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India-Pakistan
Pakistan plans new crackdown against extremism
2006-08-21
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan government has decided to move swiftly against some 400 alleged leading activists of banned organizations in a fresh drive against extremism, news reports said on Sunday.
Maybe they can do a full tribal lashkar. I do enjoy those drums.
The decision to launch a crackdown came nearly ten days after a failed airline terrorism plot in Britain that found connection in Pakistan.

Top-ranking police and intelligence officials met in Islamabad on Saturday to draw up a new plan, following instructions by President Pervez Musharraf to move strongly against the “preachers of sectarian hatred and violence.”
"And make sure we announce to the press well in advance."
The meeting of the Inter-Provincial Coordination Committee (IPCC) decided to take action against some 400 activists of organizations Musharraf had banned in early 2002. “They would be proceeded against under the Anti-Terrorist Act and detained for a year,” English language daily ’The News’ reported. However, the cases of identified Islamic extremist activists would be reviewed every three months.

There had been similar crackdowns on extremist elements in the past but most of them were released after months of detention. The IPCC has also decided to seal printing presses involved in producing “hate material” and take action against prayer leaders who incite people to sectarian violence.
That's going to work well.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Comment No 5.
Keep fantasizing. Pakistan will continue to be a source of consternation - how do they get away with it. Why not look at the source of the funding and wahhabi preaching i.e Saudi. Do they have too much investment in US, too much oil. Deal with the root cause not a poor third world country.
Posted by: Sleresing Hupolunter2709   2006-08-21 22:32  

#6  They might get somewhere if their list began with the ISI. Until then, it's all window dressing.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-21 19:28  

#5  Yep, time to ally with India and do a pincher movement - US troops from the west, Indian troops from the east, meet in Karachi for the victory celebration. Take out the ENTIRE NWFP and give India full authority over Kashmir. Split the rest of the country between India and Afghanistan, with Afghanistan getting Balouchistan and everything west of the Indus river, India getting everything east of the Indus. Pakistan becomes a "former nation". Then India can start paying more attention to Bangladesh.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-08-21 15:52  

#4  Yawn. Wake me when they do something.
Posted by: Spot   2006-08-21 08:35  

#3  In other words, Pakistan is going to get "extreme" on the "extremists"?
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-08-21 07:02  

#2  Forget about the sectarian violence how about action against organisations/clerics who openly spew hatred against the West!!!!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867   2006-08-21 06:13  

#1  As the article says, past efforts have failed.

I suggest mass Islamocide.

Lowers the recidivism rate.
Posted by: flyover   2006-08-21 00:21  

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