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Malala Yusufzai: Victim of Barbaric Terror and Dirty Politics

Imagine if tomorrow, Parvez Musharraf, NS, IK, Zardari or the leader of any XYZ political party is shot along with his 2 security guards. The news is going to be "attempted murder on XYZ alongside his two drivers". XYZ is going to get the most attention. In this case Malala had got fame from all over the world and she was already a celebrity in Pakistan. So obviously she was going to get most spot light from the media and on top of that, she was the one who was attempted to be killed, other two girls are safe and they were not gunned down. The bullets were only fired towards malala and the rest of the two girls became victim of this incident

Media didn't even give a 2 minute coverage of those two girls atleast they could have explained the Story. Or lets Just ignored Malala incident where is government-media when thousands of children are dieing of starvation/hunger and diseases in flood area and no emergency to rescue atleast those infants-toddlers-young kids.
 
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Zakki you Think "standing against" mean "fighting against". What is so special pml-n standing against TTP when Punjab is garh of punjabi taliban.

To keep the records straight,

I am allergic to every political party in Pakistan. I was never supporter of PML-N and for me they were always strangers. I always had lots of sympathy for PTI since the day I showed interest in politics and because IK was making sense in his comments. Now the time is changed. He is either becoming old, got poor advisors or just an idiot who is spending his entire time on venting his energy out on one political party of the country or by focusing only on one major issue of Pakistan. He needs to be agressive, mature and bring back sanity in his speeches so goner-ptians are somewhat interested in his nonsense speeches once again.

Political Parties are not standing against any one they are merely passing drama condemning statements every now and then which is actually not "standing and fighting against". Where is in your life any political party standing to help flood-earth quake victims that are still suffering no where! Sorry Zakki but you are completely adrift here. Action is needed non has taken Action therefore standing up is nothing merely drama.

Agreed but for the first time, they are openly naming their enemies and getting over the ambigious statements. They are making their minds clear and recognizing/acknowledging their enemy in their best senses. Now the next step is to develop consensus and crush them all
 
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Leave it. No point arguing. The conspiracy theorists will find a way to believe that Lal Masjid occupation was done by CIA and the clearing operation was also done by CIA. The level of madness has reached unbelievable proportions.
Those anchormen and women still have a source , reason and logic unfortunately you lot dont buy it and refuses to beleive or comprehend a thing and in your opinion every one who does not believe in the insane most conspiracy theories are either blind , stupid , sold out or worst case traitors .. There is no end of this argument. We will keep going round in circles so lets stop it here.You have the right to think watever you think. Truth is we only react when the **** hits the ceiling and affect us. Many have realised and i pray you will realize by time (NOT THE HARD WAY)
 
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Malala - looks like she is going to make it, next 48 hours are going to be crucial - death to the talibunny takfiri scum bags, may your evil souls suffer eternal damnation in this world and the next.
 
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Terrorists are terrorists... both Taliban groups are claimed to be Muslims and busy in killing and oppressing Muslims. Kill them all :angry:
Sir Taliban in Afghanistan are not terrorists Sir they are fighting for the defense of Muslims and only way to to victory is to give them full support and also talk to our own tribal so we can take out TTP easily
 
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We Are All Malala

Why can't Pakistanis condemn the Taliban for shooting a 14-year-old girl?


BY NADEEM F. PARACHA | OCTOBER 10, 2012

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KARACHI - On Oct. 9, masked Taliban gunmen stopped Malala Yusufzai, a 14-year-old Pushtun girl from Pakistan's scenic Swat area, identified her, and then shot her. A day later, the girl lies in a hospital bed, battling for life after doctors removed the bullet from her head. As Pakistanis, all of us, in some way, are fighting the same broader struggle with misogyny and ignorance. We are all Malala.

In the eyes of the Taliban, Malala's crime was campaigning for the rights of women to get an education. She shot to fame by writing on the BBC's website about the horrors of living amid a Taliban insurgency, and openly condemned the Taliban for prohibiting girls from going to school. She nearly paid for it with her life. A Taliban spokesman called her crusade an "obscenity," and said that if she survived, the Taliban would try to kill her again.

