| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| Anti-Tank Mine Destroyed Video Shops |
| 2002-12-29 |
| Suspected Islamic extremists destroyed four video shops, detonating an anti-tank mine in village Inayat of North-Western Frontier Province of Pakistan where the MMAâan alliance of six religious parties is the government. âNo loss of life was reported in the incident that is believed an act of religious extremism,â a police official in Peshawar revealed to this correspondent on telephonic conversation. "Just another Islamic boom. Nothing to worry about..." The incident took place in the afternoon of Friday at village Inayat of Bajour region, just 30 to 40 kilometers from the nearest Afghan border. The human rights activists believed that the radicals are trying to impose restrictions like those in Afghanistan during the last rule of Taleban. No one had accepted the responsibility of mining the shops, the police said. They don't have to. People know who they are, even if they don't know their names... Such efforts, said a Peshawar University professor, meant to deprive the people from their basic right of entertainment that falls under the human rights. âThe attackers did not claim responsibility that means, some extremists are on their way of using the cover of Mutehida Majlas-e-Aamal government in the province that should be checked immediately,â the professor told this scribe on telephone. Since the government of MMA in the province after the October's general elections, posters of scantily clad women have been ripped down from cinema houses in Peshawar. "Scantily clad women" in Peshawar means wearing a light overcoat... The calls and motivating slogans in favour of Jihad are being displayed on the walls. The MMA government although not banned movies, music and other cultural and esthetic related activities in the province as like other parts of the country. But the religious fanatics are almost every day in the streets of discouraging such activities terming them against Islam. "Mahmoud! That man is smiling!" "You're right, Aziz. He must be an infidel! We must kill him!" The Bajour region of Pakistan, where the attacks occurred, Afghan and western intelligence sources have reported that training camps for militants are being operated there. It is feared that some fugitives of al-Qaeda (mostly Arabs) are making their ways in Bajour region where the mining incident took place for their radical activities. However, the authorities in Pakistan denied such reports terming the same as disinformation. "Bajour? Overrun with crazed killers? Pshaw! That statement's so ridiculous, we're not even going to both investigating it!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 The handful of arrests which have yielded from America's alliance with Pakistan, are meaningless in context of the polarization towards the jihadis in NWFP. The MMA's leading element - Jamaat-i-Islami - invited Osama bin Laden to their annual convention in 1998. And the leaders of both the JI and JUI are personal friends of Mullah Omar. The NWFP entity is poised not only to harbor al-Qaeda/Taleban terrorists, but to supply and funnel them into Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-29 17:03:34 |