Pakistan bans 23 militant outfits
Omer Farooq Khan, TNN, Jul 6, 2010, 06.09pm IST


ISLAMABAD: In the wake of twin-suicide blasts on the shrine of Data Ganj Baksh in Lahore, Pakistan has banned 23 militant organizations, except

Jammat ud Dawa (JuD), which were operating under new names after having been outlawed by the previous military regime and put the name of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed on the Exit Control List (ECL).

The Punjab government has directed police to keep a strict vigil on 1,690 office-bearers and workers of the banned outfits. Sipah-i-Sahaba, Jaish-i-Muhammad, Laskar-e-Taiba, Tehrik-i-Jafria, Harkatul Jihad Islami, Harkatul Mujahideen, Hizbul Tahrir, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Sipah-i-Muhammad had been banned by the Musharraf government in 2002, but most of them started their activities with new names.

Sipah-i-Sahaba was renamed as Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan, Jaish-i-Muhammad as Alfurqan and Khuddamul Islam and Tehrik-i-Jafria as Islami Tehrik Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Taiba as Jamaatud Dawa. However, Hizbul Tehrir did not change its name. According to the Punjab’s home department, Jamaat ud Dawa of Hafiz Saeed has not been restricted like others, but Mr Saeed and his two associates have been barred from travelling abroad. Their accounts have been frozen and they will not be able to get arms licenses.

Punjab’s home department said that action will be taken against Jamatud Dawa, Al-Rasheed Trust and Al-Akhtar Trust in the light of UN resolutions. In June it emerged that the Punjab government gave about $1million last year to institutions linked to the Jamaat-ud Dawa charity, which is on a UN terror blacklist.

However, crackdowns and arrests against suspected militants continue in Lahore. Lahore’s police chief Aslam Tareen said to have taken into custody a group of militants in connection with all major attacks in Lahore and other parts of the country. He said the arrested militants were involved in recruiting terrorists, planning, gathering information and storing explosives and sophisticated weapons at different places in the city and its outskirts and providing logistic support to other groups. "All of them belong to Lahore," Tareen said. The terror suspects were identified as Rizwan, Abbas, Haroon Saeed, Umair, Umer and Haji Javed Alam were detained from different localities of the city by teams of Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA).

He said all of them got training in Afghanistan and a majority of them acted as facilitators. The suspects informed the investigators that five to six separate militant groups were carrying out terror attacks in Pakistan.

According to Lahore’s police chief, the suspects disclosed that they were involved in terror attacks on Rawalpindi’s Parade Lane Mosque, Karachi’s Ashura procession, worship places of Ahmadis in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu and Model Town and Lahore’s Moon Market, Jinnah Hospital, Gulshan-i-Iqbal and Samanabad.
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أفغانستان تحث باكستان على استهداف الجماعات الارهابية

Afghanistan urges Pakistan to target terror groups
By Lynne O'Donnell (AFP) – 10 hours ago

KABUL — Afghanistan's national security adviser has called on the Pakistani government to "take serious measures" against Islamist groups launching attacks on Afghan targets from secure havens inside Pakistan.

Rangin Dadfar Spanta spoke to AFP in an interview a week after the Al-Jazeera television network said Afghan President Hamid Karzai had met the man who runs the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in talks mediated by Pakistan.

Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban all deny any such meeting.

Spanta's comments signal an about-turn by the Afghan government after months of overtures to Islamabad in efforts to prompt Pakistan to deal with militant groups, including Al-Qaeda and the Taliban based along the Afghan border.

Spanta told AFP on Monday that Afghanistan had "tremendous evidence" that Pakistani authorities allowed Al-Qaeda and other terror organisations to operate on the country's soil and had presented it to Islamabad "many times".

Islamabad had failed to act against the groups based in Pakistan's tribal areas on the Afghan border, he told AFP.

"My expectation is that Pakistan after nine years -- because theoretically Pakistan is part of the anti-terror alliance -- they have to begin to take some serious measures against terrorism," he said.

"They have to hand over the leadership of the terrorist groups, they have to give a list of the people they have arrested and are holding in the detention centres in Pakistan.

"We have evidence that the terrorists from Pakistan are involved in daily attacks against our people and international 'jihadi' groups are active here. They have their base and sanctuaries behind our border and this is a serious problem.