The Taliban blow up Sufi shrines; worshippers at mosques; and men, women, and children in markets. They go for maximum carnage, taking dozens of lives either with the help of remote-controlled bombs or by luring in dazed, brainwashed nutcases to commit suicide in public by detonating dynamite strapped around their waists. The Taliban have also targeted specific individuals: senior police officials, politicians, captured soldiers, journalists, and even some religious scholars belonging to Muslim sects and sub-sects that the Taliban consider heretical. Now, add to this list of victims a 14-year-old school girl specifically targeted because the Taliban think she ridiculed and defied the dictates ordained by God and his scriptures.

Who is responsible for the Taliban's murderous rage? A number of TV journalists, talk-show hosts, religious parties, and even some non-religious ones have continued to connect U.S. drone attacks in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan with the spree of death unleashed by the Taliban and the sectarian outfits allied to them. Fearing both the extremists and losing support from those swept up in the anti-American wave, they find it difficult to condemn Taliban atrocities without mentioning drones.

Pakistani moderates have accused Taliban supporters of being naïve, or worse, of being apologists. The so-called apologists have retaliated by labeling their accusers "liberal fascists," or even "American-CIA agents." They complain that these "liberal fascists" are always quick to condemn attacks from the Taliban, but remain quiet when U.S. drone strikes kill innocent people.


This argument contains enough rhetorical power to win instant approval from a people squirming in a country ravaged by economic crises, crime waves, unabashed corruption, terrorism, a civil war in the north, a government and military dangerously ambiguous toward the Islamists and the Taliban -- a society whose soul is being constantly pulled from all sides by the growing ranks of revivalists claiming that their understanding and interpretation of Islam is the most correct and accurate.


This argument starts to seem somewhat hollow when those claiming to fight a holy war against the United States and Pakistan are caught flogging women in public and blowing up schools. It starts to sound somewhat superficial when Taliban gunmen storm a schoolbus, shooting a 14-year-old girl in the head and neck amid the screams of terrified schoolchildren.

In the late 1960s, leftist intellectuals locked horns with right-wing Islamic ideologues to debate the ideology of their country and what it meant to be a Pakistani. The ideologues, with the help of mighty usurper Gen. Zia ul-Haq, won. Through textbooks, media, and politics, they advocated a Pakistan for which jihad was required.

But when such a jihad for a pious, powerful, and just Pakistan mutated into a mad grab for street and state power by violent sectarian organizations and outfits like the Taliban, the country plunged into an awkward existentialist and identity crisis.

Today, even the most educated Pakistani (especially if he or she is young), cannot differentiate between articles of faith ordained by God and the discourses of Islamic ideologues, who emerged at the end of the 19th century with the desire to Islamize society from below so that an Islamic state could be constructed from above. Secular or moderate Islamic scholars can distinguish between what the Prophet Mohammed taught, and the more modern laws that condemn blasphemers to death or the hudood laws that have imprisoned thousands of women in jails for rape. Their rape. But very few Pakistani Muslims are willing or able to make the same distinction.


At times, one can find a Pakistani hesitating to condemn a killer who murdered another person for suspected blasphemy. Though a tragically large number of people jumped with joy when a man assassinated the supposedly blasphemous governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, in January 2011 (he had spoken out against the country's blasphemy laws), even more Pakistanis were thrown into a mental quagmire, trying to figure out if the killer did the right thing.

Forget about comprehending the matter through secular reasoning: a man who commits cold-blooded murder deserves to be tried. It was as if many felt that condemning the killer or his act amounted to condemning Islam itself.

In Malala's case, thankfully, no one showered rose petals on the perpetrator, like some lawyers did after Taseer's murder. A flood of statements condemning the young girl's shooting came pouring in from politicians, military men, journalists, and common people. But only few were ready to explicitly mention, or even condemn, the perpetrator: the Taliban.

Some of Pakistan's gallant politicians and wise ulema refused to speak out from fear. Others kept silent to safeguard their belief that the drones are bigger culprits than men who have thus far killed more than 36,000 civilians, soldiers, and police in our country.

I hope it is Malala's fate to convince a confused population that the crisis facing Islam today results not from the intrigues of other faiths or different ways of life, but from those claiming to be its most vehement defenders.




We Are All Malala - By Nadeem F. Paracha | Foreign Policy
 
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We Are All Malala

Why can't Pakistanis condemn the Taliban for shooting a 14-year-old girl?


