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How is India Reacting to the PNS Mehran Crisis?



Perhaps the civilian government in Pakistan exhibited a lackadaisical approach by waiting two days before calling a defence committee meeting after the ignominious event at PNS Mehran. The military establishment too was less vocal, probably taken aback by the magnitude of the operation. In fact, the temporal proximity of the Abbottabad raid on Osama bin Laden and the attack on the naval base in Karachi have shaken the very fundamentals of the civilian-
military complex entrenched in Islamabad.

It may so happen that the Pakistani government has adopted the stance of downplaying these incidents in order to rub off the humiliation with reasonable élan. Nonetheless, what are noteworthy in this regard are the reactions in the strategic and diplomatic circles in India, Pakistan’s “childhood enemy.” There is no gainsaying the fact that both the neighbours are always wary of a conventional war with each other and hence any reaction and counter-reaction shape up according to that underlying “fear factor.”

This time around, though, the reactions did not suggest either wholehearted jubilation or animosity. Perhaps, there was a bit of elation, but the public dialogue certainly reverberated sentiments of concern.

On May 24, Rajat Pandit, in India’s leading daily, Times of India, exulted:

“Pakistan has lost almost half of its sophisticated long-range maritime snooping and strike capabilities in just one well-targeted jihadi attack on naval base PNS Mehran in Karachi that ended on Monday after a 15-hour gun-battle which left 10 security persons and four attackers dead. At least two of the five P-3C Orion long-range patrol aircraft, supplied to the Pakistan Navy by the US, were destroyed in the attack.”

Pandit even quoted an Indian navy officer who echoed the above, and further asserted: “The irony is stark. Pakistan got the P-3C Orions, packed with radars and weapons like the E-2C Hawkeye 2000 airborne early-warning suites and anti-ship Harpoon missiles, from the US as part of the around $15 billion military aid in the name of the global war on terrorism over the last decade.”

In fact, and quite reasonably so, the Indian Naval establishment feels that out of this fiasco, there are lessons to be learnt for India too. Taking note of the fluid security situation in South Asia, Nirmal Verma, Chief of Indian Navy, on May 24, exhibited the desire to develop the capability to deploy India’s warships, submarines and aircraft at “immediate notice.”

Actually this was the second consecutive breach of sovereignty of Pakistani territory. The earlier one in Abbottabad caused India’s former foreign secretary MK Rasgotra to curtly state the following:

“There was of course a violation of sovereignty, but there is not much they can do about it.” Whereas the ever-outspoken former Indian representative at the UN Disarmament Conference in Geneva Arundhati Ghose passed a rather interesting comment: “The sovereignty of a country is accepted by the UN Charter. But the sovereignty is not absolute. There is a limitation.”

On the other hand, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, the spokesperson of India’s second largest political group, the Bharatiya Janata Party, was critical. He said that the terrorist attack on Pakistan’s supposedly high-security naval base PNS Mehran had once again shown that no sensitive installation in Pakistan could be considered to be safe. Furthermore, he expressed concern that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal could fall into the wrong and dangerous hands. In the backdrop of this rationale, Rudy called for a de-nuclearised Pakistan.

Another leading Indian daily, The Telegraph, based in the eastern part of the nation-state, reported that “in the security establishment in New Delhi, there is suspicion that the attack in Karachi and, earlier, the killing of Osama bin Laden next to the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad has a possible dangerous spin-off for India.” The natural fear perception prevalent in Indian defence circles, according to the daily, is that the military under General Ashfaq Kayani may be tempted to get adventurous because morale in Pakistan’s armed forces has nosedived after the two raids. It may not be irrational to contemplate a “Kargil redux.”
In New Delhi, with a touch of sympathy, senior naval officials acknowledged that such an attack had the potential to undermine the military of any country. According to them, the attack on the naval air station PNS Mehran is on a par with the LTTE raid on Colombo airport in Sri Lanka before the outfit was obliterated. Thus, a logical supposition in this direction is that the Pakistani military establishment unleashes a serious counter-insurgency drive against the Taliban-Al Qaeda combo, which in essence would be a welcome step for India.

Nevertheless, it must be stated that both India and Pakistan have interchanged caustic rhetoric in the recent past pertaining to Operation Geronimo. The feasibility of conducting Indian raids inside Pakistan in line with Geronimo has been hugely debated amongst Indian think tanks, media, diplomatic circles and social networking sites. The targets? The elusive Hafeez Saeed and Dawood Ibrahim, of course. Indubitably, such discussions have had strong reactions from Pakistan.

