Dara gun makers active till now !!!
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simply because they are still living in stone age brains world move to mars and smart devices and have more rights for animals then our humans and we proudly carry illegal weapons . backward mind set and we paid for it a heavy price . i wish this market stay here till end of pakistan with on going civil war .jo boya hai kato poori trah
sir jee ap pakistan main rehty hain na ? only locals ? kya chyaee apk dary ka bana ? in whole pakistan we have millions illegal weapons made in dara from karachi to K-2
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i'm not talking about past. this is a recent development after dara was cleared of TTP.
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What it does have to do with topic does MQM or Taliban buys there firearms from Dara?
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99% of them any dough ? TT-33 made in dara is responsible of most of killings in karachi .you can buy it in 8000 and after use throw it in gutter . it is root of problem which is being ignored .
95% of target killings done with 9mm and 30mm bore pistols – The Express Tribune
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Well no USA has Guns and switzerland has Guns and many more Tribals just love weapons
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Ending illegal gun workshops will curb arms proliferation
Activists have called for alternative jobs for those involved in Pakistan’s illegal arms manufacturing industry, located mainly in northwestern parts of the country.
“Tribesmen involved in illegal arms manufacturing already have basic skills, raw materials and their places of work. The government and international agencies can assist them in switching to making other things such as agricultural tools, surgical goods and car parts,” Raza Shah Khan, head of the Peshawar-based Sustainable Peace and Development Organisation (SPADO), told IRIN in the provincial capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Khan noted that illegal arms manufacturers were getting squeezed out of business by the propensity of smuggled weapons available in the region. “This is the time that the government can support them in regularising and diversifying the industry,” he added.
Pakistan, according to anti-arms campaigners, has one of the greatest per capita rates of gun ownership in the world. Though there are no official figures, rough estimates put the total number of small arms at large in the country at more than 20 million, with about half of them illegal. NWFP alone is believed to have nearly half a million illegitimate small arms and light weapons.
The severe proliferation of small arms in Pakistan began after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. In addition to the crossborder flow of weapons, an estimated 30 percent of the weapons funnelled by US and Pakistani intelligence services to the Afghan resistance during the conflict were diverted for other purposes, according to anti-small arms activists.
In Pakistan, the illegal arms market supplies militant sectarian groups, terrorists, drug cartels, criminals and those seeking protection from such groups. In addition, tribal disputes in the frontier provinces of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab are perpetrated by the abundance of cheaply available firearms.
In the southern port city of Karachi, nearly 18,000 people fell victim to gun violence between 1992 and 1998.
More recently, in March 2006, at least 25 people were killed and 30 hurt in the tribal area of Bara in NWFP during clashes over preaching rights between supporters of two rival clerics, where the rival factions fought pitched battles with automatic weapons.
Like many areas of Pakistan, neighbouring Afghanistan also struggles to shed its gun-culture after decades of fighting and the traditional male custom of bearing arms.
Credit: IRIN
Along with extensive smuggling of weapons – mainly from Afghanistan, the small arms menace in Pakistan is also the result of both legal and illegal arms manufacturing units in various parts of NWFP and the neighbouring Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan. While some arms workshops in NWFP are registered with the government, the infamous industry in the FATA, including the main hubs of Darra Adam Khel, Bara and Jamrud, are unregistered.
A 2003 survey by SPADO found there were 1,200 shops selling guns in Darra Adam Khel alone. These were supplied by nearly 1,500 small workshops and more than 50 medium-scale manufacturing units employing over 6,000 gunsmiths.
Small arms have long been a part of traditional Pathan society in NWFP. “Guns have remained an embodiment of physical power in this male-dominated tribal culture and the Darra [Adam Khel] manufacturers basically catered to this market,” Khan said.
Gunsmithing was effectively a cottage industry with marginal profits, but was transformed during the Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan, when demand for weapons from Muhjadeen groups soared. The weapons – everything from a pen that doubles as a pistol to a copy of an AK-47, or even an anti-aircraft gun – are made by hand, but carry no serial numbers and are often or poor quality.
