Pakistan pledges fight to the death

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They Want A War? Let’s Give Them One

Written by Pakistan News :: Pakistan Daily
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:52
Politics aside, India must be confronted now. The National Security Conference is a welcome step but the government must shun its apologetic attitude when it clearly knows that the nation stands united. We should be prepared for the worst. Pakistani military should be re-deployed to the eastern borders immediately. Patriotic Pashtun tribesmen and military reserves should be called in to make up for the shortages on the western frontiers. If they want a war, let’s give them one.

The Mumbai fiasco is a tragedy that not only highlights the Indian establishment’s sinister agenda but also reflects how dumb their organizations are in carrying out such dirty operations against their own people. India is taking advantage of Pakistan’s internal chaos. Pakistan must now be ready for any eventuality.

Human life is sacred and the brutal acts of terrorism in Mumbai must be condemned. But as expected the Indians within hours of being struck put the entire blame on Pakistan, without even the basic preliminary investigations.

The Mumbai blasts have done the fascist Hindu extremists in India’s political-military establishment much good, beyond any expectations. The entire world’s focus has been shifted from Indian State terrorism in Kashmir to the Mumbai story, giving India a chance to play the role of a lamb, an innocent victim.

Muslims in India are conveniently being singled out as the sole source of terror even though India has numerous separatists movements spread across 200 districts of the country. Moreover, the Mumbai tragedy presents the Indian government and the military as heroes in the fight against terror.

Let it be known that before these attacks there was conclusive proof that the Indian military was being infiltrated by fascists belonging to various political-militant movements and the Congress-led government was losing ground to the reinvigorated BJP, which is a front for Hindu extremists and terrorists. But like most of their soap operas, the immature Indian media and the government failed to live up to their own ‘rising’ standards.

Any person with a reasonable intellectual level would ask a few questions to the Indian authorities:


Why was the Indian Navy unable to track down a bunch of Pakistani boats when it arrests hundreds of Pakistani fishermen regularly?
If the ISI is capable enough to wreak such havoc on a bustling city like Mumbai, would the agency be foolish enough to send terrorists into the hot zone with mobile SIMS and identity cards?
Why take a U-turn and then state that the militants had been hiding in Mumbai for a month? Would a Muslim ever wear the orange arm band that terrorists of the BJP do?

The Indians simply do not have the answers and their stupidity in implementing their sinister agenda is certainly exceptional.

Indian ‘black cat’ commandoes couldn’t clear the Taj Hotel for days even though only a handful of militants had taken positions inside it. On top of that, the Indians stormed a Jewish center which resulted in the hostages being killed as well. These people do not even have a basic idea on how to carry out antiterrorist operations and they have the audacity to teach Pakistan how to counter insurgencies!

Also note that the Indians did not bother to negotiate with the militants. They simply went in all guns blazing. You know why? Because they had already committed so many blunders that they had no other option.

The Pakistani ‘democratic’ government, as usual, made foolish decisions without even consulting the Parliament or the armed forces. The decision to send the ISI chief Gen. Pasha was a childish.

Politics aside, India must be confronted now. The National Security Conference is a welcome step but the government must shun its apologetic attitude when it clearly knows that the nation stands united. Obama has endorsed Mukherjee’s threat of attacking across the border in self-defense. The U.S. government has also raised concerns that some militants could have come from Pakistan.

We should be prepared for the worst. Pakistani military should be re-deployed to the eastern borders immediately. Patriotic Pashtun tribesmen and military reserves should be called in to make up for the shortages on the western frontiers. This would send a clear signal to the Americans to stay clear of the area.

If they want a war, let’s give them one. H Gulzar
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They Want A War? Let?s Give Them One | Pakistan Daily

 

[Awesome]

I wonder what kind of democracy is this that they are doing their own thing against the public opinion!

 

[Imran Khan]

Pakistan pledges fight to the death

By Jane Corbin
BBC Panorama reporter

Maj Gen Khan's troops have been involved in fierce battles
"No permission is required - just open fire on anything that moves," came the order from Maj Gen Tarik Khan, commander of Pakistan's Frontier Corps.

We were sheltering in a traditional mud-walled compound in in the tribal area of Bajaur on the border with Afghanistan.

His men had seized it from militants the day before, after fierce hand-to-hand fighting.

Bursts of fire still rang out and shell cases smoked underfoot as I explored the network of tunnels connecting these compounds, some stretching for several kilometres underground.

