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Additional troops deployed at Afghan border to capture Mujahideen
After end of Islamic Rule: New Afghan government may face simmering civil war Situation
CPC flays raise in local calls line rent: Govt terrorizes consumers
Terrorist India launches upgraded artillery project with the help of Israel.
Pak deploys additional troops along Afghan border on US order to Kill Mujahideen
Qanooni's visit of India marks government's humiliation: JUI (F)
FBI soon to control all air ports of Pakistan like Karachi Air port, Air Bases and Sea.
Is Pakistan a US colony?FBI arrests alleged Al Qaida's member from Karachi airport
New Afghan govt's love for India: Qanooni extends stay in India
INDIAN ARMY KILL ANOTHER SIX CITIZENS IN HELD KASHMIR
SRINAGAR (Taiba Report) In Indian held Kashmir; the Indian army in their latest killing spree killed another six citizens.
According to Lashkar media, two persons were killed in Thanna Mandi area of Rajouri district when the troops opened fire during a siege and search operation.Two more persons were shot dead in Barthi village of the same district.
One citizen Mushtaq Ahmad Mir was shot dead in Zainder Mohalla of Srinagar while one Muhammad Ashraf Mir was killed in Sharakwari area of Baramulla.
Complete strike was observed in Indian held Kashmir on Friday to protest against the promulgation of black law POTO by the Indian installed Farooq Abdullah regime.
Life remained crippled throughout held Kashmir due to the strike. Activities of daily life came to a standstill in all major cities and towns including capital city Srinagar.
Courts, banks, government and semi-government offices, colleges and schools remained closed while the shops and business centers kept their shutters down. Traffic on the roads was also disrupted.
There has been strong public reaction to the arrest of innocent citizens and confiscation of their properties under the draconian POTO ordinance.
The administration has clamped POTO while it is yet to be approved by the Indian parliament as a law.SRINAGAR (Taiba Report)Mujahideen shot dead two Indian troops during an ambush on an army camp at Zanipora in Shopian area of Pulwama district, Friday. A Mujahid martyred. This is the second time that Mujahideen have stormed an army camp in Kashmir valley within four days. On December 4, two army personnel killed in an attack on the headquarters of 21 Rashtriya Rifles at Bugatpora in Kupwara district.
More than 27 Indian Central Reserve Police Force were injured in a landmine explosion in Parachi Nallah area of Doda district five of which were in critical condition. Sources said that three personnel died on the spot. The area was cordoned for a search operation.
The Indian Express has reported that 480 troops were killed in Mujahideens’ operations from January 1 to November 30, 2001, in Indian held Kashmir.
The paper has put the number of Kashmiris killed during the period at 2, 715. These include men, women and children.
However, independent sources in Srinagar described that data is widely off the mark as the number of casualties, according to them was much more higher than what has been given out by the Indian Express.DEMONSTRATIONS AT SHAHEEDI CHOWK JAMMU
Muslim Federation
held a strong demonstration at Shaheedi Chowk in Jammu against harassment of a religious scholar by Special Task Force in Satwari area last evening.
Demonstrators said that Satwari police late last evening picked up the scholar from the area who was beaten up mercilessly and latter thrown into a nearby graveyard.
The demonstrators led by Muslim Federation comprising Imams of various local mosques gathered at Shaheedi Chowk at 4 PM and blocked the road for nearly half an hour. They said that some police personnel picked up the scholar, identified as Ghulam Hussain, 49, from his residence in Satwari area.
Ghulam Hussain was whisked way in a white gypsy to some unknown destination where he was beaten up mercilessly. Later, after midnight he was thrown in the nearby graveyard presuming him dead. When approached, the Satwari police station refused to lodge report, added the demonstrators.Additional troops deployed at Afghan border
QUETTA, Dec 8 __________ The deployment of additional paramilitary forces and the regular army at the 1200 kilometre long Pak-Afghan border to block entry of Osama Bin Laden and other leaders of Al-Qaida and Taliban militia was completed on Saturday.
"Additional forces of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) from across the country have been brought and deployed at the western border and provided with latest equipment of monitoring," informed sources told Online.
