Karachi welcomes Aitzaz Ahsan

Aitzaz Ahsan welcomed to KarachiKarachi gave a rousing welcome to Aitzaz Ahsan on his arrival to Karachi late Tuesday night. A large group of lawyers, civil society activists and political parties had gathered to welcome the hero of the judicial movement in Pakistan to Karachi. It was perhaps the first time since he step foot on Karachi soil since his imprisonment back in November

A large police presence in riot gear was also seen surrounding the area but everything remained peaceful. Aitzaz Ahsan came out of the arrival lounge around 8:40pm and was instantly greeted by the awaiting supporters who immediately took him off his feet and carried him to his awaiting car, but before he could depart the awaiting media herded him into a corner to ask a few questions after some time the jubilant crowd celebrated the heros arrival to later give him a rousing send off in the awaiting car. It was a delight to see this hero given a rousing welcome to Karachi.


76 Comments so far

  1. MB (kar_munib) on March 5th, 2008 @ 7:44 pm

    My gut feeling says , somehow in a month or so we shall see Aitzaz parting his way from PPP or may be PPP divided into two because there is heck no way ZARDARI would like clean judges.

    I am also worried on the fact that the ISI drama of suicide bombings will hit Aitzaz as well. A far fetched conspiracy theory but as i said, just a gut feeling. As its easy for establishment now to remove anyone from its way by staging a suicide bombing episode.

    What is more interesting is AMIN FAHIM has suddenly gone silent.


  2. farooq on March 5th, 2008 @ 9:09 pm

    I don’t think he has any support in the masses of Karachi. Commen man don’t even know that he came to Karachi. Imagine, Tehreek Insaf is welcomming him in Karachi, which has no presence in this city.

    Karachi will not be used for the useless lawyers movemenet. They should go and do thier demonstration in Lahore and ISB.


  3. concerned on March 5th, 2008 @ 9:37 pm

    PPP is bound to split it just a matter of when and how.

    Any news on the new PM?


  4. Adnan Siddiqi (adnansiddiqi) on March 6th, 2008 @ 1:05 am

    Concerned, don’t worry about PPP. You should get worried more about MQM because new CM of Sind and other PPP officials will not allow Bai Altaf and his goons to continue their bhatta khori business in form of Mobile/car snatching and Construction work(Mehran Builders etc). Because Jis tarha ek myan me do talwarain nahi isi tarha ek sehahar me do Dakoo Nahi. Now Asif has come in action, his NAB cases are already over now Mr.1000% will not let any small fishes(MQM goons) to earn something.


  5. balma on March 6th, 2008 @ 8:02 am

    Is Balma just imaginging or Aetzaz Hussain has afshaa’n (saindhoor) in his maang (part in his hair)?

    Is it a fashion statement or some cultural thing in Lahore?
    I actually like him (probably one of the two /three people I don’t hate in PPP), but what is this gay thing he is doing?


  6. mughniraza on March 6th, 2008 @ 10:54 am

    The headline of this blog should have been Aitzaz Ahsan in Karachi and that would have been fine. Proclaiming he was welcome by the whole city is misuse of the blog site running under Karachi’s name. Tooth Decay and his handful of goons were present to receive the guy and Tooth Decay is going to show that whole city showed up to receive the guy. In layman English, you call this exaggeration/overstatement and also misuse of powers. He (Tooth Decay) is a biased individual that does not deserve to be representing Karachi and its people. He needs to go somewhere else to promote the “puundee” culture of Playboy Khan.


  7. Adnan Siddiqi (adnansiddiqi) on March 6th, 2008 @ 1:20 pm


    Is Balma just imaginging

    No, actually Balma Chowdhary now has been facing growing age issues and unable to figure out whether it’s a rose petal or Saindhoor


  8. shoaib on March 6th, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

    If lawyers are able to have their own government, unjustice party will get wonderful share like minister of unsocial injustice and minister of disinformation. They also may have ministry of unculture. Lets pray for that day to come when all of these guys come into power.


  9. mvohras on March 6th, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

    Another show…now he is saying forget 12 may….soon he is saying forget anything…join the government…everybody playing his part…


  10. maverick on March 6th, 2008 @ 9:34 pm

    i wonder how Aitzaz Ahsan’s activities are aligned with the agenda of PPP…I see a clear split between the agenda of the two…and i wouldnt be surprise if Aitzaz is killed in a suicide bombing…


  11. rizwan on March 6th, 2008 @ 10:20 pm

    Atzaz hasan says Zardari is my leader but Musharraf should be in Jail,And No anchor will ask Atzaz that Zardari was convicted criminal.What about that? But all focus is on the hate towards Musharraf. Atzaz talks about law and constitute. But he calls Zardari his leader Pakistan ka Allah Hafiz.

    Every Pakistani I meet in California they all can not add up things like these.For same reason we like Musharraf may be he looks less evil among all evils.

    No Gathering for Atta Issue
    No Gathering on Mahngai Issue
    No Gatherings on abuse to women in Pakistan
    No Gatherings on electricity issues
    No gatherings on terrorism and extremism.
    No Gatherings on kids bagging on the streets of Pakistan.
    No Gatherings against child labor.
    No Gatherings health coverage for all Pakistanis.
    No Gatherings on education for all in Pakistan.
    No Gatherings on domestic violence.
    No Gatherings on corruption in Police.
    No Gatherings on corruption in Government.
    No Gatherings on Clean water and clean food for all.
    No Gatherings on the fact that Pakistan is under attack and suicide bombers.

    Rizwan

    longlivepakistan.com


  12. rizwan on March 6th, 2008 @ 10:25 pm

    I like to thank for setting up these kind of Blogs as Free TV Media in corrupt country will be only fair when these blogs will keep tv media on their feet.Thanks for your efforts.


  13. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 6th, 2008 @ 11:33 pm

    @mughniraza offcourse city was there to welcome Aitzaz Ahsan n CJ on 12th may despite the hurdles n barricades,while your terrorists from MQM trapped and butchered them like pests.. people do have to be cautious when dealing with a menace like MQM,they could have definitely messed up/sabotaged this visit as well,they’ve made karachi a no go area.. perhaps imran khan should also have attempted ’slipping’ into karachi along with Ahsan this time without applying for a visa from MQM..

    http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/315/mqmfootsoldiers12may200dk0.jpg

    http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/9720/mqm12mayedhibbccoukcd3.jpg

    http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/7346/12may2007mqmwz4.jpg


  14. concerned on March 7th, 2008 @ 1:49 am

    @Adnan

    I am honestly not sure what to say in reply to your statement. It is a pity that you will continue to fight against something, which although right now isnt the best but has potential. You would rather see some one like Mr 10% destroy the country.

    @Doctor

    I am not going to bother engaging my self in a debate with you, you just like to spread hate. dude you do need a psychiatrist, I can recommend one if you like.