Now with PNS Mehran following on the heels of Geronimo, the security climate in South Asia has heated up. Though Pakistan may be uncomfortably feeling the temperature of the Frankenstein-effect, India’s concerns cannot be neglected altogether.

The necessity at the present juncture, however, is a security partnership between the two countries. They need to re-activate and overhaul the existing Anti-Terrorism Cell. Though, to what extent such camaraderie would be fruitful is a matter of speculation. Can both Islamabad and New Delhi come out of the yoke of hubris and rhetoric and deal with the common monster? It was rather interesting to note that a day before the siege of PNS Mehran, India and Pakistan resumed dialogue in Rawalpindi to resolve the outstanding bilateral issue of Sir Creek. Now’s the time to take discussions further.

By Uddipan Mukherjee, he teaches physics under West Bengal University of Technology. As an avid student of South Asian politics, he has also become a successful freelance writer on the subject. He lives in Kolkata. Find more articles by Uddipan Mukherjee
http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2011/05/how-is-india-reacting-to-the-pns-mehran-crisis/


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Main root cause of terrorism war is the occupation of Palestine by Israel, Kashmir by India, and US NATO forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians in  FATA [Pakistan] through US drone attacks, has created Pak-Taliban, a new off shoot of terror. Indian involvement in Baluchistan insurgency is an open secret. Unless the oppression in Palestine, Kashmir, FATA, Afghanistan, Iraq is ended, and global powers refrain from using terrorism as tool for achievement of geo-political objectives, there will be no PEACE and stability. More >>> http://fb.me/128f56sVg
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After Ben Laden - A Chance for USA to do the right thing for World PEACE

"Bin Laden's killing was the easy part; it's time Obama backs his talk with concrete steps to rein in Israel"
Aijaz Zaka Syed

U.S. President Barack Obama announcing live on television the death of Osama bin Laden, from the East Room of the White House in Washington on May 1, 2011.
It's more than three weeks since Osama Bin Laden died giving a new lease of life — and perhaps a second term — to a struggling US president, but celebrations in the US are far from over. I hate to rain on this victory parade but the departure of one isolated and ailing figure changes nothing.
In the words of Brendan O'Neill, "all that really happened in Pakistan is that a small group of American soldiers shot and killed an ageing, sickly man who was the nominal head of a fractured terrorist organisation." And, I must add, without going through motions such as a fair trial or consulting the sovereign government of a so-called ally.
I know, I know. Bin Laden was no saint and may very well have been guilty of the crimes he has been accused of, including the 9/11. But reviled as he was, Bin Laden deserved a day in the court to account for himself, didn't he? Even Nazi mass murderers responsible for killing millions during the Second World War were punished only after elaborate trials.
I don't like playing the devil's advocate here, but there's something called due process. Everyone is innocent until proven otherwise. This is the principle at the heart of the international justice system.
Following the WikiLeaks exposé showing the Emperor sans his clothes, Obama had protested: "We are a nation of laws."
But law-abiding nations, Mr President, do not go to war over flimsy pretexts or send commandos into a foreign country to kill an unarmed man in front of his 12-year-old daughter and dump his body into the ocean. Talk of playing the judge, jury and executioner all over again! This justice is little different from the Texan-style retribution seen in Hollywood westerns.
The 9/11 terror attack which claimed more than 2,700 innocent lives was doubtless a heinous crime for which the perpetrators deserve severest punishment. What about all those innocents though who were killed — and continue to be killed — as a direct result of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?
More than a million lives have been lost in Iraq and hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past 10 years. Who will account for them?
The Abbottabad ‘operation' is a telling example of the way this war has been waged all these years. While it has wreaked havoc across an already ravaged Afghanistan, it's Pakistan that has been the real victim of the decade-long campaign. Its once robust economy is bankrupt; its institutions are falling apart and its complex religious and ethnic mosaic of society is unravelling fast.
Pakistan has lost nearly 40,000 of its people, including 7,000 military personnel, to this conflict since 2001. Despite strong popular protests, US drones continue to hit Pakistan almost on a daily basis feeding a groundswell of anger. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 111 drone attacks were unleashed last year and at least 957 of those killed were civilians.
Superpower privileges 
Of course, you aren't supposed to raise these inconvenient questions. Big powers are exempt from laws that apply to the rest of the world. The empire can get away with murder. Instead it's the victim who's facing the music as US politicians join the chorus to bomb the ally that has given America a licence to kill and do what it pleases. 

