Jang Group (The News) retracts its ISI-inspired report on Haideri Taliban

Pakistan Blogzine was a part of a recent effort along with Shia activists and other rights activists in highlighting the Jang Group’s unprofessional and malicious conduct in publishing an ISI-inspired report about an imaginary Shia terrorist group namely Haideri Taliban or Mehi Militia.

We are pleased to report that as an outcome of our collective efforts, Jang Group (The News) has retracted the news item and published and apology.

This small incident shows that every single post, tweet, and email counts. Let’s carry on with our activism in support of the persecuted, target killed and ignored communities.

We warn Pakistan army and its

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and her Oscar do not mean much for Pakistan

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a darling of Pakistan's urban elites affiliated with the military establishment.

Related post: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Contradictions of an Oscar win – by Safiya Khan

While Pakistan’s powerful urban elites (military establishment and their affiliates in socio-economically advantaged families of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad) are celebrating Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Academy Award for her documentary about acid attack victims in Pakistan, ordinary Pakistanis have a different view.

Pakistani filmmaker and first-time Oscar nominee Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Academy Award on Monday 27 Feb 2012 for her documentary about acid attack victims, a first for a Pakistani director. According to her

We need your help to recover Jalil and Akmal – by Hassan Turi

This child has been missing for almost one year.

He was abducted by the Taliban from river Kurram on 5 March 2011.

His name is Jalil Hussain.

JI-SSP alliance

On Jamaat-e-Islami’s alliance with Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (aka Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat):

کیا یہ وہی جماعت اسلامی ہے کہ جو پاکستان میں اتحاد و وحدت کا نعرہ بھی لگاتی ہے اور ہزاروں بے گناہ پاکستانیوں کے قاتلوں (کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ) کے ساتھ بھی اپنا تعلق استوار کرتی ہے۔ زیر نظر تصویر میں جماعت اسلامی پاکستان کے امیر منور حسن کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے سربراہ مولانا احمد لدھیانوی سے خوش مزاجی کے ساتھ مصافحہ کر رہے ہیں۔

واہ رے تیری منافقت۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔

Source: Political Shia

Kidnapped and forgotten sons of Parachinar – by Sibth-ul-Hassan Turi

Last month, the fake story of Shams Ul Anwer went viral on social media and caught the attention of well known human right activists and media spoke people. Once again Pakistanis united in supporting the victim before realizing it was all concocted drama. Rather than being totally disappointed, it gave me slight hope that, perhaps, despite that the story was fake, it did capture the collective imagination, and there are hundreds of similar stories in reality. For the last four five years, the people of FATA and Kurram Agency, in particular, have been worse victims of

Haideri Taliban? ISI and Jang Group’s joint propaganda against Pakistan’s Shia Muslims

Related post: Geo TV / Jang Group’s alliance with Sipah-e-Sahaba exposed

This report about imaginary ‘Haideri Taliban’ was brought to you by Rahimullah Yusufzai of ISI+Jang Group: http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=94508&Cat=7

As Bureau Chief of The News, Peshawar, Rahimullah Yusufzai has refused to retract his ISI-inspired lies about Haideri Taliban.

We condemn Pakistan army/Jang group’s attempt to misattribute the Taliban-ASWJ-AQ terrorism to innocent Shia Muslims.

Haideri Taliban aka Mehdi Militia is an imaginary creation of General Kayani and Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman.

ISI has tasked Mir Shakil, CEO of the Jang Group, to obfuscate the silent Shia genocide taking place in

Adiala angels, Baloch bodies and Punjabi conscience — by Abbas Zaidi

The difference between the Adiala Seven and the hundreds of Sangats is that the former are Punjabis and Deobandis and the latter are Baloch and secular. The Punjabi conscience is hurt when a Punjabi is tortured even if he belongs to a terrorist organisation

“Monday’s appearance in the Supreme Court (SC) of the missing Adiala prisoners,” wrote a columnist, “was a reminder

Graphic pictures of Shia Muslims’ massacre in Parachinar on 17 Feb 2012

یہ17 فروری بروز جمعہ کو طالبان دہشتگردوں کے مبینہ خودکش حملے اور اس کے بعد ان درندوں کی سرپرست سکیورٹی فورسز کی شیلنگ اور ٹینکوں سے کچلے جانے والے مظلوم شہدائے پاراچنار میں سے چند شہداء کی تصاویر ہیں۔

طوری بنگش قبائل کے مطابق چار سال تک جب پاراچنار شہر اور اپر کرم کی سکیورٹی شیعہ رضاکاروں کے ہاتھ میں تھی تو کوئی دھماکہ یا حملہ نہیں ہوا، چند ماہ پہلے جب ان چیک پوسٹوں

Balochistan continues to be shaped by the state’s dominant narrative – by Mahvish Ahmad

News on Balochistan continues to be shaped by the state’s dominant narrative: Of a province that is, and always has been, rightfully Pakistani. But a cursory look at a Baloch version of events – rarely if ever (re)presented in the Pakistani media – paints another picture. A picture not of agreements and friendship. But of betrayal.

