qaeda and labeled it a violation of Islam’s teachings, press reports said on Tuesday, amid concerns about the growing strength of operatives in Yemen.

    Sheikh Abdul Mohsen al-Obeikan, a top religious scholar and an advisor in the court of King Abdullah, said Muslims who join the militant group and engage in terrorist operations are deviating from the right path of Islam, Saudi newspaper Okaz quoted him as saying.

    “Affiliation with the so-called al-Qaeda group is haram,” meaning banned in Islam, al-Obeikan told the paper, adding “It is strictly prohibited to legitimatize the shedding of blood of other Muslims without having the right to do so.”

    Obeikan reiterated the official Saudi view that Qaeda’s ideology was one of forbidden “takfirism,” which accuses others of apostasy to justify murdering them.

    Anyone who joins al-Qaeda “belongs to a group that has adopted takfir thinking,” he said.

    Although there are no more al-Qaeda members in Saudi, the terrorist group is gaining ground in neighboring Yemen, which is now becoming the main base of their operations in the Arabian Peninsula.

    Obeikan, who has played a major role in rehabilitation programs of repentant militants, called on al-Qaeda members in Yemen to repent and turn themselves in to the authorities.

    The cleric also warned that “Muslims should not also rise against their leaders or create strife among people.”

    • taukeer says:

      Sorry guys have been away for a few days.

      Coming back to the fatwa how is the fatwa qualified. What is the justification provided in it’s favor.

    • taukeer says:

      Here is what Pat Buchanan says about the reasons for the attacks on US interests.

      Why Are They at War With Us?

      By Patrick J. Buchanan

      January 12, 2010 “Information Clearing House” — “We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people and that is plotting to strike us again.”

      Thus did Barack Obama clear the air as to whether we are at war, and with whom and why.

      Following his remarks, during a White House briefing by National Security Council aide John Brennan, Helen Thomas asked a follow-up question to which we almost never hear an answer:

      Why is al Qaeda at war with us? What is its motivation?

      It was Osama bin Laden himself, in his declaration of war in 1998, published in London, who gave al Qaeda’s reasons for war:

      First, the U.S. military presence on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia. Second, U.S. sanctions causing terrible suffering among the Iraqi people. Third, U.S. support for Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinians. “All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his Messenger and Muslims,” said Osama.

      He began his fatwa quoting the Koran: “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.”

      To Osama, we started the war. Muslims, the ulema, must fight because America, with her “brutal crusade occupation of the (Arabian) Peninsula” and support for “the Jews’ petty state” and “occupation of Jerusalem and murder of Muslims there” was waging war upon the Islamic world.

      Terrorism, the direct killing of civilians for political ends, is al Qaeda’s unconventional tactic, but its war aims are quite conventional.

      Al Qaeda is fighting a religious war against apostates and pagans in their midst, a civil war against collaborators of the Crusaders and an anti-colonial war to drive us out of the Dar al-Islam. On Sept. 11, they were over here — because we are over there.

      Nothing justifies the massacre of Sept. 11. But these are the political goals behind the 9/11 attack, and this is why Islamists fare well in elections in the Middle East. Tens of millions of Muslims, who may despise terrorism, identify with the causes for which Osama declared war — liberation of Muslim peoples from pro-American autocrats and Israeli occupiers.

      Americans are being killed for the reasons Osama said we should be killed — not because of who we are, but because of where we are and what we do.

      Consider. America lost 4,000 soldiers in six years in Iraq, with 30,000 wounded. Yet not one American of the 125,000 soldiers in Iraq was killed in December. Why not? Because we no longer conduct raids, patrol streets, kick down doors and pat down suspects. We have ended our combat operations, withdrawn to desert bases and seem anxious to go home. When we stopped fighting and killing them, they stopped fighting and killing us.

      Most Americans today appear content to let Shia and Sunni, Arab and Kurd decide the future of Iraq. And if they cannot settle their quarrels without a civil-sectarian war, why should their war be our war?

      According to Gen. Barry McCaffrey, we must now prepare for 300 to 500 dead and wounded every month in Afghanistan by summer.

      Why are the Taliban killing our soldiers? Because we threw them out of power, took over their country and imposed the Hamid Karzai regime, and our troops, some 100,000 by fall, are the force preventing them from recapturing their country. We will bleed in Afghanistan as long as we are in Afghanistan.

      But if, as Obama said, “we are at war with al Qaeda,” why are we fighting Taliban when al Qaeda is in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa?

      Hamas has used terrorism, but not against us. Hezbollah has used terrorism, but not against us since the bombing of the Marine barracks, a quarter-century ago. And our Marines were attacked in Lebanon because we were in Lebanon, intervening in their civil-sectarian war. Had the Marines not been sent into the midst of that war, they would not have been targeted.

      When Ronald Reagan withdrew them, the attacks stopped.