The Taleban and al-Qaeda had dug in here over the years, threatening the local tribes and becoming the effective power in the land.

The Pakistani government in the past has been accused of not being committed to the US-led "war on terror" because offensives turned into truces before the job was finished.

But now the new civilian government led by President Asif Ali Zardari - whose wife, Benazir Bhutto, was killed by extremists a year ago - has declared that this time it is a fight to the death.

"If they do not lay down their arms, we will kill them," declared Gen Khan. "There is no other way to bring this to a close."

Sanctuary

Pakistan's commitment to the fight against terrorism affects many of us - the majority of serious terror plots in the UK lead back in some way to Pakistan, which has also become a launch pad for the growing insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan.



"It's a life and death struggle for Pakistan as well as Afghanistan," Brig Gen Mark Milley told me as we flew in a US army helicopter along the Afghan side of the border just a few miles away.

The scenery below was spectacular, rugged and wild, and clearly no barrier to the insurgents.

"The terrain and the culture lends itself to multiple groups, amongst them al-Qaeda, who have established a sanctuary here," explained Gen Milley.

He has lost 16 men to well-trained and motivated insurgents in the past few months alone.

Pakistan is under intense international pressure to destroy the militants who established a safe haven and training camps after fleeing Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the US.

That pressure has increased following the attacks in Mumbai, which India blames on a Pakistan-based Kashmiri group.

Both generals explained to me that the strategy now is to trap the militants between the hammer of the Pakistani army's offensive in the tribal areas and the anvil of US forces ranged on the other side of the border.

Suicide bombers

This winter could be decisive in preventing the insurgents retreating back into the tribal areas - but only if the Pakistani army and government hold firm.

But a local Taleban leader who operates from the Pakistan side of the border was defiant.

"Pakistani and Afghan soldiers will die," he said. "We Muslims are not disabled and this war is not going to end."


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Jane Corbin comes face-to-face with two would-be suicide bombers.

This man trains many of the suicide bombers sent over the border to Afghanistan to attack coalition troops and Afghan civilians.

In Afghan jails there are 48 would-be suicide bombers from Pakistan.

This year there have been over 140 suicide attacks in Afghanistan - even the streets of the capital, Kabul, are no longer safe.

Abed, a young man we met in one jail, came from the Punjab.

He now repents of what he had done, telling me he was deceived by his Taleban handlers, who sent him to drive a massive truck bomb into what he was told was an army base full of foreigners - British and US troops.

But when he got near he realised the soldiers were speaking the local language.

"I had prayed in my heart that I would not kill any innocent Muslims," he said.

"So when I saw they were Muslims I surrendered myself."

Fighting back

We took a letter from Abed to his family back in Pakistan.

They were horrified to discover what he had become - he had disappeared the year before and they thought he had gone to study at a madrassa, or religious school.


Abed's family were shocked to hear of his fate

But Abed had been recruited by the Taleban and his family were angry and upset.

"The big religious scholars have taken him," said his mother, Naseem, "and we don't know how they persuaded him to do jihad".

His family sent a letter back to Abed telling him they forgave him and asking him to seek forgiveness from God.

In the same jail we met another young bomber, 17-year-old Khalil, who was still filled with hate against foreigners.

He had been caught before he could detonate his suicide vest.

He refused to speak directly to me, a western woman, but told our interpreter that "the Muslims can never be friends with the infidel".

Pakistan needs to root out militancy and terror not only from the tribal areas but from the cities, the religious schools or madrassas and the countryside.

"Yes, it will be a difficult and expensive war to fight," said Rehman Malik, the president's counter-terrorism advisor.

"But we have two options - either we hand Pakistan over to the Taleban or we fight back."

The future security of all of us depends on Pakistan's will and ability to fight back.

Panorama: Britain's Terror Heartland will be broadcast on BBC One at 2030 GMT on Monday 15 December.

 

[was]

actually this war is not war on terror but agianst cia supported terrorists,and yes we should fihgt them.
i think isi should send a message to cia, maybe a mini blast out side cia headqurters

 

[was]

man i hate zrdari he always speak like he is everyone in pakistan,always says my wife here my wife there wtf man just shut up and stay in awan-e-sadar and let pm gilani and his cabinet do his job and give power to the parliament.
and what thinks this moron?? ''i want to be famous, pakistan duube maarre mujhe kia''