Pakistan is teetering on the brink as it bends over backwards to meet increasing US demands to "do more". In the process, more and more young people are forced into the welcoming arms of the extremists.
I often wonder if the Americans know what is being done in their name and do they care. How would they react if planes sent by ‘friends' were to rain death and destruction over their cities and towns?
In his speech after the Abbottabad adventure that reminded one of the "Mission accomplished" bravado of his predecessor, Obama declared that the world was safer after Bin Laden's death. Why is it not safe for the Afghans and Pakistanis then? Why do they still get swatted like flies? A day after Pakistan's politicians "warned" against more misadventures, another drone strike killed scores in the Northwest.
So where do we go from here? Obama has a rare opportunity to turn the page on America's disastrous decade and make a fresh start. He has repeatedly talked about "a new way forward" with the Islamic world. It's time to demonstrate he means it.
Extremism as represented by the likes of Bin Laden is merely a symptom, rather than the disease. The source of the sickness lies elsewhere — in the Middle East [and Kashmir]. Obama's State Department speech this week calling for a "viable Palestine" on the 1967 borders is a bold beginning. But we have had enough of his sublime rhetoric. He has to back it now with concrete steps.
And no matter what Israel says or does, I can't believe the reigning superpower is incapable of reining in a rogue regime that survives on its protection.
About time someone told Israel: Enough is enough! 
By Aijaz Zaka Syed, Special to Gulf News a widely published columnist. Follow him on Twitter@aijazzakasyed.


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Pakistan must Stand Up for itself

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"Reducing dependence on US and West is as critical as revamping its security and intelligence infrastructure: 
Tariq Osman Hyder 


Extremists and terrorists project the Pakistani armed forces as American surrogates to justify violence and generate sympathy. Civilians, who bear the brunt of such terrorist attacks, blame both the government and military for sacrificing them to its pro-US policy.
The American intrusion into Pakistani territory to kill Osama Bin Laden has created the internal consensus that Pakistan needs to put its house in order, improve internal security and manage relations with the US, India and Afghanistan while respecting public opinion.
The attack on the naval airbase in Karachi on Sunday — costing valuable lives and destroying vital defence assets — does not change these imperatives but underlines the fact that the security apparatus needs drastic improvement.
The American occupation of Afghanistan, their refrain that Pakistan do more in the war on terror, augmented drone strikes and avowals to repeat intrusions for high-value targets suspected to be in Pakistan, all erode support for the Pakistani government and the armed forces.
Extremists and terrorists project the Pakistani armed forces as American surrogates to justify violence and generate sympathy. Civilians, who bear the brunt of such terrorist attacks, blame both the government and military for sacrificing them to its pro-US policy.
India exacerbates the situation by demanding that Pakistan tackle terrorism more effectively while denying it the space to do so, with its military projecting aggressive doctrines and claiming an ability to mount incursions into Pakistan.
One hopes that America and India realise the counter-productivity of their attitudes and actions which clearly contradict their proclaimed objective of a stable Pakistan. However, Pakistan has to deal with the situation as it is, not as it should be.
Many steps should be taken on the security front. Escalating terrorist attacks on the armed and security forces aim to demoralise, discredit and destabilise. No doubt, foreign funding plays an important part. However, this does not absolve the government and its security institutions from taking radical action to reverse Pakistan's soft state image.
The management, control and data collection of people and money entering Pakistan and within Pakistan must be undertaken by utilising the existing National Database and Registration Authority infrastructure.
American and Afghan demands that infiltration from Pakistan be curtailed, which in fact has become a two-way process, need to be met by fencing the Pakistan-Afghan border. Terrorists and criminals should be dealt with by strictly controlling the limited road routes into Pakistan.
Intelligence agencies everywhere tend not to share information; but the time has come for the Pakistani intelligence agencies and police, which have the largest footprint, to work effectively together. The Bin Laden episode and naval base attack reflect a major failure not just of the military intelligence agencies, but also of the civilian intelligence establishment and police.
All of them should be equally built up as counterweights for better future results. Often intelligence agencies are used as sinecures for retirees. As in other developing countries, police recruitment is frequently used to satisfy political quotas.
This needs to be changed. The intelligence agencies should be staffed largely by civilian officers with ability and integrity, retained for the duration of their careers, to create a dedicated capability. This would result in the military agencies' backbone being composed of career civilians rather than short term military officers.
Surveillance
The physical perimeter of all important facilities should be increased wherever possible, and actual/electronic surveillance improved as was expected after the 2009 attack on Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi. Vulnerable facilities should be moved to less built-up areas as done elsewhere.
Apart from the need to revisit the entire security structure, there is the challenge for the government and the armed forces to take the people of Pakistan along. This requires revision of governance including foreign policy and economic assistance from abroad.
Without improving the economy through broadening the tax base, infrastructural development, better and widespread education and creating more jobs, growing popular discontent which feeds extremism and terrorism, will not be reversed.
As regards foreign policy, ‘leverage' is not all in American hands as long as they are in Afghanistan. While this factor should not be overestimated, the American, Nato and ISAF logistics supply chain goes largely overland through Pakistan and, what is forgotten, almost all air supplies use Pakistan's airspace. It is time that the air-transit facility was changed from block sanction to a flight-by-flight permission procedure as is done internationally.
Despite Pakistan's partial dependence on American military and economic assistance, a more independent position can be taken without confrontation. If the economy is improved, along with rising workers' remittances and higher wheat, rice and cotton harvests, Pakistan could wean itself away from American aid flows, likely to decline in any case due to the recession and renewed Congressional opposition; and from an IMF programme with restrictive conditions.
While combating terrorism, the government and the military should work in this direction, beyond institutional and party concerns. This is what Pakistanis expect and deserve.

