Pak Urdu Media Digest- Oct 7

AFGHANISTAN

1. There are seven Indian Camps in Afghanistan for terrorism targeted at Pakistan. Camps in Helmand, Darah Panjshir, Darah Nur and Paktia have been set up for training Baloch separatists, target killers, and suicide bombers. RAW has got the support of CIA and Mossad for this venture. (Ummat)

2. Karzai government has given permission to Indian forces to practically continue their militant activities in Afghanistan under the garb of a role in re-building modern Afghanistan; the British military opposed the move though. In the first phase the Indian forces will begin road construction work in the areas under NATO control. …Earlier the personnel working in the Indian consulates were those running the RAW network alongside the CIA, under the cover of diplomatic work. Now the appointment of Indian forces in Afghanistan is a clear indication that USA will continue its military bases in Afghanistan in order to continue to put pressure on Pakistan. The presence of Indian forces in Afghanistan will tilt the military balance in the region which will affect Iran and China as well. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

3. Experts opine that India would not benefit much from its new pact with Afghan which was signed during President Karazi’s visit to Delhi. They aver that investments in Afghanistan without the help of Pakistan would be costly to India. Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan Rustam Shah Fahad said Pakistan should take America or Afghanistan into confidence that so they don’t sign any agreement with India at the cost of Pakistan. He said Afghans are not happy about Pakistan’s objections to agreements with India or the fact that Pakistan wants a government of its choice in Afghanistan. Brig. (r) Shaukat Qadir said that India has been giving maximum aid to Afghanistan since Afghanistan is the gateway to Central Asia. More over with this help, India could come into a position from where it would border Pakistan from two sides. He further said that though India could get better economic benefits if it involved Pakistan, it is trying to find out a way from Iran’s Char Bahar Port. India would also be give training to the Afghan Army. Pakistan has also offered to train Afghan army but the US and President Karzai didn’t want that to happen. (Ummat)

4. Ausaf’s editorial on India-Afghan accord says: the intentions of America, India and Afghanistan to form an anti-Pakistan government in Afghanistan have come out in the open. … America will cut off the land supply route between China and Pakistan by making advances towards Chitral so that in tough times, Pakistan won’t be able to receive any help from China. …Nobody knows that if India becomes a partner of the US, its own people will suffer. ..In the current situation it is mandatory for China to come out openly as India, America and Afghanistan have done it. Afghanistan is not the target of America and it, in fact, is tightening the noose around Pakistan. (Ausaf Edit, 6 October)

5. Ummat’s editorial on President Karazi’s visit to Delhi says: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has once again ditched Pakistan by making agreements with India. …Now America would use India more against Muslim nations, and the resources in Afghanistan would be used to destroy Muslims around the world. ..The Muslim world should realise that America, Russia, Britain, India and Israel are not their friends….. (Ummat Edit)

Nawa-i-Waqt editorial: Afghanistan’s hypocrisy stands exposed when knowing the Indo-Pak animosity, it calls India its friend and Pakistan its brother. (Nawa-i-Waqt Edit)

INDIA

1. Pakistan’s defence experts, General (rtd) Nasir Akhtar and General (rtd) Saeed-uz-Zafer said that all American efforts were geared towards giving India superiority in the region. They said that the protest by political leaders was just political stunt. Air Commodore (rtd) Tariq Majid said that the US has isolated Karzai. He added that Pakistani intelligence was receiving information that the US was constantly in contact with Taliban and the Haqqani network and was trying to first hand over the government to them and then arm them to attack Pakistan, which was why the agreements between India and the Afghan Government were cause of concern for Pakistan. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

2. Al Qalam Weekly’s editorial: ‘Whenever Pakistan passes through a difficult time India tries to take advantage of it. It looks generally towards Afghanistan to fulfil its ambitions. For long India has been trying to establish a government of its choice in Kabul with the intention of achieving its strategic interests and putting pressure on Pakistan. India was unhappy since Taliban established a government in Afghanistan since the Taliban was pro-Pakistan but when the US toppled the Taliban, India started spreading its influence in Afghanistan. India has started anti-Pakistan activities from Afghanistan in the name of its welfare missions in Afghanistan and sends its activists to Karachi and Balochistan. With the visit of president Karzai to Delhi, a game is being played to tighten the noose around Pakistan. This game is played by America and India and Afghanistan are its two arms. (Al Qalam Weekly Edit, 7-13 October)