Programmes to reduce the number of small arms in Pakistan have had little success, particularly in parts of the country where Islamabad has little authority.
But in 2000, state arms manufacturer, Pakistan Ordinance Factories (POF) managed to dent the illegal trade by recruiting some of the skilled artisans from the tribal areas to POF’s main manufacturing unit in Wah - a cluster of 14 factories 40 km north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
“So far, we have brought in around 100 skilled artisans to the complex. Their absence from the market and their presence here is certainly making a big difference,” POF Chairman Lt Gen Abdul Qayyum was quoted as saying in August 2003.
But analysts say that giving jobs to a few gunmakers will not end small arms proliferation.
“One knows stopping illegal production of arms in Pakistan is not an easy task. It’s a question of providing alternative means of income to illegal manufacturers and ending the extensive smuggling [of guns],” said Islamabad-based security and defence analyst, Ayesha Siddiqa Agha.
Activists have called for alternative jobs for those involved in Pakistan’s illegal arms manufacturing industry, located mainly in northwestern parts of the country.
“Tribesmen involved in illegal arms manufacturing already have basic skills, raw materials and their places of work. The government and international agencies can assist them in switching to making other things such as agricultural tools, surgical goods and car parts,” Raza Shah Khan, head of the Peshawar-based Sustainable Peace and Development Organisation (SPADO), told IRIN in the provincial capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Khan noted that illegal arms manufacturers were getting squeezed out of business by the propensity of smuggled weapons available in the region. “This is the time that the government can support them in regularising and diversifying the industry,” he added.
Pakistan, according to anti-arms campaigners, has one of the greatest per capita rates of gun ownership in the world. Though there are no official figures, rough estimates put the total number of small arms at large in the country at more than 20 million, with about half of them illegal. NWFP alone is believed to have nearly half a million illegitimate small arms and light weapons.
The severe proliferation of small arms in Pakistan began after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. In addition to the crossborder flow of weapons, an estimated 30 percent of the weapons funnelled by US and Pakistani intelligence services to the Afghan resistance during the conflict were diverted for other purposes, according to anti-small arms activists.
In Pakistan, the illegal arms market supplies militant sectarian groups, terrorists, drug cartels, criminals and those seeking protection from such groups. In addition, tribal disputes in the frontier provinces of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab are perpetrated by the abundance of cheaply available firearms.
In the southern port city of Karachi, nearly 18,000 people fell victim to gun violence between 1992 and 1998.
More recently, in March 2006, at least 25 people were killed and 30 hurt in the tribal area of Bara in NWFP during clashes over preaching rights between supporters of two rival clerics, where the rival factions fought pitched battles with automatic weapons.
Like many areas of Pakistan, neighbouring Afghanistan also struggles to shed its gun-culture after decades of fighting and the traditional male custom of bearing arms.
Credit: IRIN
Along with extensive smuggling of weapons – mainly from Afghanistan, the small arms menace in Pakistan is also the result of both legal and illegal arms manufacturing units in various parts of NWFP and the neighbouring Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan. While some arms workshops in NWFP are registered with the government, the infamous industry in the FATA, including the main hubs of Darra Adam Khel, Bara and Jamrud, are unregistered.
A 2003 survey by SPADO found there were 1,200 shops selling guns in Darra Adam Khel alone. These were supplied by nearly 1,500 small workshops and more than 50 medium-scale manufacturing units employing over 6,000 gunsmiths.
Small arms have long been a part of traditional Pathan society in NWFP. “Guns have remained an embodiment of physical power in this male-dominated tribal culture and the Darra [Adam Khel] manufacturers basically catered to this market,” Khan said.
Gunsmithing was effectively a cottage industry with marginal profits, but was transformed during the Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan, when demand for weapons from Muhjadeen groups soared. The weapons – everything from a pen that doubles as a pistol to a copy of an AK-47, or even an anti-aircraft gun – are made by hand, but carry no serial numbers and are often or poor quality.