By Tariq Osman Hyder, a retired Pakistani diplomat, Special to Gulf News.


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Pakistan: In the Mist of Strategic Terrorism

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Warfare dominions have changed since more than a decade; Pakistan is under ferocious attack; what all is going on is an all-out aggression against Pakistan as a state; after every attack in Pakistan, point of views are discussed on hourly basis and disseminated on half hourly basis. Some standard analyses are tabulated below.
  • This was a serious security breach
  • Where the intelligence agencies are?
  • Law enforcing agencies are in efficient
  • Musharraf is responsible of all this!
  • All this is because of the corruption in masses from top to bottom
  • Defense budget must be discussed at length in the Parliament
  • Tomorrow there will be a strike followed by a DHARNA
  • Punjabi Taliban’s are involved in it
  • Interior Minister claims “ Backbone of Taliban has been broken”
  • Why we made Taliban’s in first place?
The dosage of above mentioned analyses is so strong and continuous that sleepless dreams also constitute same themes, incidents and messages. Out of the entire predicament, one thing is on dot and as per the plan, strategic encirclement of Pakistan. The most defining aspect of the said maneuver is rolling now, in other words we can say that “the said strategic encirclement is now in execution phase, coupled with strategic terrorism”. 
Point here is not to produce a horrifying document recounting yet another conspiracy theory against the state of Pakistan from outside. If this would have been the solution to the cancer we would have been cured much before the destruction of our strategic assets like P-3 Orion. Attack on Pakistan on the night 22nd May 2011 was a well-planned, rehearsed, coordinated and classically executed. What all financial and strategic loss Pakistan will bear is not the preposition to be discussed but the imperative is how Pakistan should defend itself in the face of this strategic terrorism? How Pakistan will convince the world that Pakistan is a nation capable of defending its nuclear arsenals?
Military lessons, Political Amrath Dharas and Administrative Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) have been formulated and reformulated so many times in past, but Pakistan is still bleeding hard and stuck in this quagmire for a long time, than “What is missing”?
By and large all the state elements are under serious threat and most of them are performing inefficiently. In the latest form of warfare the most tangible segment is information war, privatization of this war machinery has proved to produce only an untamed monster, mincing money and ridiculing Pakistan in General. In strong nations media plays unprecedented role to recurvate “will to fight and survive as a nation” and with all due respect and without going into details generally this experiment has failed miserably”. This looks to be a too generalized and biased statement, but points to follow will be able to crystallize the exact requirement out of Executives, Legislators and Judiciary.
After declaring “WAR EMERGENCY” following actions are recommended to be done.

[THESE POINTS ARE DEBATABLE/CONTROVERSIAL]
  • Complete Political leadership (in and outside parliament) with military leadership and Chief Justice need to sit and formulate a cohesive, coherent and comprehensive strategy against Strategic Terrorism
  • Immediate halt on statements by all politicians and dissemination of party point of view on naval catastrophe
  • Census be taken as an opportunity for pinpointing non Pakistanis and resolution be passed and enforced for their immediate deportation and if possible it should be coupled with de weaponing streets of Pakistan
  • Mechanism be formulated and efficiently enforced for uninterrupted trial of terrorists held in custody, setting examples for future
  • All intelligence agencies be ordered to re-organize their selves to fight this new facet of war with precision
  • Concept of community policing be introduced and enforced immediately especially in urban areas of the country through local body representatives
  • Training of civil defense and N.C.C must be started immediately for producing local countering forces at lower level
  • [NOT AGREED, DEBATABLE ?]Pakistani electronic media (with exception of some) is incapable of handling and executing the all-important information war, immediate seizure of complete media (News channels) must be enforced (at least for six months) to gain unanimity amongst the masses for effective tackling of the war, only state television to function with all its emphasis on National unity should operate with efficient and precise content management
Pakistan can prevail, even after losing 40000 Pakistanis in this war. This resolution of Pakistanis has made the terrorists to change their priority to strategic targets, sending clear message to the all national institutions of Pakistan. Time to respond with efficiency is the only way out or we will be history as so many nations are…………………..God Forbid
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/05/pakistan-in-the-mist-of-strategic-terrorism/
 
