[Reader-list] Free Baluchistan: Dreams of An Enslaved People

[Pawan Durani]

"Pakistan rogue army at its best"

http://mustikhan1.blogspot.com/

*Don't cry for me Baluchistan: bride, groom among 13 killed*
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It's like "Don't cry for me Baluchistan"-- women, children, young old -- no
one is being spared in the scorched earth policy..

Pakistan army appears to have gone berserk in the area-wise largest and
resource-rich province where they have killed a Baluch bride and groom on
their wedding day.

Pakistan said four people were killed, but the Asian Human Rights
Commission, that has been monitoring human rights violations in the
blood-soaked province, has said at least 13 people were killed.

Due to the ongoing military operations in Balochistan, members of the FC
have been given the authority to shoot at sight, any person of suspicion,
without further ado. Only a day before on February 2, some unknown persons,
riding motorcycles had attacked a check post of the near Dera Bugti Town. It
is reliably believed that the indiscriminate shooting at an innocent wedding
party -- killing 13 and seriously injuring 21 persons -- was in retaliation
of the previous day incident. Source:
ahrchk.net<http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2009statements/1865/>

Most of the news from Baluchistan is strictly censored as many of the
world's key news organization do not have sufficient staff posted in Quetta.
An earlier rport had put the death toll at only four.

A bride and groom were among at least four people killed in a shootout at a
wedding party in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province, a local official
said Tuesday.
The incident took place in Dashtgoran village, 18 kilometres (11 miles) east
of Dera Bugti town in the gas-rich province bordering Afghanistan and Iran,
and where a regional insurgency has killed hundreds since 2004. Source:
arabtimesonline.com<http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=28139&ccid=18>

The Frontier Constabulary responsible for the civilian deaths is the same
Pakistani force that has helped the Taliban and Al Qaeda launch attacks on
US and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.

The Baluch allege Pakistan military and para-military forces, who expressly
believe in "Jihad in the name of Allah", are sheltering Osama bin Laden and
Mullah Omar, among other international jihadists.

*Mumbai Terror Outfit's teachings exposed*

A leading member of the Pakistan civil society has exposed the war-mongering
ideology of the Jamaat ud Daawa, or JuD, the umbrella organization of the
Lashkar-i-Toiba or Army of Pure—the terror outfit responsible for the Mumbai
mayhem in November that left 200 people dead and over 300 injured.

Dr. Rubina Saigol of Action Aid Pakistan has expressed her disgust at the
teachings of the jihadist outfit that had tried to show a softer face to the
world immediately after the Mumbai attacks by inviting journalists to its
headquarters in Muridke, Punjab. The United Nations Security Council on
December 11 imposed sanctions on the Pakistan-based terror outfit and
declared four of its top leaders Dawaa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, suspected
Mumbai terror mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Muhammad Ashraf and
Zaki-ur-Bahaziq as global terrorists.

Saigol posted her views on a progressive Pakistani public yahoogroups
emailing list called SPN, with nearly 5,000 members. She was responding to
the views of another liberal Pakistani editor, Omar R. Quraishi, editorial
page editor of largest circulation English newspaper The News International.
In his article, Quraishi wrote: "Regrettably, this tendency to act superior
than the rest of the world, ignore one's own warts and what not and to blame
the rest of the world for all that ills the Islamic world is something that
is found in many ordinary Pakistanis as well. Whether they have been
influenced by organisations such as the JuD or whether the organisations
have been influenced by the society that they have grown up in is not the
issue but rather that the value system and worldview of the JuD and the LeT
is in fact something that a lot of Pakistanis share -- particularly the view
that a Hindu/Zionist/ American conspiracy of sorts has been put in motion to
annihilate the Muslim world."

India still has plans to bomb the Muridke headquarters of the terror outfit
and many people in the renegade province of Baluchistan believe New Delhi
would be fully justified in doing so. Even Indian Muslims were calling for
tit-for-tat against Pakistan's rogue spy service Inter Services Intelligence
and elements within the country's omnipotent army--the fourth largest in the
world and armed with nuclear weapons.

"The attacks were India's 911. The terror infrastructure has to be brought
down. If the Congress Party will not act, it will lose the elections," the
scion of a leading Muslim family from Mumbai said on a request of anonymity.

Saigol concurring with Quraishi's view on Jamaat ud Daawa gave some glaring
examples from textbooks "that they distribute to their students and which
are not available openly in the market." She added the books are published
by Jamaat ud Daawa press and are given to students free of charge.

"The Mullahs [Islamic cleric] say that the books are meant to 'inspire' and
to inculcate a truly Islamic spirit among students and to enable them to
view Islam as a complete way of life, rather than as a set of rituals,"
Saigol said. "Through these textbooks children are given inspirational ideas
and introduced to the objectives of Islam as seen by the Mullah. They are
thus introduced the glorious Muslim past to inspire them to violence to
re-create the past."

She said Jamaat ud Daawa argues that Muslims alone have right to rule the
world and are allowed to kill infidels that stand in the way of Islam and
this is being taught in textbooks used by the Jamaat ud Daawa. Saigol said
Daawa glorifies violence and hate and teaches the new version of alphabets
in which children learn Bandook for Bai, Talwar for Tai, Tank for Ttai,
jehaz for jeem and khanjar for khai, rocket for rai and tayyara for To-ay.
[In English, all this will translate into G for gun, S for sword, T for
tank, J for jet, K for knife, R for rocket and A for airplane.]

"In the Urdu textbook, children are told that infidels are cowards by nature
and when a holy warrior attacks them, they scream with terror and fear," she
said. "Mujahideen are glorified as being on a mission from Allah and they
are superheroes that kill Hindus and make infidels cower in fear," she said,
referring from the pages of the textbook. She deplored games are organized
around violence and killing and the children play with guns and learn to
shoot at balloons, adding they play guerilla games of ambushing infidels,
and in one story, a ten year old boy kills hundreds of Russians in
Afghanistan .

She said poems and stories are taught about young boys that wage jihad and
children read fictitious letters from jihadis killed in battle. "If I am
killed in battle, celebrate", reads one letter to a mother and sister in the
seventh grade textbook, and then admonishes, "Make sure you conceal your
body and never wear perfume." Obscurantists among Muslims call this decadent
and sexist practice hijab.

"India is presented as an enemy and Saudi Arabia as a best friend. Kashmir
appears as Pakistani territory forcibly snatched by Hindus and Pakistan as a
country created only for Muslims."

Saigol said children are instructed to mercilessly beat up non-Muslims and
are told in the second grade textbook that every student should become a
holy warrior and that they should be willing to lay down their lives for the
great nuclear power that is Pakistan.

Quraishi notes: "Another (JuD) post is devoted to Mother's Day, or rather to
equating it more or less with paganism. In fact, another post is on how
Muslims should beware of doing actions that make them equal to kaafirs
[infidels] -- such as celebrating their holy days and festivals. Also, it is
clearly mentioned that non-Muslims are kaafirs and should not be even
befriended."

Even after passage of a month, Pakistan was still in self-denial about the
identity of the Mumbai terrorists. Though Pakistan President Asif Ali
Zardari initially admitted his country's non-state actors were involved in
the Mumbai attacks, under the rogue army's instructions he has made a U-turn
since then and said recently there were no solid proofs the lone surviving
terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab is a Pakistani national.

Pakistan's leading English newspaper DAWN--owned by a cousin of Hussain
Haroon, Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations-- recently
carried an interview of Kasab's father from the Punjab town of Faridkot,
confirming his son's identity. Baring one, all the 10 Mumbai terrorists were
from Punjab, stronghold of the Pakistan army.