Abdul Wahab Baloch is afraid to talk on the phone. In 2008, he was picked up by security agencies after leading a rally through Karachi protesting the 10^th anniversary of Chagai-I – the notorious

SSP-LeJ-ASWJ militants insult Jinnah’s grave

Anti-Shrine, anti-Barelvi and anti-Shia SSP-LeJ-ASWJ terrorists at the mausoleum of the Founder of Pakistan (Mazar-e-Quaid) Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (who was a Shia himself)!

Apparently the SSP-LeJ-ASWJ militants harassed the Pakistan Army guards at the

Dear Express Tribune, they are Shia too! – by Mustafa

While it is certainly commendable that Express Tribune (ET) has reported the protest demo organized by the youth of Parachinar, time when majority of the news outlets have with blithe disregard ignored it (as usual, for example this largest protest against target killing of Shias was blacked out by Pakistani media: criticalppp.com/archives/72401), the reporter, or perhaps the editor of ET needs to be reminded that the people of Parachinar are Shia too! At least 49 Shia Muslims were massacred by ISI-backed Haqqani Taliban (good Taliban) and the subsequent firing by Pakistan army/FC on 17 February 2012.

The news report refers to people

246 Shia Muslims target killed in 2011 – SM Research

According to following research data compiled by the Voice of the Oppressed (Sada-e-Mazlomin – SM), there were 202 terrorist attacks on Shia Muslim across Pakistan in 2011, in which at least 246 Shias were killed and another 356 were injured.

Here is a copy of the full

Pakistan’s social media activists must beware of informers and impostors

The following warning notice has been published by a leading Shia activist forum (Karbal-e-Quetta) to warn Shia and other human rights activists to be mindful of impostors (terrorists and agency plants) who are reportedly monitoring internet to identify and potentially harm social media activists. While the aim of some of such impostors could be to monitor your activities or moderate the intensity of activism by counter-measures, others may have more vicious agenda to cause physical harm to

Difa-e-Shia Conference warns Pakistan govt and military to reign in banned sectarian militants

Related post: A comment on Difa-e-Shia Conference – by Allama Arif Najafi

A very large number of Shia Muslims (estimated number: 200,000) today (19 Feb 2012) participated in the Difa-e-Shia Conference (DSC) (or Difa-e-Tashayyo Conference) in Karachi to protest against the ongoing target killing of Shia Muslims in various provinces and areas of Pakistan by banned Jihadi-sectarian groups, namely: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan SSP camouflaged as Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat ASWJ, and their allies namely Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Taliban.

The speakers and participants at the conference warned that Pakistan army’s intelligence

General Aslam Beg manhandles Dawn News’ reporter Aizaz Syed

Dawn News reporter Aizaz Syed asks Pakistan’s former army chief (1988-1991) General Mirza Aslam Beg if he might be court-martialled due to his role in the distribution of money to anti-PPP political parties before

Dr Jaffer Mohsin Rizvi, Shia doctor in Karachi, becomes new target of sectarian violence – by Hassan Naqvi

Related posts: Dr. Jafar Mohsin, yet another Shia doctor, target killed in Karachi

Shia killing: If we tolerate this, our children will be next – by Absar Ul Hasan

Dr Jaffer Mohsin Rizvi, a doctor by profession and a Shia by faith, became a victim of the ongoing wave of ethnic and sectarian violence in Karachi last month.

He was brutally killed in front of his house (A-614, block 12, FB Area) at 9:30am on January 28, by two unidentified man who were on a motorbike and were wearing Burqas. They asked him about an address when he was reading a newspaper. He received two bullets. Nobody came to his help for the next twenty minutes.

Four types of lesser Muslims of Pakistan

The following notice engraved on the wall of Lahore’s historic Begum Shahi Mosque signifies all what is wrong with Pakistani society today in terms of religious intolerance and sectarian violence.

Photo credits: Aown Ali

The notice reads (in Roman Urdu): ba ittefaq-e anjuman-e-hanafiah wa hukm-e-shara-sharif yeh qarar paya keh koi wahhabi, rafizi, naturi wa mirzai masji haaza mein na aaway aur

We condemn brutal murder of seven non-Baloch labourers in Turbat

The attack left five workers on the spot, while two others failed to recover from their injuries and passed away in Turbat Hospital. (Photo: Dawn)

At least seven non-Baloch labourers, mainly from Sindh and FATA, were killed on 14 February 2012 in a targeted attack in Turbat, Balochistan. Another two labourers were injured. According to news reports, the banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) has claimed responsibility for the attack. Labourers were engaged in construction

Sangat Sana Baloch’s murder: We have lost count – by Mir Sohaib Mengal

It was July 2010. I was in Karachi back then for my CA. One day I received a text on my mobile phone from a Baloch friend that bullet-riddled body of missing Faizullah Baloch has been found. We couldn’t believe it. Abduction by intelligence agencies was a daily routine in Balochistan. But we

Comparing Karachi Literature Festival with Difa-e-Pakistan Conference

Two key events took places in Karachi a few days ago (12 Feb 2012): Difa-e-Pakistan Conference (DPC) attended by about 50,000 Jihadi-sectarian militants and the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) attended by dozens of English and Urdu authors, journalists and other participants (estimated number 800).

Both of these events signify all what is wrong with Pakistan today. Both groups (DPC and KLF) remain