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Naval Base Attack — Shattering Some Myths

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The May 22nd terrorist attack on the Pakistan Navy’s Mehran base in Karachi has given a new lease of life to the usual set of conspiracy theories. Rather than admitting that we face a mortal threat from militants within Pakistan and dealing with that threat, Pakistanis are being fed with a pro-military, media-driven national narrative that apportions blame on everyone in and outside Pakistan, except where it really belongs: On the military and the militants.

Here are some of the fallacies driving that narrative.

1. As always, the civilian leadership failed us: 
The response of Pakistan’s ruling political leadership was arguably less than adequate. But when the military does not allow civilians anywhere near its exclusive domain of ‘national security’, how can politicians own up and be held responsible for military failures? For instance, did the military ever consult politicians on its disastrous pursuit of ‘strategic depth’ in Afghanistan? Did civilian politicians create and nurture the jihadi beast? Was it the duty of civilians to protect the naval base, or the GHQ for that matter?

2. This was not a security lapse: 
The navy chief publicly said that there was no security lapse. He is right. It wasn’t just a security failure; it was the mother of all failures. What else would you call the successful penetration of a high security facility by a handful of well-armed terrorists who then set off multiple explosions, blew up two maritime surveillance aircraft worth over$30 million each and fought off over a thousand military personnel for almost a day?

3. Criticising the troops equals treason: 
Maligning the military would weaken it by battering its morale, which is exactly what our foes want. So we should all just shut up and let the military do its job. Well, that is exactly the problem. The military is not doing its job, and that is costing us dearly. We have one of the world’s largest out-of-school populations. Yet, we deprive our children their right to basic education by spending seven to 10 times more on a military that cannot even properly guard its vital installations and equipment.

4. It must be the Indians: 
Even though the TTP has accepted responsibility for the attack, the military establishment wants us to believe that India did it. The reasoning: It does not make sense for al Qaeda or the Taliban to destroy Pakistan’s India-specific military hardware. Besides, such an attack requires military intelligence input, professional planning and operational precision which non-state actors usually lack. But by blaming it all on the ‘foreign hand’, the military is basically indicting itself for gross incompetence.

5. The Americans want our bomb: 
The Americans (read CIA/Blackwater) are orchestrating terrorist attacks to build the perception that Pakistan is imploding from within, as a prelude to depriving the country of the atomic bomb. There is no evidence that the CIA is doing any such thing. And Pakistan does not really need the US or anyone to conspire against it. We are digging our own grave because our military establishment clamps down on some militant groups while letting others operate with impunity in a nuclear-armed country.

6. This is not our war: 
America’s war on terror has put us in the cross hairs of the Taliban and their affiliates. If we bid adieu to the US and negotiate with these militants, they will turn their guns away from us. Hell, they can even become handy against India in both Kashmir and Afghanistan. But lest we forget, military-backed jihad in Indian Kashmir almost put Pakistan on the US State Department’s list of states sponsoring terrorism. And we would not be in this mess today if the ISI’s black-turbaned allies in Kabul had not provided shelter to al Qaeda which had planned the 9/11 attacks. And remember what the (Swat) Taliban did after the PPP-led government passed the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, 2009? They did not lay down their arms. Instead, they denounced the constitution, the judiciary and the parliament for being un-Islamic, and moved into Buner, a hundred kilometres from Islamabad.

Perpetuating these fallacies only obfuscates the real threats to Pakistan. Rather than blaming others for its own failures, the military should start doing its actual job for once. And managing real estate, hounding journalists and propping up political alliances is not really a part of it.


By Aqil Shah, a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Published in The Express Tribune, May 25th, 2011. 