Patrolling along the border was also increased while troops also have regular rounds on foot along the border in mountainous areas where any kind of vehicle has no access.
"The deployment of additional forces of FC from Gomal River in NWFP to Simbaza and to the last corner of Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan has been completed," sources maintained.
Before the new deployment 6 corps of the Frontier Constabulary was deployed at the 1200 long border but due to the fall of Kandahar and Taliban additional forces have been deployed at the western border, they observed.
"These troops have been equipped with artillery, rocket launchers, heavy machine guns and latest surveillance equipment," sources disclosed.
Inspector General Frontier Constabulary Major Gen. Syed Sadaqat Ali visited the border and reviewed the new deployment. He directed the forces to keep an eye at the frontier and no one should be allowed into Pakistan without proper valid documents.
Earlier on Friday more military troops were also moved close to the border in Parachinar, Kurram Agency, following intelligence reports that Osama bin Laden is heading towards Pakistani border districts along with several dozens die-hard Al-Qaida fighters.
Pakistan's Kurram Agency borders Nangarhar province of Afghanistan and Tora Bora is situated quite near the Pakistani border town of Parachinar.
Intelligence sources had earlier suggested that more than 1,300 Arab fighters, fleeing from Tora Bora caves complex, have been observed moving towards the eastern part of Afghanistan.
Immediately after receiving the information Pakistan increased air and ground surveillance keeping a close watch on the border-belt within approachable distance of Tora Bora.
Intelligence gathering in the area is being conducted through satellites, low-flying helicopters, and local ground sources as well. "Night vision equipment is also being used to monitor the border-belt," the sources said.
Pakistan has also strengthened its border security at Dalbandin, Chaman, and other parts of Balochistan bordering Kandahar province of Afghanistan to check any infiltration of fleeing Taliban soldiers.
"Now the foreign and local journalists are not allowed towards the border and check-post as before they could freely move in the area," sources said.
The FC troopers pushing the Afghans and other foreigners back into Afghanistan however if some enters Pakistan, the border forces arrested them.New Afghan government may face simmering civil war Situation
NEW DELHI: Dec 8 __________ The Taliban has been decisively fragmented as a political entity in Afghanistan and decimated as an organized military force. Despite the undercurrents of competition for power and differences of opinion on the future political and security arrangements to be put in place in Afghanistan, the Bonn conference of Afghan groups has managed to reach agreement on the constitution of an interim government.
The conference constituted an interim government consisting of 29 members, which may increase to 31. The designated members of the interim government represent the major ethnic groups of Afghanistan.
Abdul Hamid Karzai has been nominated as the president of this government. There would be five vice presidents representing each ethnic/political group. The distribution of cabinet portfolios has given pre-dominant power to the representatives of the Northern Alliance. The ministries of foreign affairs, defence and interior have been allotted to this group. Two women have also been included in the 29-member council. One of them will hold the charge of health and women affairs and the other education.
The interim government assumes charge on December 22. It is to convene a Greater Assembly of Tribal leaders, or Loya Jirga, to draw up a new constitution for the long-term political dispensation in Afghanistan. There are indications that this constitution may be based on the reformist constitution which former king Zahir Shah had proclaimed and implemented in 1964.
Though the new government is yet to assume charge, controversies have emerged within days of the announcement of its creation. The president of the Northern Alliance government, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and the Uzbek military leader, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, have announced they would boycott the government and its initiatives for stabilising Afghanistan, as they and their representatives have been excluded from the interim power structure. Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani and Sibghatullah Mujaddedi too are not happy about being marginalized from playing an important role in the new government.
Whatever new arrangements and initiatives the interim government may adopt, it is obvious that an international military force will have to remain deployed in Afghanistan till the political processes envisaged in the Bonn decisions become fully operational.
Initially the Northern Alliance was opposed to the deployment of any international peacekeeping force but it has now agreed to such a force under the umbrella of the United Nations for a short period - till the new Afghan governmental authority organises a composite Afghan army and paramilitary security force.
