Pakistan Police Arrest 2 Men Planning to Kill Doctors, Shia Muslims

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The police have arrested two men on suspicion of being involved in the killings of doctors and Shia scholars. One of them is a repeat offender out on bail from jail.

In his first press conference since assuming office, chief of police Fayyaz Leghari announced that the men were caught in Orangi Town. “[One of them] was leading a group of terrorists and was not only involved in the target killings of doctors and Shia scholars but had also planned to attack Ahmedi places of worship,” said the CCPO at a press conference at the Central Police Office on Sunday.

The media had earlier reported that the arrests took place early Friday. The police have denied this.

The police identified the men as Naseem Haider alias ‘Firon’ and Asif Rasheed alias ‘Dunba’ and said they were related to the banned militant Lashkar-e-Jhangvi outfit.

They were booked in the murder cases of Maulana Ghulam Muhammad and Muhammad Hussain, for killing Dr Najm-ul-Hasan on Aug 17, Dr Syed Mehtab Hussain and a Shia man named Sheraz in March this year.

Leghari said that the pair had revealed during questioning that they had planned to attack Ahmedi sites before the by-elections in Orangi Town. An informer had tipped the police off that the men were on their way to Saleemabad to target another doctor. A team was dispatched. It found the men on a motorcycle (No KBP 8591) and flagged them down. “They did not stop and instead opened fire on the police who retaliated and arrested them,” said SP Khurram Waris, who headed the operation. The police claimed to have seized one Kalashinkov and two TT pistols from their possession.

This is not the first time that Naseem was arrested. He was in jail from 2003 to 2007 but was released on bail in all of the cases against him.

CCPO Leghari said that people involved in such crimes do not stop working for their organizations even after they are imprisoned and then released. “They do whatever they were doing before imprisonment,” he said, adding that his department was working in close collaboration with the registrar of the high court to ensure such criminals get justice.

“We are holding meetings on a monthly basis,” he said.

Target killing investigations

The CCPO said that they have divided target killings into four categories: Sectarian killings, ethnic killings, political killings and random killings. “The CID is looking after the sectarian target killings,” he said.

The department has appointed focal persons to investigate the other types of killings. So far this year, the CPO has recorded a total of 230 target killing and out them, according to Leghari, there have been arrests in 32 cases.

Shrine attack

The CCPO came to the press conference well prepared. He knew that the media would ask questions related to the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine attack and other law and order matters. He had a grey file in his left hand and whenever someone asked him a question, he would take out the relevant colour-coded paper to answer.

“We have found some clues and with their help will soon identify the suicide bombers,” he said. He denied, however, that the perpetrators of the attack would benefit if any information leaked out.

Orangi town by-election

The chief of police said that the police have planned security for the Oct 17 by-election in Orangi Town. This seat fell vacant after Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Raza Haider was murdered. “We have divided the constituency into eight zones,” said the CCPO, adding that a detailed plan would later be issued to the media.

AI: Bahraini Shias at risk of torture

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JNN 11.10.10 Amnesty International says more than 200 people, arrested as part of a clampdown against Shia political opposition in Bahrain, are at the risk of being tortured.

Around 250 individuals in Bahrain, who are believed to have been detained, are at risk of torture, the group said in a statement on Monday.

The detentions come ahead of the parliamentary elections on October 23.

Human Rights Watch also accused Bahrain of restricting the travel of rights activists to prevent them from talking about the arrest of opposition members.

The Sunni-dominated government has intensified the crackdown against the Shia population, arresting dozens of opposition figures on the allegation of planning to topple the government.

“There is a continuous war against all Shias who are critics of the government,” Nabeel Rajab, the head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, earlier told Press TV.

Many of the opposition detainees — including religious figures — were tortured and sexually assaulted, he said.

The population of Bahrain is predominantly Shia. However, the majority group has long complained of being discriminated against by the Sunni-dominated government in obtaining jobs and receiving services.

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Pakistan 'to reopen key Nato Afghanistan supply route'

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JNN 10.10.10 Islamabad : Pakistan will reopen a crucial overland supply route for Nato forces in Afghanistan with immediate effect, the country’s foreign ministry has said.

The border crossing at Torkham was closed 10 days ago in protest at a Nato helicopter attack inside Pakistan, which left two Pakistani soldiers dead.

