guju24 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 WASHINGTON: Pakistan averaged more than one suicide attack a week in 2007 as the country's military and intelligence establishment gradually lost control of the terrorist networks it had nurtured since 1980s, according to analysts in India, US and Pakistan. While Benazir Bhutto's assassination was the most high-profile of the attacks, there were 56 acts of suicide terrorism in Pakistan during 2007, resulting in the death of 419 members of the security forces — the majority of them from the police and para-military — and 217 civilians, according to a paper released by the Institute of Topical Studies in Chennai. The figure represented a dramatic spike from 2006, when there were only six incidents in which 46 members of the security forces and 91 civilians were killed. Even in 2007, there were only four suicide attacks in the first six months of the year. The turning point came with the Pakistani military action on Islamabad's Lal Masjid between July 10 and 13, when an army commando raid killed hundreds, including scores of girl students. The remaining 52 attacks all took place after the Lal Masjid action, spreading to SWAT and other places in Pakistan hitherto untouched by suicide attacks. They have continued into 2008 with an attack in Lahore, a city largely untroubled by terrorism so far. But many analysts are now saying that the Pakistani military and intelligence establishment which has ruled the country for much of the time since its independence up has only itself to blame. An article in the New York Times on Tuesday reported what experts in India have been saying for months: the terrorists, proteges of the Pakistani spy agency ISI, are biting the hand that once fed them. According to the Indian study, the largest number of suicide attacks in a month took place in July, soon after the Lal Masjid crackdown. There were 15 suicide strikes between July 14 and 31, 2007 — an average of one a day. The second largest number in a month was in December, including that of Benazir Bhutto. But somewhere between these two attacks, the ISI-nurtured terrorists turned on their masters who gradually switched off their support under US and Indian pressure. Suicide bombers twice attacked buses ferrying agency employees, killing 18 on September 4 and 15 more on November 24. Since then, not counting the deaths in the November attack on Benazir Bhutto's return procession, more military and security officials have been killed in terrorist attacks than civilians. It appears that the terrorists have declared war against their erstwhile masters — both political and military. Of the 52 suicide attacks in the second half of 2007, about half a dozen were against the country's political leadership, including two against the former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, who held office during the Lal Masjid raid, and two against Benazir Bhutto. There were no attempts on General Musharraf. The remaining 46 were against targets associated with the Army, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Special Services Group (SSG) and the air force, the heart of the Pakistani military establishment. Two cantonments saw repeated suicide strikes — Rawalpindi (5), where the general headquarters of the army are located, and Kohat (3) in the NWFP where a training centre for middle-level army officers is located. The analyses also appear to suggest that the Pakistani armed forces are hunkered down from their own population and are having to be guarded by the police. "The police were not the primary targets, but a large number of them died because they were deployed in large numbers to protect the targets. Whenever the police guards suspected anyone and called him for frisking, he blew himself up," the Indian study explained. TOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 They should blow exclusively army bases that way I will have some reason to smile over the predicament of parsi without feeling guilty about it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 This weke it has been one every day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandtest Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 No Need to wait for a week!! Ask and ye shall get!!...There is one more suicide blast today in Paki land. KR and Lurker, please note this is a SHIA MLOSQUE in Paki Land, and today's blast is exactly as I predicted in previous thread, on the Ashura procession day of Moharram of Shia Muslims :giggle:....am I the latest prophet or what? :cantstop: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7194275.stm suspected suicide attack at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has left at least four people dead, officials say. Up to 20 people were wounded in the blast which came as Shias prepared to mark the Ashura festival. Police official Abdullah Khan told the Associated Press news agency: "It was apparently a suicide attack." Security has been high in Pakistan during the holy month of Muharram, of which Ashura marks the climax. Pakistan has a history of violence between Sunni and Shia extremists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 they are war-like people have always been settle their debate through bombs and this culture is the collective result of their socio-religious-economic environment .. NO ashura procession finishes without some bombing, even in our own india Lucknow used to be worst affected by it.. thansk to iron-hand shwon by vajpayee.. U won't believe it but lucknowi shia muslim vote for vajpayee whole-heartedly.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumble_rocks Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 No Need to wait for a week!! Ask and ye shall get!!...There is one more suicide blast today in Paki land. KR and Lurker, please note this is a SHIA MLOSQUE in Paki Land ....... Pakistan has a history of violence between Sunni and Shia extremists. Ama Yaar, Thanks for the breaking news .. Bhaiya, humko bhi pata hai Shia , Sunni Kurds, Berber, Bahaii and what not ... It's amazing to see you assume the role of school Head master trying to educate us with basic rudimentary knowledge .. So please spare me these jargons for now .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Panchayat ta manai chhi par khunta hiyen garab:hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desi Cartman Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I dont find anything about the posts funny so its sad to see smileys here. Its sad that people die because some moron thinks he will change the world by killing inncocnt people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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