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| Militants destroy five levies pickets in Bajaur |
| 2007-10-26 |
| Militants blew up five levies pickets in Bajaur Agency on Thursday, officials said. “Unidentified militants blew up five levies pickets in Khyber, Tangi, Tarakai, Kar and Kohi with improvised explosive devices, but there were no casualties,” an official said. Meanwhile, commander of the local militants, Waliur Rehman, has warned that they would punish anyone doing illegal activities in the name of the militants. “Our main objective is to promote Islam and the imposition of Shariah,” a statement issued by Rehman said. Violence has escalated across Pakistan since July, when militants scrapped a peace deal and the army raided a radical mosque in Islamabad. Officials suspect Islamist militants were behind the worst blast in Pakistan’s 60-year history, when at least 139 people were killed in Karachi last week in a suicide attack on a procession led by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on her return from eight years of self-imposed exile. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 I like mine better... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-26 22:18 |
| #7 Thank you, Mr. Frum. Something else I've learned here. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-26 21:52 |
| #6 Fortified Tax collection office from the days of the British Raj. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-10-26 11:06 |
| #5 I was going to ask that too. WTF? Even google is no help. |
| Posted by: Unique Battle 2007-10-26 10:15 |
| #4 #3 Okay, I'll do it. Just what are "levies pickets"? there's 5 on these, so they musta destroyed one pair.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-26 09:25 |
| #3 Okay, I'll do it. Just what are "levies pickets"? “Our main objective is to promote Islam and the imposition of Shariah,” Now that I knew... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-26 08:40 |
| #2 Mariana Baabar (the diplomatic correspondent for The News) relates an incident during the time Beg was army chief "General Aslam Beg's attempt at glasnost when he invited the media to cover the Zarb-e-Momin exercise across the Punjab, provided us much food for thought: clearly this was one army whose top generals were not interested in war. Desperate to use the loo, two other women journalists and I sneaked into the caravan assigned to one general. We had seen him in the dining area and assumed it was safe to enter. It was quite a revelation. The grandeur of makeshift living quarters - and that too during a military exercise - was nothing short of mind-boggling. Nothing, it seemed, was too much for the generals' comfort. After I wrote a piece on the experience, my father, a soldier from the old school, was shell-shocked: was the army really only using mineral water? And that was the least of it. If only the photographs we took had been published! As for the rest of my information, that fell prey to the editor's brief regarding word count." |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-10-26 07:43 |
| #1 We need some kind of implant for these people that will induce a seizure anytime they even think about sharia... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-10-26 05:31 |