Since then, the Pakistani Taliban have stepped up attacks on convoys with Nato supplies bound for Afghanistan.

Earlier, gunmen destroyed almost 30 tankers carrying fuel in Balochistan

In a short statement issued on Saturday, the Pakistani foreign ministry said it had decided to reopen the Khyber Pass crossing after assessing the security situation in all its aspects”.

“Our relevant authorities are now in the process of co-ordinating with authorities on the other side of the border to ensure smooth resumption of the supply traffic,” the statement added.

US embassy spokesman Richard Snelsire told the Associated Press that his country welcomed the “positive development”.

But he said that it was not likely that the flow of supplies would resume before Monday, as the border was normally closed on Sundays

‘Glad’

On Wednesday, the US apologised for the helicopter attack after a Nato investigation found that the “tragic event could have been avoided with better Coalition force co-ordination with the Pakistan military”.

The US said it aircraft had mistaken the Pakistani Frontier Scouts for insurgents they were pursuing, crossed into Pakistan and opened fire.

“This business is getting so dangerous – the recent happenings have made us think about not working for Nato because we can’t put our lives in constant danger,” Shaukat Khan, a lorry driver who has been waiting at Torkham since it closed on 30 September, told AP.

“We are glad to know that the Pakistani authorities have decided to reopen the crossing,” he added.

The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says Nato will certainly be relieved at the reopening of the Khyber Pass to its lorries, but it will still have huge concerns about its supply routes through Pakistan.

Pakistani militants have shown no signs of ending their campaign to disrupt supplies, our correspondent says.

Earlier on Saturday, about 20 gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a tanker convoy in Mithri, about 200km (120 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.

“The attackers first fired shots and then fired small rockets at the tankers. Twenty-eight to 29 tankers caught fire,” local official Neem Sherwani told the Reuters news agency.

The tankers were on their way to the smaller crossing at Chaman, which is open but is not as convenient for supplies bound for Kabul.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the latest raid. But the Pakistani Taliban have said they were behind similar attacks in the past week, which have destroyed more than 100 Nato fuel tankers and lorries.

Taliban leaders say it is retaliation for recent US air strikes in tribal areas, which are thought to have killed more than 100 of their fighters.


Khamenei Calls for Promotion of Scientific Programs

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JNN 10.10.10 Khamenei says the main objective of acquiring knowledge and developing technology is to obtain humane values and defend the rights of the oppressed.

Khamenei met yesterday morning with thousands of scientific elites. During the meeting, His Eminence said that making investments in the arenas of science, technology, and educating elites is one of the main priorities in making plans that are aimed at fostering appropriate development.

His Eminence referred to science as the basis of the country’s material and spiritual power and reiterated: “All honorable Iranian people as well as officials, elites, students and academics should make serious and non-stop efforts in order to make up for the country’s historical and long-lasting backwardness in scientific fields.”

Khamenei touched on the scientific achievements of the country in such fields as nuclear technology, stem cells, nanotechnology and environmental technology and the pride of the Iranian nation in such achievements, adding: “In order to complement these achievements and expand the scope of such achievements to all fields, we have to develop an interrelated scientific cycle and system.”

World Shia Leader said that preparing the required software and hardware facilities for the elites is the most important way of supporting the elites and reiterated: “The elites are after making efforts, deep thinking and promoting progress of the country and the ground should be prepared for the elites to achieve this goal.”

Khamenei said that the country’s comprehensive scientific plan outlines an important part of the country’s scientific requirements. He further added that it is necessary that the elites make efforts in order to fulfill these needs.

Elsewhere in his speech, Imam Khamenei said that a cycle has to be developed in the country whereby thoughts are turned into commercial products.

He added: “We should create a cycle whereby the thoughts of elites are presented to scientific centers. Technological and industrial elites can turn these ideas into industrial and non-industrial products after they are scientifically nurtured. And the organizations in charge can prepare the ground for the production and industrialization of these products.”

Khamenei stressed the importance of industrialization and said that scientific and industrial products should have the potential to help produce wealth. “The officials of the organizations in charge should think of industrialization from the moment when scientific and industrial projects are started.”

