...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
deadly attack on two Pakistain army border checkposts, the U.S. is continuing its drone operations in North
Wazoo.Local rustics infomed Dawn on Friday that the unmanned planes had been flying over Miramshah, the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan Agency, and others parts of the tribal region.
A Miramshah resident, whose name has been withheld on request, said drones, dubbed `benguza` by locals for their ear-splitting sound, flew at high and low altitudes over the area.
"We often see them flying in the sky," he said, adding that people fear them no more.
Friday`s newspapers reported that army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
has ordered troops in the field to respond to any future `aggression` by the US and NATO forces based in Afghanistan with `full force`, without waiting for directions from the command and regardless of its consequences.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
anger against NATO attack on Salala checkpost 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 continues to grow in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province and Fata with political parties staging rallies against the `aggression`.
In Peshawar, 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
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...
Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam`s
...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
Fazl and Sami groups, Pakistain Tehrik-i-Insaf, Pakistain People`s Party-Sherpao and civil society groups took out rallies and held public meetings but attendance in them was low.
JI took out a rally from Mohabat Khan Mosque, JUI-F staged a demonstration in front of Speen Mosque on University Road, while PTI workers marched from Saddar bazaar to the press club. Businessmen also held a demonstration at Fawara Chowk in Saddar area.Protesters asked government to give a tit-for-tat response to NATO forces and take avenge of the killing of 24 army men in the attack. They also urged the government to permanently block supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan.
JI provincial secretary general Shabbir Ahmad Khan told participants of his party`s rally that like Shamsi airbase, the government should get Shehbaz airbase, too, vacated from the US, and that Pakistain should suspend cooperation with the US in the so-called war on terror.
JUI-F provincial chief Maulana Amanullah Haqqani demanded review of the country`s foreign policy and early implementation of the resolutions of parliament on national security.
He welcomed the government`s decision to boycott Bonne conference and demanded an effective response to the US drone attacks in Fata.
In Ghallanai, Mohmand Agency`s headquarters, Christians took out a rally against the NATO attack from the Civil Colony to the main bazaar. They carried placards and banners inscribed with anti-NATO and anti-US slogans and shouted slogans for Mighty Pak Army.
Leading the protestors, Imran Padri said the government should not accept NATO`s apology and ensure effective response to future aggression.
In Mardan, Nowshera, Swabi, Charsadda, Dir, Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
, Mansehra and others areas of the province, too, political parties took out processions.