Sectarian Split in Pakistan

If you believe what the agenda-pushing AmeriKan papers say:

"Car bomb in Pakistan kills 19" by Abdul Sattar  |  Associated Press, December 31, 2012

QUETTA, Pakistan — A car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims killed 19 people in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, officials and eyewitnesses said....

There were conflicting reports about whether the attack on the Shi’ites was carried out by a suicide bomber, or if the car bomb was detonated by remote control.

The conflicting reports and remote control scream intelligence agency operation.

Pakistan has experienced a spike in killings over the last year by radical Sunni Muslims targeting Shi’ites, whom they consider heretics. The violence has been especially pronounced in Baluchistan Province, where the latest attack occurred.

Okay, I'm going to stop right here for a moment and comment because on the one hand I am told this; then on the other hand, I'm told Shi'ite Iran is helping Sunni extremists in Afghanistan and Yemen, etc.  I suppose it is whatever works to push war at a given moment, huh?  

Now I've said it before and I'll say it again: I have come to the belief that all terrorism, from right-wing, white supremacist groups to left-wing Marxists and the allegedly fanatical Islamists, is a construct of intelligence agencies. Governments need bad guys to fight, otherwise people come to find they don't need them. I'm not saying there are not disputes in the world, but regular people don't resort to car bombings and such.  Not people who have lived together and intermarried for centuries. What sectarianism is in my agenda-pushing, war-promoting organ of Jewish propaganda is a cover for intelligence agency false flags and psy ops. Think about it. Who benefits, and who is behind the information I am looking at on top of my desk here? I've put up the links time and again, readers; how often do I have to repeat myself?

The third item I'm going to comment on is the region mentioned: Baluchistan. Baluchistan is a little-mentioned and greatly misunderstood if one regularly peruses the AmeriKan war sheets as I do. It turns out the problems there relate to the federal government of Pakistan giving a raw deal to the locals regarding the minerals and resources of the region -- which is what most of these disputes are about. But never let that stop the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Jewish-AmeriKan press from lumping it all together under the umbrella of sectarianism by barbarous Muslims. 

Okay, I've got my Sunday sermon out of the way so.... 

In addition to the 19 people killed in the bombing in Baluchistan’s Mastung district, 25 others were wounded, many of them critically, said Tufail Ahmed, a local political official. The blast destroyed the bus and damaged a nearby bus also carrying Shi’ites.

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Same thing here, folks, and same people behind it.

Ahmed and a person who was riding in the second bus, Mohammed Ayan Danish, said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.

But Akbar Durrani, the home secretary in Baluchistan, said the explosion was caused by a car packed with explosives that was parked beside the road and detonated by remote control.

The pilgrims who were targeted were headed to Iran, a majority Shi’ite country that is a popular religious tourism destination, Ahmed said.

Yeah, even for Sunnis!

Shi’ites make up around 15 percent of Pakistan’s 190 million people. They are scattered around the country. The province of Baluchistan has the largest community, mainly made up of ethnic Hazaras, easily identified by their facial features, which resemble those of Central Asians.

Sunni extremists have long carried out attacks against Shi’ites in Pakistan. The sectarian campaign has stepped up in recent years, fueled mainly by the radical group Laskar-e-Jangvhi, aligned to Pakistani Taliban militants headquartered in the tribal region. More than 300 Shi’ites have been killed in Pakistan this year, according to Human Rights Watch.

The violence has pushed Baluchistan deeper into chaos. The province was already facing an armed insurgency by ethnic Baluch separatists who frequently attack security forces and government facilities. Now the secessionist violence has been overtaken by increasingly bold attacks against Shi’ites....

Nothing like spoiling a movement and giving people a bad name by inserting assassins into the situation. 

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"7 killed when bomb strikes procession

ISLAMABAD — A bomb in Pakistan killed at least seven people Saturday, including four children. Militants hit a Shi’ite Muslim procession in Dera Ismail Khan (New York Times)." 

"VIOLENCE IN PAKISTAN -- A Pakistani youth ran past a burning van in Karachi during a protest after the death of cleric Mufti Ismail on Monday. Ismail was killed by gunmen in what police said appeared to be a sectarian attack (Boston Globe December 4 2012)."