His Eminence said that it is necessary to constantly monitor the results of the investments that are made with regard to elites and added: “It is necessary to constantly monitor the scientific activities and achievements of neighboring and Islamic countries and take them into consideration in our plans and activities.”

Khamenei said that the Islamic Republic’s emphasis on the importance of science is based on accurate calculation and thoughtful judgment and reiterated: “Constant emphasis on the importance of knowledge and scientific progress is not rooted in standing on ceremony and fleeting emotions. This is because according to accurate calculations, science and knowledge are the bases of the material and spiritual power of every country. And any nation who falls behind in this regard will be forced to imitate other countries.”

Khamenei said that the purpose of achieving scientific progress is different in the Islamic Republic than it is in the west and added: “Western countries seek to achieve wealth through making scientific progress. They did not respect the rights of the people or observe ethical and religious principles when they came across nations in the Indian subcontinent, Africa, East Asia, and Latin America on their way towards achieving scientific progress.”

His Eminence said that promoting oppression, class distinction and inattention to the basic rights of nations are the results of the incorrect scientific goals which are set in the west and added: “In Islam, purification precedes the acquisition of knowledge because in the absence of purification and human education, knowledge will turn into a tool for wickedness and committing crimes.”

Khamenei said that promoting human virtues and defending human rights in the true sense of the word are the main goals pursued by the Islamic Republic in the process of achieving scientific and technological progress and reiterated: “We seek knowledge in order to achieve true power and raise the flag of justice and humanity in the world. This will enable us to support innocent people in the face of the oppression of oppressive and domineering powers.”

The Pakistani Shia tribe that is taking on the Taliban

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JNN 10.10.10 Parachinar : Pakistani tribal district of Kurram, where members of the Turi tribe are waging a war of attrition with the Taliban.

A couple of miles east of Alizai town in the Kurram tribal district, north-western Pakistan, boundary walls of two large compounds are rising fast.

Elders of the region’s largest tribe, the Turi, say they are building homes for eight families from western parts of Kurram who have volunteered to resettle here.

“Apart from a house, each family will get four acres of land for agricultural use,” says Haji Hashim Ali, a Turi elder and in charge of the community project.

“We hope to attract more than 200 families to this colony in a year’s time,” he says.

Community volunteers

The idea is to boost Turi presence in an area that belongs to the tribe but where the population has thinned out.

That has allowed others to step in and bring Taliban militants with them, Mr Ali explains.

The Turi tribe, which belongs to the Shia sect of Islam, abhors the Taliban who adhere to a hardline Sunni form of the faith and consider Shias to be non-Muslims.

Two years ago, the Turis fought a major battle with the Taliban in the surroundings of Alizai.

They are now consolidating their hold on the region.

To the south of Alizai, across the Kurram river, the tribe is building a 14km (8.6 miles) road to link Alizai with the Turi stronghold of Parachinar in the west.
Syed Abid JanWhen [the Taliban] went away, I looked around. My grandson was dead. He had fallen on me. I had fallen on my wife. She was also dead” Syed Abid Jan

The Shurko road detours the Sunni-dominated town of Sadda, which is located on the region’s main road that links Parachinar with Alizai and the rest of Pakistan.

In Parachinar, the district centre, and all along the Shurko road, community volunteers man checkpoints and also guard the region’s airport.

There are no military checkpoints anywhere in the Turi lands from Parachinar to Alizai – and no Taliban.

To a casual observer, this comes as a surprise because Kurram is the most important strategic site from where to launch guerrilla attacks inside Afghanistan.

Its western tip is only 90km (56 miles) from the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Local people say that Taliban started pouring into the area in 2006 and set up base at a mosque in Parachinar.

“When we came to know of their presence, we took up the matter with the authorities, but they refused to expel them, saying the decisions were taken at a much higher level,” says Ali Akbar Turi, another local elder”.

Bombed

Fighting between the locals and the Taliban erupted in April 2007, and dozens of people were killed over the next year.

evoid of local support, the Taliban were forced to retreat to their bases in Sadda and Alizai in eastern Kurram, but from there they enforced a blockade of Kurram’s only road link to Pakistan.

“Our traders lost millions of dollars worth of merchandise when our trucks were bombed and burned down, and dozens of our people were beheaded,” recalls Haji Hashim Ali.

