...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
supplies
* Condemn US Congress resolution on Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
ISLAMABAD: The Difa-e-Pakistain Council (DPC) on Monday staged a sit-in the federal capital to condemn a US Congress bill on Balochistan, terming it a direct interference in Pakistain's affairs.
Speaking on the occasion, the leaders of the DPC expressed solidarity with the people of Balochistan and vowed that they would take them into confidence. An All-Parties Conference on Balochistan will be held in Quetta on February 27 in which at least 30 political parties would participate, they said.
Three prominent leaders of the DPC, Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
chief Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
, Maulana Ahmed Ludhianwi and Dr Khadim Hussain Dhillon did not participate in the sit-in.
According to leaders, the decision was taken to avoid any clash with the government as DPC is purely non-political and peaceful council, aiming at to defend the country on cultural, geographical and ideological basis.
DPC Chairman Maulana Samiul Haq said that the council was working on a three-point agenda; to defend the country from internal and external threats, to safeguard borders of the country and to struggle to transform Pakistain into a welfare state.
"The people gathered at Aabpara Chowk are against the possible resumption of NATO supplies, US and Indian occupation hegemony and to strengthen the country's defence," he asserted.
Condemning the bill moved in the US Congress, he claimed that the US intended to disintegrate Pakistain.
The DPC, comprised of 40 politico-religious parties, was formed after a NATO strike on a border post 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 that killed 24 soldiers. Since then, the DPC has organised a series of rallies across the country in which it has targeted US and India. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
it is perceived to have been formed in response to the US threats to halt the millions of dollars in economic and military aid for the country.
According to reports, at least 3,500 people attended the rally in the harsh cold weather.
Jamaat-e-Islami
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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
independentbranch there since 1975. It 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...
chief Syed Munawar Hussan condemned Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar's statement regarding aerial permission for NATO supplies on "humanitarian grounds". Hassan said that Mukhtar had never condemned drone attacks being carried out by NATO on innocent people of FATA.
He said the APC was being organised to express solidarity with the people of Balochistan. "Pakistain belongs to the people of Balochistan and the province was an integral part of Pakistain," he asserted.
"US long had designs to capture Moslem world's resources, and is hatching conspiracies against the illusory sovereignty and solidarity of the country and wants to usurp Balochistan's natural resources," he maintained. The JI chief said the US was facing a defeat in Afghanistan against Taliban and their economy was facing a collapse due to this war.
Hassan claimed, "The US wants to create anarchy in the country and is creating fears about our nuclear assets falling in the hands of beturbanned goons."
He also alleged that President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
was following the US policies, adding military operations against the countrymen are also being conducted on Washington's orders.
The JI chief alleged that the ANP government was taking dollars from the US against its cooperation. He also expressed solidarity with missing persons and said Punjab government was proving to be a silent spectator in this regard.
"The Pak nation will not allow the resumption of supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan. If the rulers side with US aggression, the nation will rise against them," he warned.