The political initiatives are however subject to ground realities as they may emerge. The first question is whether the Taliban has really become a totally decimated force. While it is true that they have been militarily annihilated in formal combat, it should be remembered that except at Kunduz and Kandahar, they did not fight the Northern Alliance forces. Their air force and armour has been destroyed, but many of the cadres have disappeared into the countryside with all their other arms and equipment intact. Therefore, the new government in Afghanistan is likely to face a simmering civil war situation.
Secondly, the Afghan representatives who participated in the Bonn conference were not the senior-most leaders of their respective factions. The decisions taken by them can be diluted or even rejected at a later stage by the more senior leaders if they have not learnt the lessons from the past and persist with their narrower interests and ambitions in terms of personal power or ethno-tribal suspicions.
Another factor impinging on the stability or otherwise of the new arrangement is that except for the leaders of the Northern Alliance and to some extent the Iran-backed Cyprus group, the other groups which participated in the Bonn conference did not have any deep links with the rural or tribal leadership of Afghanistan.
The decisions taken by Afghan representatives in Bonn may get implemented initially, but their becoming the basis of a long-term arrangement will depend on the support it receives, first from the Advisory Council of senior tribal leaders and then from the proposed Loya Jirga. The convening of the Loya Jirga and the deliberations therein would be the most crucial factor affecting the stabilisation of Afghanistan.
It is obvious that the implementation of the decisions of the Bonn meeting will depend to a great extent on the presence of an international force and its constituent elements, which should be impartial and manifestly devoid of any links with any ethnic group or faction in Afghanistan.
Indications from the U.S.-led coalition are that this force would not be a U.N. peacekeeping force. It would be a military force of the international anti-terrorist coalition under the U.N. umbrella based on the Security Council resolutions.
The expectation is that these troops would consist of elements from the armed forces of NATO countries and some Islamic countries. Given the reluctance of major Islamic countries to send in their troops to Afghanistan, NATO forces would constitute the majority of this international force. Though Russia has sent a small contingent of troops into Afghanistan, there are reports of resurgence of Afghan resentment against it. So, Russia may not be interested in any large-scale involvement in the security arrangements.
There are at present troops from the United States, Britain, France, Jordan and military medical personnel from Japan in Afghanistan. There is a likelihood of Turkish and Bangladeshi forces joining the international contingent. Given the psyche and the historical ethos of the people of Afghanistan, the acceptability and presence of such an international force would be there only for a short period.
But the presence of such an international force at least for a year or two would be necessary to counter the revival of resistance from the Taliban and to prevent the outbreak of factional conflicts within the pr power structure.
The U.S. itself does not seem to favour a long-term military presence in Afghanistan. The twin objectives of the U.S. policy are: to eradicate Al Qaida and the Taliban so that they do not generate terrorism in any part of the world and to prevent narcotics trade originating in Afghanistan from financing terrorism.
The powers that be have wisely decided that none of the immediate neighbours of Afghanistan should participate in the international peacekeeping or peace-making force. The potentialities of future mischief by Pakistan have been a particular consideration in this respect.
While the exclusion of immediate neighbours from the proposed international military force is good as far as it goes, it should be kept in mind that Afghanistan's stability and development would depend on its four neighbours - Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan - coming to an agreement not to interfere in the internal affairs of the country and to support the international efforts under way now.
Of the four, Iran has perhaps the most mature and practical approach, while Pakistan will be subject to contradictory political and emotional pressures in dealing with Afghanistan.
Thus the prospects for Afghanistan would be viewed with caution and a sense of uncertainty because no one knows how the remnants of the Taliban and Al-Qaida would affect Afghanistan's political processes and its security environment. Equally important will be how far the Afghan political leadership coming into power would transcend ethno-religious factionalism to remain cohesive.
Indian troops kill 12 citizens
SRINAGAR, Dec 8 __________ In occupied Kashmir, the Indian troops during siege and search operation in Baramula Saturday went berserk, killing 12 innocent citizens and injuring 40 others.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the troops ran amuck and fired indiscriminately without any provocation form Azad Ganj up to Khawaja Bagh in the town. Civilians were hit by the bullets at various places on the 10 kilometres road.
The entire town was gripped by tension and people ran helter and skelter for their lives. This gruesome event evoked furious anti-India demonstrations. Slogans were raised against Indian military terrorism and in favour of liberation.