In August 2008, local elders decided that if the army wasn’t prepared to deal with the Taliban, it was time to raise a tribal force and storm the militant bases themselves.

Najib Hussain, a Kurram resident, fought on a front that finally led to the fall of Bugzai, a village that housed the Taliban’s main base in the region, just across the river from Alizai.

“We had about 100 to 150 fighters. We would rotate them in four hourly shifts,” he says.

“Fighting was intense. During the first 27 days I only came down twice from my position on the hill to take a bath. On the 27th day, I was hit and had to be carried away to the hospital.”

It took the tribal force 46 days of fighting – and the loss of around 400 fighters – to inflict a final defeat on Taliban.

Nearly two years after the war, this entire area remains free of Taliban.

Kurram is one of the few tribal districts in Pakistan where the Christian population lives in peace

‘Trapped”

But further east, the Taliban continue to block their exit route.

People can only leave Kurram in convoys, and only when the government provides security. Even then, they are regularly attacked.

In the last attack in July, suspected Taliban gunmen killed 18 people travelling in a passenger van from Parachinar to Peshawar, the regional capital.

Syed Abid Jan, 75, was one of four survivors.

“We started in the convoy but our van fell behind,” he says.

“In Charkhel area, some 20km (12.4 miles) east of Alizai, about 10 gunmen fired at the van, causing it to overturn. Then they came closer and fired at the passengers trapped inside from all sides.”

Mr Jan was hit in the back.

“When they went away, I looked around. My grandson was dead. He had fallen on me. I had fallen on my wife. She was also dead.”

After three years of road blockades, the intensity of war has left a mark on the people of Kurram.

Trading and development work have come to a halt, much of the infrastructure of health, education and agriculture has been destroyed, and there is of course the emotional toll.

“A friend of mine told me to beware of going mad. I think that warning has kept me from going mad entirely,” says Aqeel Hussain, the owner of a petrol station in Alizai.

“But sometimes I think I’m half mad. My blood pressure shoots up sometimes. It never used to happen before.”

After the fall of Bugzai, the Taliban twice offered to guarantee the safety of the road from Kurram to Peshawar in return for access for their militants through Kurram into Afghanistan.

But this is an offer which the people of Kurram say they are determined never to accept.

'Bahrain continues to suppress Shias'

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JNN 10.10.10 Bahrain’s suppression of the Shia opposition figures in the run-up to parliamentary elections has been underlined in a new report by rights groups.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) — a non-governmental organization which has been raising awareness about the country’s political crisis — and the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — a non-profit body with the stated aim to promote democratic standards in the region — addressed the issue in a joint report a copy of which was obtained by Press TV on Saturday.

The report focuses on the Bahraini government’s arrest of hundreds of Shia since August.

The organizations said that among the detainees, “at least 23 well-known political activists and Shia clerics” had been charged “with acts of terrorism. Many are vocal critics of the government, and appear to have been targeted for what they say rather than for anything they have done.”

“The charge sheet is replete with accusations of ‘spreading false information’ and ‘inciting contempt against the regime,’ as well as more recognizable criminal offenses,” the report added.

“Persons who have seen the detainees claim they complained of torture, and lawyers have not been able to meet with their clients, in violation of Bahraini law.”

The Shia opposition refuses to recognize the 2002 constitution and has called for a boycott of upcoming parliamentary polls, due to be conducted on October 23.

The Shias enjoy demographic predominance in the kingdom. They, however, have long complained about being discriminated against by the Bahraini government when it comes to employment opportunities and the right to services.

The Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRC), which became the country’s first human rights organization when it was founded in 2000, recently reported out the apprehension of the 23 Shias for criticizing the Sunni-dominated government.

BHRC had its board subsequently suspended and was forced to take in Manama’s choice of director. The Amnesty International said the suspension was part of Manama’s crackdown on the Shia opposition figures and rights activists.

HRW and POMED also reminded that the Bahraini body had its board suspended “just weeks before elections.”

They also said that the government had “closed down the newsletters and websites of the main opposition political societies. The government has rejected international elections monitoring, and with the takeover of the BHRS, this leaves local monitoring mainly in the hands of groups close to the government.”


Karachi: 2 Blasts near Ghazi's shrine, 10 martyred

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JNN 07.10.10 KARACHI: At least ten people have been killed and over 80 others wounded in three explosions near Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine late Thursday evening.