      Like Europe’s Thirty Years’ War — among Germans, French, Czechs, Dutch, Danes, Swedes, Scots and English, Catholics and Protestants, kings, princes and emperors — the Muslim world is roiled by conflicts between pro-Western autocrats and Islamic militants, Sunni and Shia, modernists and obscurantists, nationalities, tribes and clans. The outcome of these wars, the future of their lands — is that not their business, and not ours?

      The Muslims stayed out of our Thirty Years’ War. Perhaps we would do well to get out of theirs. But as long as we take sides in their wars, those we fight and kill over there will come to kill us over here.

      This is payback for our intervention. This is the price of empire. This is the cost of the long war.

    • taukeer says:

      Here is Osama Bin Laden’s reasons for the war against US interests.

      bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’

      Observer Worldview : Sunday November 24, 2002

      In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, “Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory” [Quran 22:39]

      “Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan.”[Quran 4:76]

      Some American writers have published articles under the title ‘On what basis are we fighting?’ These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth – as an explanation and warning – hoping for Allah’s reward, seeking success and support from Him.

      While seeking Allah’s help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:

      (Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
      Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

      As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:

      (1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.

      a) You attacked us in Palestine:

      (i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.

      (ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.

      When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) – and we make no distinction between them.

      (iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.

      (b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.

      (c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;

      (i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.

      (ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.

      (iii) These governments steal our Ummah’s wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.

      (iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.

      (v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.

      (d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.

      (e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.

      (f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.

      (g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.

      (2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!

      (3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:

      (a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.

      (b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.

      (c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.

      (d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.

      (e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.

      (f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.

      The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:

      Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?

      If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.

      (Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

      (1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.

      (a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them – peace be upon them all.

      It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah’s Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.

      (b) It is the religion whose book – the Quran – will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.

      (2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.

      (a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling’s, and trading with interest.

      We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.

      (b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:

      (i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?

      (ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.

      (iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.

      (iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.

      Who can forget your President Clinton’s immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he ‘made a mistake’, after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?

      (v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.

      (vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.

      (vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.

      (viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.

      (xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.

      (x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.

      (xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?

      (xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.

      (a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the ‘American friends’. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them – a new lesson from the ‘American book of democracy’!!!

      (b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.

      (c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.

      (d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for – you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.

      (e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.

      What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces – you hypocrites, “What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?”

      (3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves – and I doubt you will do so – to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.

      (4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.

      (5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.

      (6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.

      (7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.

      If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: “Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers’) hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.” [Quran9:13-1]

      The Nation of honour and respect:

      “But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers.” [Quran 63:8]

      “So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers” [Quran 3:139]

      The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:

      “Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers.” [Quran 3:169-171]

      The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:

      “It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it.” [Quran 61:9]

      “Allah has decreed that ‘Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.’ Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty.” [Quran 58:21]

      The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.

      If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.

      This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?

      • afzaalkhan says:

        Sorry Bin Laden or anyone dun have any right to declare war on anyone specially agaist KSA or Islamic Republic of Iran, Hadith saheeh quotes Prophet (PBUH) as saying, tum par aisey log musallat hongain jin se tum nafrat karoo gay aur voh tum se,
        sahaba asked: Ya Rasul ALLAH (PBUH) kia hum phir talwar na uthain>?

        Hazoor SAW said nahi, Jab tak voh tumharey darmiyaan namaz qaim karwatey rahain.

        Both IRI and KSA do aqamat-us-salat, and no violent means to over throw the government is allwed. Beside this lets assume for a minute Bin Laden does have a right, how many non-muslim infidels Al-Qaeda has killed compare to Muslims they have targetted? Is Bin Laden a mufti is he eligible to give fatwa? And why should I follow his fatwa when I have Quran and Hadith explicitly prohibiting terrorism.

        • taukeer says:

          Personally with my non-existent knowledge of the deen I have to agree with you on IRI and KSA.

          BTW Osama bin Laden’s statement is addressed to the American people and answers Bush’s infamous statement of “Why do they hate us?”

          • afzaalkhan says:

            surah Al Maida – Ayat 8
            8. O you who believe! Stand out firmly for Allâh and be just witnesses and let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just: that is nearer to piety, and fear Allâh. Verily, Allâh is Well­Acquainted with what you do.

            Now wat is just in targetting non combatants? blowing planes or suicide attacks against the population.

            Surah Al Baqrah Ayay 217:

            217. They ask you concerning fighting in the Sacred Months (i.e. 1st, 7th, 11th and 12th months of the Islâmic calendar). Say, “Fighting therein is a great (transgression) but a greater (transgression) with Allâh is to prevent mankind from following the Way of Allâh, to disbelieve in Him, to prevent access to Al-Masjid-al-Harâm (at Makkah), and to drive out its inhabitants, and Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. And they will never cease fighting you until they turn you back from your religion (Islâmic Monotheism) if they can. And whosoever of you turns back from his religion and dies as a disbeliever, then his deeds will be lost in this life and in the Hereafter, and they will be the dwellers of the Fire. They will abide therein forever.”

            as the words i Highlighted would u not agree that al-qaeda has done is fitana and fasad (tumult and oppression) on islamic world? How that benefits muslims?

            and lastly – Surah Al Baqra – Ayat 11 – 12

            11. And when it is said to them: “Make not mischief on the earth,” they say: “We are only peacemakers.”

            12. Verily! They are the ones who make mischief, but they perceive not.

            • taukeer says:

              I will have to read the entire Surah to understand the context.

