Why Raza Rumi was Attacked?

LAHORE: An attack on noted columnist and TV anchor Raza Rumi led to the unfortunate death of his driver Mustafa on Friday evening. Raza Ahmed, popularly known as Raza Rumi, was injured in an attack along with his guard and driver near Raja Market. According to TV reports, Rumi escaped with a minor injury and managed to shift his guard and driver to the hospital in critical condition. However, his driver succumbed to his injuries. The guard’s condition is also said to be critical. Rumi said he was distraught over his driver's killing, whom he described as “innocent” and a breadwinner for 10 other family members. “God has saved me. I just heard the... bullets when we took a turn near Raja Market and put my head down,” he told AFP, adding his bodyguard leapt to save him. “Extremists want no counter narrative in the state that is why they are attacking alternative voices.” Amnesty International's Pakistan researcher Mustafa Qadri said: “Raza's case is a sad reminder of the threats faced by journalists like him who are promoting human rights and understanding in Pakistan. “Amnesty International has documented at least three cases of journalists killed this year as a direct result of their work, with scores of others, like Raza, narrowly escaping,” he told AFP. Earlier this month Pakistan announced it would set up a special commission to protect journalists and will include press freedom as part of peace talks with the Taliban. In a few updates on Twitter, Rumi shared the incident with his followers. His followers and peers condemned the incident and sent out tweets supporting him. This is the fifth attack on Express Media Group. Three staff members of the group lost their lives in an attack earlier this year. REFERENCE: Columnist, anchor Raza Rumi attacked, driver loses life 2014-03-29 07:48:33 https://www.dawn.com/news/1096198/columnist-anchor-raza-rumi-attacked-driver-loses-life

Attack on Pakistani Blogger, Journalist and Author Raza Rumi.

 
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Pastor Martin Niemöller had said First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me. REFERENCE: Martin Niemöller's famous quotation: "First they came for the Communists ... " What did Niemoeller himself say? Which groups did he name? In what order? http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm

Since the start of Free Media Circus in Pakistan after 911 , the leading Media Houses particularly the Urdu Language newspapers, their editorials, their reporters, their columnists and later TV Anchors always emphasis on "Perfect Democracy" and ruthlessly castigate Politicians and no doubt Inept Pakistani politicians do need thrashing but matter is not that simple because these very journalists take a hike when there is some Mullah in question. The Urdu media (both electronic and print) in Pakistan adopt the narratives of Repressive Nationalism laced with Misogyny, Communal Hate, Ethnic Hate, Sectarian Hate, Lingual Hate, Religious Hate and laced with extreme religious literal-ism (predominantly Sunni) bordering Fascism and that too with Conspiracy Theory mindset when they question Non-Mullah Politicians of Pakistan whereas during any Martial Law all such Jingoist vanish in thin air. They often talk of Extremism and Sectarian Killings in the country and lament the state of affairs in Pakistan particularly when they are questioning Politicians but their Testosterone goes on backfoot when they have to question Mullahs, there is surely a tilt. Recently in Daily Jang, Hamid Mir and Dr Safdar Mehmood while linking Jinnah with Soft Deobandi Mullahs like Mufti M Shafi, Zafar Ahmed Usmani and their Head-pope Mullah Ashraf Ali Thanvi, conveniently forgot these Mullah's Rabid Hate for Barelvis, Shias, what to talk of Ahmadis . Hamid Mir, Dr Safdar and all such Pseudo Islamists coming out of woodwork are hell bent to prove Jinnah forged unity amongst Muslim sects whereas no such unity amongst rival Muslims sects ever existed in Islamic History. Each column on Jinnah by these two duffers further drown both of them more deeply in the Filth of lies i.e. Destiny of 180 Millions Pakistanis. Every Pro Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Islamist Journalist of Pakistan Media is responsible for the attack on Raza Rumi , driver & general attack on Media. I Puke when I see Jang Group GEO TV Journalists sympathize with Raza Rumi . This day has arrived because they justified brutal, cold-blooded and well planned murder of Salmaan Taseer. Express News & Pakistan Media should stop receiving sympathies from Jang Group on Raza Rumi or attack on Media. These Dimwit Pro Jamaat-e-Islami TTP, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) Journalists should stop doing the drama of supporting Press Freedom, Democracy & Islamic Extremists at the same time, enough of this ride on two boats at the same time. Even more shame on Express News who invite Extremist Sympathizer like Absar Alam and Hamid Mir to support Raza Rumi Please invite Shahidullah Shahid instead or better still Ansar Abbasi. Its about time that Pakistani TV Channels should stop apeasing Mullahs who are hell bent to change Pakistan's Moderate way of Life. 