  15. balma on March 7th, 2008 @ 1:55 am

    I have noticed something strange on Pakistan’s Urdu media such as Geo (if you think it is Urdu, to me it seems more like TV station promoting bad english because they can’t speak english)….what I have noticed is the use of ‘oos’ and ‘tum’ kind of language for Mushee….Kyaa Pakistani itnay budtameez ho gayee hai’n that in a formal setting they are using such pronounes for a President? This is especially funny when they use ‘oon’ and ‘aap’ for Osama Bin Laden and his gang members,suicide bombers, and other idiots like that burqua poshe mullah that tried to escape from that Masjid.
    I am so glad Zardari will be the next PM. Pakistanis deserve him.


  16. rizwan on March 7th, 2008 @ 3:50 am

    @Balma
    I am so glad Zardari will be the next PM. Pakistanis deserve him.

    LOL good one


  17. MK (moiz) on March 7th, 2008 @ 4:20 am

    How come no one objected to him coming to Karachi? They never allow Imran Khan into Karachi.


  18. mughniraza on March 7th, 2008 @ 1:03 pm

    Merah piyara Doctor …

    Your comments directing at me are irrelevant. My comments were for this post and not for any post for May 12, 2007. If you want to dwell in the past, keep at it. Even Aitzaz Ahsan said following

    “I have forgotten the May 12 mayhem and would like to request that it is better for all of us to forget that tragic incident,”

    http://www.dawn.com/2008/03/06/top12.htm

    The title Karachi welcomes Aitzaz Ahsan is exaggeration/overstatement and does not represent the sentiment of the city of Karachi. It is misrepresentation from this blog using Karachi’s name. Karachi has it own unique political outlook, line, capacity that deserves to be represented sincerely.


  19. rizwan on March 7th, 2008 @ 7:15 pm

    All of you anti Musharraf ,I am so glad Zardari will be the next PM. you all deserve him .Imagine a convicted criminal is Atzaz Hasan’s leader. HAHA
    People like Atzaz Hasan play with the emotions of the people of Pakistan. They are the cancer to Pakistan. How can you trust these people who call Zardari their leader and Musharraf criminal.For musharraf to stay strong he has to win of 9 top generals hearts. These generals support Musharraf because they understand the security of Pakistan.
    Atzaz can fool people of Pakistan not the Pakistani people who live abroad. I rather go for a man who drinks sharab but does not play with the emotions of people of Pakistan. Lanat hai pakistan kay media par.who have not produced one article or one tv program on the crimes of Zardari or on the accuser. Lanat Lanat Lots of Lanat.Atzaz Hasan never had one long march against extremists. People like Atzaz and Nawaz Sharif are playing with the emotions of Pakistani people by talking that’s all they can do. Nawaz Sharif makes Zardari look like a man. Zardari will eat up Nawaz Sharif like Nihari.


  20. wasiq on March 8th, 2008 @ 9:02 am

    This isn’t fair at all…i did not stayed away from the elections for nothing….no party with more than two woman’s seat is even considering my jarnalust shahzadi(Bolshivic)…Let’s protest!


  21. rizwan on March 8th, 2008 @ 9:17 am

    If we can have internationally CONVICTED man, and a person still sought out by Interpol and still on NAB’s list as Next prime minister and who has served jail on corruption charges, then I can only pray for the well being of our country.
    What about the two foreigners who were arrested with the allegation of funding Lawyers movement?
    Musharraf saved Pakistan from breaking up into 4 provinces orchestrated by foreigners just like Iraq model. And know that Army is the only stable institute in Pakistan which defends the borders.


  22. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 8th, 2008 @ 12:42 pm

    my dear mughniraza

    Ahtizaz’s karachi comming ,12th may 08 massacre/butchering of 50+ innocent karachiites by MQM,attack on ajj tv ,denying imran khan entry into sindh/karachi… all these things are interconnected and root cause of all this mayhem is MQM which these days is whining n babbling PPP didn’t contacted them again after their initial meeting (obviously they’re not in a position to be thorn in PPP’s neck like in past they use to blackmail every govt,so they’re finding it painful that they’ll have to sit in opposition)

    forgeting 12th may is not possible as long is MQM remains on the scene,MQM is synonymous with Terrorism/killings/mayhhem/violence

    http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/7261/mqmajjtvattack12may08tk7.jpg (MQM’s minister openly supplying heavy weapons to MQM’s terrorists who were busy attacking ajj tv on 12th may)

    in past too they’ve been openly doing that..

    http://www.dawn.com/2004/04/18/local5.htm
    (MQM’s Terrorists busted by Pakistan Rangers during a snap checking while travelling in a car having a government number plate said to be in the use of a provincial minister)


  23. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 8th, 2008 @ 12:50 pm

    Yesterday there was a completely peacful shutter down strike in all major markets of karachi against those sacrilegious caricature printed by dutch/danish papers.. MQM didn’t supported that strike,MQM only calls for voilent strikes when some Rehan kana or any other of its notorious terrorist gets busted by law enforcement agencies..


  24. shoaib on March 8th, 2008 @ 7:31 pm

    Doctor, will you ever come out of the chrisma of MQM. I dont know what promt you to write against MQM every time. I understand you have a haunted past which took away your childhood, but how long you can complain against it. There is more to do other than always maligning MQM.


  25. rizwan on March 9th, 2008 @ 1:38 am

    I was never fan of MQM. Now tell me one thing no one has their hands clean in Pakistan. At least MQM has learned from their mistakes and they now give statements in the interest of Pakistan. And I would call this a good start to move forward and any thing for the interest of Pakistan should be welcomed.


  26. concerned on March 9th, 2008 @ 9:00 pm

    @Doctor

    I dont have time to go through archives and dig up the busniess recorder (ppl who own Ajj) clipping which printed an apology to MQM saying there was no attack and that the even had been greatly exagerrated.

    But please see below for links to Youtube clips which clearly state the following:

    "TV channel, Aaj TV, faced a harsh day on Saturday after its offices were caught in an exchange of fire between two rival groups. Many of the staff became stranded for six hours in the building located near Guru Mandir. "
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5IJFmcGQ6E

    This is just one you might want to see everybody’s view before you hold one party accountable for all that is wrong in Khi.


  27. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 9th, 2008 @ 9:31 pm

    @concerned offcourse ajj tv management can’t afford to go against MQM coz they’re based in Karachi, and very next day after the incident MQM’s criminal Governor visited Ajj/recorder building and they were pressurized to change their version.. but live vdo speaks a million words, it had already exposed n shown that armed terrorist from MQM were being supplied weapons by minister’s black corrola and were indiscriminately firing.. how on earth does that vdo justifies indiscriminate firing by armed criminals from MQM while they were replenished with weapons by MQM’s minister using his official car


  28. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 9th, 2008 @ 9:35 pm

    next you’ll say that MQM didn’t wanted to kill all those 50+ people, and they were there only for duck hunting and those killed were at fault when they came in between and were caught in crossfire..