              But I can’t disagree with you about Al-Quaida turning into fitna. But then alot of so called Al-Quaida violence are false flag operations.

              • afzaalkhan says:

                @tauqeer

                Dun get me wrong the ayat

                11. And when it is said to them: “Make not mischief on the earth,” they say: “We are only peacemakers.”

                12. Verily! They are the ones who make mischief, but they perceive not.

                also fits to USA and so called west and thier democratic intervetuion for world peace. My point is 2 wriongs donot make a right.

                • taukeer says:

                  What do you have to say about this Aya (51) of Surah Al-Ma’idah

                  51. O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliy�’ (friends, protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but Auliy�’ to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as Auliy�’, then surely he is one of them. Verily, All�h guides not those people who are the Z�lim�n (polytheists and wrong�doers and unjust).

                  • afzaalkhan says:

                    @tauqeer

                    Dun make the oliya over muslims. But b4 this ayah Hazoor SAW did treaty with jews called Meesaq-e-medina, surah-e-maidah itself came after Sulah-e-Hadiba which was done with Kuffar-e-mecca. The mssg of ayah is not that we can’t have trade and relationships with non-muslims, just not to do on the expanse of Muslim interest as we been doing over centuries and only when one can survive that blockade. Al-qaeda has created same fitna (and here i will get blasted as being wahabi, but thats ok) as hasab bin sabah or the khareejeen did against Hadrath Ali. Muslims should deal thier internal problem among themselves donot have non-muslim as allies against each other. Thats the message of ayah. As it is further evidence in Quran and by Sunnah Muslims have to respect the treaties they have done with other states irregardless of other states religion. If a group does terrorism in our country by backing of another non muslim state we wont like it how can then we do same to other state, Its simple Ikhlaq and universal humanity concept which ofcoz is given to us by Quran.

  • taukeer says:

    Turkey rejects Israeli ‘apology’

    Ayalon delivered a rebuke to Celikkol over a Turkish TV drama that Israel considers offensive [Reuters]
    Turkey has threatened to recall its ambassador from Israel “to hold consultations” if a row over the envoy’s treatment is not resolved within hours, dismissing Israeli statements aimed at appeasing Ankara.

    Danny Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, embarrassed Oguz Celikkol, the Turkish ambassador, on Monday, making him sit on a low couch and removing the Turkish flag from the table in a meeting called to convey Israeli protests over a Turkish television series.

    “Unless they make up for it by this evening, our ambassador will return on the first plane tomorrow to hold consultations,” Abdullah Gul, the Turkish president, was quoted as saying by the country’s NTV news channel.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Well Done Raza Rabbani kisi main to ghairat hai same mssg i sent to kashif Abbasi. We want world to respect us we have to start respecting ourselves 1st.
    http://www.ummatpublication.com/2010/01/14/lead72.html

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  • taukeer says:

    150 Ullema in Yemen declare that if any foreign troops enter their country no matter on what pretext Jihad will be fard.

  • taukeer says:

    Yemen – The Return Of Old Ghosts

    By Adam Curtis

    January 15, 2010 “BBC” — Friday, 8 January 2010 — What I find so fascinating about the reporting of the War on Terror is the way almost all of it ignores history – as if it is a conflict happening outside time. The Yemen is a case in point. In the wake of the underpants bomber we have been deluged by a wave of terror journalism about this dark mediaeval country that harbours incomprehensible fanatics who want to destroy the west. None of it has explained that only forty years ago the British government fought a vicious secret war in the Yemen against republican revolutionaries who used terror, including bombing airliners.
    But the moment you start looking into that war you find out all sorts of extraordinary things.

    First that the chaos that has engulfed the Yemen today and is breeding new terrorist threats against the west is a direct result of that conflict of forty years ago.

    Secondly it also had a powerful and corrupting effect on Britain itself. To fight the war both Conservative and Labour governments in the 1960s set up international arms deals with the Saudis. These involved bribery on a huge scale which led to the Al Yamamah scandal that still festers today.

    To fight the war in secret the British government also allowed the creation of a private mercenary force. Out of it would come today’s privatized military industry that fights wars for dictators throughout Africa and is deeply involved in fighting against the insurgency in Iraq.

