SRINAGAR, India -Two police commandos were killed and seven people hurt when Islamic rebels opened fire from a hotel window in Indian Kashmirs summer capital Wednesday, sending shoppers fleeing in panic, police said. Security forces rushed to the scene as the firing erupted from the window of the small hotel near Lal Chowk, the major shopping area in Srinagar.
Police initially thought only one militant was involved but later said they believed there were two militants. They are firing from there and weve ringed the hotel, police spokesman Vishal, who goes by one name, said. Most probably there are two militants, he added. Security forces who returned fire said the gunmen appeared to be targeting a nearby police paramilitary camp.
Two police commandos were killed and three policemen and four civilians were wounded in the attack, which was still continuing late Wednesday. A group known as Al Mansurian claimed responsibility in calls to local media.
Indian security forces say Al Mansurian is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed Pakistan-based group fighting New Delhis rule in Kashmir and which police allege helped stage Julys Mumbai train bombings that killed 186 people.
Four civilians, including the hotel manager, were wounded in the shooting which erupted during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The firing sparked terror on the busy streets which quickly emptied.
Police rescued two dozen people trapped in shops just below the hotel where the guerrillas holed up. It was an ugly experience. Im thankful to the police for getting me out of the shops and giving me a new life, said Mohammed Rafiq, as the sound of gunfire mingled with the call to prayer from a nearby mosque.
The violence came hours after Indias Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Pakistan it had to prove it was sincere in working with New Delhi to counter terrorism. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of arming and training militants fighting its rule in Indian Kashmir, charges that Islamabad rejects. Pakistan will have to walk the talk in order for the peace process between the neighbours to move forward, Singh said Tuesday night.
The nuclear-armed nations agreed last month to put in place an India-Pakistan anti-terrorism institutional mechanism to implement counter-terrorism initiatives. Indian Kashmir has also been rocked by violent protests against the planned hanging on October 20 of an Indian Kashmiri convicted of conspiracy in a 2001 attack on parliament. Militants have warned of dire consequences if the man is executed.
In other violence, troops shot dead five militants in gunbattles late Tuesday and early Wednesday, police said, adding two of the dead rebels were senior commanders of Lashkar. One of them was involved in the killing of 50 people, including policemen and members from the Hindu community, a police spokesman said. More than 44,000 people have died during the 17-year-old revolt by official count. Separatists say the tally is more than double.
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As the Afghan border guards helplessly listened to the crackle of gunfire and the sharp, frantic voices of there brethren under attack at another distant post, American troops made a call to their base for air support.
After four bloody hours of fighting, the rebels loaded onto a truck and drove a few hundred yards over the unmarked border into the safety and sanctuary of Pakistan. In the end, two Afghan allies lay dead with two more badly wounded and an assault force of up to 100 Taliban-affiliated fighters slipped away to refit, rearm, and plan for more attacks unmolested in the lawless western border region of Pakistan.
That was back in April of 2004, near a remote border checkpoint east of the Afghan city of Khost. This volatile area--which was a primary transit point for anti-Soviet mujihadeen fighters in the mid-1980s--flanks one of the most contentious enclaves in the region. The so-called tribal areas of North and South Waziristan, just over the mountainous border with Pakistan, have been the launching points for violent attacks against U.S. and Afghan forces for years, but have remained largely "no-go" zones for American--and Pakistani--forces.
In that eastern frontier of Afghanistan, the bad guys come over the border, past seemingly oblivious Pakistani guards, ambush American forces and other Afghan or coalition troops, then run back over the border into the sanctuary of the tribal areas. Rumors of bin Laden and his chiefs' taking shelter there are commonplace, but few details
have emerged from this Pashtun enclave closed to outsiders--until now.
