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India-Pakistan
Nato attack widely condemned in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2011-11-28
[Dawn] The leaders of various political parties on Saturday widely condemned the killing of Pak troops in an attack by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
forces in Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency and urged the government to dissociate itself from the US-led alliance at the earliest.

Pakistain Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
said, in a statement issued here, that the attack on checkpost by the NATO forces was not pardonable act. He termed it an insane and immoral brutality.

Mr Khan said that such attacks reflected the hollowness and counter-productivity of country's involvement in the aimless war against terrorism. "Already, Pakistain has sacrificed 40,000 people and an equal number of people have been maimed.

Pakistain has also incurred a loss of over $75 billion in the bargain, yet it is being incessantly targeted by the forces of its so-called ally," he said.

MNA Khawaja Mohammad Khan Hoti also condemned attack by NATO forces on the checkpost. "It is a direct attack on the illusory sovereignty and integrity of the country" he added.

Talking to political activists at his residence in Hayatabad, he said that government should not remain silent on this tragic incident. The US should not consider Pakistain as Afghanistan or Iraq, he said.

He said that parliament and all parities conference had unanimously passed resolutions against the war against terrorism but the government was yet to implement them.

He asked all political parties to take firm stance against US drone attacks inside Pakistain.

He called for immediate implementation of resolution unanimously adopted by the parliament.

Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
deputy chief Sirajul Haq also condemned the killing of troops by NATO forces and urged the government to take serious notice of the bloody incident.

Awami National Party provincial chief Senator Afrasiab Khattak termed the attack terrorism by NATO forces. He paid rich tributes to the troops, who sacrificed their lives for the protection of the country and condemned the US-led NATO forces for the attack.

Pakistain People's Party-Sherpao chief Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour also condemned the attack.

Meanwhile,
...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility...
Kohat chapter of ANP will stage a protest rally against the NATO attack on Sunday. ANP local leader Syed Saeed Shah Bokhari said that the violation of the illusory sovereignty of Pakistain had become habit of the NATO and Afghan forces that could not be tolerated.

He said that they would start from Martyrs Square at 11am and culminate at Shah Faisal Gate. He appealed to people to participate in the rally.

The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has also strongly condemned the attack.

JUI front man Abdul Jalil Jan said that his party, during a meeting, expressed grave concern over the frequent attacks by NATO forces. Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for...
the rustics in North Wazoo Agency held a rally against the attack and strongly condemned the killing of Paks by NATO forces. They asked the government to stop NATO supplies to Afghanistan and take action against the drone attacks.
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