Witch-Hunting & Tragic Deaths of Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti

 
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 Why Raza Rumi was a Target? 

The TTP has unequivocally stated that they want to impose their version of Sharia and undo the current structure of state almost at gunpoint. The allies of the TTP such as the Laskhar-e-Jhangvi make it clear that their worldview has no place for Shias, Ahmadis and other brands of ‘infidel’ belief systems. This is why the current government is stuck between the imperative of keeping Punjab (where militant organisations have a social base) stable and ending violence in the rest of the country. It has also been stated (later denied) that the Pakistani security apparatus does not have the capacity to effectively dismantle the militant infrastructure across the country. In recent weeks, I have met several middle-ranking and junior officials of the armed forces (ironically at the Karachi and Lahore literary festivals) who, on conditions of anonymity, expressed their outrage at the way the TTP were killing their colleagues. Most blamed the civilian leadership for not taking a clear stance on the militant networks. It would not be out of place to conclude that a similar sentiment prevails at the senior levels. With 4,000 lives lost and 13,000 personnel injured, the ‘enemy’ for the armed forces would be clear by now. What then prevents a decisive strategy? REFERENCE: Policy paralysis haunts our security By Raza RumiPublished: March 21, 2014 http://tribune.com.pk/story/685625/policy-paralysis-haunts-our-security/

Sufi Muhammad & Takfiri Ideology (Salim Safi 3 May 2009 GEO TV)

 
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The State of Sectarianism in Pakistan 2005 Crisis Group http://www.scribd.com/doc/105102389/The-State-of-Sectarianism-in-Pakistan-2005-Crisis-Group

The State of Sectarianism in Pakistan 2005 Crisis Group by Aamir Mughal

How teenagers were lured by Terrorists- Army captured an Artificial paradise for brainwashing in South Waziristan

 
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Again Why Raza Rumi was a Target?

States choose their positions and set relationships based on what is perceived as ‘national interest’. In the case of post-1971 truncated Pakistan, national interest was set by the populist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto with a vision of unifying the Ummah and rhetorical anti-imperialism. With the ouster of Bhutto in 1977, the military adopted his policy architecture and added ‘jihad’ as a central pillar. Since then, we have had an uninterrupted penchant for jihad and to create demand for it, popular education and narratives were reset on why it was necessary to support or in the least, tolerate the semi-private jihadi infrastructure. The events of 9/11 came as a rupture to Pakistan’s policy environment and there were substantial reversals to the jihad policy as well. But in Afghanistan, the reliance on the Taliban as a just and friendly force continues to inform the way we look at the post-Nato region. Such has been the acceptability of jihad that the offshoots of the Afghan Taliban, i.e., their Pakistani counterparts, are now widely considered as legitimate stakeholders in the country. A new battleground — Syria — has emerged where Pakistan is considered a potential player in the old US-Saudi-Pak triumvirate. A recent story in the Gulf News, which was later denied, stated that Saudi Arabia was seeking anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets to aid the Syrian rebels. Another statement from the head of the Syrian opposition announced that new arms would be arriving soon. It would be unfair to assume that this story is true unless there is official confirmation from our side. However, given our history and the foreign policy matrix, this may just fall into the realm of possibility. For decades, Pakistan’s foreign policy has ignored the imperatives of regional cooperation due to the ‘threat’ from India. The relationship with China is hardly economic in nature and suits the purposes of the national security apparatus. Energy deficiency has cost us losses in GDP and the need to buy expensive oil to run power plants has resulted in chronic stagflation. Yet, we have almost ended the Iran pipeline project that could have been a rational response to the energy crisis at home. REFERENCE: Our increasing reserves By Raza RumiPublished: March 14, 2014 http://tribune.com.pk/story/682906/our-increasing-reserves/

Cuteness & Naivety of Jamaat-e-Islami & Butchery of Taliban.