In the Frontline season premier airing this evening on PBS, award-winning documentary producer and journalist Martin Smith delivers an unprecedented view of a terrorist breeding ground that has apparently replaced Taliban-run Afghanistan. "Return of the Taliban" is a frightening look into the medieval madness and violence of the tribal areas--where disloyal elders are beheaded in the public square and thieves are hanged in the streets with money stuffed in their gaping mouths for all to see--should serve as a wakeup call to anyone who thinks America's enemies are in retreat.
Ask any military commander in Afghanistan where he thinks the threats are coming from and he'll tell you they're from the tribal areas of Pakistan. Though the Pakistani government issues vociferous denials that it harbors al Qaeda on its soil--with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf recently declaring that al Qaeda's leadership is hiding in Afghanistan (which has more than 20,000 U.S. troops) not in Pakistan's tribal areas (which now has zero Pakistani troops on patrol)--the Frontline documentary provides strong evidence that powerful terrorist leaders such as Jalaluddin Haqqani and Nek Mohammed have been allowed to thrive in the tribal areas.
Incorporating vividly unsettling video footage and in-depth interviews with key players in the region, Smith paints a grim picture of a situation that seems to be slipping further from America's grasp.
"Arresting him might be something we will have to do," says one Pakistani official interviewed in the Frontline documentary of Haqqani. "But I'm not sure whether we know where he is, or whether we are capable at this time."
On at least one occasion in 2004, however, an American surveillance drone observed Haqqani enter a mosque in the tribal area, deliver a sermon, walk out with his entourage, and load into vehicles for the trip back to his compound. Despite the intelligence, U.S. forces were unable to secure permission to fire a precision missile or enter Pakistan to pursue the insurgent commander.
The combination of strong ties with Pakistan's intelligence service, the political risk of an aggressive counter-terror campaign, and a sympathetic population help the growing Taliban and al Qaeda movement to thrive in the tribal areas, the Frontline program shows.
Though it is a remarkably balanced portrayal of the situation over the Pakistan border, "Return of the Taliban" does lob a few cheap political shots.
"But, by now the administration was preoccupied with Iraq. The hunt for al Qaeda was left to Pakistan," the Frontline narrator says. Never mind that Pakistan has forbidden U.S. troops from entering its territory and protested loudly when a missile strike from an unmanned drone killed more than a dozen civilians along with four al Qaeda operatives in early 2006.
"We have a clear agreement that whatever happens on our side of the border, it is Pakistan's responsibility and our forces' responsibility," Musharraf tells Smith. "Nobody comes across the border. . . . Any action without our knowledge and without our clearance and approval and without our dictation is not acceptable to Pakistan."
The hunt for al Qaeda was left to Pakistan because Pakistan wanted it that way.
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question the Frontline episode leaves unanswered, however, is what America can or should do about a situation that seems to grow more dangerous by the day. If al Qaeda and the Taliban are safely regrouping in the border regions of Pakistan, doesn't this pose a threat to the United States? Musharraf recently concluded an agreement with elders in Waziristan who promised they would not harbor terrorists and would curtail cross-border incursions in exchange for a total exodus of Pakistani troops. America's top general in the region, Gen. John Abiziad has said he's skeptical such an agreement is realistic. But as the Frontline documentary shows, it may be all America can hope for in the near term.
"He's the only ally you have in the region who is capable of delivering on his promises. You have no other ally," Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N., Munir Akram, tells Smith of Musharraf.
"You pressurize Pakistan, you destabilize Pakistan, the most counterproductive thing you do is to press Pakistan more."
As frustrating as it may be for Americans to watch a terrorist sanctuary take root just a few miles from U.S. and Afghan forces, "Return of the Taliban" shows Akram may well be right.
Christian Lowe is a senior writer with Army Times Publishing Co. and has covered U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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"He's the only ally you have in the region who is capable of delivering on his promises. You have no other ally," Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N., Munir Akram, tells Smith of Musharraf.
Please let us all know just what we DO have, if you would Ambassador Akram. The don't have's will sort themselves out accordingly.