BY NADEEM F. PARACHA | OCTOBER 10, 2012

paracha.jpg


KARACHI - On Oct. 9, masked Taliban gunmen stopped Malala Yusufzai, a 14-year-old Pushtun girl from Pakistan's scenic Swat area, identified her, and then shot her. A day later, the girl lies in a hospital bed, battling for life after doctors removed the bullet from her head. As Pakistanis, all of us, in some way, are fighting the same broader struggle with misogyny and ignorance. We are all Malala.

In the eyes of the Taliban, Malala's crime was campaigning for the rights of women to get an education. She shot to fame by writing on the BBC's website about the horrors of living amid a Taliban insurgency, and openly condemned the Taliban for prohibiting girls from going to school. She nearly paid for it with her life. A Taliban spokesman called her crusade an "obscenity," and said that if she survived, the Taliban would try to kill her again.

The Taliban blow up Sufi shrines; worshippers at mosques; and men, women, and children in markets. They go for maximum carnage, taking dozens of lives either with the help of remote-controlled bombs or by luring in dazed, brainwashed nutcases to commit suicide in public by detonating dynamite strapped around their waists. The Taliban have also targeted specific individuals: senior police officials, politicians, captured soldiers, journalists, and even some religious scholars belonging to Muslim sects and sub-sects that the Taliban consider heretical. Now, add to this list of victims a 14-year-old school girl specifically targeted because the Taliban think she ridiculed and defied the dictates ordained by God and his scriptures.

Who is responsible for the Taliban's murderous rage? A number of TV journalists, talk-show hosts, religious parties, and even some non-religious ones have continued to connect U.S. drone attacks in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan with the spree of death unleashed by the Taliban and the sectarian outfits allied to them. Fearing both the extremists and losing support from those swept up in the anti-American wave, they find it difficult to condemn Taliban atrocities without mentioning drones.

Pakistani moderates have accused Taliban supporters of being naïve, or worse, of being apologists. The so-called apologists have retaliated by labeling their accusers "liberal fascists," or even "American-CIA agents." They complain that these "liberal fascists" are always quick to condemn attacks from the Taliban, but remain quiet when U.S. drone strikes kill innocent people.


This argument contains enough rhetorical power to win instant approval from a people squirming in a country ravaged by economic crises, crime waves, unabashed corruption, terrorism, a civil war in the north, a government and military dangerously ambiguous toward the Islamists and the Taliban -- a society whose soul is being constantly pulled from all sides by the growing ranks of revivalists claiming that their understanding and interpretation of Islam is the most correct and accurate.


This argument starts to seem somewhat hollow when those claiming to fight a holy war against the United States and Pakistan are caught flogging women in public and blowing up schools. It starts to sound somewhat superficial when Taliban gunmen storm a schoolbus, shooting a 14-year-old girl in the head and neck amid the screams of terrified schoolchildren.

In the late 1960s, leftist intellectuals locked horns with right-wing Islamic ideologues to debate the ideology of their country and what it meant to be a Pakistani. The ideologues, with the help of mighty usurper Gen. Zia ul-Haq, won. Through textbooks, media, and politics, they advocated a Pakistan for which jihad was required.

But when such a jihad for a pious, powerful, and just Pakistan mutated into a mad grab for street and state power by violent sectarian organizations and outfits like the Taliban, the country plunged into an awkward existentialist and identity crisis.

Today, even the most educated Pakistani (especially if he or she is young), cannot differentiate between articles of faith ordained by God and the discourses of Islamic ideologues, who emerged at the end of the 19th century with the desire to Islamize society from below so that an Islamic state could be constructed from above. Secular or moderate Islamic scholars can distinguish between what the Prophet Mohammed taught, and the more modern laws that condemn blasphemers to death or the hudood laws that have imprisoned thousands of women in jails for rape. Their rape. But very few Pakistani Muslims are willing or able to make the same distinction.


At times, one can find a Pakistani hesitating to condemn a killer who murdered another person for suspected blasphemy. Though a tragically large number of people jumped with joy when a man assassinated the supposedly blasphemous governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, in January 2011 (he had spoken out against the country's blasphemy laws), even more Pakistanis were thrown into a mental quagmire, trying to figure out if the killer did the right thing.

