Pakistani internal security (catch all)

[Ray]

A very analytical post by omarali50.

worth note.

[davidbfpo]

The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones comments:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30520596

Shashank Joshi has an article in the FT (behind a registration wall) and this paragraph, which alas illustrates all too well the problem in Pakistan:

When General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military dictator, argued on Wednesday that India should be held responsible for the previous day’s massacre, he was only echoing a wave of similar delusion on social media. From there, it is a short step to the view that the solution is more LeT, more Haqqanis and more Afghan Taliban — whatever the price to innocent civilians.

Link:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9fc7bb30-8...#axzz3MIFBDs9R

Twitter reports that the death warrants for six Pakistani convicted terrorists have been signed by the Army Chief of Staff; they were convicted in military courts and security is being increaded @ Karachi Jail, where they are held - prior to execution.

[davidbfpo]

On Twitter based on a Pakistan MoD Tweet:

TTP commander Fazal Ullah was killed in an airstrike carried out by PAF jets inside Afghanistan......The SSG operators have now responded with the visual confirmation of the dead body of TTP commander Fazal Ullah.

[davidbfpo]

Also from a Pakistani MoD Tweet and this will make the pakistani people think:

PM Sharif signs death penalty for 122 terrorists who were awaiting death sentences due to Moratorium.

(Earlier) 8 more terrorists to be hanged anytime soon. Death warrants received by Jail Superintendents.

BBC background on the then possible hangings:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30556260

[davidbfpo]

Three articles from Pakistan. The first by a human rights advocate notes the label 'terrorist' by their courts is not very accurate:

..the government’s proposal to start executing so-called ‘terrorists’ on Pakistan’s 8,000 strong death row would be a shameful and inadequate reaction, which will neither help the victims of this week’s atrocity nor improve the security situation in Pakistan.

Link:http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-New...are-we-hanging

In 'Who is who of top 18 death row prisoners?' the writer ponders who will hang? Maybe even Daniel Pearl's murderer:http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-New...-row-prisoners

'It wasn't the final atrocity' is a commentary on what Pakistan needs:

No security measures can ever prevent attacks on soft targets. The only possible solution is to change mindsets. For this we must grapple with three hard facts. First, let’s openly admit that the killers are not outsiders or infidels. Instead, they are fighting a war for the reason Boko Haram fights in Nigeria, IS in Iraq and Syria, Al Shabab in Kenya, etc. The men who slaughtered our children are fighting for a dream — to destroy Pakistan as a Muslim state and recreate it as an Islamic state....

Second, Pakistan must scorn and punish those who either support terrorism publicly or lie to us about the identity of terrorists.....

Third, if Pakistan is to be at peace with itself then it must seek peace with its neighbours and begin disassembling the apparatus of jihad. The bitter truth is that you reap what you sow.

Link:http://www.dawn.com/news/1151930/it-...final-atrocity

[omarali50]

Former ambassador Hussain Haqqani has summed up all my arguments and more in much better format. MUST READ

http://www.hudson.org/research/10885-state-of-delusion

[omarali50]

if you are interested in GHQ's preferred messaging, here is the man himself

https://storify.com/omarali50/ahmed-...hawar-massacre