    The key figure behind Britain’s involvement was called Colonel David Stirling. He brought Britain into the war, created the mercenary amy, and set up the Saudi Arms deal. Stirling was one of the main characters in a documentary series I made called The Mayfair Set, and a large part of the first episode tells the inside story of Britain’s role in the Yemen war in the 1960s. I thought I would put up that section plus a brief background to our whole involvement in Yemen.

    Here is a map of Aden in the 1960s:

    And here is one of the Yemen:

    Aden had been a crucial part of the British Empire since 1839. In 1963 a rebellion began. A nationalist group called the National Liberation Front started an armed revolt against the British army. The NLF were followers of Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser who was the president of Egypt. Nasser was an extraordinary figure who inspired the whole of the Arab world. He wanted to unite all the Arab countries and use that power to force the western colonial powers out of the Middle East.

    By the mid 60s the revolt had developed into a bitter and vicious insurgency as the NLF used terror against British civilians as well as attacking the soldiers. Here is some footage shot by the BBC Panorama programme of the aftermath of the killing of a British Civil Servant on a dusty road just outside the Crater district of Aden. As well as showing the details it also conveys the mood of a once confident imperial power caught up in something it doesn’t fully understand and feeling its power slipping away.

    It is also interesting how back then Panorama broadcast shots that lingered far longer on the dead body than we would be allowed to today.

    As the insurgency continued both sides turned to terror. An Amnesty report in 1966 alleged that the British were torturing prisoners including beating them and burning them with cigarettes. The British soldiers were also stripping the Arab prisoners naked to humiliate them.

    Here is a short piece of film that was grabbed by a Reuters cameraman in 1967. It graphically shows the hatred of the local people that had built up in the British troops.

    The terrorists meanwhile had resorted to throwing grenades into childrens’ parties and had blown up a DC3 civilian airliner over the Yemen killing everyone on board. Here is a news item where a BBC journalist shows some of the Improvised Explosive Devices that were being used against civilians.

    At the same time as the insurgency began in the south, in Aden, another revolution happened in the North Yemen. A group of republicans who were also followers of President Nasser overthrew the ruling royal family. Nasser then sent Egyptian troops to support the republicans.

    Many in the British government wanted to recognise the new regime, but a small group in the security services, led by David Stirling, persuaded the Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, to let them organise a covert war in the deserts and mountains of Yemen in support of the royal family.

    These men had a romantic and simplified view of the world. They did not see this war as a nationalist struggle but as part of a much wider fight against a communist takeover of the world. Engaging in this global conflict would be a way of recapturing Britain’s power and greatness.

    Stirling also believed that selling arms and planes to the Saudis would not only help fight the war, but would also re-establish Britain’s influence in the Middle East in a new way – through the arms trade.

    And he was right. Although the mecenaries failed to restore the royalists in Yemen, they did help defeat Nasser and destroy his anti-colonial project. But more than that, their secret war also helped re-establish western influence in the Arab world in a new way. In a post-imperial age the British returned to the Middle East by supporting and propping up regimes through selling arms and through mercenary armies. Just as Stirling had intended.

    But it had a terrible price.

    The regimes that Britain, and America, would support for the next forty years were mostly corrupt and despotic. The very regimes that Nasser had told the Arab world were a part of the past which the modern world would sweep away. The man who foresaw this was the British Prime Minister – Harold MacMillan. In 1963 he wrote privately:

    “It is repugnant to political equity and prudence alike that we should so often appear to be supporting out-of-date and despotic regimes and to be opposing the growth of modern and more democratic forms of government.”

    The Islamism that we face today rose up in the 1970s precisely as a reaction to those corrupt regimes and their western backers. It too is an anti-colonial project that is very similar to Nasser’s vision of a united Arab world free of western influence – but with religion bolted on. And now, to fight it, we are preparing to send arms and “intelligence advisers” to help prop up a corrupt regime in Yemen.

    To the Arabs in Yemen it must seem like deja vu. We are the old ghosts who have returned.

    Here is the section from The Mayfair Set. It begins with the owner of the Clermont Club in Mayfair, John Aspinall, musing on the group of entrepreneurs and adventurers who spent their time gambling in his club. Men like David Stirling.

  • taukeer says:

    Irfan Siddique lays into Sheeda Tali!

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    • afzaalkhan says:

      How much Irfan Siddiqui gets from PML – N. Aadmi ko apna qalam nahi baichna chahiye lolz Mr. Irfan Siddiqui aka uncle surgum :P

      Funniest ilzam and that coming from PML – N sheeda stayed with dictator. Abay tumhare leader he dictator ka paida kar da hai. And he ran away instead of staying back and fight. Unlike Sheeda who stayed in Jail but didn’t run away. If pindi once again choose stupid PML – N then good 4 pindi they deserve all the crap.

      • taukeer says:

        Now now! Look who is complaining about “dictatir ki paida karda”. Jiyala pan knows no bounds. Next Jiyal will be condemning Haroon Rasheed and then we will condemn the entire Gairat brigade in favor of Begairat brigade and it’s chief new darling Sheeda Tali.

