Courtesy: EPA/Dailymail.co.uk Pakistan – Sept 21, 2013 | According to Dawn and BBC news, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, has been freed from jail in Pakistan. Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994. Baradar, a one-time military chief often described […]
Quetta, Pakistan – Sept 20, 2013 | Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), the political party representing 600,000 Hazaras of Pakistan, has called upon the Hazara communities across the world to mark Oct 1st as a day of Solidarity with the besieged Hazara community undergoing Genocide in Pakistan. What is Hazara Solidarity Day? What is Hazara Solidarity Day? […]
Quetta – August 20 | Frontier Corps (FC) have seized over 100 tonnes of explosive material from Satellite town in Pashtun-abad area of Quetta. According to FC, this is the largest cache of explosives seized in Pakistan’s history. Highlights Over 100 tonnes (or 104,480 kgs) of explosives Same explosives have been used in Hazara […]
Quetta – Aug 8, 2013 A suicide bombing at the funeral prayer of SHO* City Police Station, Mohibullah, has killed at least 38 policemen, including senior police officers, and wounded at least 50 in the terrorist-infested city of Quetta -the provincial capital of restive state of Balochistan- in Pakistan. The funeral prayer was held at […]
Quetta, Aug 5, 2013 – Deputy Inspector General Police Operations, Fayyaz Sumbal, claimed his police force have foiled a terror bid in Quetta after “spotting” an explosive-laden rickshaw while on routine patrol. According to Daily Qudrat News, police bomb squad seized and disabled 150 kg of explosives based on an anonymous tip. Source: Dawn News – […]
Hazara Town, Quetta – July 30, 2013 | This is a translation of a beautifully written Urdu article “سلیمانی ٹوپی اور فرشتے” by Hasan Riza Changezi regarding the AlQaeda affiliated Lashkar-e Jhangvi terrorist attack targeting Hazara Town on June 30, 2013. The original Urdu version of the article captures the before and after scenes of […]
Quetta – July 27, 2013 | Hazara town residents shoot down would be suicide bomber in Quetta averting another major disaster. The bomber managed to get pass multiple security check posts when volunteers on security patrol challenged him before shooting him dead. Photo: Suicide vest According to police sources, the bomber was armed […]
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald – July 24, 2013 | Australia’s search and rescue agency has been criticised in a classified government report as not being proactive enough in helping an asylum seeker boat that had made more than 16 calls for help over two days before eventually capsizing, killing 104 men. Video of boat […]
The Friday Times – July 12 – 18, 2013 | Ali K. Chisti In a recent survey carried out by the Sindh Home Ministry, there are 12,545 madrassas in the province, of which 2,161 are sectarian and dangerous. About 74 percent of these religious schools are in Urban Sindh (Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur). At least […]
Quetta – July 22, 2013 – According to sources, AlQaeda affiliated Jaish-ul-Islam terrorists riding on motorcyle(s) fired indiscriminately on a Hazara-owned Yellow Cab on the busiest Shara-e-Iqbal (Qandhari Bazar) killing two Hazaras and injuring three others. Jaish-ul-Islam terrorists are believed to be same as LEJ. The motive is to create confusion and to show themselves much bigger in […]