  29. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 9th, 2008 @ 10:20 pm

    *how on earth does that vdo POSTED BY YOU justifies indiscriminate firing by armed criminals from MQM while they were replenished with weapons by MQM’s minister using his official car*


  30. shoaib on March 10th, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

    This needs thinking and common sense which you dont have doctor. I am sorry but you cannot buy it from any where and neither any transplant can be done. We are sorry for that Doctor. You are very invaluable member of the blog.


  31. rizwan on March 10th, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

    All the winners of elections
    No more talk about Poor of Pakistan, Mahngai, Atta, electricity????
    But all talk is where is going to be my goverment and where is going to be his government.
    People of Pakistan are left alone. Everyone is running after their minester positions.
    I truly wanted rigged elections because Pakistan deserves rigged elections. Look who we have on top now? If we can have internationally CONVICTED man, and a person still sought out by Interpol and still on NAB’s list as Next prime minister and who has served jail on corruption charges, then I can only pray for the well being of our country.
    What about the two foreigners who were arrested with the allegation of funding Lawyers movement?
    Musharraf saved Pakistan from breaking up into 4 provinces orchestrated by foreigners just like Iraq model. And know that Army is the only stable institute in Pakistan which defends the borders.


  32. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 11th, 2008 @ 2:26 pm

    @riz are you really that dumb n ignorant or just pretending to be one, Musharraf the war criminal is directly resposible for the current miserable state pakistan is in,situation is pakistan is far worse then it is in Iraq,he has been killing pakistani people like animals on the behest of americans and just to save his own neck have been unconditionally supporting their sham war against terror, Bush might get international imunnity for war crimes , but we as pakistanis won’t be forgiving n absolving Musharraf and want him to be tried for war crimes commited by him in an independent court of law, after every suicide bombing people start chanting slogans "Go Musharraf Go" , its quite obvious poeople are aware that Mush is directly responsible for the mess we’re in and the sooner he is kicked out the better


  33. concerned on March 11th, 2008 @ 5:43 pm

    @Doctor

    Why do you find it hard to believe that Ajj was telling the truth when they said there was no firing on them. There were a total of 6 bullets found inside Ajj offices tht is not what you get when you are under attack.

    Every sane person knows Ajj was caught in a cross fire, MQM is not stupid and it had no reason to attack Ajj.

    Also stop blaming MQM for killing all 50 ppl, you have no proof of that. As for the Corolla footing can you please post that here, I havent seen it myself but heard you talking about it alot. Also how can you be sure that is an MQM minister supplying weapons to MQM. It could be any other party.

    Talk to some sane Ajj employees and dont give me what Talat Hussain was saying. He was just doing it to launch the channel.

    You do realise that on this blog you are the only one going on and on and the rest seem to be in favour of MQM and Mushy, Now if you project this ratio over khi, then dude you are a minority.

    Stop making stupid remarks like Mushy killing Pakistanis. These bloody pakistanis you talk about are killing Pakistanis civilians as well and Mushy is trying to protect you from them. And those ppl that you refer to, who chant Go Mushy Go, they are all politcally motivated, this entire thing has been orchastrated by PML N and PPP, to show that public opinion is against Mushy, but go stand in a busy market in Khi and talk to ppl about their opnion on Mushy, they will tell you the truth.

    The civil society that you talk of is non existant, if it was actually represented by ppl from the society then they would have condemned 27-29 Dec as well, no one said a word, if they werent politically motivated they would have something to say against Zardari (Mr 10%) being the next PM or the unholy coalition between PPP and PML N, the two parties which ate Pakistan in 10 years. Dude grow up this civil society does not exist, its all politics.


  34. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 11th, 2008 @ 11:06 pm

    @concerned

    it seems like on 12th may you had your head 5 feet under the sand like an ostrich and were oblivious of the deadly events that rocked karachi that day,even MQM didn’t had guts n audacity to categorically deny its involvement in that massacre,coz every thing on that day was shown live on tv and caught on tape

    majority of those 50 people that died on that fateful day were trapped by MQM’s armed footsoldiers on drig road, Sindh tv captured the entire massacre on tape,MQM’s sharp shooters were strategically positioned on the ramp of drig rd flyover,entire Shara-e-Faisal was booby trap with containers and punctured trawlers/trucks blocking the roads resulting in majority of deaths,once MQM’s terrorists started firing there was no place to run,they had effectively trapped every one and even ambulances were unable to enter the booby trapped portion of drig rd..
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=w_y05UmyO0Q

    here you go, Talat Hussain comprehensively explaining each n everything,obviously you won’t like the word of Talat Hussain, coz problem with karachi based journalist is that MQM can silence them by sending death threats and bullet empties in envelope but he is out of your range so when ever he exposes MQM then its hard for you n MQM to digest ..

    http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/7261/mqmajjtvattack12may08tk7.jpg

    MQM’s attack on Ajj tv part 1

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=METr2vAtObs

    MQM’s attack on Ajj tv part 2
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=NzSXOkiYUPQ

    MQM’s attack on Ajj tv part 3
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BFeFu8tq7w0

    (i specifically pasted this link,MQM’s Terrorists in past too were busted by Pakistan Rangers during a snap checking while traveling in a car having a government number plate said to be in the use of a provincial minister and this must have not been only instance,they must have been doing that every day and getting away with it coz they were in power)
    http://www.dawn.com/2004/04/18/local5.htm

    as for your perception that people who consider MQM as terrorist organization are in minority then you’re grossly mistaken,they’re in silent MAJORITY,whereas YOU are vocal but violent minority..