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Hit pakistan, dismember it, and end its existence. That'll put an end to the cannon fodder. We entered Iraq to have a secure place to operate from against other arab nations. We need to destroy pakistan to put an end to the false document trade, the poppy trade, and the endless supply of splodeydopes. Once that task is done, THEN we can collapse from both sides against Iran. With Iraq and Iran, we will control enough oil to be able to put the Saudis in a world of hurt, and start dismantling their wahabbi infrastructure around the world. We should also have enough non-saudi, non-US troops to be able to crush the magic kingdom without using US soldiers, and thus not "sully" the "holy ground" of saudiland.
We'll still have to crush Sudan and Somalia to keep the talibanazis from reforming, but it will be a lot easier. This is going to be a LONG war, with many stages. We should never forget that, nor what the main targets are, in order of importance. The donks are too stupid to figure that out, and most of the repuglycons are just as guilty.
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India should be our primary ally in the flattening of Pakistan. This has been the heart of the islamonazi movement - Suadi is the soul and lifeblood(money). But it is in Pakiliand where the talk turns to action. It has to stop. The tribal areas need to be carpet bombed in a very big, very extended way.
IRAN first. Their nuclear capability would be a complete wrench in the gears for everything else that's happening in the Middle East. Nothing even comes close to the importance of this single issue.
Then PAKISTAN. It is the principal training and indoctrination center for the vast majortiy of existing terrorists. Masharraf has outlived his usefulness and has had the temerity to thumb his nose at our need to intervene. The only delicate issue is confiscating Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in a timely and irreversible fashion when the moment arrives.
Then SAUDI ARABIA. These over-monied royal fucks are the central clearinghouse for all terrorist funding and ideological programming. They must be deposed and all Saudi imams and mosque clerics must expelled around the globe and sent back to their Islamic hellhole utopia. The property these mosques stand on must be appropriated by America's government so that they can be shut down at amoment's notice.
As always, while we're in the process of dismantling Saudi Arabia, I'll certainly suggest we consider appropriating not only their oil production but also the holy shrines at Mecca and Medina. Make all access to the haj conditional on a fourteen month absence of Islamic terrorist atrocities, world-wide. A single bombing, or even a uncovered plot to bomb, closes the shrines for a solid year.
Set up a no-man's land of automatic fire machine guns and minefields surrounding the shrines. Twenty-four hour surveillance by armed drones and night vision systems to trigger them. Let it become the ultimate flypaper. Read Islam the riot act that a NBC (Nuclear, Biological or Chemical) attack will see one of the shrines contaminated or demolished in a similar fashion.
Biometrically identify all who are allowed to enter the shrines and back-trace their activities. No more Saudi funding of the haj, so that vulernable acolytes from developing countries can come and be indoctrinated by the royals' wahabbist minions. Installation of reformist clerics to oversee all haj activities at the shrines.
I'm sure you get the picture.
Then SYRIA. Then LEBANON. Then anyone else who we see farting sideways.
Afghanistan and Balochistan should form a legal team to challenge the illegal occupation of Afghan territories and Balochistan by Pakistan in the International Court of Justice. Once the Durand Line Agreement is declared illegal, it will result in the return of Pakistan-occupied territories back to Afghanistan. Also, Balochistan will be declared a country that was forcibly invaded through use of force by the Pakistanis; and with international assistance, Balochistan can regain its independence. It is the right time to act now because the US and Allied forces in Afghanistan are positioned to facilitate the enforcement of the Courts judgment.
After Pakistan vacates territories belonging to Afghanistan and Balochistan, a new boarder should be demarked amicably to determine Baloch dominated areas to become the new Balochistan, and Pashtun dominated areas to be merged into Afghanistan. And, with the help of the US and Allied forces, the Afghans and the Baloch forces can flush out members of Al-Qaeda and Talebans from their respective countries.
A wise observer once said, Pakistan is a completely superfluous and artificially created spot on the world map that has become a breeding ground for extremism, and trouble that would be best done away with.
http://afghanland.com/history/durrand.html
It was a nice dream. That we would have Pakistan on our side as a stalwart ally in this war on terror was such a wonderful happenstance. It would have gone a long way toward proving that not all Muslim states want to be our enemy.
