[Pak-Media] Attack on Mehran Naval base is another attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty by America Eng/Urdu

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Attack on Mehran Naval base is another attack on Pakistan's sovereignty by America



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Attack on Mehran Naval base is another attack on Pakistan's sovereignty by America

Such condemnable attacks will persist as long as American forces remain at sensitive military places

A surprise attack by more then a dozen terrorists on a most sensitive area, the Mehran naval airbase, which is located at Karachi's most secure Shara-i-Faisal Street is as unbelievable as the 2nd May incident, when America intruded a hundred and fifty kilometers inside Pakistani territory to conduct a unilateral covert operation in Abbotabad, within a stones throw of the Kakul Military Academy. Despite both incidents, the security establishment is adamantly asserting that there was no security failure and  the reason was because the night is dark! No sane person can accept the argument that the security of the navy's most advanced air fleet is so miserable that terrorists entered it as children enter a play ground. It is known to the whole Ummah that the American "Raymond Davis" network is behind attacks on military installations to ensure that fighting between the armed forces and the tribal people continues.

Attacks of such magnitude against our installations will continue as long as Americans are allowed to roam inside the Army's General Head Quarters (GHQ) and other sensitive military installations. In the name of co-operation in the War on Terror, besides the Pakistan Army, America now knows the details of these installations. Through these incidents of terrorism, the Muslims of Pakistan are being forced to accept that "War on Terror" is not an American war, rather this war is our own war. This tactic was revealed by US President Obama in December 2009 when he said "In the past, there have been those in Pakistan who have argued that the struggle against extremism is not their fight…But in recent years, as innocents have been killed from Karachi to Islamabad…Public opinion has turned."  Further more recently published reports from Wikileaks provide more proof that the current political and military leadership is ready to spill the blood of their country men through drone attacks, bomb blasts and military operations in tribal areas, just to gain the blessing of America. It is also possible that the attack on Mehran base in Karachi will be used as an excuse to start military operations in Kurram agency, just as the attack on GHQ was used as a pretext to launch military operation in Orakzai agency. Newspapers are already publishing news of preparations to start military operations in Kurram agency. An army and its affiliated institutions which were once feared by major powers because of their capability and bravery, has now had its own headquarters and installations attacked, with its reputation at stake. Hizb ut Tahrir asks the sincere officers of the Pakistan armed forces as to how long they will look on passively at this disgrace and humiliation. The Ummah is looking actively towards you to come forward, uproot these treacherous rulers and provide Nussrah to Hizb ut Tahrir to establish the Khilafah.

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[Pak-Media] Pakistan and its 'heroic' Felon