Forget about comprehending the matter through secular reasoning: a man who commits cold-blooded murder deserves to be tried. It was as if many felt that condemning the killer or his act amounted to condemning Islam itself.

In Malala's case, thankfully, no one showered rose petals on the perpetrator, like some lawyers did after Taseer's murder. A flood of statements condemning the young girl's shooting came pouring in from politicians, military men, journalists, and common people. But only few were ready to explicitly mention, or even condemn, the perpetrator: the Taliban.

Some of Pakistan's gallant politicians and wise ulema refused to speak out from fear. Others kept silent to safeguard their belief that the drones are bigger culprits than men who have thus far killed more than 36,000 civilians, soldiers, and police in our country.

I hope it is Malala's fate to convince a confused population that the crisis facing Islam today results not from the intrigues of other faiths or different ways of life, but from those claiming to be its most vehement defenders.




We Are All Malala - By Nadeem F. Paracha | Foreign Policy
Here comes the Liberal Jerk who always talk crap against Islam this man is a drug addict and can't tolerate the fact that we destroyed his masters known as USSR these are the biggest reasons why people become Taliban
 
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The teenage Pakistani blogger shot by the Taliban is in a "critical" condition, one of the doctors treating her said Thursday, a day after surgeons removed a bullet lodged in her neck.
Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai is suffering from severe edema, said Lt. Col Junaid Khan, the head of neurosurgery at the military hospital in the city of Peshawar where she is being treated. He declined to elaborate further on her condition.
An edema is an accumulation of fluid in part of the body that results in swelling. Doctors had said late Wednesday that Malala's condition was "satisfactory."
Taliban gunmen shot teen activist 14-year-old activist wounded by Taliban
As she struggled to recover Thursday, the United Nations was marking International Day of the Girl, which is aimed at "highlighting, celebrating, discussing, and advancing girls lives and opportunities across the globe" -- goals that Malala risked her life to pursue.
Malala's uncle, Faiz Muhammad, said his niece hadn't been conscious or responsive since the surgery to remove the bullet more than 24 hours ago. "Doctors say she needs 48-hours' rest," he said.
Muhammad, who is in the hospital with Malala, said the family was "very worried" about her condition.
Opinion: Cowards shot this brave girl
"We are counting on all the prayers of the nation," he said. "The prayers are with us, so, God willing, everything is going to be fine."
An angry chorus of voices in social media, on the street, in newspapers and over the airwaves has decried the attack against Malala as cowardly and an example of a government unable to cope with militants.
I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending school.
Malala Yousufzai blog post
On Tuesday, Taliban militants stopped a van carrying three girls, including Malala, on their way home from school in northwestern Pakistan's conservative Swat Valley.
One of the gunmen asked which one was Malala Yousufzai. When the girls pointed her out, the men opened fire. The bullets struck all three girls.
The injuries from the shooting were not life-threatening for the two other girls. But the attack put Malala in intensive care.
On Wednesday, police took the van driver and the school guard into custody for questioning. They also said they'd identified the culprits.
Meanwhile, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and issued an ominous threat.
"If she survives this time, she won't next time," a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said. "We will certainly kill her."
Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley was once one of Pakistan's biggest tourist destinations.
The valley, near the Afghanistan border and about 186 miles (300 kilometers) from the capital city of Islamabad, boasted the country's only ski resort. It was a draw for trout-fishing enthusiasts and visitors to the ancient Buddhist ruins in the area. But that was before militants -- their faces covered with dark turbans -- unleashed a wave of violence.
They demanded veils for women, beards for men and a ban on music and television. They allowed boys' schools to operate but closed those for girls.
It was in this climate that Malala reached out to the outside world through her blog posts.
She took a stand by writing about her daily battle with extremist militants who used fear and intimidation to force girls to stay at home.
Malala's online writing led to her being awarded Pakistan's first National Peace Prize in November.
The Taliban controlled Malala's valley for years until 2009, when the military cleared it in an operation that also evacuated thousands of families.
But pockets remain, and violence is never far behind.
"I have the right of education," Malala said in a CNN interview last year. "I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up."
Malala also encouraged other young people to take a stand against the Taliban -- and to not hide in their bedrooms. "God will ask you on the day of judgment where were you when your people were asking you, when your school fellows were asking you, and when your school was asking you that I am being blown up?"
Read more: 14-year-old girl wins Pakistan's first peace prize
Mian Iftikhar Hussein, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa information minister, said he was declaring a bounty of $100,000 for the capture of the culprits in the attempt on Malala's life.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the act "heinous and cowardly" on Wednesday and said the attackers must be brought to justice.
"The secretary-general, like many around the world, has been deeply moved by Malala Yousufzai's courageous efforts to promote the fundamental right to education -- enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," a representative for Ban said.
iReport assignment: Girls + Education = ...
Setback for Pakistani teen facing blasphemy charges

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/11/world/asia/pakistan-teen-activist-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
 
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1. No Taliban Call can ever be identified and traced..