The APHC chairman Professor Abdul Ghani Butt in an interview with Kashmir Media Service in New Delhi this afternoon denounced the Indian savagery and described the incident as the worst type of state-terrorism. He said the time has come that the world community gives up its indifference towards Indian genocidal massacre of Kashmiris.
Meanwhile, troops have unleashed terror in six villages of Rajwar in Hindwara area and an equal number of villages in Islamabad (Anantnag) district. Houses are raided and wrecked and inmates severely tortured, valuables plundered. In Khumaryal village in Kupwara district, the troops ordered the people out of their houses and subjected them to severe torture. Over a dozen young men got injured in the process.
The Mujahideen attacked a military convoy on Srinagar-Baramulla highway today, killing a Commandant of Border Security Force, one Inspector and four constables. A number of others were injured. A military patrol was ambushed at a village in Kupwara district. Two troops were killed and 8 injured.Joint Indo-US naval exercises to begin on Dec 15. Musharraf saved strategic assets?
NEW DELHI, Dec 8 __________ Capping a series of high level visits by top US defence brass in New Delhi, India and United States will commence a three-day joint naval exercise off the Arabian sea coast from December 15.
The search and rescue exercise in which two Indian naval warships, a coast guard and an American naval aircraft will take part, will be the first such exercise after the post Pokhran period.
Highly placed naval sources quoted by PTI as saying that they were hopeful that with the surrender by Taliban of their last stronghold, Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, more US naval warships currently engaged in strikes in the war torn country could veer round to take part in the exercises.
The sources said five other navies including observers from Maldives and Sri Lanka could participate in the exercise, the first such venture since 1997.
The joint exercises will be followed by a meeting of the Indo-US military steering group of the three services which would chart out holding of bigger joint inter-services exercises on land and sea.CPC flays raise in local calls line rent
HANGU, Dec 8 __________ Out of slumber premier consumer body Consumer Protection Council looks have woken up on Saturday and rapped the proposal of the Pakistan Tele-Communication Limited for raise in local calls and line rent.
"It is going to multiply miseries of the business community. Why such anti-public decisions are taken", said an estranged spokesman.
"If they are going to reduce tariff on countrywide and international calls what will be the benefit to a common man and business men", he questioned.
CPC has asked the PTCL authorities not to raise tariff in the supreme interest of the nation.India launches upgraded artillery project with the help of Israel.
NEW DELHI, Dec 8 __________ India has launched an upgrade project of its artillery, MENL reports.
The artillery is being upgraded by Israel and will convert 130 mm gun systems to 155 mm weapons.
Indian officials said Israel's Soltam Ltd. will provide technology and kits for the upgrade. The work will be conducted in India.
The Indian contractor is Gun Carriage Factory in Jabalpur. Officials said GCF will assemble 180 such gun systems with kits imported from Israel.
At a later stage, the officials said, 300 gun systems will be manufactured in India. They said production has already begun at GCF.
PML-N releases fact sheet on 'failure of Musharraf govt'
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8 __________ Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Saturday released a fact sheet on 'failure of Musharraf government'.
PML-N Central Information Secretary Muhammad Siddique-ul-Farooque released the fact sheet at a news conference here.
The PML-N maintained, "seven-point agenda that General Pervez Musharraf announced after he captured power had "strengthening of Federation, ending disharmony among the provinces and restoring national unity" as its second point. However, the attitude that this government has adopted towards the inter-provincial water apportionment dispute appears to be leading to a crisis of relations between the federation and the provinces.TNSM determined to bring back besieged Pak Mujahideen
BUTT KHELA, Dec 8 __________ Tehrik Nifaz Shariat Muhammadi has vowed to continue efforts for return of thousands Pakistan Mujahideen from Malakand division besieged in Afghanistan.
Central Naib Amir of Tehrik Nifaz Shariat Muhammadi, Maulana Muhammad Alam said Saturday the negotiations of scholars and tribal leaders with various tribal commanders at Kabul and other areas was underway for release of besieged Pakistan Mujahideen while the efforts would be continued for return of Mujahideen to country.
