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Friday, January 27, 2012

Kab Tak on Dawn News ...on Target Killing...26th January 2012 p2

دستگیری یک طالب مسلح در ولایت بامیان

جمعه ٠٧ دلو ١٣٩٠ ساعت ١٢:٠٧
مقام های امنیتی در ولایت بامیان می گویند در عملیاتی که توسط نیروهای ریاست امنیت ملی این ولایت راه اندازی شده بود، یک طالب مسلح با مقداری اسلحه و مهمات دستگیر شده است.

به گفته مقام های محلی ولایت بامیان این دستگیری،اولین باری است که در ولایت بامیان اتفاق می افتد

سمونوال غلام سخی نیک پی آمر امنیت قوماندانی امنیه بامیان در پیوند به این موضوع به خبرگزاری بخدی گفت:" شخصی به نام ملازوی که با نیروهای طالبان در ولسوالی تاله و برف ولایت بغلان همکاری داشت، روز گذشته در یک عملیات نیروهای امنیتی بامیان دستگیر شده است".

نکیپی افزود:" اسلحه و مهماتی که از نزد این شخص بدست آمده شامل پنج فیر مرمی راکت انداز،یک میل تفنگچه تی تی روسی،هفت شاژور مرمی کلاشینکوف،یک عدد ماین ضد تانک مجهز با سیستم ویرنگ،یک عدد بمب دستی، یک میل تفنگ چره یی، یک عدد دوربین راکت انداز، یک عدد دوربین عادی، دو عدد پرتله کلاشینکوف، 218 فیر مرمی پیکا و 19 فیر مرمی دهشکه است".

به گفته آمر امنیت قوماندانی امنیه بامیان؛ این فرد مسلح مربوط به گروه طالبان از دره شکاری ولسوالی شیبر بامیان دستگیر شده که دوسیه نسبتی او همراه با سلاح و مهمات بدست آمده رسماً به سارنوالی مبارزه علیه جرایم داخلی و خارجی این ولایت تسلیم داده می شود.

گفتنی است که در سال روان این اولین بار است که یک فرد مسلح مربوط به گروه طالبان از ساحه ولایت بامیان دستگیر شده است.

محمد زمان احمدی - بامیان

Bokhdi News

QUETTA--FIRING 3 KILD

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Brutal killings: Deweaponisation is the answer

TARGET killings have become order of the day in the country and the authorities seem to have no answer to control the situation. Three lawyers and five others were killed in Karachi and another three in Quetta on Wednesday in what appears to be a free for all to take the lives of innocent people and law enforcement machinery unable to nab the culprits.

The lawyers fraternity boycotted the courts on Thursday to protest against the killings and some other organisations also organised demonstrations in Karachi and Quetta against the incidents. Angry people set tyres on fire on roads suspending traffic on Shahra-e-Faisal and National Highway but that is no solution and in fact it is like playing in the hands of subversive elements that want to destabilize the country on the orders of their masters. These killings are the result of massive weaponisation of the society. In Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa too weapons are being indiscriminately used to settle scores on grounds of personal enmity and in marriage parties and electioneering days aerial firings have become a culture. Though there is a ban on display of weapons but one may say that weapons, in the VIP circles security guards accompanying the political leaders openly display theirS arms giving terrifying scenes which is not symbol of a civilized society. Similarly terrorist groups and members of different mafias are heavily armed and they roam around freely creating a psychological dent in the society. In such an environment, people with some resources also acquire illegal weapons for their personal security and there is huge demand for such weapons all over the country. In a society where every third person is armed with legal or illegal weapons, one can expect killings on petty issues and with the passage of time the situation will certainly deteriorate. To prevent it, the only answer is deweaponisation and a total ban on issuance of arms licences. We understand that it is easy to suggest and difficult to implement but it is the foremost duty of the government to provide security to its citizens and it will have to find a way out to end the menace of target killings.

Pakistan Observer

4 killed in Quetta violence ‎

HDP protested against the targeted killing of three people belonging to their community in Quetta.

Balochistan violence: Hazara Democratic Party stages protest
By Our Correspondent
Published: January 26, 2012
PHOTO: AFP/FILE

QUETTA: Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) on Thursday staged a noisy protest demonstration outside the Balochistan Assembly building, against the targeted killing of three people belonging to their community in Quetta.

Inspector of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Vilayat Hussain, TV actor Abid Nazish and Mohammad Anwar were shot dead by unknown assailants on Wednesday night in Quetta, in what appeared to be an incident of sectarian killing. However, no outfit had claimed responsibility for the killings.

Protestors marched through various roads and held a demonstration on Zarghoon Road outside the Balochistan Assembly building. They were carrying placards and banners with messages against target killing.

They raised slogans against the government and the chief minister for their failure to overcome the growing incidents of target killing and kidnapping for ransom in Quetta.

Vice President of HDP Mirza Hussain said Hazara community was being subjected to target killing for the past several years and the government had failed to launch a crackdown against the criminals. “Government should answer who are the target killers? And how they carry out deadly attacks with complete impunity,” he added.

Protestors said four people belonging to Hazara community were kidnapped a few days ago from Quetta-Chaman highway and were still missing. “The kidnappers approached the families and asked for a huge amount as ransom for the release of these four people,” one of the protestors said.
HDP warned that they will hold protest demonstrations across the world where Hazara community is residing, to lodge their protest against the organised target killings if government and law enforcing agencies failed to protect the innocent lives.

“We are Pakistanis and do not want to give a bad name to our country by holding protest in other countries. But now we are being pushed against the wall and left with no option,” Hussain said, adding that Hazara community is demanding an end to the target killing and kidnappings.

Meanwhile, Provincial Ministers Ayinullah Shams of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Sultan Tareen of Awami National Party (ANP) addressed the protestors and assured them that government will soon hold a meeting to review the law and order situation.

Express Tribune