  35. rizwan on March 11th, 2008 @ 11:20 pm

    Lahore is hit again.
    Free Media In the Most corrupt Country is not Free Media its sold Media
    Atzaz Hasan who is playing with the emotions of the people of Pakistan Thanks Media for supporting Lawyers Movement.Now ask the people of Pakistan that Lawyers movement is Pakistan’s top priority or the terrorism by extremists? You tell me here is the list of events since 2006 they are only increasing. Our Free Media in corrupt Pakistan is busy making happy Asif zardari and Nawaz Sharif who many belive has been funding Lawyers Movement. Don’t we need Long March on extremism not on lawyers movement let the new government take care of that. I do not want media to reply me by saying this started in Musharraf’s time. Yes I know that but what have you done to stop terrorism in Pakistan?
    2006
    February 5 A bomb explosion killed 13 people including three army personnel and injured 18 on a Lahore-bound bus en-route from Quetta in Kolpur, Bolan District, Balochistan. No groups claimed of responsibility for the attack.[53]
    March 2 A power suicide car bomb attack in the high security zone near the US Consulate, Karachi, killed four people including a US diplomat.[54]
    March 10 At least 26 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Dera Bugti District, Balochistan after their bus hit a landmine. Both tribal rebels and security forces planted land mines in the area.[55]
    April 11 Over 50 people, including Sunni scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.[56]
    July 14 Allama Hassan Turabi, a Shiite religious scholar and chief of Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan, and his 12-year-old nephew were killed in a suicide attack near his Abbas Town residence. The suicide bomber was later identified as Abdul Karim, a Bangladeshi-speaking, resident of a shantytown in the central city area of Karachi.[57]
    November 8 A suicide bomber killed 42 Pakistani Army soldiers and injured 20 in the northwestern town of Dargai, apparently in retaliation to the Chenagai airstrike which killed 80 people in the same Bajaur region in the previous month.[58]

    [edit] 2007
    January 26 Two people were killed and five injured in a suspected suicide attack in Pakistan. The bomber and a security guard were killed in the blast at the Marriott hotel in the capital Islamabad.[59]
    April 28 Assassination attempt on Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, who is the Interior minister that killed 28 people in Charsadda, NWFP. This time again an attempt on a high ranking officer of Pakistani government was unsuccessful.[60]
    May 12 As many as 50 people were killed and hundreds injured when party workers of opposing parties; MQM, ANP and PPP clash in Karachi. The riots started when rival political rallies take the same route amid lawyers protests for restoration of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
    Main article: 2007 Karachi riots
    May 15 A bomb blast at the local Marhaba hotel in Peshawar killed 24 people and injured 30.[61]

    [edit] July – September
    July 6 President General Pervez Musharraf escaped yet another attempt on his life on Friday morning when around 36 rounds fired at his aircraft from a submachine gun in Rawalpindi missed their target.[62] In another incident, four Pakistan Army troops, including a major and a lieutenant, were killed in an improvised explosive device attack on a military convoy in Dir District – a stronghold of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the banned Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi.[63]
    July 8 Unidentified gunmen killed three Chinese workers and wounded another near Peshawar in what Pakistani officials said was a terrorist attack apparently linked to the bloody siege of militants at an Islamabad mosque.[64]
    July 12 Seven people including three policemen were killed and several others injured in two suicide attacks, two blasts and a rocket attack in three tribal regions and Swat district in the NWFP.[65]
    July 13 Assailants in Miranshah killed three pro-government tribal leaders, when they were spotted in the city market.[66]
    July 14 At least 23 paramilitary troops died and 27 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into their convoy in Miranshah in one of the deadliest attacks on the security forces in North Waziristan.[67]
    July 15 At least 49 are killed and hundreds injured when suicide attack and car bombs explode throughout NWFP in an apparent retaliation for Lal Masjid operation. 11 security personnel and six civilians were killed and 47 others injured in Matta, Swat District, when suicide bombers smashed two cars packed with explosives into an army convoy, and 25 people were killed and 61 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Dera Ismail Khan police recruitment center.[68]
    July 17 At least 17 people were killed and 50 injured as a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the venue of the district bar council convention in Islamabad killing mostly Pakistan Peoples Party political workers waiting for the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was to address a lawyers convention.[69]
    July 19 More than 40 people were killed in three separate bomb attacks. In the first incident, bomb was detonated in a mosque used by military personnel in the north-western town of Kohat, killing at least 11 people. In the second one, 26 people died and 50 were injured in the southern town of Hub, Lasbela District, Balochistan, in an attack apparently targeting Chinese workers. And in the last one, at least seven people were killed and more than 20 injured in a suicide car bombing at a police academy in the north-western town of Hangu.[70]
    July 24 At least nine people including a woman were killed and 40 others injured when unidentified militants fired a barrage of rockets on the civilian population in the northwestern city of Bannu.[71]
    July 27 A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at Muzaffar hotel in Aabpara, Islamabad Friday after hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police as the capital’s Red Mosque reopened for the first time since a bloody army raid.[72] The same day Raziq Bugti, former guerrilla commander turned spokesman for the Balochistan government, was shot dead by assailants in Quetta.[73]
    August 2 The police in Sargodha shot dead a suspected suicide bomber after the man failed to detonate the explosives he was wearing. The man, who entered a police training center, killed a policeman before he was gunned down.[74]
    August 4 Nine people were killed and 43 injured when a suicide car bomber triggered an explosion at a busy bus station in Parachinar, Kurram Agency.[75]
    August 15 Two people were killed in a blast at around 9:00am at Saleem Tuition Center in Turlandi, about 30 kilometers from the city of Swabi, NWFP.[76]
    August 26 Four policemen were killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in the Machaar area of Shangla district.[77]
    September 4 At least 25 people were killed and 66 injured in two suicide bomb blasts in Rawalpindi cantonment’s high security areas during morning rush hour. The first blast took place near Qasim Market where a Defence Ministry bus carrying around 38 civilians and uniformed officials was hit, killing 18 people. Five minutes later, a second blast took place near RA Bazaar, behind General Headquarters. The blast was caused by explosives fixed to a motorcycle, which blew up killing seven people on the spot.[78]
    Main article: September 2007 bombings in Rawalpindi
    September 7 Suspected militants on Friday blew up 63 CD and shoe shops in the town of Mingora in Swat District.[79]
    September 11 At least 17 people, including three security personnel and a woman, were killed and 16 others injured when a 15-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van at Bannu Adda in Dera Ismail Khan district.[80] The same day Omar Ayub Khan’s protocol officer, Liaquat Hussain, was found shot dead near the Northern Bypass in Karachi.[81]
    September 13 At least 20 off-duty commandos were killed and 11 injured in an apparent suicide blast at an army officers’ mess in Tarbela Ghazi, Haripur near Tarbela Dam. The targeted were the Pakistan Army’s special forces unit SSG’s Karar Company.[82]
    September 15 Unidentified assailants shot dead Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader and Wafaqul Madaris Vice Chairman Maulana Hassan Jan in the jurisdiction of Yakatoot police station in Peshawar. Hassan, a former MNA, also issued a fatwa against suicide attacks, and he along with a group of Pakistani clerics traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 to convince Mullah Omar that he should expel Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan to avoid American attacks.[83]
    September 17 Militants blew up a welfare hospital in Mian Mandi bazaar, 10 kilometres northwest of the agency headquarters in Mohmand Agency. Sources said that two explosions were heard at around 2am when the Al Sehat Welfare Hospital building collapsed.[84]