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and its 'heroic' felon  Syed Badrul AhsanThieves sometimes follow in the traditions set by their politicians. When Abdul Qadeer Khan peddles the idea that had Pakistan been privy to nuclear arms in 1971 there would be no Bangladesh, he only reminds us of the flaws his country has systematically suffered from, to its eventual shame and regret. You think back on the killing and rape and pillage the Pakistan army indulged in so cheerfully in occupied Bangladesh forty years ago. And then you come to the present, to pity that same army which must now contend with the (till recent) presence of a global outlaw residing within yards of its principal training academy for officers, which must watch horrified as armed men invade its
headquarters in Rawalpindi and set chaos loose among its brave jawans. There is something of comeuppance there. So we are not surprised at A.Q. Khan's fulminations, for he is not the first Pakistani to display a propensity for the barbaric to be brought into a handling of civilised people elsewhere. Back in the 1960s, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, always prey to delusions of grandeur, saw nothing wrong in threatening Bengalis with the language of weapons should the latter insist on carrying their autonomy movement forward. In case you have missed it, the fact remains that until its not too
glorious defeat in the 1971 war, Pakistan consistently pursued policies distinctly racist in tone when it came to dealing with Bengalis. In the 1950s, Iskandar Mirza made himself a silly spectacle when he spoke of shooting the very respectable Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani like a dog. Bhashani was to die a venerated figure in politics. It was Mirza who did not find a grave in his beloved Pakistan. Leading Pakistanis have not quite been known for their sophistication of language. As foreign minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto told the world that Pakistanis would eat grass but would have the atomic bomb. Well, Pakistanis did not eat grass. It was just that A.Q. Khan stole nuclear technology from the West and scampered back home. You now raise the question: is nuclear power
so crucial as to have a nation eat grass to come by it? Bhutto's education, now that you think of it, had been misplaced. At the United Nations Security Council in 1965, he described the Indian delegation led by the eminently honourable Sardar Swaran Singh as dogs. He got away with it, just as he was to get away with his puerile behaviour before the same forum in December 1971. Lyndon Johnson, Alexei Kosygin and Harold Wilson despised him. In early 1971, he decreed that any West Pakistani lawmaker travelling to Dhaka would have his legs broken. In 1974, he did have some legs broken -- those of his party colleague and minister J.A. Rahim and Rahim's son. Large sections of Pakistanis have not quite got over their time-honoured attitude to Bengalis. Any demand for political rights in East Pakistan was always, for them, an assault on Pakistan's integrity. Pakistan's break-up in 1971 (and you can check it up in the history Pakistani schools teach their
children) was the result of a conspiracy by treacherous Bengalis and India's Hindus. General Yahya Khan, having had the political negotiations in Dhaka aborted through stealthily making his way out to Rawalpindi on March 25, 1971, felt not a bit of embarrassment terming Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the party winning the elections three months earlier, as a traitor to the cause of Pakistan.
Subsequently, he would refer to Indira Gandhi as "that woman." In the mid-1960s, Ayub Khan would demonstrate his contempt for the short-statured Lal Bahadur Shastri, until Shastri taught him a lesson in September 1965. Language, then, has generally been a casualty at the hands of the mighty in Pakistan. Bangladesh's freedom fighters were "miscreants" (and these "miscreants" eventually ran Pakistan out of Bangladesh). For years on end, the Pakistani establishment promoted a lowly propaganda programme it called "Crush India." We now know who got crushed in the end. Pakistan has since its
creation found itself regularly caught on the wrong foot. In January 1948, Mohammad Ali Jinnah sent Pakistani soldiers, disguised as tribals, into Kashmir. It was a blunder that was to leave a dispute festering over time. In 1960, Francis Gary Powers took off from an American base in Peshawar in a U2 aircraft and was soon shot down over the Soviet Union. The incident left Pakistanis red in the face. It was consistent Pakistani provocation in 1965 which impelled General J.N. Chaudhury to have Indian soldiers march toward Lahore. When Pakistan's air force attacked Indian bases in early December 1971, the act swiftly led to conditions where, in addition to losing East Pakistan to the Mukti Bahini, Pakistan was threatened with obliteration in the west. In 1999, Pakistan's
army chief Pervez Musharraf kept Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the dark as he ordered his forces into Kargil, leaving Pakistan once more vulnerable to charges of aggression. In early 1971, Z.A. Bhutto cheerfully described the hijackers of an Indian aircraft to Lahore as heroes. The Indians swiftly imposed a ban on overflights between West and East Pakistan. The Pakistani military, through Inter-Services Intelligence, beefed up the Taliban and cheered its ascent to power in 1996. In 2008, the terrorists who hurled themselves on Mumbai came from Pakistan by sea. Abdul Qadeer Khan has
only tried to build on this tradition. Why expect any better from a felon, one who should have been hauled up before the International Criminal Court long ago and put away for good?  

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[Pak-Media] Kingdom rejects BBC claim of Zamzam water contamination

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Saudi authorities have refuted a BBC report claiming that the Zamzam well in Makkah is polluted and that drinking the holy water could cause diseases such as cancer.

Zuhair Nawab, president of Saudi Geological Survey (SGS), denied the allegation and said his organization has taken adequate measures to ensure the safety of Zamzam well and its water.

The BBC said it had asked a pilgrim to take samples from the Zamzam water taps in Makkah and the Zamzam water being sold in bottles to compare them with the water on sale illegally.

"These showed high levels of nitrate and potentially harmful bacteria, and traces of arsenic three times the permitted level, just like the illegal water, which was purchased in the UK," the BBC said, referring to contaminated holy water sold in some UK shops.

Nawab said his organization has been responsible for monitoring the quality of Zamzam water, which not only concerns Saudi Arabia but the whole Islamic world. "Our experts monitor the condition of Zamzam on a daily basis. Every day we take three samples from the water to carry out tests and studies, which showed that it was not contaminated," he explained. He said the newly established King Abdullah Zamzam Water Distribution Center in Makkah is equipped with advanced facilities and where bottling takes place in accordance with international standards.

"We apply modern methods for filling bottles after sterilization," Nawab said.

He said the contamination of the water could have caused while redistributing the water in small bottles by individuals.

Fahd Turkistani, adviser to the Presidency for Meteorology and Environment, said the BBC report focused on bottled water supplied by individuals and not by the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs. The water supplied by the presidency undergoes close monitoring and ultraviolet rays are applied to kill harmful bacteria, he added.

