KARACHI:
Foreign elements are involved in the recent spate of terrorism in Karachi and the arrested killers have disclosed during interrogation that they had been trained in India, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said on Wednesday.
Talking to The Express Tribune he said that it has not been a tradition of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to fight over extortions, contributions, fitrah and sacrificial hides.
“Had this been the case”, he said, “then it would have been visible all over the country as the PPP is the biggest party of the country”.
He said that the arrested assassin Ajmal Pahari had told the joint interrogation team that he had been trained for terrorism in India.
He said that the politics of ‘dead bodies in sacks’ was introduced in the 1990s, while PPP had always been promoting peace.
He said that the situation in Lyari had started deteriorating during the Musharraf regime when, though he was arrested, Rahman Baloch was also allowed to run away. He said that it was during the PPP government when he had been killed in an encounter with the police.
He said that PPP was furthering the process of reconciliation.
He said that some locals were playing into the hands of foreign elements, however, now the law enforcment agencies had been given clear-cut instructions to deter terrorists at all costs.
He said that action was being taken against extortionists, targeted killers, land, drug mafias and other criminal gangs.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2011.
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@Ali: Your comments are quite disappointing since your wish will put Pakistan into much deeper trouble than what it is now. You must realise that all internal problems which your country is facing are self-created and all Pakistanis should unite to solve them as we are doing against corruption in India. War with India is not a solution and I sincerly hope that you and even others would change their mindset about imaginary conspiracy theories and entering into conflict with India.
@R S JOHAR: lol.
Yes everything is staged for you guys. Don't worry. I am just waiting a war starts and finally Pakistanis will be united.
**All of you please read what the culprit said (the following quote). He had been trained FOR terrorism in India and not trained IN India for terrorism ( in Pakistan).
Tribune reporting should be clear when news of international significance is reported.
He said that the arrested assassin Ajmal Pahari had told the joint interrogation team that he had been trained for terrorism in India.
Having said that no one gives credibility to the story including people in Pakistan even if the statement is stretched.
We can deny Mr Shargeel Memon, but we must admit that we are the people who are literally cutting heads of our own brothers in the month of Ramadan. There are some serious difference between us for which we are cutting heads, who ever and wherever any one is trained he is achieving some big goal with this otherwise we are a lazy nation and not even able to halal a chicken for dinner.
Check out LeT. They may be able to shed some light on Karachi Mayhem. After all they admitted killing Molvi in Kashmir this April leading to rioting.
Vienna,26-08-2011 Ajmal Pahari Kasab is facing death sentence is in Indian prison awaiting execution for commando attack on Bombay civilians. Since when he retuned to Karachi to do Indian biddings as mercenary? Taravadu Tarang Trust for Media Monitoring TTTMM India --Kulamarva Balakrishna
One more time Pakistan agency I mean world's one of the best spy agency failed to save their own ppl from so called biggest threat India , grow up guys
@Irtiza Rizvi: It appears to be a stage managed video interview. Ajmal was prompted many times by the anchor and words were being put in his mouth. There are hardly any jungles within 200 kms(3-4hrs drive) around Delhi where any such training can be conducted since the entire area is so densely populated. It is unbelievable that a person staying for a month wouldnt have known the place or state where training was imparted to him. A shoddy job done, which is worth a good laugh.
@Irtiza Rizvi:
War! War!! I vote for war. Cricket is soooo boring. Who knows, if we are really lucky, we might even get each side to launch a couple of nukes. . Man, I am really excited!
@Shamoo: If India had this capability would Dawood Ibrahim be alive ? Please think about that. Pakistan find your own ANNA HAZARE and support him politicians of the sub-continent are leeches .
@ Aadersh , @ Bojo, @A.Khan, @ Shamoo,
What happens when a Doctor misdiagnoses his patient's illness and consequently gives the wrong medication?
2 things happen. 1) The disease might actually increase to an alarming level and could prove fatal. 2) The wrong medication might prove more harmful than no medication.
Now, tel me. Pakistani nation has been misdiagnosing its illness for the past 65 years. Do you really think India has been behind this?