You have to give President Pervez Musharraf credit. Yes, he has done some iffy things as president by oppressing certain extremists. But he has lent the USA able assistance when he could since 9/11. And, in so doing, he has made himself a repeated target of assassins, one attempt killing 14 and wounding 46.
We must not stop being grateful for what Musharraf has done for us and we should not abandon him too quickly. But the fact is, he was always on the edge of being eliminated as an ally, and by his own people at that.
He has never fully controlled his military, for one thing. He quickly found that, after he led a bloodless coup against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government in 1999, he never had the unquestioning support of those military officers who supported the Kashmiri separatists. And, after 9/11 and Musharraf's vocal and active support of the US, he found that Al Qaeda and Taleban supporters filled his ranks, as well.
Further, Pakistan's Waziristan region was never really in Musharraf's control and is teeming with terrorist training camps and Al Qaeda supporters despite Musharraf's efforts to stop them.
Now, on the eve of president Musharraf's visit to Washington came word that his government has formally retreated and ceded all control of the Waziristan region to terrorists and their supporters.
Musharraf is cloaking this weakness as a "treaty with tribal leaders," but the calamity is unmistakable to the detriment of both Musharraf's safety and ours.
As the Weekly Standard reportedlast week, "...even in the wake of Pakistan's earlier surrender of South Waziristan, this new agreement, known as the Waziristan Accord, is surprising. It entails a virtually unconditional surrender of Waziristan."
No one who knows even a tiny bit about the situation could disagree with the fact that this is a disaster for all of us.
We are now facing a region that already supported Al Qaeda and other terrorists being assured by the only power in the region with any ability at all to keep them in check that they will have full and unimpeded control in their region.
Sensibly, President Bush is trying to put a calm face on this problem. "We agreed on the need to support tribal leaders on both sides of the border. By helping these local leaders build schools and roads and health clinics, we will help them build a better life for their communities, and strengthen their hand against to fight against the extremists," Bush said this week during the visit to the capitol by Musharraf and Afghanistan's president, Karzai.
And who can blame President Bush? It would be a dangerous thing to have the president of the United States nay-saying Musharraf at this point and it wouldn't do anyone any good for Bush to seem alarmist.
But this loss of the entire Waziristan region will leave the rebuilding of Afghanistan in more danger than it has yet been in. It is hoped that the US military has taken this loss into account and is making contingency plans. They should be expecting a large amount, even more than we have seen to date, of foreign fighters entering Afghanistan from Pakistan.
It is time to plan strikes inside Pakistani borders, something we have yet to really consider with the precarious position Musharraf, our ostensible ally, has been in. Until now, we had to respect his sovereignty and keep our forces out. But, when he falls and who can imagine he will be able to keep control much longer We must be ready to act.
We must get the blessing of both president Karzai and India's president, Abdul Kalam so that they understand our goals and acquire their assistance when the time comes.
If we do not, we will be allowing a nest of viper's to grow next to the schools and public works we are spearheading in Afghanistan and that fledgling state will be overrun with Taliban, Al Qaeda and the like.
I hope we are prepared for the near future in trouble from Pakistan.
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Pakistan must be included in the new Axis of evil with Iran and N Korea.
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Pakistan was never a true ally, merely willing to be threatened and bribed not to stand openly on the other side. How could it be otherwise when we are kuffir, and they the denizens of the Land of the Pure of Islam? Not to mention the Taliban being a wholly owned subsidiary of the ISI, Al Qaeda just short of a joint development project between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and AQ Khan's Muslim nuclear bomb project having the support of both military and civil governments for the last 20 years or so, both in the development and proliferation phases?
But I would like to think that Musharref's surrender of Waziristan has already opened the way for our guys to pursue the bad guys across the border, and to hunt down those who've brazenly made the area their headquarters for the planned Reconquista of Afghanistan. And rather than a disaster, this is a distinct opportunity for us to do what's necessary without too much fussing from the capitol.
