Month: July 2007

Chief Justice Iftikhar of Pakistan Re-instated

The Supreme Court of Pakistan re-instated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudry four months after his suspension from a referral issued by President Pervez Musharraf for mis-use of office and other things.

pakistan-chief-justice-iftikhar.jpgThe Supreme Court of Pakistan re-instated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudry four months after his suspension from a referral issued by President Pervez Musharraf for mis-use of office, corruption,  and other things.

The referral has created great dissent against Musharraf, and has turned the moderate middle and some of his long-time supporters against him. Most lawyers in Pakistan have demonstrated weekly for the length of this constitutional crisis, and most of the educated people in Pakistan have been solidly against it.

By clearing the Chief Justice the panel of judges demonstrated that the rule of law does hold sway in Pakistan. Let us hope that Musharraf demonstrates that he also holds with the outcome.

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Secular Muslimism vs Secular Progressivism

clouds2.jpgI had an interesting discussion with a gentleman named Imran in comments recently and came across a semantic difference that I want to point out, it was also highlighted on the Glenn Beck program today in a discussion with novelist Brad Thor. (On the strength of what Brad said I also picked up a copy his new book “The First Commandment”.)

As used in the Muslim world most who call themselves secularists  refer to a separation of mosque and state, and therefrom the protection of the state’s rule of law from over-ride of the mosque’s sharia as interpreted by the ruler or mullah-of-the-moment. 

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Islamisation or Talibanisation, Masques or Mosques?

Today there was a suicide blast that killed 16 people at a rally for Chief Justice Iftikhar in Islamabad. This is a terrible thing to have happened, however it makes the extreme shariat goals clear to all.

It’s not just the frontier corps guards, or the border checkpoints the Taliban are attacking now. It’s not the just the army, or the economy in the form of fuel trucks and electric towers — it’s the moderates of Pakistan who have been attacked. Many lawyers and justice advocates were in attendance, and this should send a message to anyone in Pakistan that they must unify or face things they do not wish.

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Musharraf Sends More Troops

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has responded to the Taliban’s breaking of the peace accords Sunday with a call to send more troops to Pakistan’s lawless Northwest Frontier Province. The region has many Taliban and religious extremist supporters, and the attacks on Frontier Constabulary, Police, and Army forces has passedcreated more than 70 deaths  in a series of suicide bombings. Story at Daily Times

A high level meeting chaired by President Pervez Musharraf on Monday decided to deploy additional forces in NWFP and the tribal areas to combat a surge in militancy in the region, television news channels reported.

Musharraf Assassination Squad Arrested

International The News (aka Jang) is reporting that five have been arrested for the failed assassination on President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan that occurred during the Lal Masjid stand-off. Some are members of “outlawed groups.” Which means Pakistani terror organizations, don’t get your hopes up that he has Ayman al Zawahiri  or something.

The attempt at the President came as his plane was on takeoff for a flood relief review mission to Balochistan. Large-caliber mounted machine guns were used for certain, and there were also reports of RPG”s or missiles as well.  After the attempt one of the assailants called Abdul Rahid Ghazi inside the Red Mosque, and told him he did it in support.

Story here.

The Taliban’s Latest Recruit

The Taliban’s latest recruit is a fourteen-year-old boy, sent to assassinate an Afgani provincial governor by Abdul Aziz. Truly all Taliban are power-crazed Djinn.

djinn-abdul-aziz-ghazi.jpgThe Taliban’s latest recruit is a fourteen-year-old boy, sent to assassinate an Afgani provincial governor by Abdul Aziz. Truly all Taliban are power-crazed Djinn. story from Breitbart:

Rafiqullah, who goes by one name, told reporters that while attending a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan he and two other boys were separated from the rest of the students and trained to drive a car and made to watch videos of suicide bombers carrying out attacks.

The teenager said he walked across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border into Khost province, where a man named Abdul Aziz gave him a vest full of explosives. Rafiqullah said he told Aziz he was afraid of carrying out a suicide bombing, and Aziz pointed a gun at him and threatened to kill him if he did not.

[ ed. note: it’s not clear if it’s Aunty Aziz, or a different “Abdul Aziz”]

Breaking: Zawahiri Directed Lal Masjid Clerics – Letters discovered

New letters have been discovered between Ayman al Zawahiri who is currently leading Al Qaida, and the Radical brother mullahs of Lal Masjid

zawahiri-dajjal.jpg djinn-abdul-aziz-ghazi.jpgNew letters have been discovered between Ayman al Zawahiri who is currently leading Al Qaida, and the Radical brother mullahs of Lal Masjid. Story here;

AL-QAEDA’S leadership secretly directed the Islamic militants whose armed revolt at the Red Mosque in Islamabad ended last week with more than 100 deaths after it was stormed by the Pakistan army.

According to senior intelligence officials, the troops who finally took control discovered letters from Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. They were written to Abdul Rashid Ghazi and Abdul Aziz, the brothers who ran the mosque and adjacent madrasah.

Government sources said up to 18 foreign fighters including Uzbeks, Egyptians and several Afghans had arrived weeks before the final shootout and set up firing ranges to teach students, including children, how to handle weapons.

lt-colonel-haroon-islam.jpgThat about says it all… another massacre created for recruiting purposes by Al Qaida. This confirms all that I’ve been saying about the Al Qaeda involvment, and about the Saudi/Deoband influence. All those people dead, so Zawahiri could stir the pot. SSG Commander Harroon ul Islam, dead for Pakistan, Abdul Rasheed Ghazi dead for Zawahiri.

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Iran Calls for Annexation of Bahrain

Bahrainians are protesting a recent editorial in State-run Iranian media that called for the annexation of Bahrain. Story here.

Over a hundred demonstrators gathered outside the Iranian Embassy here Friday to protest a recent editorial in a conservative Tehran newspaper arguing that Bahrain is part of Iran.

Waving Bahraini flags, the mostly Sunni protesters called for the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador and the closure of the embassy, as police prevented them from reaching the building.

The controversy started with an editorial written Monday by Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of the hard-line Kayhan newspaper and a close aid to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Shariatmadari wrote that Bahrain was an Iranian province whose people wanted to return to the motherland.

Shiite Iran laid claim to Bahrain, a British protectorate at the time, and other Persian Gulf islands in 1970. But the country voted instead for independence from both Britain and Iran, which it achieved in 1971.

Taliban in FATA Says They Will Void Peace Accord

Seriously, if the Taliban break with the accords what would change? Since they never started honoring them, not much.

If lives were not at stake, this article from Malaysia Sun would be seriously funny:

Peshawar, July 14 : Militants in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in North Waziristan have threatened to scrap a peace accord signed with the Pakistan Government in September last year, if the army is not removed from roadside checkpoints by July 15.

“If the government does not order a withdrawal of soldiers from checkpoints on roads linking Miramshah to Bannu, Razmak, Dattakhel and Gulam Khan by July 15, then we would declare the peace accord void and resume guerilla attacks,” Abdullah Farhad, spokesman of militants, said.

“Apart from staging guerrilla attacks, we would ask tribal elders and ulema to stop meeting government functionaries, and anyone violating this decision would be considered as part of the government camp and dealt with accordingly,” he threatened.

The truth is that the Taliban never started honoring the peace accords. If you go here you will find a long series of updates that go back to the beginning of the accords that detail all of the Taliban’s breaks with the accords.

The breaks with the accords range from rocket attacks on FC and Army posts, to suicide bombings, to assassinations, to threats against shops, to crossing the border into Afghanistan to fight. Seriously, if the Taliban break with the accords what would change? Since they never started honoring them, not much.