Rescue teams and law enforcement agencies have reached the spot. The area has been cordoned off by the police and the rangers. Police have found the head of the suicide bomber.

Rescues and hospital sources said that the injured include women and children. The death toll can rise as several injured are in critical condition.

The first blast took place at the walk-through gate and the second blast occurred within the next few minutes outside the office of the Manager Auqaf in the shrine premises.

Sindh Home Minister Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza has confirmed blasts as suicidal.

He visited the shrine with other high officials and gathered information.

More than 50 injured including women and children have been taken to Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre.

Federal Minister for Religious Affiars, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, condemning the suicide blasts at Ghazi’s shrine said that suicide bombers are not Muslims.

“Fool proof security was provided at Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine. We can’t provide more security.” Zulifqar Mirza said, “I want closure of all shrines at least for a year. Terrorists want to destabilize the country.”

Security has been beefed up across the city, especially at shrines situated in different areas. All shrines in the city have been closed upon the orders of Sindh’s Home Minister.

Born in 109 Hijra, Abdullah Shah Ghazi, according to devotees, was a grandson of Hazrat Imam Hassan (AS). He migrated to Karachi in 138 Hijra during the Umayyad dynasty. Considering him a threat to their dynasty, the rulers hunted and martyred him with his many followers in 151 Hijra. His followers chose the hillock for his burial.

At that time, the hillock was surrounded by the sea and potable water was not available. Devotees believe that it was his miracle that a fountain of drinking water emerged from the bottom of the hill that continues to flow to this day.

LAHORE

Security has been beefed up in Lahore soon after the blasts at Ghazi’s shrine.

Law enforcement agencies have been deployed at sensitive places including Bibi Pak Daman’s shrine and Data Darbar. Visitors are not allowed to visit Bibi Pak Daman’s shrine

Thousands of people visit the shrine on Thursday night.

An emergency has been imposed in the city’s major hospitals.

Bilawal House, President Asif Ali Zardari’s house, is near the shrine.And President Asif Ali zardari was present in his Clifton Residence at the time of the Blast .

Tehrik e Taliban have claimed the responsibility of the Twin Suicide Attacks at the shrine of the Abdullah Shah Ghazi.

These Bombing and attacks in Pakistan has opened the eyes of Majority Population of Pakistan . As Pakistan and its forces took part in the break away and cleansing of Russian forces from Afghanistan, and the Breakaway  of the former USSR for which all the benefits were enjoyed by the Planner of whole of this episode the Americans which are here in our neighboring Afghanistan now for at least 8 years with about more than two Hundred thousand american and allied forces personnel presence in Afghanistan on the plea of just for the elimination of Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden, who is a listed CIA agent , and this Prove either the greatest super Power has miserably failed to apprehend these criminal while having the best intelligence agency CIA , on there side , but still no one of such a high value target has been achieved by them , Or it shows that they have never come to catch Osama Bin Laden or Mullah Omer, but they have come here to destabilize   and  disintegrate  Pakistan , with the help of there created and financed TTP, SSP, , Lashkar e Jhangve and groups like Jundullah who are bombing and fighting a gurilla warfare in Pakistan.

Which is on  One side trying to Destabilize and Disintegrate Pakistan the Only Nuclear Power in the Islamic World , and on the other hand trying to defame Islam , as it is known to be the fastest growing religion in the world.

Ginger helps reduce muscle strain

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JNN 04.10.10 MUMBAI: A new study has shown that taking raw ginger in small amount every day reduces the strain on muscles after a workout.

Ginger has long been used as a remedy for nausea, but recent research has suggested it has other powerful properties, reports the Daily Mail.

One lab study showed powdered ginger could kill ovarian cancer cells.

In the latest experiments, American scientists gave participants 2g of raw ginger, or a similar amount of heat-treated ginger as some evidence shows heat treatment boosts the spice’s potency for 11 days.

A third group was given a placebo. They were then put through a series of testing arm exercises.

The results showed that 24 hours after exercise, pain levels in the raw ginger-eating group were 25 per cent lower than those on the placebo.

And in the heat-treated group, pain levels were 23 per cent lower.

Researchers say this supports anecdotal evidence that ginger has a pain-killing effect.