LAHORE: Taking a slightly different position from their traditional view point, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan Friday said that neither bombings (airstrikes) can help restore peace nor suicide attacks could pave way for the enforcement of Islamic Shariah. Addressing the congregation of Friday prayers at Mansoora mosque – the JI headquarters – he said that religious forces, especially Deobandi clerics should step forward and pave way for dialogue to save the country and also to prevent the emergence of a wrong image of Islam. The JI chief alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) did not hold peace talks with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) upon pressure asserted by the United States. Defending the Pakistani Taliban’s ideology, he said the notion that Taliban do not comply with law and constitution was propaganda that was being spread for some ‘special purpose’. “The government was fulfilling a longstanding wish of the US by destroying North Waziristan.” Hasan said if the religious forces did not rise at this moment, they would be driven to a blind alley and would have no way out. He claimed the religious parties had played a key role in framing the 1973 constitution, and it was their duty at this juncture to protect the country and the constitution. “A charge sheet has been issued against the religious parties and they would have to answer that.” The JI chief said that enemies had always used the differences between the Islamic sects and schools of thought as a weapon. “The need of the hour is that the Ulema (clerics) of Deobandi school of thought sit down with the Shias, the Ahle Hadith, and Ahle Sunnah to evolve an effective strategy to counter the current campaign against Islam.” Therefore, he added, it was the duty of the religious forces to go ahead with the talks with the Taliban. “Since a majority of the Taliban belongs to the Deobandi school of thought, it was for the Deobandi Ulema to take up this responsibility,” he said. REFERENCE: ‘No shariah through suicide attacks, no peace through airstrikes’ 2014-01-25 http://www.dawn.com/news/1082440/no-shariah-through-suicide-attacks-no-peace-through-airstrikes Daily Jang Friday, January 24, 2014, Rabi-ul-Awwal 22, 1435 A.H. Updated at: 2353 http://jang.com.pk/jang/jan2014-daily/24-01-2014/u8622.htm

Butchery of Taliban against the Shia Community is conveniently forgotten by the Jamaat-e-Islami, Imran Khan and all those who want to negotiate peace with these butchers --> Taliban

Afghanistan: The Massacre in Mazar-I Sharif: On August 8, 1998, Taliban militia forces captured the city of Mazar-i Sharif in northwest Afghanistan, the only major city controlled by the United Front, the coalition of forces opposed to the Taliban. The fall of Mazar was part of a successful offensive that gave the Taliban control of almost every major city and important significant territory in northern and central Afghanistan. Within the first few hours of seizing control of the city, Taliban troops killed scores of civilians in indiscriminate attacks, shooting noncombatants and suspected combatants alike in residential areas, city street sand markets. Witnesses described it as a "killing frenzy" as the advancing forces shot at "anything that moved." Retreating opposition forces may also have engaged in indiscriminate shooting as they fled the city. Human Rights Watch believes that at least hundreds of civilians were among those killed as the panicked population of Mazar-i Sharif tried to evade the gunfire or escape the city. NOVEMBER 1, 1998 http://www.hrw.org/reports/1998/11/01/afghanistan-massacre-mazar-i-sharif Read the report http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/afghan/

The Massacre in Mazar-i Sharif 1998 http://www.scribd.com/doc/202112624/The-Massacre-in-Mazar-i-Sharif-1998

The Massacre in Mazar-i Sharif 1998 by Aamir Mughal

Jamat-e-Islami say Sufi Muhammad is Kaafir and Al-Qaeda is Brother in Arms.




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Lt. General (R) Hamid Gul supported Butchers like Taliban - General Hamid Gul Interview 1995 Newsline

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1998: How the Taliban slaughtered thousands of people - No mercy: men, women and children were murdered in their homes as Taliban gunmen took over Mazar-e-Sharif The Sunday Times , Nov.1,1998 By Michael Sheridan THE first detailed eyewitness accounts of the massacre of up to 8,000 people by Islamic fundamentalist Taliban fighters who ran amok in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif last August have been passed to western governments. Testimony compiled by international observers and handed to western diplomats in Pakistan reveals that hundreds of people were packed into containers where they suffocated when the doors were locked in the searing midday heat. Men, women and children were shot in their homes and on the street, and hospital patients were murdered in their beds. The massacre occurred when, during an offensive aimed at seizing full control of Afghanistan for the first time, Mazar-e-Sharif was overrun by the Taliban, who have imposed the world's most extreme interpretation of Islam, barring women from education, banning television and forcing men to wear beards. Statements made available to The Sunday Times describe a campaign of slaughter directed against a Shia Muslim minority, the Hazara. The evidence, regarded by experienced aid officials as "highly credible", paints a ghastly picture of butchery and rape as the Taliban shot and cut the throats of Hazaras. The claims are supported by the influential American group Human Rights Watch, which is due to reveal its own findings on the massacre today and will call on the United Nations to investigate what it describes as "one of the single worst examples of killings of civilians in Afghanistan's 20-year war". The detailed evidence of Taliban atrocities will embarrass western policymakers who still see the fundamentalists as useful players in a modern "great game" to keep Iranian and Russian influence out of Afghanistan and so ensure that the huge oil and gas riches of central Asia remain a prize for western multinationals. Ten diplomats from Tehran were among those who died, prompting Iran to mass 200,000 troops on its border with Afghanistan to bolster demands for the killers to be handed over for trial. Troop "manoeuvres" were due to begin yesterday. Based on eyewitness statements, The Sunday Times has pieced together an account of the nightmare that engulfed Mazar-e-Sharif when the Taliban entered the city from the west on the morning of August 8.