"Car bomb kills 17 people in market in Pakistan" Associated Press, December 18, 2012

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Elsewhere on Monday, gunmen in the southwest killed a provincial government spokesman and two nearby police officers in an apparent sectarian attack, police said.

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"Series of bombs kills 115 in Pakistan" by Abdul Sattar and Sebastian Abbot  |  Associated Press, January 11, 2013

QUETTA, Pakistan — A series of bombings killed 115 people across Pakistan Thursday, 81 of whom died in twin blasts on a bustling billiards hall in a Shi’ite area of Quetta.

Pakistan’s minority Shi’ite Muslims have increasingly been targeted by radical Sunnis who consider them heretics, and a militant Sunni group claimed responsibility for Thursday’s deadliest attack — sending a suicide bomber into the packed pool hall and then detonating a car bomb five minutes later.

It was one of the deadliest days in recent years for a country with radical Islamists, militant separatists, and criminal gangs.

Violence has been especially intense in southwest Baluchistan Province, where Quetta is the capital and the country’s largest concentration of Shi’ites live. Many are ethnic Hazara who migrated from Afghanistan.

The billiards hall is in an area dominated by the minority sect. Besides the 81 dead, more than 120 people were wounded in the double bombing, said police officer Zubair Mehmood. The dead included police officers, journalists, and rescue workers who responded to the initial explosion.

Hospitals and a mortuary were overwhelmed as the dead and wounded arrived through the evening. Weeping relatives gathered outside Quetta’s Civil Hospital. In the morgue, bodies were laid out on the floor.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni militant group with ties to the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Yeah, I guess it was "Taliban."

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"Pakistani Shi’ites protest killings" by Abdul Sattar and Sebastian Abbot  |  Associated Press, January 12, 2013

QUETTA, Pakistan — Shi’ite Muslims hit by a twin bombing that killed 86 people refused to bury their dead Friday, demanding the Pakistani government do more to protect them from increasing violence against the minority sect.

The attack on a billiards hall Thursday night in the southwestern city of Quetta marked a bloody start to the new year after a human rights group said 2012 was the deadliest ever for Shi’ites in the majority Sunni Muslim country.

Many of the attacks last year were carried out by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant group allied with Al Qaeda and the Taliban that also claimed responsibility for the bombing at the billiards hall.

The attack was one of three across Pakistan on Thursday that killed 120 people in the country’s deadliest day in five years.

The billiards hall is in a predominantly Shi’ite area, and most of the dead and wounded were from the sect. Members of the beleaguered Shi’ite community laid about 50 of their dead on the street Friday, saying they would not bury them until the government improves security in the area.

Islamic custom dictates the dead should be buried as soon possible.

Young Shi’ite men also set tires on fire and blocked a road in protest.

“We want safety for all our sects, and all security measures should be taken for our safety,” said Fida Hussain, a relative of one of the victims. “We will not bury them until the government fulfills all our demands.”

The Shi’ites finally ended their protest and agreed to bury the dead late Friday after hours of negotiation with police and government officials, who promised to provide greater protection and arrest the killers, said senior police officer Hamid Shakeel.

Rights groups have also accused the government of not doing enough to protect Shi’ites.

On Thursday, Human Rights Watch accused the Pakistani military and other security agencies of “callousness and indifference” when it came to the killing of Shi’ites.

Actually, it's worse than that. 

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"Pakistani military blamed in deaths; Protesters claim forces killed 15 villagers in raid" by Riaz Khan and Asif Shahzad  |  Associated Press , January 17, 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Several thousand protesters shouting antimilitary slogans displayed the bodies of 15 local villagers on Wednesday in northwestern Pakistan, claiming they were shot dead in their homes by security forces in an overnight raid.

I don't doubt. This is what governments do.

The outcry came as thousands of supporters of a fiery Muslim cleric continued their antigovernment protest for a third day in Islamabad, paralyzing key areas of the capital. The interior minister warned that the government could take ‘‘targeted action’’ if the demonstrators did not leave the city by Thursday, but later backed off the threat after he was contradicted by the president.