3. Kashmiri leaders and the business community have opposed Islamabad’s decision to give MFN status to India. Till the resolution of the Kashmir and water issues, enduring business relations with India are not possible, they said. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

4. Nawa-i-Waqt editorial has endorsed the demand for a ban on screening of Indian films in Pakistan saying that Indian films bring with them Hindu culture, vulgarity and indecency to Pakistan. (Nawa-i-Waqt Edit)

DEFENCE

1. For the first time in the history of Pakistan, more than 2000 Balochis will be inducted in the army at a passing out parade to be held on October 11th. (Nawa-i-Waqt)

2. Halina Saeed had become the first woman police officer to be promoted to the rank of DIG. (Daily Pak)

TERRORISM-EXTREMISM

1. Members of Pakistan Parliamentary committee, which has been set up to take stock of the situation in Karachi and Balochist
an, have expressed concern over increasing unrest in Balochistan and said that situation in Balochistan was slipping from the control of the government. Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the committee that neighbouring countries were involved in the unrest in Balochistan and alleged that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was behind sectarian violence in the province. The Minister alleged that Tehreek-e-Taliban, BLA and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were receiving funds from outside. (Urdu Point, 6 October)

2. An unidentified terrorist has failed in his attempt to attack a Pakistan Boeing aircraft PK 322 Boeing 737 with a leisure gun on Sept 28 night. (Jinnah)

3. Saadi cautions in Al Qalam Weekly that secularists try to woo jihadis with money and thus abandon jihad. Salvation comes only through jihad and practicing the religion in the true way. He also narrates a story to show how lectures on Jihad recorded in audio cassettes could change lives of ordinary people and make them religious and Jihadist. Saadi also writes in his story about how secularists lure Jihadists with money and greed to abandon Jihad. He writes that the final salvation was hidden in Jihad and religion. (Al Qalam Weekly, 7-13 October)

POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS

1. Former federal minister Aijaz-ul-Haq has said that the Zardari government is a threat to national security and democracy. Military intervention is possible once again if the situation is not checked. He said that if federal minister for the interior, Rehman Malik, is taken out of the charge of Karachi then the situation would be improved. (Khabrain)

2. JUI (F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has that his party will join hands with PML –N. (Jang)

3. JI has announced its support to nationwide strike concerning Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat. (Daily Pak)

4. Raza Haroon, MQM leader, said that former senior Sindh Minister Zulfiqar Mirza has no standing and the government and people have rejected him. (Awami Awaz)

5. Sunni Ittehad Council has announced a nationwide bandh today to support Salman Taseer’s killer. (Jang)

6. Jang editorial: MQM has once again returned to the government as expected and President Zardari’s consensus policy has once again benefitted in the PPP in its number game. Pakistan’s boat has been rocked and it is about to sink but political parties are interested only in settling their own scores. (Jang Edit)

7. Columnist Irfan Siddiqui writes in the Jang that the return of MQM to the government was expected. Like MQM, PML-Q also has the right to play with the people of Pakistan and hence it would also try to play the same game…. The PPP should understand that the economic storm would soon become a tsunami and no one could be able to support Pakistan except those interested in standing by the country and its people. (Jang)

SINDH

1. Sind nationalist groups including Sind Taraqi Pasand and Awami Tehreek said SC orders on Karachi situation are a big slap on the face of the government. The leaders of these parties, particularly, Qadir Magsi and Palejo, demanded that the SC orders be implemented. (Ibrat)

2. Jiye Sindh Quami Mahaz’s Bashir Qureshi said that PPP and MQM are opportunistic and nothing good could be expected from their renewed alliance for Sindh. (Awami Awaz)

3. The year 2011 will go down as a worst year for Karachi ever since Pakistan was created. This year has seen 1503 killings so far and this is second worst year in Karachi’s history, first one being in 1945 when 1740 killings were reported. (Awami Awaz)

