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| Terrorists killed 1,500 last year, says US report |
| 2014-05-02 |
| [DAWN] More than 1,025 civilians and 475 security forces personnel were killed in terrorist attacks in Pakistain last year, says a US report released on Wednesday. In its country reports on terrorism, the US State Department warned that the presence of Al Qaeda, TTP, and other bad boy groups continued to threaten both US and Pak interests. The TTP grabbed credit for the majority of the frequent attacks that targeted civilians and security personnel. Terrorist incidents occurred in every province. The report says that in 2013 Pakistain continued to confront terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, the Punjabi Taliban, and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... , all of whom mounted attacks against police, military and security forces, or engaged in sectarian violence and criminal activities against all sectors of society. But Pakistain did not confront Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , which continued to operate and raise funds with its front organizations. Al-Qaeda and the Haqqani Network continued to plot against US interests in the region, including US diplomatic facilities. TTP posed a threat to both US and Pak interests, and carried out numerous attacks against Pak armed forces, civilians and government institutions. The State Department noted that the PML-N government had pursued negotiations with TTP while also targeting the group militarily. Pakistain continued to support the Afghan grinding of the peace processor. It also noted that Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... continued to suffer from political and ethnic violence inflicted by different groups, including bad boy organizations, fundamentalist religious groups, and the bad boy wings of political parties. |
| Posted by:Fred |