"We have to address the menace of terrorism," Spanta said.

Karzai had been seen as trying to reach an arrangement with Pakistan -- possibly including a power-sharing deal with the Taliban -- that would help bring an end to the war in Afghanistan, now in its ninth year.

This was also seen as a way of giving Pakistan a stake in Afghanistan's future, despite broad opposition among the Afghan politicians and public.

Senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials had visited Kabul in recent months on goodwill visits, Spanta said.

"I hope we can begin a constructive dialogue with a serious agenda during the next meeting in Islamabad, or in Kabul... maybe next month," he said.

Spanta said Pakistan had failed to act against Al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban leadership known as the Quetta Shura, the Haqqani network, the minor Hekmatyar group, Hizb-u-Tahrir, as well as "Uzbek and Chechen terrorist groups".

"It is not a particular secret that the terrorists have sanctuaries in Pakistan, that they have training centres, that they have the possibility to come to Afghanistan, attack us and go back," said Spanta.

He denied that Karzai had met Sirajuddin Haqqani, who runs the Haqqani network which often launches attacks in Afghanistan, or the Taliban, "through mediation of Pakistan forces or otherwise".

Pakistani security officials indicated last month, however, that they were planning to help broker peace efforts in Afghanistan by acting as a bridge between the Kabul government and powerful Haqqani network.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party and has no connection with militancy

Hizb ut-Tahrir will continue its non-militant struggle to establish the Khilafah

Once again Hizb ut-Tahrir’s name is being printed in various newspapers along with other militant organizations in order to portray Hizb as a militant outfit. Furthermore failed efforts are being made to link Hizb with terrorism. In these American endeavours Punjab government is seen working hand in glove with the Federal government. Hizb ut-Tahrir condemns these nefarious plans and evil endeavours and reiterates that such allegations will not be able to deter Hizb from its non-violent struggle for the reestablishment of the Khilafah. Hizb ut-Tahrir’s writ against its illegal banning is still pending before the High Court for the past four years. This writ is a challenge for the “independent Judiciary” of Pakistan. The current democratically elected Punjab government is no better than the Musharraf regime which was known for its subservience to America. Rather they are completely allied to an agent like Zardari in his anit-Islamic policies carried out under the guise of fighting “terrorism”. Currently, like the Federal government, the Punjab government is also dancing on the American tune that is working day and night to eradicate Islam from this region.

After the Lahore blast, as we had forewarned the Ummah, the government immediately started its activities against the Islamic groups and Madaris (Islamic seminaries) as if she was waiting for the blast. This is the part of the strategy which the US devised for this region after 9/11. According to the policy all those elements were to be crushed which can pose any resistance in the US hegemony of the region or secularisation of its people. Hence efforts began to alienate the Ummah from all those who loved Jihad or the Islamic parties who were working to uproot this Kufr system with non-violent means by declaring them terrorist and then to crush them. Not only this, the curriculum of all the schools were further secularised and work began to even change the curriculum of the Madaris. After crushing those who had the ability to posed any resistance in the Tribal region, America wants to move to Punjab and the Punjab government is completely in cahoots with them. Furthermore the rulers are trying to link Hizb with militancy because they know that it is the Hizb that exposes colonialist plans before the Ummah and has the capability to establish the Khilafah by uprooting the kufr capitalist system. This is the US plan for whose implementation US agencies are busy conducting bomb blasts in order to provide government the necessary justification for operation. The perpetual wave of terrorism in Pakistan started with US’s arrival and will end with its departure; there is no doubt about this in the minds of the people. The government is neglecting the obligation to eject US from the region. Hence the Ummah and the people of power will have to take this responsibility upon themselves. The Ummah should undertake non-violent and political steps to stop America’s supply line passing through Pakistan. No matter if they have to block the GT Road or socially boycott the owners of the tankers to achieve this objective. America’s supply line is her lifeline, cutting which we can easily eject US from the region.

