Comments on: Blitzed http://www.pakspectator.com/blitzed/ A Candid Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nazia http://www.pakspectator.com/blitzed/comment-page-1/#comment-822039 Nazia Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:08:18 +0000 http://www.pakspectator.com/?p=17951#comment-822039 Poor Pakistani citizens are always blitzed by two or three sides without considering them normal human beings. First biharis then poor swatis and it is also acknowledged by our locals and journalists too. Rahimullah Yusufzai, says this to Seymour M. Hersh which he quoted in his latest article "defending the arsenal" Rahimullah Yusufzai, an eminent Pakistani journalist, who has twice interviewed Osama bin Laden, had a different explanation for the conditions that led to the offensive. “The Taliban were initially trying to win public support in Swat by delivering justice and peace,” Yusufzai said. “But when they got into power they went crazy and became brutal. Many are from the lowest ranks of society, and they began killing and terrorizing their opponents. The people were afraid.” The turmoil did not end with the Army’s invasion. “Most of the people who were in the refugee camps told us that the Army was equally bad. There was so much killing,” Yusufzai said. The government had placed limits on reporters who tried to enter the Swat Valley during the attack, but afterward Yusufzai and his colleagues were able to interview officers. “They told us they hated what they were doing—‘We were trained to fight Indians.’ ” But that changed when they sustained heavy losses, especially of junior officers. “They were killing everybody after their colleagues were killed—just like the Americans with their Predator missiles,” Yusufzai said. “What the Army did not understand, and what the Americans don’t understand, is that by demolishing the house of a suspected Taliban or their supporters you are making an enemy of the whole family.” What looked like a tactical victory could turn out to be a strategic failure. Poor Pakistani citizens are always blitzed by two or three sides without considering them normal human beings.
First biharis then poor swatis and it is also acknowledged by our locals and journalists too.
Rahimullah Yusufzai, says this to Seymour M. Hersh which he quoted in his latest article “defending the arsenal”
Rahimullah Yusufzai, an eminent Pakistani journalist, who has twice interviewed Osama bin Laden, had a different explanation for the conditions that led to the offensive. “The Taliban were initially trying to win public support in Swat by delivering justice and peace,” Yusufzai said. “But when they got into power they went crazy and became brutal. Many are from the lowest ranks of society, and they began killing and terrorizing their opponents. The people were afraid.”

The turmoil did not end with the Army’s invasion. “Most of the people who were in the refugee camps told us that the Army was equally bad. There was so much killing,” Yusufzai said. The government had placed limits on reporters who tried to enter the Swat Valley during the attack, but afterward Yusufzai and his colleagues were able to interview officers. “They told us they hated what they were doing—‘We were trained to fight Indians.’ ” But that changed when they sustained heavy losses, especially of junior officers. “They were killing everybody after their colleagues were killed—just like the Americans with their Predator missiles,” Yusufzai said. “What the Army did not understand, and what the Americans don’t understand, is that by demolishing the house of a suspected Taliban or their supporters you are making an enemy of the whole family.” What looked like a tactical victory could turn out to be a strategic failure.

]]> By: Nazia http://www.pakspectator.com/blitzed/comment-page-1/#comment-821995 Nazia Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:25 +0000 http://www.pakspectator.com/?p=17951#comment-821995 It is not Hindus or Jews who are sending these human bombs in our Muslim community. They are being bred in complete so called islamic values where they are sodomized, physically abused or psychologically confined by different techniques for higer awards after death due to their low IQ levels in extremist controlling our religious affairs. In this war we are just eradicating the fruit of this tree of terrorism. The roots and seed are still surviving around us and we are clearly ignoring them in our power games. we should use pesticide to destroy the roots of this terrorism and they are our relgious clerics living around us as civilized parliamentarian . But I am sure army managers want to secure and preserve them as they did to mqm leadership in 1980s It is not Hindus or Jews who are sending these human bombs in our Muslim community.
They are being bred in complete so called islamic values where they are sodomized, physically abused or psychologically confined by different techniques for higer awards after death due to their low IQ levels in extremist controlling our religious affairs.
In this war we are just eradicating the fruit of this tree of terrorism.
The roots and seed are still surviving around us and we are clearly ignoring them in our power games.
we should use pesticide to destroy the roots of this terrorism and they are our relgious clerics living around us as civilized parliamentarian .
But I am sure army managers want to secure and preserve them as they did to mqm leadership in 1980s

]]> By: Murtaza Hasaan http://www.pakspectator.com/blitzed/comment-page-1/#comment-821733 Murtaza Hasaan Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:47 +0000 http://www.pakspectator.com/?p=17951#comment-821733 The media should be responsible on how to manage a crime scene investigation. In a recent case, there was a rumor that there is a suicide bomber in the sector E-11/4 of Islamabad on Sunday night. It was reported by the media that one “suspect” had been shot down and another was on the loose. These kinds of things should not be reported in a way which can cause a sense of panic and anxiety around the area. Especially if it is a resident area involved like in this case. The media should be responsible on how to manage a crime scene investigation. In a recent case, there was a rumor that there is a suicide bomber in the sector E-11/4 of Islamabad on Sunday night. It was reported by the media that one “suspect” had been shot down and another was on the loose. These kinds of things should not be reported in a way which can cause a sense of panic and anxiety around the area. Especially if it is a resident area involved like in this case.

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