The Other Perspective
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Don’t be Deceived, Know enemies of Humanity & PEACE, Raise Voice against Tyranny & Oppression

Bin Laden was killed by USA, but in revenge Taliban [Khawarij, Takfiri] killed 80 innocent Muslims in Pakistan on 14 May 2011 through suicide bomber attacks, who had nothing to do with killing of Bin Laden. This is not only against common sense but totally in violation of basic Islamic teachings and rejecting Qur’an; 4:93 & 5:32. They have already killed over 30,000 innocent Pakistanis.This is the legacy Bin Laden. US drones have killed more than 2000 people, only 1% terrorists, 99% innocent people, women and children.   The terrorists and USA has common misplaced ideology; "Ends justify the means". The sympathizers of USA & Bin Laden and Taliban are party to this heinous crime, such Khawarij have been rejected and addressed as 'Dogs of Hell' by Prophet Muhammad [peace be upon him]. Its high time now, the people should identify and make efforts to cleanse the society of this evil for Peace. Silence is crime.....
Some recommended actions are as follows:
  1. Create public awareness regarding Un-Islamic Khawarij, Takfiri doctrine followed by Al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban, since many ignorant people under false propaganda consider them to be holy warriors [Mujahid] fighting US and NATO occupation forces. The real Mujahids should fight US and occupation forces in Afghanistan, like Afghani Taliban. Pakistani Taliban are creating anarchy [Fasad-fil-Ardh] by killing innocent people [men, women, children in mosques, churches, markets] because they consider all those not supporting their heretic doctrines to be Murtad/ Kafir [Apostate, non believer].
  2. Isolate the Taliban [Khawarij, Takfiri], convince their supporters of un Islamic nature of their doctrine and terrorist activities, if it does not work resort to social boycott of their sympathizers. [No one should violate law on this pretext that creates anarchy].
  3. Pressurizing the government by raising your voice through media, peaceful protests; to abandon one sided cooperation with USA, change the policy of complicity and appeasement, protect the life and property of its citizens from US [drone] attacks and by taking strict action to eliminate criminal Taliban [Khawarij, Takfiri] and their sympathizers creating mischief on land [Fasad-fil-Ardh].
Remember:
"Whoever recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner therein: and whoever recommends and helps an evil cause shares in its burden: and Allah has power over all things."[Qur'an; 4:85]
“If a man kills a believer intentionally his recompense is Hell to abide therein (for ever): and the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon him and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him.” [Qur’an; 4:93]
“The punishment [by government through law] of those who wage war against Allah and His Apostle and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution or crucifixion of the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter. Except for those who repent before they fall into your power: in that case know that Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.” [Qur’an; 5:33-34]
“.. God would never change the blessings with which He has graced a people unless they change their inner selves.. [Qur’an;8:53]

Related Links for References and further study:


Fatwa on Terrorism is a 600-page (Urdu version), 512-page (English version). Its an Islamic decree by influential scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri which demonstrates from the Quran and Sunnah that terrorism and suicide bombings are so unjust and un Islamic … Click : 
Edict [Fatwa] against Terrorism Urdu Full: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B3A4nhhOoqagNWQxNzA5NzItMjQxZi00MDZmLThiMTMtMDMwMGExODQyMjg1&hl=en
Edict [Fatwa] against Terrorism English: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B3A4nhhOoqagM2Q4ZmI0NzgtZDk5Yy00ODU2LThjNGUtZDIyMmFlYzU0NWE5&hl=en
Fitna-e-Khawarij Historic Review Urdu:  https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B3A4nhhOoqagNzk2OTE1MGYtOWM4My00NzdmLTkxMmMtMTY3NzQzYzM5NTdm&hl=en
Terrorism Rejected in Islam- Religious Edict [Fatwa]: http://t.co/XEo8L2e

Bin Laden's Legacy: Options for Muslims: Bin Laden and the US leadership had one thing common; the misguided belief that; ‘End justifies the means’. But if we want to preserve our humanity, it nerve does. The Muslims may respond to the present crisis in two ways; either to follow the clear, unambiguous teachings and guidance from Qur’an and Sunnah to be successful in this and next world by attaining peace with dignity and honour or blindly follow the path leading to destruction by adhering to the concocted irrational pseudo ideologies of extremists satisfying their ambitions and desires. Option A: is rational, Option B is Irrational, emotional response ….Read full … http://peace-forum.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-laden-terrorism-jihad-and-islam.html
Jihad-Myth and Reality:Jihad-Myth and Reality. “Therefore, do not yield to the unbelievers, and make Jihad (strive) against them with this (Qur'an), a mighty Jihad (Jihad Kabira)” (Qur'an;25:52). “Permission to fight back (Qital) is hereby granted to the .