  • The results have been published in the Journal of Pain.

Food prices double in Afghanistan

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JNN 02.10.10 Kabul  : The floods in Pakistan, which is Afghanistan’s main source of food products, have caused a considerable increase in the price of foodstuff in Afghanistan.

“Floods and landslides have blocked many supply routes. There is no one to open the routes so that we can bring food here,” said an Afghan truck driver.

The rise in the price of food products such as rice, cooking oil and meat has pushed many Afghans, who are among the poorest people in the world, into a high risk of food insecurity, a Press TV correspondent reported.

“Food prices have doubled, and we are worried because the government is not taking any tangible steps to reduce the prices,” says an Afghan citizen.

The Afghan government also admitted the dependence of their country on neighboring nations, especially Pakistan, regarding foodstuff.

“Unfortunately, Afghanistan is highly import-dependent when it comes to basic goods,” said spokesman for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Commerce Ahmad Farhad Afghanzoi.

“It does not produce much to meet its needs. Therefore, we import most of our food from our neighboring countries,” Afghanzoi added.

The floods in Pakistan started in late July and have so far killed nearly 1,800 people and affected some 21 million others.

Analysts believe the rising food prices in Afghanistan could trigger an outbreak of famine unless the country received more humanitarian aid.

Sleep habits alters BP in pregnant moms

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JNN 02.10.10 Getting too much or too little sleep can place pregnant women at an increased risk of experiencing pregnancy-related complications, a new study says.

According to the study published in Sleep, expectant moms who get less than five hours of sleep a night are nearly 10 times more prone to preeclampsia

Pregnant women sleeping 10 hours or longer, similarly, were at a greater risk of the complication, although it did not reach statistical significance.

“Our findings, however, are generally consistent with reports documenting associations between habitual sleep duration, blood pressure values, and hypertension in men, nonpregnant women, adolescents, and children,” said lead researcher Michelle Williams.

Insufficient sleep, particularly in the third trimester, alters blood pressure levels in pregnant women through affecting the metabolic and neuroendocrine system of the body.

The condition can subsequently contribute to either pregnancy-induced hypertension without proteinuria or preeclampsia, the study found.

Scientists believe their finding would motivate expectant moms to improve their lifestyle, particularly the sleep habits, in order to lower their risk of developing any pregnancy-related complications.

“Women generally already know that they’re eating well and getting enough exercise for two during pregnancy. Our study suggests that women should also aspire to sleep well for two,” Williams added.

Pre-eclampsia is a medical condition in which the expectant mom experiences pregnancy-induced hypertension) in association with having significant amounts of protein in the urine.

US provides CIA with drones: Report

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JNN 02.10.10 The US military is reportedly providing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with drones to launch more attacks in Pakistan as its bombing hits record high in September.

An article appearing in Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post said that “the CIA is using an arsenal of armed drones and other equipment provided by the US military to secretly escalate its operations in Pakistan by striking targets beyond the reach of American forces based in Afghanistan.”

According to the article, this is part of the Obama administration’s plan to merge covert CIA operations with military firepower.

“The US military has quietly been providing Predator and Reaper drones, as well as other weaponry, to the CIA in an effort to give the agency more capacity to carry out lethal strikes in Pakistan,” it quoted American officials as saying.

The report comes as Washington officials on Wednesday said that the US military operated twenty-two non-UN-sanctioned attacks against Pakistan in September, the highest monthly figure so far.

On Saturday, two separate non-UN-sanctioned US drone attacks killed 25 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region along the Afghan border.

Islamabad has reacted angrily to the air strikes, calling them a violation of its sovereignty and in retaliation to the surge in the cross-border attacks, Pakistan has closed its borders with Afghanistan to NATO supply trucks.

Though Washington claims the strikes target militants, most of the victims of the attacks have been civilians.

Almost a thousand Pakistanis have lost their lives in more than 100 US drone attacks during the past two years.

Hezbollah Condemns Danish Republishing of Prophet’s Cartoons

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JNN 02.10.10 Hezbollah vehemently condemned the Danish publishing house for publishing a book containing the controversial blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohamad (pbuh), recalling that the cartoons erupted rage in the Islamic World being a crime of ethics which targets the great person of Prophet Mohamad, indifferent of the feeling of more than a billion Muslims worldwide.