 They were intent on avenging a massacre of some 2,000 of their own men in 1997, when the Hazaras and other fighters turned against them. There ensued what one witness called "a frenzy" of vengeance killing. The Taliban fighters swept through the city, firing heavy machineguns mounted on pickup trucks. One man described how the streets were covered with bodies and blood. The Taliban, he said, forbade anyone to bury the corpses for six days. On the second day, according to numerous witnesses, the Taliban began a house-to-house search for Hazara men. Hazaras, descended from Mongols, are easy to recognise by their distinctive Asiatic features compared with the ethnic Pashtuns who make up the ranks of the Taliban. They share their Shia faith with Iran, while the Taliban are Sunni Muslims. A witness whose testimony is described as "extremely reliable" by aid officials said most of the victims had been shot in the head, the chest and the testicles. Others had been slaughtered in what he called "the halal way" - by having their throats slit. One housewife, who has since fled to Pakistan, said the Taliban entered her house and shot her husband and her two brothers dead. Then they cut the men's throats in front of the woman and her children. Another piece of testimony explained why one Taliban was "very worried he might be excluded from heaven". He had personally shot people in nearly 30 houses, opting to kill them as soon as they opened the door. After killing the men in two homes, he learnt that they were not Hazara but Pashtun.  "That he had killed people in 28 Hazara households seemed not to cause him any concern at all," the witness said. Men not murdered on the spot were "stuffed into containers after being badly beaten", said another witness. He saw the doors opened on a container after all the men inside had died from suffocation. He also testified that some containers were filled with children who were taken to an unknown destination after their parents had been killed. Human Rights Watch has obtained gruesome confirmation of the Taliban's penchant for death by container. It quotes a man who was detained by the militia and saw container trucks filled with victims leaving the Mazar-e-Sharif jail several times every day. Once he watched as the Taliban opened the container doors to find three prisoners alive and about 300 dead. The Taliban drove the trucks to a desert site known as Dasht-e-Leili and ordered porters to dump the cargo of corpses in the sands. The Human Rights Watch report and other statements identify three Taliban leaders who appear to be guilty of incitement to kill victims purely because of their ethnic origin. They are: Mullah Manon Niazi, the new Taliban governor of Mazar-e-Sharif. Numerous witnesses heard him make speeches at mosques and on radio inciting hatred of Hazaras. "Wherever you go we will catch you," he said. "If you go up, we will pull you down by your feet; if you hide below we will pull you up by your hair." One witness testified that Niazi personally selected prisoners to be consigned to the death containers. Mullah Musa, the so-called director of public health. A witness said Musa toured a public hospital looking for Hazara patients to mark out for death. Later that day, the witness heard from a doctor that Musa had taken a group of gunmen to the army hospital, where they had murdered all 20 or so patients, and relatives who had been visiting them. Maulawi Mohammed Hanif, a Taliban commander who announced to a crowd of 300 people summoned to a mosque that the policy of the Taliban was to "exterminate" the Hazaras. International aid workers fear the killings are continuing following the recent fall of the central Afghan town of Bamiyan. They have said thousands of people remain unaccounted for.

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Same Jamaat-e-Islami says that India and USA are behind Taliban 

PESHAWAR: Former Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said the Taliban were created by Western powers to achieve their own goals. Talking to the media in Peshawar, he said the Taliban took over as an independent force only because the US was not ready to listen to them after achieving its objectives. He said the Taliban got disappointed after they were ignored by the US and began to strengthen their force. Qazi said statements by US officials on the creation of Taliban had no weight as Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan chief Gulbudin Hekmatyar had openly made such a statement long time ago. He said more than 500,000 people were displaced from the tribal areas and Swat and most of them were living as internally displaced people (IDP) in camps in Kacha Garhi and other places of the province. He said the situation in the country had worsened only because the Taliban had the patronage of foreign forces. Qazi said all the issues could be resolved through dialogue but the NWFP government agreed to implement the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation under pressure. Taliban created by Western powers: Qazi Monday, April 27, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=174444&Cat=2&dt=4/27/2009 Jamaat-e-Islami says India and USA Supporting Taliban Groups Daily Jang 20 January 2014 Monday, January 20, 2014, Rabi-ul-Awwal 18, 1435 A.H. Updated at: 0150 http://jang.com.pk/jang/jan2014-daily/20-01-2014/u8166.htm