Twin revenge attacks kill 80 in Pakistan

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The Muslims oppose and condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations by any state, groups or individuals in unequivocal terms and are not ready to accept it as even remotely related to Islam in any manner. However, a negligible minority seems to give terrorism tacit approval due to ignorance and as a reaction to oppressive policies of imperialist powers [USA, West, Israel and India etc]. Their sympathisers under the influence of negative propaganda confuse the entire subject by resorting to misleading and perplexing discussions, misquoting the Holy Scripture to justify their horrendous acts. The   destruction and mass killing of innocent people in the name of Jihad (struggle against evil) is nothing but distortion, twisting and confusing the entire Islamic concept of Jihad, which make warfare permissible by legitimate authority in self defence or against the forces of oppression within laid down rules and morals, sparing innocent civilians, women and children. Suicide is not permissible under any condition, evil cannot become good, nor can oppression transform itself into virtue due to goodness of intention. Bin Laden and the US leadership had one thing common; the misguided belief that; ‘End justifies the means’. But if we want to preserve our humanity, it nerve does.

While condemning terrorism, the Muslims do not condone or approve the unfair, discriminatory, unpopular and unwise policies of global powers, nor see any justification for the wrong policies of any government, including that of some Muslim countries. 
Hence killing of peaceful unarmed civilians [Muslims or non Muslims] by Al Qaeda, Taliban groups and rogue powers like Israel, USA, West and India,  occupying the Muslim lands in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Kashmir and elsewhere is unpardonable most heinous crime against humanity which is to be explicitly condemned and rejected by all peace loving humans. While Mullah Omar leading resistance against foreign occupation forces in Afghanistan, condemned killing of innocent Muslims in Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden or his deputy Al Zahwari never condemned killing of innocent Muslims and non Muslims, rather they appear to condone and approve of it, hence such Khawarij/Takfiri beasts can not claim to be part of Muslim community in the light of Fatwa [Edict] based upon research work of great scholars of Islam. 
The legacy of Bin Laden is mass killings of innocent people, Muslim or non Muslims to advance his cause. He followed Takfiri Doctrine, used a pretext to kill innocent Muslims. The Takfiri doctrine is not based upon any direct clear commandment or ayah of Qur’an, it is derivative, based upon analogy (taweel), which can have more than one opinions. The pronouncement to declare any non practicing Muslim, to be an apostate, (Murtad) hence liable to be killed is called Takfir. It has become a central ideology of militant groups across the world to kill innocent Muslims including children, women, young and old at public places and even in mosques, through suicide bombing. Mainstream Muslims and Islamic groups reject the pseudo concept of ‘Takfir’ as a doctrinal deviation [bid’at], heresy, un-Islamic and marked by bigotry and zealotry. If a Muslim fails to perform some of his obligations and is remiss in practice or commits some such actions as are forbidden, yet he believes in the liability of all obligations and the impropriety of all unlawful deeds, he will continue to be a Muslim though he will be a sinner.
The Prophesies by the Messenger of Allah [Pbuh] About the Khawārij Terrorists:
Khawarij is derived from Arabic:  Khawārij, literally "those who went out" [of fold of Islam].
1.     The terrorists would appear religious.
2.     The Khawarij slogans would seem true to the common man.
3.     The Khawarij would use adolescents for terrorist activities after brainwashing.
4.     The Khawarij would appear from the East.
5.     The Khawarij would keep coming until the time of False Messiah (Anti Christ-Dajjal).
6.     The Khawarij will be absolutely debarred from the fold of Islam.
7.     The Khawarij will be the dogs of Hell.
8.     The religious appearance of the Khawarij must not be mistaken.
9.     The Khawarij are the worst of creation.
According to Fatwa [Edict] this is clearly applicable to Al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban and alike: Allah says: “It is those whose entire struggle is wasted in worldly life, but they presume they are doing very good works.” (al-Quran, 18: 104)