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This is not necessarily a great loss. A friend of mine served with the Marines in Somalia and said the Pakistani troops were worse than his local neighborhood watch (who had no military training).
The Pakis were totally intimidated by the Somalis, and we know what great soldiers they are.
Al
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Pakistan would be easy to crack, it is basically a series of small independent states hobbled together by pride and force. If we apply the right pressure we could see an independent Baluchistan and Punjab.
Waziristan can be given to Afghanistan and the Kashmir question will resolve itself in India's favor with Pakistan gone.
The Indian government called an emergency meeting of health officials today Tuesday to try to control an outbreak of dengue fever that has infected about 500 people in northern India, overwhelming Delhis hospitals and exposing serious flaws in the public health system.
Delhi authorities were spraying high-risk areas with insecticide to kill the mosquitoes that carry the disease, but as the death toll rose to 14, doctors associations criticized the government for a belated and ineffective response.
There was chaos at Delhis leading public hospital, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, where doctors were forced to turn away suspected dengue cases because of a scarcity of beds and blood. People were being treated in corridors and in tents erected outside the building, and television reporters filming undercover within the building said the shortage of doctors on the dengue wards was so acute that patients were helping administer intravenous saline drips to each other.
The hospital was itself struggling to contain an outbreak of the disease, attributed to mosquitoes breeding in stagnant pools of water on the surrounding campus. One doctor died last week from the fever, and 19 medical students and staff members have fallen ill.
The inability of the government to cope with what is a relatively routine, annual phenomenon throws into harsh relief the crisis within Indias medical system, illustrating how ill-equipped it is to meet basic public health needs.
The rampant spread of the disease also offers a snapshot of the poor sanitation systems in the capital. After each years monsoon season, Delhi is full of stagnating pools of water that offer ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes, and open sewers run through the city.
We have failed miserably to get rid of the mosquito which carries this disease, said Dr. Sanjiv Malik, national president of the Indian Medical Association, pointing out that public health officials had expected a resurgence of the disease this year because it flares up every three or four years.
The government failed to cover the open drains and sewage channels, Dr. Malik said. They havent fumigated properly, and public awareness campaigns are beginning only now, when the outbreak is under way. All this should have happened months ago.
Known as brain fever, dengue fever is transmitted by the female Aedes mosquito. Symptoms include high temperatures, joint pains, vomiting and headaches. Severe cases can be fatal, and there is no vaccine or specific treatment.
The outbreak this year is unusually serious; a year ago, 217 cases of dengue had been registered in northern India, less than half the current figure. Officials warn that the outbreak will continue until mid-November, when the mosquito breeding period ends.
The city authorities threatened to fine people who fail to clean up potential breeding areas, warning that mosquitoes were able to breed inside the water cooling systems that are used as a cheap alternative to air conditioners by large numbers of the capitals middle classes.
There was widespread dismay at the reports of unhygienic conditions in one of the countrys best medical institutes. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi said it issued 27 notices to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in the past two months asking it to control mosquito breeding on its campus, the Hindustan Times reported.
City officials were out in the hundreds at the beginning of the week, working on the public holiday marking Gandhis birthday, to spray large swaths of the capital. We have also started random checks of homes, offices and places where there could be stagnant water, a municipal health official, N.K. Yadav, told local media.
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This is a dismally ignorant report. The high mortality rate means it is Dengue Hemoraghic Fever, which results from infection by a second of three strains of Dengue after having been infected by another.
Dengue is spreading primarily because the mosquito vectors are adapting to urban environments and rapidly spreading their range. Singapore which has arguably the best mosquito control regime in any tropical region has had surging levels of Dengue. Recent research shows that the mosquito lavae can survive for weeks in a dry place and only need a couple of days of water to result in a Dengue carrying mosquito.