        Looks like Sheeda fan could not counter the statistics!!!!!!!

        Pindi people are wiser then some “wise” guys.

        • afzaalkhan says:

          ant no politician here who didnt come out of dictator even Bhutto sahib himself was part of Ayub Cabinet and compaigned against Muhaterima Fatima ali jinnah. Am talking abt journalistic integrity. Irfan has every right, just like athar abbas to defend his party but he should be intellectually honest like Athar abbas and admit so or take a leaf from qasmi who openly beats the drums of NS & SS. Its abt intellectually honesty. For him to give sheeda tha taana of dictatorship is laughable when he himself sat with zia.

          An if u think this makes me jiyala bring it on, no skin off ma ass lolz

  • afzaalkhan says:

    This is izzat for fauzia wahab. masla yeh hai fauzia wahab ko izzat raas nahi aate, ja ke americans ke talwey chaat lay milna phir bhi kuch nahi hai. I hope media really takes her to task.

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  • taukeer says:

    Fauzia Churail ko izzat raas nahin aati. Some people are born to be disgraced.

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  • afzaalkhan says:

    Ask Geo how they like this aman ki asha

    ARY: Pakistani soldier killed in Indian firing at LoC

    RAWALAKOT: Unprovoked firing by Indian troops at the Line of Control in Kashmir killed a Pakistani soldier and injured another.

    The incident occurred at Keekar sector near Rawalakot, a military statement said.

    According to a statement of ISPR, Indian troops opened unprovoked firing at 1:30 am at Keekar sector near Rawalakot today in which a soldier was martyred and another injured.

    Pakistan Army has protested over the incident and demanded a flag meeting of the local commanders to discuss the incident.

    Pakistan and India had signed a four-year agreement to avoid the border violations. But the violations by Indian troops on rise, as the Indian soldiers last week opened fire at Wagah border and yesterday at the working boundary in Sialkot sector.

  • taukeer says:

    Detailed judgment of the SC out. Jiyalas start donning suicide jackets.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    But wearing Burqa and having a beard will land u in jail :p

    MSNBC: Defense contractor has God in its sights

    Combat rifle sights used by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan carry references to Bible verses, stoking concerns about whether the inscriptions break a government rule that bars proselytizing by American troops.

    Markings on the Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight, one of the company’s most advanced models, include “JN8:12,” a reference to John 8:12: “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’”

    Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says the biblically inscribed sights could give the Taliban and other enemy forces a propaganda tool: that American troops are Christian crusaders invading Muslim countries.

    “I don’t have to wonder for a nanosecond how the American public would react if citations from the Koran were being inscribed onto these U.S. armed forces gun sights instead of New Testament citations,” Weinstein said. The foundation is a nonprofit watchdog group opposed to religious favoritism within the military.

    Weinstein said he has received complaints about the Scripture citations from active-duty and retired members of the military. He said he couldn’t identify them because they fear retaliation.

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  • taukeer says:

    @Afzal any connections in Haiti? I am free next week and can go over if there is a setup in place. Medicine San Frontier don’t have enough facilities to require more Surgeons.

    • afzaalkhan says:

      i cant practice otherwise i would have gone, use to live in neighboring Dominican republic so am well aware of Haiti plight had donated and will ask everyone to donate. Pak army already has base there and had built a mosque in Haiti. So all donations gonna go edhi going so u can donate to eidhi. Please donot ever donate to worldvision. Medicine sans frontiere said they need facilities canada donating medical field hospital. The whole infrastructure whatever it was is gone. So plz donate

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Where is nota and Jazoo. Sab ghaib?

  • taukeer says:

    Could not agree with Mushaid anymore.
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  • afzaalkhan says:

    Lawyers just going same way as everyone else in Pak. They say absolute power corrupts absoilutely. In Pak case its lil power corrupts absolutely. As b4 Courts silent on this khula ghundagardi.

    Geo:Media barred to cover Shazia case as accused appears in court

    The main accused in maidservant Shazia murder case Chaudhry Naeem advocate has been presented in the court amid tense environment created by lawyers that also threatened media.

    The accused Chaudhry Naeem presented in Cantt court on Tuesday. The relatives of Shazia and large number of lawyers were presented at this occasion. The lawyers blamed media for creating hype about the case and tried to stop them to cover the event. On the other hand, the relatives of Shazia were expelled from the court.

    Earlier, additional district and session judge Shafiqur Rehman has granted the interim bail to Chaudhry Naeem’s wife and sister-in-law till February 3 and directed the police authorities to submit record. Chaudhry Naeem’s son had already got the interim bail.

    • mayoos-paki says:

      The lawyers of lahore have announced their support for the murderer. Wow…they are trying to imply that the killer enjoys PML-n’s support. Zalil k buchay. This is destined to become a big scandal and CJ will have to intervene.