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The display in the northwest of the 15 bodies, which were wrapped in blankets, recalled a protest last week in the southwestern city of Quetta. There, the relatives of dozens of Shi’ite Muslims killed in a bomb attack refused to bury the victims for four days until the government met their demand to dissolve the government of surrounding Baluchistan Province. Islamic custom dictates the dead should be buried as soon possible.

Meaning the people there took it seriously enough to commit sacrilege.

The villagers in the latest incident were killed late Tuesday in an area known as Khyber Agency. It is part of the tribal region where the Pakistani military has been waging a campaign against Islamist militants.

An official with the Frontier Constabulary, which operates in the area, blamed militants for killing the villagers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

There have been previous attacks by militants disguised in military uniforms, although such incidents are not common.

Yeah, it's a "disguise."

About 3,000 people gathered outside the house of the governor of northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Peshawar. They said gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed homes and fatally shot the villagers.

It's also the kind of thing AmeriKan occupations have done in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is a way of life in Israeli-occupied Palestine. 

The protesters called on the military to end its operations in the area.

I'm for that damn near anywhere. 

Human rights groups have accused the Pakistani military of widespread human rights abuses in their counter insurgency campaign in the tribal areas.

In a December report, Amnesty International claimed the Pakistani military regularly holds people without charges and tortures or mistreats them in custody. The London-based group said some detainees do not survive and their bodies are returned to their families, or dumped in remote areas.

The Pakistani military rejected Amnesty’s allegations, calling the report ‘‘a pack of lies.’’

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I guess they didn't want you to see that in print, probably because of a call someone made.

In Islamabad, the cleric leading the protest in the capital addressed his supporters in a marathon four-hour speech. Tahir-ul-Qadri again called for the removal of the government and pilloried the country’s politicians as corrupt thieves. He said they were more interested in lining their pockets than dealing with pressing problems like severe energy and gas shortages.

‘‘The country is like a goat for them that they are sharing and eating,’’ said Qadri, sitting in a bulletproof container as he faced thousands of protesters packed into the main avenue running through Islamabad. The crowd was smaller than the previous two days but attracted at least 20,000, according to an Islamabad police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Yeah, well, he's gone away now so he must have served his purpose. 

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"21 dead, 33 hurt in suicide bombing" by ISMAIL KHAN and SALMAN MASOOD  |  New York Times, February 02, 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An explosion in a market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday killed at least 21 people and wounded 33 in what police described as a suicide bombing.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack about 70 miles west of Peshawar in Hangu, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Abu Omar, a Taliban commander in the tribal region of North Waziristan, said in a telephone interview that the attack was in revenge for the killing on Thursday of a Sunni cleric.

The cleric, Mufti Abdul Majeed Deenpuri, 60, was shot in the southern port city of Karachi, setting off fears of reprisals against Shi’ites.

Deenpuri was a senior teacher at Jamia Binoria, one of the largest seminaries in Pakistan. A gunman opened fire on the vehicle carrying the cleric and a colleague at a busy intersection and then escaped.

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"23 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan army post" by Riaz Khan  |  Associated Press, February 03, 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The raid came a day after a suicide bombing at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque elsewhere in the northwest that killed 30 people, police said. The bombing at the mosque was the latest in a rising number of sectarian attacks in the country.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. The group sometimes targets the country’s minority Shi’ites.

The attack on the mosque Friday occurred in Hangu town, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The town has had past clashes between Sunni and Shi’ites.

Six people wounded in the bombing died on Saturday, raising the death toll to 30, said local official Tahir Zafar Abbasi.

Shi’ites in Pakistan have increasingly been targeted by radical Sunnis who view them as heretics, and 2012 was the bloodiest year for the minority sect in Pakistan’s history. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 400 Shi’ites were killed in targeted attacks in Pakistan last year.

On Dec. 31st I was told it was 300, and I'm not quibbling because every life is precious; however, what are we to do when even Human Rights Watch is engaged in advancing the agenda by embellishing their point?

The Taliban are battling Pakistan’s government because of its ties to the United States and because it wants to impose Islamic law. Pakistan’s military fought the Taliban in the semiautonomous tribal region along the Afghan border.

But one major area remains: North Waziristan, the main stronghold for Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in the country.

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You know, who could question all that?