4. SC observations and orders on Karachi will not only help establish law and order but will also help save the nation’s economy and promote growth. It however remains to be seen how much the provincial government would implement the decrees. (Editorials in Ibrat and Awami Awaz)

BALOCHISTAN

1. Ausaf has editorially voiced anguish over the brutal killing of 14 Shias in Balochistan on Tuesday. It said this was the third such incident of targeting the Shia community in Balochistan. Unless checked such attacks could trigger Shia-Sunni riots in the province. (Ausaf Edit, 6 October)

POK NEWS

1. A day long “Pakistan Paindabad Conference” organized by Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust AJK chapter, concluded with a pledge to continue individual and collective efforts to turn Pakistan into a strong and successful country to fulfil the dream of freedom for Kashmir as only a strong Pakistan can guarantee the freedom of Jammu & Kashmir from Indian control. Nazaria Pakistan Trust Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Nation, Majid Nizami addressed the conference via video. The conference was also addressed by NPT Vice Chairman Dr Rafique Ahmed, Justice (r) Abdul Majeed Malick, Syed Sharif Hussain Bukhari, NPT AJK leader and former lawmaker Maulana Muhammad Shafi Josh, Commissioner Mirpur division Dr Mahmood-ul-Hassan, PML-N AJK leader and former FPCCI President Chaudhry Muhammad Saeed and other leaders. In his address, Majid Nizami said the atomic device should be used to secure freedom for the Held Valley to ensure existence of Pakistan. Pakistan is incomplete without its jugular vein namely Kashmir. He also pointed out that India was making negative use of huge water sources in J&K against Pakistan in the form of floods besides blocking water to convert Pakistan into a barren land whenever it intends to do so. (Hizb Media, 6 October)

2. Japanese government has given financial aid of Rs.82 lakh to the Al-Shifa Trust in Muzaffarabad for eye care services. This is the only eye hospital in Muzaffarabad. (Baad-e-Shimal)

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uo;s editorial has praised China for its help to the people affected by the Attabad Lake. China will provide 3430 ton relief material worth 20 million Yen. The aid articles include 1620 tons of wheat flour, 180 tons of cooking oil, 810 tons of rice, 20 tons of milk powder, 30 tons of salt, 210 tons of sugar, 500 tons of coal and 50 tankers of diesel. (Baad-e-Shimal Edit)

4. Syed Bazil Ali Naqvi, Information Minister, AJK, said that reconstruction of hospitals and schools in AJK is possible through help from USAID. (Ausaf, 6 October)

5. AJK government will observe the 6th anniversary of 2005 earthquake on October 8th. (Khabrain)

6. Daily Dharti’s editorial: Today election will take place to fill two vacant seats in the AJK Council. Members of National Assembly are covered by the election. PPP, PML-N, and Muslim Conference have fielded their nominees but the winner is expected to be PPP. Unlike the past this time PPP has nominated for one seat a person who is not a member of PPP. And like at the time of general elections this time also it ignored loyal PPP activists. …National parties and others have already expressed their objections on the composition of the Kashmir Council and called it nothing but a trap for Kashmiris. If the Kashmir Council was under dispute, then electing such people as its members is nothing but to provide opportunities for corruption. ..Hence the AJK Council should be shut down, and available funds should be used for the development and uplift of Kashmiri people instead of making the money to be swindled by vested interests. (Daily Dharti Edit)

GILGIT-BALTISTAN NEWS

1. Asif Hussain Meer, Senior Vice President of PSF (Gilgit Baltistan) said that they will fully support implementation of taxes in Gilgit- Baltistan. He said tax money will be taken from the rich people and will be used for the benefit of the poor. Those opposed to taxes cannot demand roads, electricity, water and other amenities. (Ausaf, 6 October)

2. Some patients have complained that they didn’t receive proper facilities in Shikyot city hospital in Gilgit Baltistan. (Ausaf, 6 October)

3. All roads connecting to Gilgit City have been badly damaged. (Ausaf, 6 October)

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