    • taukeer says:

      I would have thought you would have argued that in the interest of Justice the case should not be hyped. Surely the man deserves his day in the court. He was shown on Geo and he wants his day in the court so as to make his defense in front of a competent authority. What the f*** is wrong with that.

      • mayoos-paki says:

        I didn’t get what you mean….I am trying to condemn the way lawyers are behaving and trying to disgrace PML-n, who has nothing to do with this case. In fact NS was the first leader to go to the victim’s house. WTF is wrong with that?

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @Taukeer

    Its called coercion. The person is entitle to his day in court accompanied by his lawyer(s). Not teh whole fucking bar association, barring media, pressurizing the judges by sheer numbers and intimidating witnesses. The victim family was kicked out of court. I understand u get jiyala reaction when PML – N name come, but facts are facts.

  • taukeer says:

    I think this is a non political issue and I know everyone has been trying to gain political millage out of it. All I want is a fair trial and for the truth to be determined. You allow politicians into this area and you can bid justice goodbye. This will become another of those cases with endless delays like the usual political cases.

    Politicizing this case as desired by politicians of all side (SS and Raja Riaz) does not serve any good.

  • afzaalkhan says:

    Lala ji pachtain gain phir gud.r chaney ki khain gain. Stupid PTI no political sense wats so ever. LOL

    Geo: Lawyers Committee delays strike

    Lawyers’ National Coordination Committee announced to delay to February 14 the call for strike previously set for January 28, Geo News reported Wednesday.

    Supreme Court Bar Association President Qazi Anwar, while addressing a press conference here, said the strike call has not been cancelled; instead, it has been put off until February 14, when in a meeting of the lawyers’ body will decide on the future strategy.

    The Committee gave the strike call in favour of Chief Justice of Pakistan and against government’s unwillingness to implement the SC ruling on National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).

    According to Supreme Court Bar Secretary Raja Zulqarnain, the strike has been put off as the government has assured to act upon the SC verdict on the NRO and now the Committee will meet on February 14 to review the government steps so that any new decision could be taken up in connection with the strike.

    Talking to media at Lahore High Court, Raja Zulqarnain dispelled the impression that the lawyers’ call for strike has been taken back owing to opposition from lawyers’ organizations.

  • taukeer says:

    Press TV reporting deployment of 300 Pakistani Special forces in yemen. whoever agreed to that is a f***ing moron and should be shot.

  • taukeer says:

    @Afzal listen to Aaj with Kamran Khan and please “educate me” on how the SC going to ensure compliance with it’s rulings.

    LET US JUST BRING BACK DOGAR so that “Mr President” could stay in power to please Jiyalas!

    Maybe AA could lead the movement given that he is such a “brilliant mind” of which I have not had the slightest doubt since that fateful day in June 2008 when he called off the “Dharna”.

    If I hear NS calling for preservation of the “system” at least I am gone over to PTI and so will the majority of those with some desire for emergence of a just society in Pakistan.

    • mayoos-paki says:

      No doubts about AA’s brilliance because despite his calling off the dharna, NS and SS still happilt lick his feet. I wonder why.

      • taukeer says:

        I don’t know who licks whose feet and from your comment I am sure you don’t know either. He is a scheming bast***d you might mistake it for brilliance like most people do!

        He has been keeping mum about 248 of recent because anyone with elementary knowledge of law and who has read the SC judgement will be well advised to keep mum.

        I know our own “bright spark”‘s interpretation is out of this world but then I heard the earth’s magnetic field has suffered some major shift and the north pole is somewhere near Calgary having some serious effect on neuronal interconnections in the surrounding area!!!

  • afzaalkhan says:

    @tauqeer
    Ok 1st of all I dun ever watch Kamran Khan, I dun like cry babies and he offers nothing but a re-cap of news with music and pathetically dramatic voice, so sorry cant watch it.

    2nd I happen to agree with AA on dharna call and time has proved AA stance that it was right call with Judiciary restored. I understand U might have differences with AA, but it was his brilliant tactics that won the day in the end. A movement with ideal and passions and right cause can still fail if they dun have good tactics and grip of political manuvering, case in point JI and PTI, abject failures both and now becoming a mockery.

    The goad of restoration of judiciary movement was to restore the judiciary not topple the govt and I on that occassion, agreed with NS decision of restrained and calling off march to keep govt intact which with time has proven to be a right choice.

    Now returning to ur qts is how SC gonna ensure their order is implemented, for that ur assuming Govt has to do right away right now. Wrong. Take example of Malik Qayyum, SC called govt to take action against him, malik qayyum hass gone to SC and ask for review. SC has not ruled against the review so case is pending, since its pending in SC govt can’t do much. Same way govt can ask the SC to either review parts of NRO verdict or whole of NRO verdict, it is govt right just as right of any citizen. So this hype of govt not implementing NRO is dishonest and stemming from hatred of zardari.