However after Eid ul Fitter comprehensive strategy would be devised in this regard.Stand-off on POTO continues in India
NEW DELHI, Dec 8 __________ The stand-off between the Indian opposition and the government on POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) issue seems to show no sign of abating.
The Indian government's attempts to win support for the ordinance by effecting amendments failed to have the desired effect.
Two of the principal Opposition formations, the Congress and the Left parties rejected the amendments, reports KMS.
The opposition parties feel that the changes are not up to the expectations. "The Government had made the changes to save its face amongst the allies. The changes are marginal and cosmetic. Our position is unchanged and undiluted and we will oppose this draconian measure tooth and nail,'' said Congress spokesperson, Jaipal Reddy.
The CPI (M) continued to appear unimpressed by amendments and urged the Government to scrap the ordinance and begin afresh the process of putting together a new anti- terrorism law.
Rajya Sabha MP, Nilotpal Basu, said ``the bill should be allowed to lapse and de novo discussions started.''
The CPI National Secretary, D Raja felt that the amendments were not substantial and the basic character of the bill continued to be ``anti-democratic and fascist democratic way.Pak deploys additional troops along Afghan border on US order to Kill Mujahideen
ISLAMABAD, Dec 08 __________ With fast changing events in Afghanistan, Pakistan on Saturday deployed additional regular troops along the Pak Afghan border especially at Tora Bora and Chaman region to prevent any Al-Qaida or Taliban member enter into Pakistan.
"In addition to regular troops surveillance equipment and gunship helicopters have also been positioned along the Pak Afghan border," said Major General Rashid Qureshi spokesman to President and DG ISPR along with Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan at a news briefing here Saturday.
To a question, Major General Rashid said that a substantial number of troops have been deployed along the border which was enough to monitor the situation over there.
He strongly refuted the reports that some Al-Qaida or Taliban members have sneaked into Pakistan and added that any one entering Pakistan would be arrested and dealt under the law. He disagreed with a questioner that some foreign journalists were working for CIA.
Taking strong notice about the reports that Pakistan had given arms shipment to Taliban Militia during the war, he said that some elements in the foreign media were trying to defame Pakistan trough malicious reporting.
To a question about the fate of Former Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef after the collapse of Taliban militia, Foreign office Spokesman Aziz Khan said that Pakistan has given him reasonable time to wind up his affairs under the Geneva Convention.
About the arrest of Mullah Omer, the spokesman told the reporters that there were conflicting reports about Mullah Omer however it was difficult to confirm them.Qanooni's visit of India marks government's humiliation: JUI (F)
LAHORE, Dec 08 __________ Ameer of Jamiat Ulmai Islam Maulana Fazal U Rehman has said that first ever visit of Afghan Interior Minister Yunas Qanooni to India and his plea for Indian's assistance in restoration of peace, in the war-ravaged country marks worst letdown of Pakistani Government's Afghan policy.
In a statement issued here on Saturday the Ameer said that this clearly indicates the priorities of Pro-Indian Afghan interim government he denounced government spokesman Gen Rashid Qureshi and interior minister Moin-U-Din Haider's briefings saying their non-serious debates can hurt Afghan brothers and criticised the government for supporting interim set up of Afghanistan
He expressed serious concerns over the loss of a key strategic advantage and said that rulers were trapping the country in a vicious situation that could inflict serious damage to the national interests.
FBI soon to control all air ports of Pakistan like Karachi Air port, Air Bases and Sea.
KARACHI, December 08 __________ Pakistan has sent a list to United States of America (USA) containing names of various suspects and absconders involved in country-wide terrorism and international smuggling in order to extradite them and hand-over to Pakistan.
Religious institutions have to maintain balance in their respective affairs and should halt their extreme-based activities all over the country.
This was stated by Federal Interior Minister, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Moinuddin Haider while talking to the newsmen after inauguration of Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System (PISCES) at waiting lounge of Quaid-e-Azam International Airport (QIAP) in collaboration with the FBI on Saturday.
He called of joint efforts to maintain the country's security and establish brotherhood and communication among the masses aimed at initiating towards prosperity.
Highlighting the importance of PISCES, he said it would make the country's security system indestructible and the government could check and screen any suspect from any central point to all 17 entry and exit points.