    [edit] October – December
    October 1 A suicide bomber disguised in a woman’s burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost in Bannu, NWFP killing at least 16 people including four policemen and injuring 29.[85]
    October 9 A time bomb exploded at Nishtarabad CD-market injuring at least 16 people in Peshawar.[86]
    October 12 Mohmand Taliban publicly behead six “criminals” and lashed three others in the name of Sharia.[87]
    October 18 Attack on Benazir Bhutto convoy killed over 139 in Karachi and sleft more than 450 injured in one of the most deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Former PM Benazir Bhutto was returning after 8 years of self imposed exile when the bomber struck the convoy killing dozens. Karachi Bombs in Pictures
    Main article: 2007 Karachi bombing
    October 20 At least eight people were killed and 28 injured when a powerful bomb planted in a pickup vehicle exploded in Dera Bugti, Balochistan.[88]
    October 25 At least 20 people including 18 troops died and 35 others were injured in a blast aimed at a vehicle carrying Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel in the troubled Swat district. It was suspected to be a suicide attack.[89]
    October 30 A suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi, less than a kilometer from President General Pervez Musharraf’s camp office, killing seven people, three of them policemen, and injuring 31 others. The blast splattered check post of General Tariq Majid, current Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff’s residence.[90]
    November 1 A suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a PAF bus near Sargodha, killing seven officers of the Pakistan Air Force stationed at Mushaf Airbase and three civilians on the Faisalabad Road on Thursday morning. 28 people suffered injuries. It is significant that after this event a state of emergency was imposed on the country.[91]
    November 9 A suicide bomber killed at least three people and injured two others when he detonated explosives at the house of Federal Political Affairs Minister Amir Muqam in Peshawar. The minister was unhurt, but a cousin of his was injured. The three dead were policemen guarding the house.[92]
    November 17-19 As many as 94 people were killed and 168 injured in three days of in-fighting between the rival Sunni and Shia sects in Parachinar, Kurram Agency in Pakistani tribal areas, bordering Afghanistan. Only by the fourth day, the army gained control of the area and a ceasefire was maintained in the area.[93]
    November 24 30 people were killed in two suicide attacks in Rawalpindi. In the first incident, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a 72-seater bus parked in front of Ojhri Camp on Murree Road carrying Inter-Services Intelligence officials to work, killing 28 officials and a bystander. The second incident occurred as a second suicide bomber attempted to enter the General Headquarters (GHQ). Upon being asked for identification at the GHQ’s check post, he blew himself up, resulting in the deaths of one security official and a bystander.[94]
    December 9 At least 10 people including three policemen and seven civilians, including two children, perished in a car bombing near Matta, Swat District.[95]
    December 10 A suicide attack on the school bus carrying children during the morning rush injuring seven of them. It was a PAF employees bus and the attack took place near Minhas Airbase, Kamra. It was a second major attack on the Pakistan Air Force after the Sargodha attack.[96]
    December 13 Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost in Quetta killed seven people, including three personnel of the Pakistan Army.[97]
    December 15 A suicide attacker rammed his explosives-laden bicycle into a military checkpost killing five people and injuring 11 others in the first-ever suicide attack in the city of Nowshera. The attack occurred at a checkpoint near the gate of an army school.[98]
    December 17 12 security personnel were killed and five wounded in a suicide attack in the country’s restive northwestern city of Kohat. Victims were members of army’s local football team.[99]
    December 21 On the eve of Eid ul-Adha, a suicide bomb blast again targeted Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao killing at least 57 and injuring over 100 at Jamia Masjid Sherpao, in Charsadda District. Aftab Ahmad survived the blast, but his younger son Mustafa Khan Sherpao, was injured.[100]
    December 23 At least seven people, including a soldier and six civilians, were killed and another 23 wounded as a suicide bomber targeted an army convoy near Mingora.[101]
    December 27: Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting and suicide bombing in Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, killing up to 20 others and injuring many. The site is notorious as the place where former Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was also assassinated in October 1951.
    Main article: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
    December 28 At least 33 people, including four policemen, were killed all over Pakistan in the violence that ensued after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The situation grew so worse that Sindh Rangers were given orders to shoot-at-sight.[102]
    December 28 A roadside bomb killed nine people, including former PML-Q minister Asfandyar Amirzaib, who is a grandson of Wali-e-Swat, in Swat District.[103]

    [edit] 2008
    January 10 24 people were killed and 73 injured in a suicide attack when the policemen were deliberately targeted outside Lahore High Court before the scheduled lawyer’s protest against the government in provincial capital of Lahore. This attack was first of its kind in Lahore since the start of War on Terrorism.[104]
    January 14 At least 10 people were killed and over 50 wounded when a bomb exploded in Quaidabad. The bomb was planted on a bicycle and it went off during wee hours in a vegetable market in Karachi.[105]
    January 17 At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured, three of them critically, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in an imambargah in Peshawar.[106]
    February 4 At least 10 people were killed and 27 others injured, when a suicide bomber crashed his bike into an armed forces bus carrying students and officials of Army Medical College, near the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.[107]
    February 9 At least 25 people died and 35 were injured after a powerful explosion hit an opposition election rally in Charsadda in the north-western Pakistan. The attack targeted ANP, a secular party, one of whose leaders, Fazal-ur-Rehman Atakhail, was assassinated February 7 in Karachi triggering widespread protests. Possible conspirators of the latest attack could be the Islamist Taliban-al-Qaeda nexus operating in the northwestern Pakistan.[108]
    Main article: 2008 Charsadda bombing
    February 11 A suicide attack on a public meeting in Miranshah, North Waziristan left at least eight people dead and a dozen wounded, including a candidate for the National Assembly. It was the second attack on ANP’s election gathering in two days.[109]
    February 16 A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle on the election meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party, the party of the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Parachinar, Kurram Agency in northwestern Pakistan. The attack left at least 47 people dead and 150 injured according to Interior Ministry of Pakistan. It was the fourth such attack on PPP’s political workers within a year; two of them targeting the former PPP leader Benazir Bhutto.[110]
    Main article: 2008 Parachinar bombing
    February 18 At least 24 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured in election-related violence across the country on the eve of Pakistani general election, Aaj TV reported.[111]
    February 22 A roadside bomb near the town of Matta, Swat District, NWFP killed at least 13 members of a wedding party and left about a dozen injured. An army spokesman said the bomb had been detonated by remote control. Women and children were among the casualties.[112]
    February 25 Pakistan Army’s top medic Lt Gen Mushtaq Baig was killed, along with the driver and security guard, when a suicide attack ripped apart the vehicle he was traveling in at 2:45pm local time near Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. At least 5 other passersby were also killed and 20 injured in the incident. Gen Baig was the highest ranking officer to be killed in Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks.[113]
    February 29 As many as 38 people were killed and 75 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Mingora, Swat District on Friday during the funeral of a senior police officer who had been killed hours earlier in Lakki Marwat in southern part of NWFP. The police DSP was killed along with three other policemen when their vehicle was hit in a roadside bomb earlier in the day. Witnesses said the suicide attack took place when a police party was presenting a gun salute in honor of the slain police officer in a school ground in Mingora town at about 8pm.[114]
    March 2 At least 42 people were killed and 58 injured in a suicide attack, when the bomber struck the meeting of tribal elders and local officials in the town of Darra Adam Khel, a few miles south of Peshawar. The town of Darra was the center of violent clashes earlier in January when the militants took over the Kohat Tunnel that connected Peshawar with Kohat. After the onslaught of security forces to take back the tunnel, the fighting resulted in the deaths of 13 troops and 70 militants.[115]
    March 4 Eight persons were killed and 24 others injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the parking area of the Pakistan Navy War College located in the city of Lahore. It was the first time a Pakistani naval institution was targeted by the militants (Army has been targeted at least eight times outside the war zone and Air Force twice) since the ongoing War on Terrorism in Pakistan in general and post-Lal Masjid siege in particular. This attack on War College was carried out by two suicide attackers, the first one to clear the way for the second one; and the second one to do the damage.[116]
    March 11 At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in twin suicide bombings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. One of the attacks ripped apart Federal Investigation Agency building killing 21, including 16 policemen. The other one hit the posh locality of Model Town, exploding close to Bilawal House, associated with PPP leaders Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari.[117]