    If u listen to every sane legal mind u will understand that they agree NRO verdict has not clear cut said that Prez has no immunity, if govt takes a stand on article 248 like PM already did then it can’t prooceed with Swiss cases. Obviously now we will need courts to clarify this issue, Govt would be stupid 2 assk the court to do that itself so feel free and ask IK to file a petition :p

    This is all legal hullagulla, on practical matters like judges appointment etc these things take time and apart from the roontoo group led by Dr. Dangar aka qayamat kab aaeygee fame SM, everyone agrees to reelax and let things proceed thier natural way. If govt has said they would not then there woiuld have been cause for outrage. PM has stated in assembly they will implement the verdict.

    How SC will ensure compilation is easy. For that SC can start with contempt proceedings and can carrry from there all the way to call to all institutions to help carry out SC order, If contempt citings are ignored, a simple resignation by PML – N, MQM from NA and Senate will enforce new electiosn and removal of govt. At no time we need to do muzahira and hartaal till the very end. The stupid calls to arms should be used as last resort as used by Lawyers movemnet. Its time to grow up, these hartaal and muzahira dun help public and hurts economy. They should be used judiciously not to make a politician or wanan be leader look good. There are many venues where govt can be hurt. Starting with NA, where opposition for once instead of only defending dear leader NS should show some balls and start holding govt accountable.

    OH BTW since we have only IK as sign of intellectual honesty does it hurt to praise the govt when it does right thing, RM (who should be sacked for incompetence) is proving govt stance by appearing in courts and complying with court rulings, he drives his own car and brings no influence on the courts unlike the PTI led lawyers as evident in Shazia case.

    • taukeer says:

      That is the longest bit of tosh. I can hear your brain creaking.

      Malik Qayum going to court for review does not prevent implementation of SC ruling unless he obtains a stay order from the same SC. Basic f******* principle. But then how would u know!

  • afzaalkhan says:

    WOW, Afghan Govt wow they have even left india in ridiclous claims LOL. Indian masters will be very happy

    CNN: Al Qaeda, ISI blamed for Quran burning

    The Afghan government is blaming Pakistani intelligence agents and al Qaeda for burned Qurans found in Helmand Province last week, a spokesman for the provincial government said.

    A sack of burned Qurans was discovered by troops with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan forces, said Daoud Ahmadi, the Helmand government spokesman, on Wednesday. The Quran is the holy book of Islam.

    They were found in a home in the district of Garmsir on Friday along with some ammunition, Ahmadi said. The owner of the home said the Qurans’ burning was caused by an airstrike, but there was no other damage from an airstrike in the area, he added.

    The owner of the home — whose son is a member of the Taliban — has been arrested in connection with the discovery, Ahmadi said. Two others have also been arrested, he said, for allegedly distributing pages of the burned Quran to area villagers.

    The Afghan government has concluded that the Qurans are part of a plot by the enemies of the country to stir up the populace, Ahmadi said. He said it shows that ISI — or Pakistani intelligence agents — smugglers and al Qaeda are using such tactics to plot against foreign forces and have local residents turn against them.

  • taukeer says:

    De Villepan cleared of Sarkozy smear.

    Watch De Villepan in France. Very charismatic figure. Very likely to be next French President in place of Sarkozi.
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  • taukeer says:

    Haroon Rashid vs Aitzaz Ahsan

    Recently columnist Haroon Rashid(HR) wrote an article on the games played by Aitzaz Ahsan(AA), confirming what has appeared on this blog (e.g. see here and here) and, as expected, Aitzaz was quick to respond to what he called “accusations” — I call them statements of facts — by HR. But in trying to clear his name by further telling lies, AA has only managed to confirm what HR and I have stated.

    Below are the so-called “accusations” by HR and the lies offered by AA as “clarifications”.

    “Accusation” #1:
    There really was no accusation here. HR stated AA had refused to defend Zardari using the excuse that he had to earn a living (“work with sweat and blood”) to pay for his kids’ school fees. Of course AA was lying as every one knows his kids are not in school (I think they are enjoying high-paying jobs overseas thanks to Aitzaz’s connections) and even if they were in school, Aitzaz has himself accepted he makes millions a month so he hardly has to worry about school fees for his kids. And AA suggesting he would not be paid by Zardari for his services was ridiculous indeed and I do believe Zardari was willing to pay him enough to “take care of all his expenses for a hundred years.” AA certainly might not have wanted to take his fee in cash for appearances sake but we know he would have taken it in favors which would have been a lot more lucrative and we do have the as precedence

    him receiving an LPG quota,
    him defending CJ resulting him in upping his fee up to rs 20 Million per case.

    “Clarification” #1:
    Aitzaz right away starts off with the greatest of fabrications. He quotes HR but the quote is 100% fabricated. AA says HR has stated:

    “I demanded fee from Mr. Zardari to fight his case and apparently refused to help him further.”