Options for Pakistanis & Muslims:
The Muslims may respond to the present crisis in two ways; either to follow the clear, unambiguous teachings and guidance from Qur’an and Sunnah to be successful in this and next world or blindly follow the path leading to destruction by following the concocted irrational pseudo ideologies of extremists satisfying their ambitions and desires.
Option A: Rational Response in light of Qur’an & Sunnah:
1.     Respect and the sanctity of human life should be fully respected, killing of innocent people whether Muslims or non Muslims must be avoided as forbidden by Qur’an. Death penalty can only be executed after fair trial in the legitimate court of law.
2.     All out efforts must be made to resolve international conflicts through peaceful means i.e. negotiations, treaties and charters signed with international communities [all Muslim countries are signatory to UN Charter].
3.     International community must be urged to end oppression of Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Killing of innocent Muslims in these places and Pakistan must stop. Muslim governments should at least extend moral support to the freedom struggle to end occupation of Muslim lands by foreign powers.
4.     Once the peaceful means fail, armed struggle [Jihad with weapons] should only be conducted on declaration by legitimate Muslim authority [government, not rogue groups] in accordance with the clear conditions laid down in Qur’an and Sunnah.
5.     People or groups imposing their own will/version upon others by force, justifying killing of Muslims [not sufficiently religious or sinners] by declaring them apostate [Takfir] are creating mischief on land [Fasad-fil-Ardh]. They should be tried and punished according to law.
6.     Scholars must be educated to understand and fully comprehend the fallacy of doctrines of terror [Khawarij, Takfir] and educate fellow brothers and sisters to purge the society of their false influence and sympathy.
7.     Mass education of modern sciences and basic religious knowledge must be done on priority basis, so that Muslims attain their lost glory and respect.
8.     Muslims should themselves cleanse their societies from contamination of faith an terror groups without any foreign help as it’s their own problem. Initially peaceful persuasion, then use of minimum force if necessary, however if they repent, it should be accepted.
9.     Raise the voice against corrupt rulers in peaceful way without creating anarchy in society.
10. Foreign interference in the affairs of Muslims states on the pretext of help/assistance should be opposed and rejected. This only benefits the corrupt rulers & oppressive powers to subjugate, gain control of resources, thus compromising their sovereignty.
11. The task and struggle is arduous but FREEDOM & PEACE is priceless.


Option B: Irrational Emotionnal Response by following pseudo Ideologies of Extremists:
1.  Since foreign powers are causing unjustified interference in Muslim countries, including Pakistan, the (so-called) Jihadi groups have thwarted them by launching the offensive, inflicting upon them devastating blows and that their actions, though not right and justifiable, should not be reviled and condemned because their intention to defend Islam are noble. [This is an awful syllogism and a most deplorable stance in the light of the Qur’an and Hadith, evil cannot become good under any circumstances, nor can oppression transform itself into virtuous deed due to goodness of intention. Moreover, their barbarian acts have only served the evil designs of anti Muslim forces to occupy the Muslim lands, causing more death and destruction on the pretext of ‘War on Terror’ and exploit their resources.]
2.  Sympathise with Osama bin Laden considering him as a hero, thus support Khawarij, Takfiri Al-Qaeda & Pak Taliban, since they overtly claim to oppose USA and West. [Where as practically they are tools of Anti Muslim powers and forces, indiscriminately killing innocent Muslims.They have killed more than 30,000 civilians, women, children in Pakistan only, damaging and weakening the only Muslim Nuclear Power  Pakistan (also objective of Zionists, USA, West &Indians), even if the present corrupt rulers are perceived to be the tools of USA and West, but the common  people are not. This is not Jihad but simple terrorism. Islam (Sunnah) lays down the methodology to oppose corrupt Muslim regimes, avoiding anarchy and instability].
3.  Promote and support the ‘Khawarij, Takfiri’ ideology of Terrorists, there is no need to questioning or understanding its anti Islamic implications. [Hence they join the group addressed as ‘Dogs of hell’, by Prophet Muhammad [pbuh]. This ideology is rejected by all the reputed Islamic scholars during last 1400 years, its followers fall outside the folds of Islam (kufr) being against Qur’an and Sunnah].  
4.    Blindly follow the misguided pseudo scholars of Islam, who for political power & gains are massacring Muslims, causing disunity, factions among Muslim Ummah. [Islam is a rational faith, Qur’an encourages reasoning and pondering, going against Islamic consensus (ijm’a) blindly is a recipe for destruction and route to hell ].
Please follow links below for references from Qur’an, Sunnah and to fully comprehend the Issue:
5.     http://www.minhajbooks.com/english/bookid/375/Fatwa:%20Suicide%20Bombing%20and%20Terrorism%20(Urdu).html
6.     Edict [Fatwa]Against Terrorism-English Summary–Click here to Download:
7.     Fatwa Terrorism Fitna Khwarij Urdu Full –Click here to Download:
8.     Jihad-Myth and Reality : Jihad-Myth and Reality. “Therefore, do not yield to the unbelievers, and make Jihad (strive) against them with this (Qur'an), a mighty Jihad (Jihad Kabira)” (Qur'an;25:52). “Permission to fight back (Qital) is hereby granted to the…..



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