In a statement released by its media relations, Hezbollah said that republishing the blasphemous cartoons by the publishing house was a declaration of refusal to respect the Muslims’ feelings. “This also demonstrates their insistence on insulting the Muslims’ sanctities, presenting a cause of tension in the good relations that should exist between different religions in the world. This is what these governments should take full responsibility of.”

Hezbollah expressed belief that the ongoing blasphemous campaigns against Islamic sanctities, under the excuse of freedom of expression, constitute a malignant of double standards in tackling issues of respecting beliefs, with disregard to the Islamic Ummah (Nation), its leaders and peoples.

The Resistance party concluded its statement by calling upon all Muslims in the world to announce a united stance confirming the refusal of these insults, and raise a loud voice of condemnation.

Iraqi Shia Officers being Target killed by Ba'athists

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JNN 02.10.10 Reports from Iraq raise questions over the government’s silence on a series of assassinations targeting Shia officers in the army, police and intelligence service.

In the latest of the attacks, terrorist elements assassinated deputy director of police forces in the province of Maysan on Monday morning while he was at a special session in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Nahrain Net news website reported.

Earlier, an officer in the army rank of major was hit in the capital where militants gunned down police Capt. Haider Zuhair near a courthouse in the Western district of Karkh, using weapons fitted with silencers.

The attacks came within 24 hours after the assassination of three other officers serving in the military and the police.

In Kirkuk, police chief Col. Ahmed Chmirani survived an assassination attempt after his convoy was targeted by a bombing attack on Monday morning in the city’s southern neighborhood of Wasta.

Chmirani and three of his bodyguards were injured in the incident which also left three civilians wounded.

A similar attack was carried out in July, when a blast hit the convoy of Kirkuk police chief Brig. Gen. Borhan Tayyib, leaving him seriously injured and killing his son.

Late on Sunday, unknown gunmen stormed the house of Dr. Adnan Mohammed Saleh in the center of Kirkuk, shooting the doctor dead.

Reports by Nahrain Net had earlier revealed the existence of am underground team of elements from executed dictator Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Ba’ath party.

Operating under the supervision of the US intelligence service CIA and backed by Saudi Arabia, the group is reportedly tasked with the liquidation of Shia officers and politicians.

The project is ultimately aimed at taking Ba’athist elements and their sympathizers to power to pave the way for a military coup and the return of the banned Ba’ath party to Iraq’s political arena.

Meanwhile, Iraqi security officials held a meeting on Sunday to form a coordination center for greater security cooperation between Sunni al-Sahwa (Awakening) militias and the Land Forces Command of Iraq’s Defense Ministry.

Zaid Jubouri, an official for the group, also known as the Sons of Iraq, welcomed this measure, saying it would also serve as a positive step to stem terror attacks targeting the Awakening forces in recent years.

Pakistan refuses to open Afghan route

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JNN 2.10.10 Islamabad : Pakistan says it will not reopen a key supply route for foreign troops in Afghanistan until public anger over recent attacks by the US-led forces subsides.

“Unless the reaction cools down and we make sure that the supply line is secured, we cannot reopen it,” Reuters quoted Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit as saying on Sunday.

In retaliation to the surge in the US cross-border attacks, Pakistan has closed its borders with Afghanistan to NATO supply trucks.

On Saturday, two separate non-UN-sanctioned US drone attacks killed 25 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region along the Afghan border.

A NATO helicopter on Thursday claimed the lives of three Pakistani soldiers in the northwestern Kurram region.

The recent Pakistani move against the US-led forces hasn’t stopped the United States military from carrying out non-UN-sanctioned attacks inside Pakistani territory.

The Pakistani Public is standing beside this decision with there armed forces , as they are well aware of the nefarious US designs to disintegrate Pakistan , the Only Muslim Atomic Power in the World.

And they are even ready to welcome any Loyal Army General to take the reigns of the Government , whether he may be serving or ex Army men , who should lead Pakistan to the top of World , which these foriegn forces dont want to see ,as they are eyeing themselves on the huge resources within the territory of Pakistan , which can make Pakistan the Biggest Power in the region , and in the NO. 1 slot of the World Powers.

The US military has launched record numbers of such attacks this year.