    Huh? Where did HR say that? What HR stated is right above. Can you find HR saying anything close to what AA claims HR said — and that too with a supposedly direct quote? Well, I certainly can’t. HR CERTAINLY DID NOT SAY THAT! Are we to assume a “brilliant lawyer” is so stupid as to not being able to copy one sentence? Most likely AA is doing this intentionally to twist things.

    But starting with this lie (“HR said I demanded fees”), AA goes into this long rant about all the occasions he had not charged fees from his corrupt PPP buddies for defending them in court and doesn’t shy away from having helped them get away with it. Hello! That is not HR “accused” you of and at least have the decency/sense not to make up quotes to suit your purpose.

    “Accusation” #2:
    HR talks about the recent details that have come out about the LPG scandal in which consumers were bilked an extra 220 Billion. He tells us about 20-ton-a-day quota that AA enjoys. HR does say AA got the quota not because he is “a friend” of the LPG Mafia Don Iqbal Z Ahmed but because of Benazir Bhutto’s looking after her lap dogs.

    “Clarication” #2:
    What is interesting is that AA comes back not disagreeing with HR about the other people that got the LPG quota (and confirms his own 20-ton a day one) and even suggests they were improper as each of them faced some sort of an “Accountability Bureau” but — this is so funny — he says only his was on the up-and-up and he repeats the lie that his wife got it from his “friend” Iqbal Z Ahmed. He claims his his wife getting the LPG windfall was proper because:

    He never was accused before, and
    Musharraf never canceled it.
    My! Is that the best defense you can offer, Mr. Brilliant Lawyer who charges Rs 2 crore per case? Amazing what bull you have been getting away with! Your first defense is now out the door as you have — belatedly but finally — been accused and the second defense just confirms the next accusation that you in fact were playing every side but the lawyers (the only side you were supposed to be playing). Also managing to secure such a lucrative deal (netting AA anywhere between Rs 3 million to Rs 38 million per month) admittedly due to nepotism — and not qualification — itself speaks volumes!

    “Accusation” #3:
    HR talks about the lawyers movement and does say AA pulled a fast one on the lawyers by calling off the “dharna” on his own, leading some young ones to tears by being stabbed in the back by their very leader (HR was being kind here — I have accused AA of not only that but a similar role in the second Long March. Remember at this time AA was NOT among the leaders of the Lawyers movement but managed to insert himself into Nawaz’s vehicle and again managed to halt the Long March in Gujranwala as preplanned (unless you are ready to believe Nawaz is a genius to have predicted it days ahead))

    “Clarification” #3:
    AA puts up a false claim that some “All Pakistan Lawyers Representaives” organization (is there one?) was “undecided” on dharna in May 2008 (first Long March) but had decided to do so in Jan 2009 (second Long March). Well Mr Aitzaz, if the lawyers were “undecided” in May 2008 as you yourself say, then who gave you the right to decide it for them? And if they had decided in it’s favor in Jan 2009, then again why did you announce it’s cancellation??

    Aitzaz follows this crap with some silly excuses for him acted that way. He says it was too hot in June (is that a revelation or is June always hot?) and the guys in black coats (lawyers) would have suffered (Oh, and they did not suffer during the Long March when the sun was out but would have suffered more say at 3 in the morning?). Next he says he cancelled it because he was afraid some lawyers would have attacked the parliament and would have been arrested and no one would have bailed them out (Oh, so the lawyers were so helpless and alone?). Next he adds he did it for the women and kids who were present who would have suffered (Oh thanks AA for being so caring — we know women have no sense to make that decision for themselves or their kids). But AA is not done yet. Then he adds that anyone not supporting his decision were in fact agents of the forces wanting to do away with democracy (ignore the fact that Mush the dictator was sitting in the presidency) and those who wanted to spill blood and guts — another pathetic ‘excuse’.

    Accusation #4:
    HR talks about the time AA took CJ to meet Zardari under the pretense “to offer condolence for the death of Benazir Bhutto”. Of course it was a senseless move and a lot of fingers were pointed at CJ and HR rightly wonders if the real purpose behind it was AA trying to raise his rate.

    “Clarification” #4:
    AA goes into another rant against being called greedy and opportunist and gives us a list of qurbanis (how could a jiyala not shout qurbani when he has no legs to stand on — in fact you know he has trying to divert from the issue at hand) he gave like “I turned down the PMship”, blah, blah, blah.

    But in all of that rant, he, of course, makes no mention of his rate having skyrocketed (his opportunism already proven by the BoP and the LPG affairs alone).

  • afzaalkhan says:

    ARY: Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud killed

    Taliban supremo Hakeemullah Mehsud was killed, state television said here on Sunday.

    Hakeemullah Mehsud has been buried in a graveyard at Mamondzai area of Orakzai tribal region.

    Mehsud was injured in a drone attack in Shaktoi area on January 14 and was succumbed to his injuries three days later, reports said.

    Hakeemullah Mehsud was named the new chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan after death of Baitullah Mehsud who was also killed in a drone strike in tribal areas.

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