If you do think so and if you are wrong, you are only making things worse, not better. India has closed its borders and sitting happily and is growing like crazy. You decide what you want to do.
This just reinforces my belief that Pakistanis are such big pathological liars that they dont even know when they ar elying anymore
@narayana murthy: India has been exposed AGAIN. Indian terrorist are all over pakistan, the silly anti pakistan journalist you quote are all bought by foreigners
Finally somebody in Pakistan has actually accused India of trying to internally destabilise Pakistan. Until now it's always been the Indians blaming Pakistan for everything. I remember watching a local. Police officer minutes afterthe recent blasts in Mumbai on tv who said it was Pakistan ! That is the paranoia there. Hopefully our leaders will wake up and expose the Indian crimes against our innocent brothers and sisters iin Kashmir also.
@Hindu Indian... Surely not...Even we Pakistanis are not expecting anything better from you Indians but atleast tell some of your Indian mates to accept the fact that Indians are involved in chaos in Karachi, Balochistan n etc etc... & Yeah One more point when Indians will slaughter the Kashmiris then Pakistan will surely interfere to protect the innocents...
Foreign hands........haha....o yes he is right,the political terrorist made our beautiful city hell...............hope we will soon get rid from the killer political parties.
I think this video was released few months ago and is on youtube in which so called Ajmal Pahari claims that he got training in some city of India.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgOs7XTdaNo Ajmal Pahari interview.
But why are we crying if India is doing all this? We know they are our enemies, our job should not be to cry over them but to counter them. Yes they will do this whether in Balochistan or FATA or Karachi or anywhere else in the country. If RAW agents are openly doing everything our agency should retaliate. Lodging complain? loool very funny.
Get some gutts Pakistanis and retaliate.
The only solution to Pakistani's unity is start a war with India or play a cricket match. These are the only 2 situations when Pakistani Nation is united.
You can't really expect anything better from India...political parties are surely involved in this chaos but again states like India take advantage of the situation & they start to increase insurgency by their cheap acts...
i like how 6 of the 8 paragraphs here start with "He said"
Zaid Hamid must be drooling over this great revelation! I'm sure the next issue of his Brasstacks magazine will run a frontpage story about the grand conspiracy between MQM and Hindu Zionists which is in turn the handiwork of Mossad and RAW!
If you and your Government are so sure about foreign hands why don't you name those foreign hands and give some proof too. Also take it up in UNO if you have that proof. I know by blaming it on foreign hands and Al-Qaeda, things become lot easier for you.
Indians are responsible for floods, attacks, karachi voilence, Balochistan, dengue fever, and many other evils in Pakistan. I wonder if Indians are responsible for population increase in Pakistan ?
@Santosh: Yes, it is technically plausible in the sense that both countries have covert operations trying to hurt each other and we are well aware of that. But this mayhem in Karachi for sure is home-grown involving many different players and we have to deal with it because the only people getting hurt are poor, destitute, and ones who are already crushed by society and are just trying to survive. To kill them mercilessly is so inhumane that it is beyond description in words. To blame it on India or anyone else and fail to deal with ground realities is sheer criminal. Thanks for your concern anyway. By the way, many here are praying for Anna Sahib Hazare's success in Jan Lokpal movement.
All the Indian bloggers have gone bezerk and shocked that India has been exposed of their crimes, murder and mayhem in Karachi, the heart of Pakistan. Complaint should be lodged against India in the United Nations and the international war crimes tribunal. India should be declared guilty of this genocide as if genocide in Kashmir was not enough!!
@Arzoo: It is actually great to see the comments not accept the allegations against India blindly. Although it is likely the killers could be trained in India. Consider this, Dawood Ibrahim, possibly India's biggest Mafia don had connections in Dubai and Pakistan. He was believed to have lived in Karachi. Surely there was an exchange of personnel from both countries at some point. It is thus not entirely implausible that the operatives were trained in India.
@Bojo:
Well conspiracy mongers like you are diestined to take this country to the dogs. Congratulations bro .. keep going you will find a lot of company!
Would Pakistan launch a strong protest against India's sponsoring of targeted killings in Karachi?
Liyari will be kept poor to guard PPPs vote bank.