  36. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 11th, 2008 @ 11:25 pm

    @Riz and dictator is still not getting the hint.. mark my words.. minute he leaves the scene or meets his fate, these suicide attacks would stop..


  37. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 11th, 2008 @ 11:30 pm

    Mush is part of western conspiracy to push pakistani military into quagmire, up against its own people, army killing people, people killing army.. Mush and his American masters sitting back and enjoying the show


  38. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 12th, 2008 @ 12:19 am

    Turkish prime minister also got a call similar to one that our dictator received from Collin powell which got dictator’s pants instantly wet, while the turks easily deflected the pressure off by putting up the american suggestion of letting them use Turkish bases in their parliament for voting,which their parliament rejected by huge margin despite americans offering them a $30 billion aid package.(benefit of having a democratically elected parliament as against a self imposed dictator taking all crucial decisions )


  39. balma on March 12th, 2008 @ 1:22 am

    * D0ct0r write
    Mush is part of western conspiracy to push pakistani military into quagmire, up against its own people, army killing people, people killing army.. Mush and his American masters sitting back and enjoying the show

    ****
    Dude, sometimes you sound like such a jamati.

    Also, it almost seems like you are organizing these dhamaakas, the way you predict when they will stop.

    I agree with you on Turkish assembly example…..but, don’t you think our assembly members are super duper criminals and corrupt….esp, longer the beard, higher the corruption…. but you made a good point.


  40. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 12th, 2008 @ 3:26 am

    Balma

    in past tribal belt on pakistan’s western border along side afghanistan use to act as a natural firewall and pakistani army only needed to worry about the eastern border alongside india, but now thanx to american and their front man mush, we’ve alienated the tribes and army is in a quagmire, volatile western and eastern border

    btw do only jamatis know that mush wags his tail behind americans? even collin powel was surprised that a single call made mush give in so easily


  41. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 12th, 2008 @ 3:28 am

    even powel’s countless personal visits and phone calls by Bush were not able to win turkish support


  42. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 12th, 2008 @ 3:38 am

    Also, it almost seems like you are organizing these dhamaakas, the way you predict when they will stop.

    isn’t it all too obvious that all this mess is directly related to Mush and his unconditional support and participation in sham war on terror and is having adverse n deadly consequences


  43. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 12th, 2008 @ 3:46 am

    you must have read about the new set of demands put forward by Americans..

    http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13430

    Much of the blame rests with our own government. It continued to blindly cooperate with the United States in its War on Terror, instead of refusing to accept the undue pressure brought to bear upon it from time to time. Fresh offensives were launched in the tribal areas in violation of the peace agreement reached with local tribesmen some time ago. This resulted in the spill over of violence, earlier restricted to the troubled region, into the settled areas of the NWFP and the rest of the country. The need for a paradigm shift is very important at this crucial time, when the ongoing spate of suicide attacks is posing a serious threat to our internal security.


  44. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 12th, 2008 @ 3:47 am
  45. balma on March 12th, 2008 @ 6:39 am

    I don’t really care much about these so called tribal areas. They get all the benefits of being in Pakistan, but when it comes to the application of Pakistani law in their area, they claim to be something special. I say kick their fucking butt and establish rule of law all over Pakistan. It is Pakistani govt’s and their corrupt political agents who have let this nonsense to be continued for such a long time. Same rules should now apply to the whole country. When the idiots from these so called tribal land want jobs in Karachi or Chakval, they show their Pakistani ID card….when it comes to crimes in the tribal area, they want to be treated differently….yeh kahaa’s kee sharaafat hae? khulee badmaashee hae….no more badmaashee please.


  46. wasiq on March 12th, 2008 @ 7:28 am

    they dont hire cheats like me….if she is good for the business shes got to be better for the party….
    ps; my influence is increasing.


  47. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 13th, 2008 @ 12:08 am

    They get all the benefits of being in Pakistan

    What kind of benefits are you talking about? they don’t have access to basic amenities of life
    no clean water
    no electricity
    no health
    no gas
    no roads
    no educational facilities
    no food(even before days of wheat crisis,the food item there were 1.5 to 2 times more expensive then rest of pakistan)

    they’re literally on their own

    I say kick their fucking butt and establish rule of law all over Pakistan.

    Rule of law.. when we can’t even establish rule of law in rest of pakistan(on 12th may 50+ people were killed and all that was caught on tape and no one was convicted or no butts were kicked and they still roam scot free)

    When the idiots from these so called tribal land want jobs in Karachi or Chakval, they show their Pakistani ID card…

    jobs in Karachi.. majority of them are not educated(coz we have’nt given them opportunity) so obviously the petty jobs they might fill are not desired by you n me , drivers, security guards,bus/coach/taxi/rickshaw drivers, handcart(pushing 100×10=1 ton rice sacks)… plus keep one thing in mind, karachiites can’t impose a visa on rest of pakistanis coz after all they’re pakistanis too..

    either give them incentives and facilities in their own area and then discourage them to come to urban areas otherwise its not appropriate to whine about them coming here..


  48. balma on March 13th, 2008 @ 7:59 am

    Fine, if you say they are Pakistanis then why don’t Pakistani laws apply in the tribal areas?

    For rest of your garbage, I will have to write under Reality_Check’s identity!


