Pakistani internal security (catch all)

[AdamG]

So the August 16 attack that left nine suspected Islamic radicals and one Pakistani soldier dead once again raised eyebrows over Islamabad's claims that its nuclear installations are under foolproof security.

Much of the concern is predictable, but misdirected, according to experts.

The location of Pakistan's nuclear weapons are a highly guarded secret, but despite news reports to the contrary, most observers doubt that warheads are stored at Minhas.

http://www.rferl.org/content/how-saf.../24681549.html

[davidbfpo]

Many see what happens in Karachi as a barometer for what is happening more widely in Pakistan, so this NYT article is simply bad news. The article ends:

In such a vast and turbulent city, the Taliban may become just another turf-driven gang. But without a determined response from the security forces, experts say, they could also seek to become much more.

Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/wo...pagewanted=all

[davidbfpo]

Bosses of Karachi police admitted in the Supreme Court on Friday that their men lacked the ‘will’ to combat the growing number of militants and gangsters in the city because of sluggish follow-up of the cases of their colleagues who had been killed by criminals.

The will was weak because cases of the killing of policemen were not followed up, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Karachi West Zafar Abbas Bukhari said, adding that 162 policemen had lost their lives in different operations but only three killers could be arrested.

Link:http://dawn.com/2013/03/30/combating...mit-officials/

Alas no indication over what period this had occurred.

[davidbfpo]

A short, thirty page Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report:http://carnegieendowment.org/files/balochistan.pdf

[davidbfpo]

A Pakistani articie for once, hat tip to Red Rat:http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/17...-its-criminals

[omarali50]

This time they knocked out the high-end climber-tourist industry.

http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/06/...rbat-massacre/

Excerpt:

On June 23rd some 15-20 men dressed in the uniforms of the Gilgit Scouts climbed up to the base camp at the foot of the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat. There, at the height of 13000 feet above sea level, they pulled climbers, guides, porters and cooks out of their tents, smashed their phones, laptops and solar panels and put them in two groups. The locals were in one group, the foreigners were lined up on the other side. Then they shot all the foreign climbers in the back of the head. Since exit wounds are bigger than entry wounds and exit wounds were in the face, some of the foreigners are said to be hard to recognize. Looking at ID cards, they also shot a local cook whose name was Ali Hassan. If they had asked him, he might have told them that he was a Sunni, just happened to have a “Shia-sounding” name. But unfortunately the resistance-fighters (thank you Tariq Ali) didnt bother to ask. Another local who told this story to a friend survived because his name is Sher Khan. He is Ismaili. Luckily for him, they just looked at ID cards. He survived because his name doesnt sound Shia.

I just didnt have time to go back and fix the grammatical errors and generally meld the cut and paste parts about the casualties into one coherent whole.

[omarali50]

The article about the nanga parbat massacre has been updated, including corrected information about the poor cook (who turns out to be Shia after all).

http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/06/...rbat-massacre/