More like these are your Political Party's Strategic Assets, to cause Mayham and create fear among the people to gain their support !!! The man is a disgrace and talking complete BS, no wonder there is no hope for this Nation, with people like this in power !!!
Its only only him talking about this. There are so many other indicators which show that India is financing the unrest in Pakistan. Unrest is created by any and every possible means. KPK, Balochistan and now Karachi. Investment and profit, both are quite important factors in karachi unrest. yes its a business.
@ashok sai: Pakistani public does not give credence to these statements blaming India. We know we are our own worst enemies. India would not have been able to inflict, not that it has a reason to, as much damage as we have done to ourselves.
The barriers that have been placed across a large number of streets of the metropolis have left the authorities in an awkward situation since, in addition to being illegal, they restrict the freedom of movement of citizens, law enforcement personnel and emergency workers but useful for party target killers only.
@Bojo says "Do not let India off the hook . . . hold it accountable internationally big time"
Off the hook? India was never in your hooks. How will you hold India accountable Internationally?
There's a video of Bill Maher's show on youtube, where Richard Clarke says that Pakistanis are pathological liars.
In another article on BBC, Nadeem Paracha says that, Pakistani establishment has been telling so much lies that they have now begun to believe their own lies.
With such credibility internationally, how will you hold India accountable?!
Jinnah's Pakistan came to an end in 1971 when Bengalis separated from Pakistan. Whatever is left will be finished with shameless statements like these. Having miserably failed in governing they are now blaming "foreign hands." And set aside Karachi for a moment, look at Balochistan, KPK, and even intereior Sindh. You will find total lawlessness, bribery, killings, and butchering of innocent people in these places. I reckon shamelessness has no bounds or limits in this land. The sad part is that the poor, destitute, oppressed, and disenfranchised people of Pakistan continue to suffer at the hands of these shameless people. I will not label the victims as Mohajirs, Baloch, Sindhis, or Muslims, Christians, or Hindus, to me victims are victims. We need to condemn statements like these coming from imbecile Ministers.
Absolutely right. All heads and high ups of almost all our political parties either have dual nationality and all have their assets abroad, so they can be termed as 'foreign hands'.
India taking the revenge of Mumbai Terrorist attacks. It also help stop all financial & technical assistance to Pakistan and has plans to bring our economy to standstill by using Its simpathisers for Karachi Killings too. Its also behind many other bombings in Pakistan.
@Bojo:
I pity you, may Allah gives you wisdom.
You are the biggest handler of foreign hands
just to make a few things clear, during the previous grand operations in 80's or 90's a lot of people had to flee Karachi,... most went to dubai or india or bangladesh etc, now this is definitely a known fact that some of them had been trained in india.....and are still creating havoc in Karachi after their return. as far as ppp and mqm and anp are concerned... they wont stop....
Only if Zardari was made in India can these suggestions be true!!!
Now can we please let the Army take care of business in Karachi. This is serious business and why is the Army delaying in taking care of business in Karachi? Army is skilled in wiping out these roaches. Do not let India off the hook . . . hold it accountable internationally big time . . . too much bloodshed and horrific crime has been committed on the innocent population for much too long and it still continues . . .
How did the Indian trained team reach Pakistan?
How amazingly secure our borders are...... its pathetic !
Yup trained in India but members of your party and your coalition partners. Even a kid of Karachi knows this fact. SO cut your bull please.
Accuse India for anything and divert attention of the masses, can't they invent any other new tactics ?
Well, well, well, now that we know who the culprit is, what is the government or most of all the people of pakistan going to do about them?
We all know who Ajmal Pahari pledges allegiance to.
If Egyptians, Tunisians and Libyans can oust tyrants, why can't we kick the small tyrant of our own???
this was the last thing every one wanted to hear ... r u joking ???
seriously ?? you must be kidding me right ? whole karachi knows that its you pac,mqm and anp who is bhatta mafia and extortionist ... and yet you are in denial ... morons !
Achaaa...we are watching...is that information or suggestion..
We are waiting for action in Lyari. I am sure that you made sure that nothing is found there.
bull.