  49. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 13th, 2008 @ 5:06 pm

    MQM’s terrorists are active again,back in nineties rehan kana use to operate in a red suzuki alto,now thanx to Mush’s free hand to MQM,atleast MQM’s terrorist have benefited and prospered at grassroot level, now they’re operating in Honda civics and corrolas.. yesterday MQM’s terrorist beat and thrashed women protester,media men and press cameraman ,they fired in the air to stop cameramen from taking pictures and scare away media personnel covering the demonstration,police which was standing nearby was unable to do anything..they kidnapped a television channel employee,took him to their hideout at Sidco Centre where they already had few other people confined as well

    http://dawn.com/2008/03/13/local2.htm


  50. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 13th, 2008 @ 5:07 pm

    why don’t Pakistani laws apply in the tribal areas?

    Cheif law officer of the country(CJP) tries to enter karachi and is welcomed with 50 dead bodies.. first just get your own house in order and then start pointing fingers at others..


  51. shoaib on March 13th, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

    Thanks Doctor for the updated information. You know every thing. Are you sure Rehan Kana was using Red Alto at that time. You must have had some ride with him. What happened afterwards, why you parted ways with him. is there something very personal which you cannot share and which led you parting ways with him. Some very fishy thing happended, i am certain, if not sure.
    Why should always Karachi fight for others war. The suo moto notice of Chief law officer of the country(CJP)for the missing person was the top most bone of contention between Musharraf and Chief law officer of the country(CJP), isn’t it.. Why the Chief law officer of the country(CJP) never took any suo moto notice for the 28 missing persons of Karachi. Are they not the citizens of the soil. Truth is very bitter Doctor and we have to face it. Why not we point this out also. Is every one biased and dont want to highlight the problems of people of Karachi. We have rights on the city Doctor plus we have responsibilities as well. One responsibility is to show the truth and the injustices being done with Karachi. Can we also share the responsibilities.


  52. balma on March 13th, 2008 @ 8:36 pm

    * doctor writes:

    first just get your own house in order

    *****
    This makes me wonder if he/she is an outsider?!?!?!?!
    Haaai’n;-)
    May be you are getting too emotional on KMB, and would prefer to be on *MB?


  53. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 13th, 2008 @ 8:58 pm

    This makes me wonder if he/she is an outsider?!?!?!?!

    Terrorist are roaming scot free with impunity beating women protestors, kidnapping journalists/mediamen right here in karachi and you whine about Pakistani laws not being applied in tribal areas..


  54. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 13th, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

    This makes me wonder if he/she is an outsider?!?!?!?!

    whats next.. This makes me wonder if he/she is a jamati? ..


  55. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 13th, 2008 @ 10:02 pm

    would you kick out all those journalists and cameramen who captured MQM terrorists live on camera while they manhandled and thrashed women protesters and journalists and tag all of them as "outsider" for exposing MQM’s terrorism..


  56. balma on March 14th, 2008 @ 12:43 am

    D*,
    In principle, I would be against all kind of Badmashi and in favor of rule of law, all over Pakistan including so called tribal areas.

    How about you?

    Thanks for bringing it up… Are you a jamati too?


  57. concerned on March 14th, 2008 @ 12:57 am

    @Doctor

    Please read a more nuetral version of the story,

    http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=101033

    They talk about an actual clash between women first and then unknown men jumping in. They could have been MQM and they could have been Jamiati, the fact of the matter is you know nothing about what actually happened and neither do i.

    As for the tribal areas getting any amenities, I can vouch for this myself that some tribal areas have decent swerage and water lines laid, roads and also there are grid lines through which Wapda used to provide them electricity. They have stopped supplying electricity to most of it because they didnt pay any bills for a long time. Also they dont pay any form of tax. So please know wht ur talking abt before you speak.


  58. balma on March 14th, 2008 @ 1:42 am

    *They have stopped supplying electricity to most of it because they didnt pay any bills for a long time.

    *****
    I don’t think they were ever asked to pay their bills. Once in late 80s, I was talking to a Central Govt babujee and he told me in ThaiTh Panjabi (he used to claim that was actually Urdu) that the feds want to corrupt these guys by giving free bijli, so they will prefer TV and fridge over maaraa maari and ghunda gardi….
    It didn’t work I guess.

    also, some of the biggest enemies of tribal pathans are the pathans living in settled areas of NWFP. It is only jamatis and pseudo jamatis like Imran Khan who are all praise about the tribes.


  59. wasiq on March 14th, 2008 @ 8:46 am

    Hum khaak main milein toh milein laikin ay sipheir
    iss shoukh ko bhi rah pey laana zaroor tha….
    (mon,16 june,1997)


  60. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 14th, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

    @Balma what about these mutahida terrorists and kidnappers, they’re Insider/real Locals right? while those who are protesting and exposing MQM are all "outsiders"


  61. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 14th, 2008 @ 2:52 pm

    Muttahida (MQM altaf bai) slammed over violence outside KPC

    KARACHI, March 13: All political outfits particularly the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) should recognise the right to freedom of expression of others and must avoid harassing and torturing people who try to record their protests in front of the Karachi Press Club.

    A number of such observations were made during a protest meeting against the manhandling of journalists who were covering a protest demonstration organised by the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) outside the KPC on March 12. The meeting was organised by the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ).

    KUJ president Khurshid Tanvir strongly condemned the incident. Criticising the role of Rangers and police, he said that personnel of security forces remained present almost all the day along around the KPC but on March 12 they utterly failed to control the situation. Mr Tanvir said that the incident was a continuity of the present government’s atrocities against journalists and political opponents. He urged the Sindh government to arrest those responsible for the violent incident.

    KPC president Najeeb Ahmed said that violence against journalists had hurt the feelings of the entire journalist fraternity. He recalled that senior journalist and editor of Weekly Takbeer, Salahuddin, and others were killed by a ‘political mafia’, adding that “were not afraid and would continue our struggle for the rights of the oppressed people and for the freedom of press”.

    The former president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Mr Irfan, said that the journalist community had no affiliation with any specific political party and could not be intimidated by such tactics.

    Senior journalist Abdul Hameed Chhapra said that the KPC was a place of peace and Muttahida could not succeed in using journalists for its vested interests.

    Laeeq Yousuf Zai said that he went out of the KPC to speak to those who were against manhandling the journalists, instead they tried to kidnap him. He said they kidnapped a journalist who later was released at Regal Chowk after being tortured.

    KPC vice-president Saeed Sarbazi said that a committee should be formed to review all aspects of the incident. TV Journalists’ Association president Faisal Aziz also insisted on the formation of the committee.

    Yousaf Khan said that this violence was an attack on the freedom of the press. He said that journalists would take to the streets if no action was taken against the accused.—PPI

    http://dawn.com/2008/03/14/local12.htm


  62. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 14th, 2008 @ 2:58 pm

    people like you and Altaf bai who create ethnic and racial disharmony are the real menace and MQM can never be a mainstream party unless it stops stirring ethnic hatred..