The minister said the government was working on a comprehensive project having three components with a view to containing the illegal migrants in the country. The PISCES is one of those three components while the two other are in pipeline under National Motor Vehicle and Registration Authority (NMVRA) and computerization of travelling passports, he added.
After completion of the said project the country could set new trends in security and travelling techniques, he maintained.
He elaborated that despite having friendly relations with Afghanistan, Pakistan had closed all Pak-Afghan borders as a security point of view and to nullify the illegal migration.
The interior minister said that the PISCES would be installed at all 17 entry and exit points of the country after giving extension to the project in order to maximize the security at borders.
He denied the reports regarding handing over of airport security system to American intelligence Agency Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), saying " The FBI has only installed the computer system at this center ".
Pakistan has signed various Anti-Terrorism Conventions under auspices of United Nations and Pakistan is compelled to cooperate with other countries, he added.
Earlier, Director General FIA, Syed Mohib Asad welcomed the guest and Project Director of PISCES briefed the audience about the project.
Inspector General of Police, Syed Kamal Shah, Nazim-e-Ala, City District Government, Naimatullah Khan and Naib Nazim-e-Ala, Tariq Hassan, Home Secretary, Brig. (Retd.) Mukhtar Shaikh and Director General NADRA, Brig. Shahid Behram Khan also attended the ceremony.PADC to hold protest rally on Dec 14 against US slavery.
RAWALPINDI, Dec 8 __________ Pak-Afgan defence council vowing to continue with their peaceful protest against the government policy on Afghanistan has announced to protest in front of the Lal Masjid Islamabad on December 14.
It was decided in a meeting held here Saturday presided over by Qazi Abdul Rasheed, Caretaker Amir of the Council. A press release issued after the meeting stated that the members of the meeting believe that a peaceful campaign must continue especially under the present circumstances when the government is planning to crackdown on Deeni Madaris under the US agenda.
Several religious scholars including Qazi Abdul Rasheed will address on December 14.
FBI arrests alleged Al Qaida's member from Karachi airport
KARACHI DEC 8 __________ Suspected Afghan ally of Osama bin Laden and member of al-Qaida network was taken in by Federal investigation agency officials at Karachi airport on Saturday.
The suspect was arrested soon after FBI officials identified him among the passengers of Emirate Airlines flight that arrived from United Arab Emirates. He was identified when the passengers were coming towards the lounge and seven cameras were filming and scanning them. The FBI officials requested members of Pakistani sensitive agencies to arrest alleged ally of Laden who was rushed up to unknown destination after detention.
It is being considered that orders for the suspect's detention whose name is being kept secret might have been issued from FBI headquarters in the US as the FBI cameras and Computers at the airport are directly linked to its headquarter. The said person can thus be shifted to United States after initial investigations in Pakistan.Unprecedented vigilance along Pak-Afghan border
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, Dec 08 __________ 1400 Kilometres long Pak-Afghan border has been virtually sealed off after the surrender of Taliban as troops of army, South Waziristan scouts and armed force of the political administration have been put on a highest state of alert to avert illegal border crossing.
South Waziristan agency has also been linked with sophisticated wireless system to upgrade the security arrangements. Political Administration has also taken services of tribal chiefs who have deployed their men for a 24 hour vigilance across the border.
The unprecedented arrangements have been made at the backdrops of reports that after their downfall in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and other leaders and activists of Al-Qaeda and Taliban might attempt to cross over to prevent arrest by US marines.Qanooni extends stay in India
NEW DELHI, Dec 8 : Afghan Interior Minister Younus Qanooni, who held talks with the Indian government on the developments in Afghanistan, Saturday decided to extend his stay in India by another two days till December 12.
Qanooni, the first Afghan leader to establish political contact with New Delhi after the fall of the Taliban and the announcement of an interim administration, on Saturday met officials from the External Affairs Ministry and other departments.
He held a series of meetings with various Afghan leaders, residing in India, to brief them about the developing situation in the war-ravaged country and the formation of an interim set-up in Kabul.
The Afghan leader, who last day met External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh and Home Minister L K Advani, was slated to leave on December 10 but has now decided to stay on for another two days.