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بيان حزب التحرير ولاية باكستان

حزب التحرير هو حزب سياسي وليس له أي اتصال مع المسلحين

حزب التحرير سيواصل نضاله غير المسلح لإقامة الخلافة

مرة أخرى يجري طبع اسم حزب التحرير في صحف مختلفة جنبا إلى جنب مع منظمات مسلحة أخرى من أجل تصوير الحزب على أنه جماعة مسلحة. على الرغم من فشل لمحاولات التي عملت لربط الحزب بالإرهاب. من أجل تلك المساعي الأمريكية تعمل حكومة البنجاب حكومة يدا بيد مع الحكومة الاتحادية. حزب التحرير يدين هذه الخطط الشنيعة والمساعي الشريره ويكرر التأكيد على أن مثل هذه الادعاءات لن تكون قادرة على ردع الحزب من نضاله الغير عنيف ( السلمي ) لإعادة تأسيس الخلافة. حزب التحرير في الأمر الغير القانوني ضد حظره لا يزال قيد النظر أمام المحكمة العليا خلال السنوات الأربع الماضية. هذا أمر يشكل تحديا للسلطة القضائية " المستقلة" في باكستان. حكومة البنجاب الحالية المنتخبة ديمقراطيا ليست افضل من نظام مشرف الذي كان يعرف عنه التبعية لأمريكا. بل هي متحالفة تماما مع وكيلها مثل زرداري في سياساته المناهضة للإسلام التي تنفذ تحت ستار مكافحة "الإرهاب". حاليا ، مثل الحكومة الاتحادية ، حكومة ولاية البنجاب ترقص أيضا على النغمة الأميركية التي تعمل ليلا ونهارا من أجل القضاء على الإسلام من هذه المنطقة.

بعد الانفجار الذي وقع في لاهور ، كما حذرنا قبلا الأمة ، بدأت الحكومة على الفور أنشطتها ضد الجماعات الإسلامية والمدارس الدينية (الحوزات العلمية الإسلامية) كما لو أنها كانت تنتظر الانفجار. هذا هو جزء من الاستراتيجية التي وضعتها الولايات المتحدة لهذه المنطقة بعد 11/09. وفقا لهذه السياسة كل هذه العناصر لابد من سحقهم و التي يمكن أن تشكل أي مقاومة للهيمنة الأمريكية في المنطقة أو علمانية شعبها. ومن هنا بدأت الجهود المبذولة لعزل الأمة من جميع أولئك الذين أحبوا الجهاد أو الأحزاب الإسلامية التي تعمل لاقتلاع هذا النظام الكافر بالوسائل الغير عنيفة باعلانهم ارهابيون ومن ثم القضاء عليهم. ليس هذا فحسب ، المناهج الدراسية في جميع المدارس تعلمنت وبدأ العمل على تغيير المناهج الدراسية حتى في المدارس الدينية . بعد سحق أولئك الذين كانت لديهم القدرة على المقاومة في المنطقة القبلية ، أميركا تريد الانتقال إلى ولاية البنجاب وحكومة ولاية البنجاب في تعاون وثيق معها. لذلك الحكام يحاولون ربط الحزب مع المسلحين لأنهم يعرفون أنه هو الحزب الذي يكشف الخطط الاستعمارية للأمة ولديه المقدرة على إقامة دولة الخلافة و اقتلاع نظام الكفرالرأسمالي. هذه هي الخطة الامريكية التي تنفيذها الوكالات الاميركية المشغوله بالتفجيرات في الحكومة من أجل توفير المبررات اللازمة لعملياتها . بدأت موجة دائمة للإرهاب في باكستان مع وصول الولايات المتحدة ، وسوف تنتهي مع رحيلها ، ولا يوجد أي شك حول هذا الأمر في أذهان الناس. الحكومة تهمل الواجب لإخراج الولايات المتحدة من المنطقة. ومن هنا فإن الأمة وأهل القوة أن يأخذو ا على عاتقهم هذه المسؤولية. وينبغي على الأمة اتخاذ خطوات غير عنيفة وسياسية لوقف خط تزويد أميركا عبر باكستان.بغض النظر عن حتى أغلقوا طريق جي تي أو اجتماعيا بمقاطعة أصحاب الناقلات لتحقيق هذا الهدف. خط تزويد أميركا هو شريان الحياة لها ، بقطعه يمكننا بسهولة إخراج الولايات المتحدة من المنطقة.