  63. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 14th, 2008 @ 3:08 pm

    MQM have a history of kidnapping/killing/murdering/torturing/threatening/black mailing journalist who try to expose MQM’s terrorism .. pictures and videos don’t lie..

    "The list of journalists was produced by the Mujahir Rabita Council (MRC) political group, and faxed on 22 May from the headquarters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a coalition partner in the government of President Musharaff.

    Subsequently, on 29 May, an envelope containing bullets was reportedly attached to the windscreen of journalist Mazhar Abbas’s car, and bullets were found on the driver’s seats of cars used by photographers Zarrah Khan and Asif Hassan, all in the city of Karachi.

    Mazhar Abbas is a correspondent for the French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), and Secretary General of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. Zarrah Khan is a correspondent and photographer for the US news agency Associated Press; Asif Hassan is an AFP photographer. Mazhar Abbas and Zarrah Khan had both been named on the MRC list.

    The other journalists listed were: Azhar Abbas of Dawn TV; Zafar Abbas of the daily newspaper Dawn; Aneeq Ahmed and Shaheen Sehbai of ARY TV; Dawn columnist Ayaz Amir; Asfar Imam of Aaj TV; Zahid Hussain of Geo TV; Dr Shahid Masood of Geo TV; Sajjad Mir of TV One; Irfan Siddiqui of daily Nawa-e-Waqt.

    According to the Asian Human Rights council, in the fax the MRC denounced the 12 journalists, warning them to change their critical views of President Musharaff and MQM leader Altaf Hussain. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan secretary general, Iqbal Haider, was also named on the list.

    The list and death threats follow a prolonged history of violent attacks on journalists in Pakistan, and a recent clampdown on freedom of expression in the country. "

    http://www.amnesty.no/web.nsf/pages/F4D5636E7282EEA9C12572FC00462726


  64. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 14th, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

    Pakistani journalists receive bullets threat
    http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSISL186008

    Pakistan : AFP and AP journalists are left envelopes with bullets
    http://www.rsf.org/fil_en.php3?id_rubrique=682&mois=05


  65. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 14th, 2008 @ 3:14 pm

    Amnesty/Reuters/Reporters without borders(RSF) they’re all jamati too .. right balma?


  66. balma on March 14th, 2008 @ 6:43 pm

    * My own earlier postIn principle, I would be against all kind of Badmashi and in favor of rule of law, all over Pakistan including so called tribal areas.

    How about you?

    ***

    D*, did you miss this question for you?


  67. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 15th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    B* finally after all that effort you’re talking some sense.. terrorism in any form by any one,be it a bearded terrorist,or pir Sahib of london town MQM Altaf bai’s terrorist birgade,be it Americans killing innocent Pakistanis,be it Israelis killing innocent Palestinians, should be condemned.. but bottomline is that we as karachiites are more concerned about mutahida’s terrorists running amok,lurking around in our own backyard and we should deal with them first(like you said *kick their fucking butt* ) rather then pointing fingers and whining n worrying about others..


  68. shoaib on March 16th, 2008 @ 12:41 pm

    welcome in Karachi Doctor. Karachi welcome you like many of the million aliens who are living here. You must respect the mandate of Karachi as well.


  69. wasiq on March 18th, 2008 @ 7:18 am

    anything is nothing to bring you up to the nelson’s blood……many of the most airlines run on low income planes but you cannot run an airline on the lowest income plane and show profit…..:-p

    chooo kar merey maan ko kia tu ney kya ishara
    badla yeah mousam laga piyala jag sara…….(3/18/2008)


  70. Shamsi (shamsi) on March 18th, 2008 @ 1:04 pm

    Look at the horizon – Look at TWO LEGENDRY Figures of PPP joining hands, fogging away the widower., Makhdoom saheb of Hala will play the Sindh Card, Aitzaz Ahsan will lock horn with N league on Judicary issue – :)

    Statments from Kiyani shows itch in his balls as well, – IS someone asking COAS again & again of his role in future or is he trying to stay in news for sake of people not forgetting what Khaki has to do with INFANT MORTALITY of DHAY-MO Cracy,

    With commoners like US suffering from Power shortage and Fuel prices multiplying on 1st & 15th of every month, Nawaz Badmash have given an statment – "hamay khoon alood pakistan aur to-tay ho-ay Ida-ray dea-ay ja rahay hain" we shall read between lines what message he have conveyed to people.


  71. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 18th, 2008 @ 11:30 pm

    Branded suiting

    While PPP and PML-N(MNAs) maintained sober outlook, the MQM members were noticed for their flamboyance. The qameez-pyjama of yore had been replaced by expensive branded suiting. Perhaps Altaf Bhai should take note of this, a colleague could not resist pointing out to an MQM member.

    http://dawn.com/2008/03/18/top5.htm


  72. shoaib on March 19th, 2008 @ 3:49 am

    Sorry, but I am folding over laughing. This is the most ludicrous thing that I have heard. I am not concerned with the comments of biased media which would have commented negatively if MQM members wore qameez-pyjama. They have to criticize in any case. BTW all of the MQM members are well educated and have purchased it from their halal income not from illegal resources. Why is every one so concerned. Why have you not pointed out about the most expensive cars and the source of income for purchase which were used by our newly elected parliamentarians.


  73. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 19th, 2008 @ 2:20 pm

    @Shoaib

    Altaf bai keep a close eye on all those Halal earnings(aka Bhata/extortion money) and if he does not receives his due share in time then he nails that member,i hope you remember the case of Khalid bin waleed ,Altaf bai thought that he had misappropriated "halal earnings" so he was instantly gunned down by MQM’s foot soldiers.. same is the case here,if these members are sending branded suits to Altaf bai then well n good otherwise Altaf bai will instantly nail them.


  74. d0ct0r (d0ctor) on March 19th, 2008 @ 2:26 pm

    coz according to people close to Altaf bai,he often gets really depressed that these members are having the time of their life using MQM’s and his name while he himself is living in exile and can’t even enter pakistan


  75. shoaib on March 19th, 2008 @ 9:04 pm

    I dont say anthing about your words but i am very eager to know exactly how do you get all these information. Are you an MQM insider, MQM (Forward Bloc) or something else. You know every thing starting from which car Rehan Kana was using and till the feelings of altaf bhai that when he gets feeling of being depressed. You can be the family doctor, you can be the cook of altaf bhai or ???? (yes definately wife to nahee ho sakte).
    Come on share, we want to know in detail about our most valued blogger, doctor..


  76. wasiq on March 22nd, 2008 @ 9:28 am

    the wordpress is under my umbrella now….yanna rascala mind it…!



Terms of use | Privacy Policy | Content: Creative Commons | Site and Design © 2009 | Metroblogging ® and Metblogs ® are registered trademarks of Bode Media, Inc.