There is a small risk for dengue outbreaks in the continental United States. Two competent mosquito vectors, Ae. aegypti and Aedes albopictus, are present and, under certain circumstances, each could transmit dengue viruses. This type of transmission has been detected six times in the last 25 years in south Texas (1980 -2004) and has been associated with dengue epidemics in northern Mexico by Aedes aegypti and in Hawaii (2001-02) due to Ae. albopictus. Moreover, numerous viruses are introduced annually by travelers returning from tropical areas where dengue viruses are endemic. From 1977 to 2004, a total of 3,806 suspected cases of imported dengue were reported in the United States. Although some specimens collected were not adequate for laboratory diagnosis, 864 (23%) cases were confirmed as dengue. Many more cases probably go unreported each year because surveillance in the United States is passive and relies on physicians to recognize the disease, inquire about the patient's travel history, obtain proper diagnostic samples, and report the case. These data suggest that states in southern and southeastern United States, where Ae. aegypti is found, are at risk for dengue transmission and sporadic outbreaks.
Foreign students studying in around 400 seminaries have yet to get documents from their countries certifying that their governments have no objection to them studying in Pakistan, and this may lead to their expulsion from the country. Official sources told Daily Times that the Interior Ministry had sent letters to 51 countries through the Foreign Office seeking confirmation that the students were their nationals and asking them to state in writing that they have no objection to their nationals studying in Pakistani madrassas. This condition was put in place after the July 7, 2005, bombings in London by British nationals of Pakistani origin. Pakistan was mentioned in connection with the bombing after it emerged that one of the bombers had spent time at a madrassa here.
Following the attack, President Gen Pervez Musharraf announced that foreign students would be sent home. The sources said that around 1,200 foreign students had been deported since then, but around 800 foreign students were still studying in seminaries in Pakistan. The federal government decided not to grant visas to foreigners wishing to gain admission to Pakistani seminaries.
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The Indian Home Ministry on Tuesday decided to put on hold the October 20 execution of a Kashmiri man who was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for his alleged involvement in an attack on Indian parliament in 2001.
Although Afzal Guru, a surrendered militant, has perpetually refused to file an appeal for clemency, his wife Tabassum filed a mercy petition on Tuesday at the presidential palace (Rashtarpati Bhawan). A presidential spokesman confirmed that a petition had been filed and it would be duly processed. Tabassum told reporters that her husband had not filed a mercy petition himself because he had lost confidence in the judicial system.
Home Ministry sources said that a meeting of senior officials took up the issue, and decided to put Afzal's execution on hold till a final decision was made. The president refers all such petitions to the Home Ministry. The president has not done this yet, but the ministry decided to defer the execution after confirmation that a petition had been received.
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QUETTA, Pakistan - Tribal militants in Pakistans southwest killed three paramilitary soldiers and wounded two others in a rocket attack on Tuesday, officials said. The incident occured in Kohlu district, 400 km (250 miles) east of Quetta, capital of the southwestern Baluchistan province.
Raziq Bugti, a provincial government spokesman, said a paramilitary vehicle came under attack when soldiers were on their way to fetch water from a well. Three soldiers died instantly, he said.
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Foreign students studying in around 400 seminaries have yet to get documents from their countries certifying that their governments have no objection to them studying in Pakistan, and this may lead to their expulsion from the country. Official sources told Daily Times that the Interior Ministry had sent letters to 51 countries through the Foreign Office seeking confirmation that the students were their nationals and asking them to state in writing that they have no objection to their nationals studying in Pakistani madrassas. This condition was put in place after the July 7, 2005, bombings in London by British nationals of Pakistani origin. Pakistan was mentioned in connection with the bombing after it emerged that one of the bombers had spent time at a madrassa here. 
QUETTA, Pakistan - Tribal militants in Pakistans southwest killed three paramilitary soldiers and wounded two others in a rocket attack on Tuesday, officials said. The incident occured in Kohlu district, 400 km (250 miles) east of Quetta, capital of the southwestern Baluchistan province.