Turkistani said the Zamzam water contamination could have caused by illegal workers who sell Zamzam water at Makkah gates as they use unsterilized containers. He said the Saudi government has prohibited such illegal sales of Zamzam water.

Meanwhile, a responsible source at the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs highlighted the measures taken for the protection of Zamzam water saying the water passes through stainless steel pipes to the cooling stations and then to the Grand Mosque.

He said the presidency has given utmost importance for the preservation and distribution of Zamzam water, adding that it is closely monitored around the clock.

According to the World Health Organization, the permitted arsenic rate in natural water is up to 10 microgram per liter. If the rate goes up then the water could be harmful to the kidney and liver and cause cancer. The rate of arsenic in Zamzam water is much less than the amount permitted by the WHO.

Talal Mahjoub, a Saudi, denounced the move to create suspicion about the quality of Zamzam water.

"My family and I have been drinking Zamzam for many years. None of us have suffered any disease as a result of drinking it. If the BBC report was true, Makkans would have suffered many diseases, including cancer, because most of them drink Zamzam."

The Saudi Embassy in London also issued a statement affirming the purity of Zamzam in Makkah.

"Scientific tests conducted on samples taken from the original source have proved the Zamzam water is good for drinking," it said, referring to tests conducted on the water at a French laboratory. It said the Kingdom does not export Zamzam water. The King Abdullah Zamzam water complex, which was established in Makkah last September at a cost of SR700 million, can supply 200,000 bottles daily.

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[Pak-Media] FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT

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May 24th 2011
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FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT

Pakistan's armed forces have suffered another acute embarrassment just three weeks after the US found and killed Osama bin Laden in a military town near the national capital. On May 22nd a handful of Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a naval airbase, destroying two advanced, US-supplied aircraft. It took hundreds of security personnel nearly 16 hours to kill the infiltrators and retake the base. The incident raises troubling questions about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, but it does not mark a major tactical shift on the part of the Pakistani Taliban.

The militant attack on the Mehran naval airbase near Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, was nothing if not bold. According to most reports there were just six gunmen, armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, who used ropes and ladders to scale the walls of the base. The attackers destroyed two US-supplied maritime-surveillance planes that were delivered to Pakistan only a few months ago. Each P-3C Orion plane was worth around US$35m. Up to 15 security personnel were reportedly killed in the hours-long battle to evict the militants. Subsequently, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, citing revenge for bin Laden's killing. In a final twist, it appears that there were both US and Chinese military contractors or officers at the base. However, there have been no confirmed reports that personnel from either country were injured in the raid.

The Mehran attack raises three troubling questions. First, if insurgents could easily storm a major airbase, are Pakistan's nuclear weapons really as safe as the government insists? This was not the first time that the Pakistani Taliban has demonstrated an ability to mount brazen attacks on key military installations; a similarly audacious attack succeeded in penetrating the military's headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009. Pakistan's military maintains that these incidents should not cast doubt on the security of its nuclear weapons, but such worries are hard to dismiss outright. For one thing, several recent militant attacks appeared to suggest that inside knowledge of the facilities' vulnerabilities was available to the infiltrators. In addition, Pakistan is thought to be developing tactical nuclear weapons as a deterrent against India's conventionally superior military. By design, such weapons are be smaller, more numerous and more mobile than traditional nuclear bombs—and are therefore more difficult to safeguard.

Second, will the fallout from the Mehran attack cause further damage to US-Pakistan ties? On the eve of the incident, the allies had just about patched up the damage caused by the US's unilateral raid to kill al-Qaida's leader. It seems unlikely that there will be a further deterioration in relations now, given that ties are already highly strained. However, the destruction of US-supplied military aircraft worth millions of dollars could add to the voices calling for a re-appraisal of the US's massive transfers of money and arms to Pakistan's armed forces. Although the US's concerns on this front are largely about Pakistan's perceived duplicitousness in the bin Laden affair, the latest incident will do little to reassure US critics of Pakistan's competence as a military partner. In addition, while the attack was focused on destroying military equipment, it raises the possibility that militants could capture less sophisticated but still deadly military equipment and use it to wreck havoc against military or civilian targets.

Third, does the attack herald a tactical shift by domestic Pakistani terrorists? Some commentators have suggested that it was novel for the attack to target military assets rather than people. However, the Pakistani Taliban has routinely mounted at least two kinds of missions: those designed to kill as many civilians as possible, and attacks on military bases or equipment. For example, militants have repeatedly ambushed convoys carrying NATO supplies to Afghanistan. What is new about the latest attack is not that military assets were targeted, but that the militants were successful in destroying vastly expensive hardware that symbolised the US-Pakistan alliance.

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