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Lessons From Another Lahore Tragedy

Ather Naqvi March 31, 2009

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#225 Posted by _ar_jun90 on April 5, 2009 10:40:07 am
#222 Posted by devrandom on April 5, 2009 10:24:56 am

dude..get with the program...the real cause is kashmir...pakis are killing pakis because of kashmir...india's occupation of kashmir made the paki security establishment create the islamic jihadis who're now killing a bunch of pakis..

all we need is for india to hand over indian kashmir to the pakis on a platter and the jihadis will stop blowing up people and line up for auditions on paki idol..
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#224 Posted by subhashjoshi on April 5, 2009 10:39:20 am
Interesting they haven't found any concrete evidence yet...like the attackers were saying "JULUM" instead of "ZULM"....hahahahaha, where are our chowk experts when we need them...HAHAHAHA Harhar har har
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#223 Posted by subhashjoshi on April 5, 2009 10:28:03 am
And when these jihadis will have all pakis pulverized to smithreens, they will go after amricans, then yahoods, then europeans, and after that (maybe after that), but maybe before europeans)they will go get us, and then kashmir banega pakistan.. but wait, there is something wrong here, am I too drunk....hahaha hahaha
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#222 Posted by devrandom on April 5, 2009 10:24:56 am
I strongly believe that this terrorists can be suffocated, demoralized and defeated if there is a strong enough push from the ISI and Pak Army. There's no need for thousands more of troops from US or NATO or any one else. All it needs is a principled stand from the ISI and Pak army to sever all contacts and isolate the terrorist in terms of resources (arms, ammunition etc.) and intelligence. It is essentially an internal (law and order) problem of Pakistan that it can resolve, provided its most powerful organizations have the resolve.

Though Pak Army/ISI probably do not control every last terrorist leader, I strongly suspect they control enough of them to make a significant difference if they want to stem the rot. I believe these entities are just trying to retake the government from civilian leadership, show the 'donors' their real might and are just letting things get so bad that people would beg them to take control.

Today's Pakistan is a result of what happens when you have a few decades of extremely selfish and corrupt leadership at the very top that survives by pitting one group against the other and by magnifying perceptions of external threats to rein in their own people. Its worst problems can also mitigated quickly if there happen to be just 2-3 guys at the top who really feel for their country and want the average guy to have a normal life (screw extreme selfishness, screw the ideology, screw the religious crap, screw the ambitions on annexing more land and screw the imaginary threats from their western neighbor).

Btw, I know that India too has its share of these dangerous myopic 'leaders', but luckily none of them got to the very top (lots of absolutely horrible leaders exist at state levels as we speak). Also, its relative stability over the last 60 years has helped nurture a sense of 'things will be okay eventually' mindset that a 'critical mass' of people didn't fall for these psychopathic leaders. Hopefully they never will.
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#221 Posted by subhashjoshi on April 5, 2009 10:21:44 am
And anyway, this thing is going to be routine affair now, so the best thing we Indians can do is build a monument to Jinnah saheb and do phool-mala-aarti twice a day..Om shri jinnay namah....we are all thankful to him
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#220 Posted by subhashjoshi on April 5, 2009 10:14:23 am
Re: # 218 Laddu bhai, kyon apna munh kharaab kar rahe ho aur apna waqt be jayaa kar rahe ho?

(I write a few posts only when I am a li'l tipsy, what about you?)
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#219 Posted by pmishra2 on April 5, 2009 9:41:45 am
Suicide Bomber Kills 22 in Pakistani Shiite Mosque

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/05/world/AP-AS-Pakistan.html?h p

No muslim could have performed such a deed. The "foreign hand" is clear. Also never condemn freedom fighters before understanding the root cause. Until the root cause is satisfied, no progress can be made.

To understand who is behind this, we should think of who gains? Only india and USA. And, of course, the joos, even though they are absent from the subcontinent. Attack india and teach the horrible kafirs a lesson, quick, this is the opening we have been opening for 61 years! What is this army for, anyway?
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#218 Posted by laddu on April 5, 2009 9:15:44 am
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#217 Posted by _ar_jun90 on April 5, 2009 8:38:32 am

17 killed in Chakwal suicide attack

Sunday, 05 Apr, 2009 | 12:44 PM PST |

ISLAMABAD: A bomb exploded in a religious centre for minority Shia Muslims in Chakwal 100km from the Federal capital on Sunday, killing 17 people and wounding around a 100, police said.

‘According to information received so far at least 17 people have died and some 100 were injured in the suicide attack,’ Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told AFP

‘The bomber was intercepted at the entrance otherwise he could have caused large scale casualties,’ Sanaullah said.

‘We have sent two helicopters to move the injured to hospitals in Islamabad,’ he added.

Blast victims are being taken to the local DHQ Hospital in Chakwal.

Police said some 1,200 people were attending the religious gathering when the attack occurred.

‘Our policemen deployed at the gate tried to stop the attacker from going inside where some 1,200 people were attending a majlis,’ senior police official Chaudhry Zulfiqar told AFP.

According to an eye witness’ account, Adeel Raza, a young man about 16-17 years old, dressed in black, got out of a car and detonated his explosives at the entrance of the Imambargah.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the attack and has ordered an immediate inquiry.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director has deployed his team at the site of the attack and is expecting a report by this evening.

The blast came a day after eight paramilitary soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in the capital, Islamabad.
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#216 Posted by _ar_jun90 on April 5, 2009 8:34:18 am
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#215 Posted by Alphalpha on April 5, 2009 8:10:11 am
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#214 Posted by tahmed32 on April 5, 2009 7:13:06 am
bulleya #197: you missed my point. i said you were a beghairat - pakistanis murdered and swatis brutalized by these animals mean nothing to you.

so dont write these long essays apeing lota hamidm's style. you and your kind remain beghairats.
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#213 Posted by tahmed32 on April 5, 2009 7:09:39 am
lota hamidm: that martial gora-like talk should teach this cowardly hindu!!

sheikh rashid's security deposit Zindabad!!
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#212 Posted by major on April 5, 2009 7:01:16 am
Re: # 211

Abey hamidm - stop yapping all the time... think.

what's point of 100K more troops in afaganland - what are they going to do there - shoot at the boulders and goats?... afganland is not the source of the terror - pakiland is... more precisely - the GHQ in rawalbhindi, or whatever you call that place....

you don't need no troops - just a couple of daisy cutter over rawalbhindi is what is required... you wipe out pakiland generals, all will be fine...
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#211 Posted by hamidm2 on April 5, 2009 6:35:11 am
Re: # 207

nkg,

.... you guys are all talk and no show! ..... no wonder you have been ruled by outsiders for thousands of years ......

...... lala ji, if you don't step up to the plate and send your troops to afghanistan nobody else will ...... now that we have the bleeding heart sissy liberals running america with an afirmative action president, america does not have the stomach to stand up to the barbarians knocking at the gates ...... the europeans, led by a gay purse carrying frenchman, are more interested in climate control and saving the musk rat than fighting crazed moslems in far off places ......... they are the same people who thought hitler was kidding when he invaded poland after they had given him half of czechoslovakia ............ contrary to what bewakoof bulleya says, swat is pakistan's sudetenland ............

..... so, stop acting like a cowardly bania and help us! please......... you can do it if you start eating meat once a weeek ......
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#210 Posted by laddu on April 5, 2009 6:34:08 am
What amuses me is that in order to tackle the problem of religious violence Pakistanis start quoting scriptures....


when it is a problem that can be tackled OUTSIDE Islam....

either through humanism or secularism.......
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