2. Taliban can appear out of nowhere,do what they want and disappear.
That is because there are places in Pakistan which are virtually in the control of Taliban. Hint: North Waziristan. Pakistani state exercises very little, if ant writ on those areas and even the army cannot go in there. Unless and until we reclaim out own backyard, the Taliban will continue to appear out of no where, commit acts of terror and take shelter in their sanctuaries.

3. They always commit a perfect crime and never leave any clue,so there is no point in investigation..lets believe in an anonymous call.
What other clue do you need. Malala was not seen as a threat by anyone other than the Taliban. Which other group in that region is against the education of the women and which group would use religion to justify the attack on a 14 year old girl. It can be none other than the TTP and of you think that this was the work of RAW, MOSSAD or CIA, than you are seriously deluded.

4. Taliban have unfathomable resources "of their own" and no foreign hand is behind them.
The biggest resource they have is their vile ideology. Unless this ideology is defeated and rolled back decisively, the Taliban will continue to find whatever resources from whatever means to commit their hideous acts.

5. Taliban are far better trained than our Army,and any other army in the world..and they train themselves.
No they are not. What magical training do you need to kill a 14 year old girl..? The fact is that the Taliban use the terrain and the population to their advantage and hide among the civilians thats why it is so difficult to defeat them.
 
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Afghan Taliban are totally different from these Khawarijs, as Zaid calls them. Afghan Taliban are fighting the occupation and TTP is terrorizing Pakistani people for no reason. If TTP is so righteous, it should cross the border and fight the invaders. But TTP is a bunch of cowards supported by our enemies.

Imran Khan is right when he says, get out of this war. Once we declare we are out of it, TTP will have no reason to terror. Once that happens, TTP can be hit square on. Right now, people are confused as they Pakistani state as collaborators. This is the point many miss when they criticize PTI.

The actions of afghan talibans may be different but they share same ideology with TTP..... as long as Pakistan retain its double standards, i.e supporting "good talibans", the country would continue to suffer from religious extremism and malala like people will get shot....
I laugh at these army guys here who claim that Pakistan is not supporting afghan talibans....I belong to lakki marwat, a region adjacent to waziristan where religious extremism is at its heights but unlike waziristan , people of lakki marwat are very pro-pakistani thats why pakistani agencies have invested in this area. They train and recruit talibans from this region through local commanders and send them to Afghanistan....When these "mujahedeens" are killed in afghanistan by Americans, their dead bodies are returned to lakki marwat and in their funeral thousands of people participate. There is army encampment in lakki and talibans freely roam in their presence. nobody there dare to speak against army/agencies, as they will be "disappeared" . I usually dont leak such info as i am also scared of ISI. Thanks to these "good talibans" the pashtun culture and traditions in our area have weakened, weddings feel like funerals, there is kind of ban on local sports, hujras are dead, attan which was popluar in our area, has become extinct.....on the other hand madrassas, tablighi jamaat, Talibans, jihad, are replacing them.
Another example is mangal bagh of khyber agency who has enforeced talibanization in the area and is supported by army because he destroyed "bad Talibans" in the area and is pro-pakistan....
 
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So much press for this girl, but zero coverage of children killed by drones in the western media.


Does this mean if the US kills children it is justified, but if the Taliban do it its wrong?
 
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So much press for this girl, but zero coverage of children killed by drones in the western media.


Does this mean if the US kills children it is justified, but if the Taliban do it its wrong?
A single death is a tragedy, a million dead is just statistics: Stalin. (injured in our case)

The drone strikes are so often that people are getting used to of it. Its the way people move on. Most of those "patriots" who first opposed the strikes are no where to be seen. Its our sub-continents characteristics.
 
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