Programmes to reduce the number of small arms in Pakistan have had little success, particularly in parts of the country where Islamabad has little authority.
But in 2000, state arms manufacturer, Pakistan Ordinance Factories (POF) managed to dent the illegal trade by recruiting some of the skilled artisans from the tribal areas to POF’s main manufacturing unit in Wah - a cluster of 14 factories 40 km north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
“So far, we have brought in around 100 skilled artisans to the complex. Their absence from the market and their presence here is certainly making a big difference,” POF Chairman Lt Gen Abdul Qayyum was quoted as saying in August 2003.
But analysts say that giving jobs to a few gunmakers will not end small arms proliferation.
“One knows stopping illegal production of arms in Pakistan is not an easy task. It’s a question of providing alternative means of income to illegal manufacturers and ending the extensive smuggling [of guns],” said Islamabad-based security and defence analyst, Ayesha Siddiqa Agha.
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Man in Canada we don't even have to register our non restricted firearms Pakistan just need new laws and regulate these dara guys to track firearms.
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but as i know they did not lost few hundred thousands of citizens like us . guns for a violent society ? are you supporting it ? i am really ashamed now man . ok carry on . this country is unfix able now la ilaaj mareez bye i am done with it . sorry for wasting you folks expensive time i am wrong and i admit it .
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Unregulated gun trade and mass ownerships, coupled with the life-long obsession with man's jewellery are prime causes for law and order disturbances of all sorts, in the country. The society needs to evolve and this mindset needs to change, such large number of unlawfully possessed weapons in households aren't good for the country even if "enjoyed responsibly".
Is there anything else, you find similar between USA/Switzerland and Pakistan besides mass ownerships? Anything remotely comparable between the law and order situation, education level and other social indicators in both countries? Anything at all? Or is it the one side of the picture, we are again really interested in, that being ownerships of weapons, discounting the fact that even those are legal in the above mentioned both Switzerland and USA but again illegal in this country.
P.S This love for weapons, I believe, is responsible for their present state of misery, the reason for worse law and order and terrorism in the tribal belt and the true cause of them living as IDPs in large numbers and the sole reason for their HDI and low quality of life.
Is there anything else, you find similar between USA/Switzerland and Pakistan besides mass ownerships? Anything remotely comparable between the law and order situation, education level and other social indicators in both countries? Anything at all? Or is it the one side of the picture, we are again really interested in, that being ownerships of weapons, discounting the fact that even those are legal in the above mentioned both Switzerland and USA but again illegal in this country.
P.S This love for weapons, I believe, is responsible for their present state of misery, the reason for worse law and order and terrorism in the tribal belt and the true cause of them living as IDPs in large numbers and the sole reason for their HDI and low quality of life.
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Are they good enough like Russian made. I mean from where they procure such good steel ? And gun powder for bullets?
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What a racist post. Karachiite, tell us some thing about MQM and APMSO.
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Then, you probably need to learn what racism is. Maybe, read your own posts in different threads to get an idea, because I am merely pointing at a societal problem. Unless of course, you wish to argue that rampant gun ownerships aren't a problem, by any means. Try to point, when I do malign a race, crying wolf wolf and displaying victim mentality in every thread will get you nowhere.
P.S. Read the title of the thread before blurting out, whatever comes in your mind. Or get the usual negative from me next time.
All these "Jewellery" is a legacy of Afghan war and General Zia. Every Tom, Dick and Harry having an AK-47 is a bad thing to begin with, and all the illegal gun manufacture has greatly raised crime. A shotgun or a handgun should be enough for self defence etc.
And quick CIA, drone attack downtown Darra Adam Khel so we can get rid of these "maut ke saudagar".
And quick CIA, drone attack downtown Darra Adam Khel so we can get rid of these "maut ke saudagar".
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