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Is Parachinar not part of Pakistan, asks NA panel chief

April 25, 2011 by shafiqueahmed110

Is Parachinar not part of Pakistan, asks NA panel chief

Mumtaz Alvi

Monday, April 25, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Over 100 residents of militant-besieged Parachinar, which is the headquarters of Kurram Agency, have set up a protest camp outside the National Press Club to press the government for ridding them of the armed gangs of Taliban.

Through a memorandum, a copy of which is available with The News, the Youth of Parachinar, a platform of Turi and Bangash tribes, aired some questions: Is Parachinar not a part of Pakistan? Is it really impossible for the government to open and make secure the main Thal Parachinar-Peshawar Road that was closed over four years back? It continued could a civilised nation justify the crippling embargo on a population of more than 0.5 million people? Is there any humanitarian organisation in Pakistan that could help alleviate deepening sufferings of these people, facing acute shortage of life-saving drugs and other medicines: paucity of daily use items such as rice, atta, tea, sugar and groceries? “I have met the President at least 20 times and Prime Minister 40 times on different occasions and raised the issue with them but it appears either they are insensitive to our agony or unable to do anything to drive the militants out of Parachinar,” said an MNA from the Kurram Agency’s headquarters Sajid Hussain Turi while talking to The News at the camp.Turi, who is chairman of the National Assembly’s standing committee on States and Frontier Regions, pointed out as the government functionaries were unable to perform their responsibility in Parachinar there was a breakdown of civil and social services: education and health were the most affected sectors; donors and foreign philanthropists had also stopped visiting the area due to seething insecurity.

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Kurram Agency residents on hunger strike

RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD: Residents of Kurram Agency mostly students on Friday started hunger strike in front of National Press Club to press the government for solid measures to restore peace in the restive region.

Organized by "Youth of Parachinar," the protest camp was joined by dozens of people belonging to Kurram Agency, holding placards and demanding of the government to take practical measure to open Thall-Parachinar Road, which has been closed for four years due to lawlessness.

Talking to Business Recorder, the protesting students alleged that the government has completely failed in providing security to the people, adding that people belonging to Turi tribe of the Kurram Agency were being kidnapped and killed on the Thall-Parachinar road while the government was unable to take action against handful of militants.

"The government is responsible for the loss of the lives of the innocent people of the Kurram Agency by giving free hand to the militants," said Mehdi Hussain, a participant of the hunger strike camp, adding that 40 people of the Turi tribe were kidnapped last month and eight out of them were brutally killed.

He said that Kurram Agency was facing acute shortage of life saving drugs and daily use food and other products due to the blockage of the only road that links the troubled areas with rest of the country.

The protesters urged Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of the situation and issue direction to the government to undertake necessary measures to open the road on permanent basis and provide security to the passengers.

They also called upon human rights organizations to help the people in need adding patients including women and children breath their last in misery due to lack of life saving drugs in the troubled areas.

Kurram Agency residents on hunger strike

Declassified Papers Shed Light on US Role in Liaquat’s Murder

Declassified Papers Shed Light on US Role in Liaquat’s Murder Syed Rashid Husain, Arab News

Liaquat Ali Khan ALKHOBAR, 18 July 2006 — Oil, Iran and air bases, seem to be issues of recent times. Not indeed. It was some 55 years back that these issues were very much in play and a recently declassified document indicates that these were the reasons behind the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first prime minister on Oct. 16, 1951. Like a number of other high-profile killings, the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, has also remained a mystery. Conspiracy theories abound, yet are difficult to substantiate. A recent declassified document from the US State Department brings to light some interesting facts. According to the document, a telegram was sent by the American Embassy in New Delhi on Oct. 30, 1951. “Is Liaquat Ali Khan’s assassination a result of a deep-laid American conspiracy?” The telegram from the US Embassy in New Delhi carried the summary of an article published in the Urdu daily of Bhopal, “Nadeem” on Oct. 24, 1951, charging the US with the responsibility of Khan’s death. The summary then points to the facts raised in the Nadeem article, “It was neither a local incident nor connected with the Pashtoonistan movement (as some may have believed then). It had behind it a deep-rooted conspiracy and recognizable hand.” The article then says that the then Afghan government “knew about the conspiracy and the assassin was an Afghan, yet, the plot was hatched neither in Kabul nor in Karachi (the then capital of Pakistan).” The declassified document reveals that the day before assassination, the secretary to the American ambassador in Karachi absent-mindedly jotted down “holiday” for Oct. 19 in a table diary and then immediately struck it off. Following the secretary’s departure, Mohammad Hussain, a Pakistani employee at the American Embassy in Karachi asked the secretary’s British clerk about the holiday. The clerk described it as a possible slip. “Mistake meaningful,” however, because “the secretary knew the embassy would be closed (on) Oct. 17 (sic) although no American or Pakistani holiday was scheduled then to fall that day. The story in Nadeem then points to another fact, as given in the declassified document. The American ambassador (in Karachi) offered condolences to Liaquat’s wife (Raana Liaquat Ali Khan) on the phone, some three and a half minutes before even the Governor General of Pakistan Khawaja Nazimuddin managed to offer his condolences. This was despite the fact that the governor general was the first to be informed (of the killing) by the Rawalpindi authorities. Indeed with no mobile connection, no live transmissions, even no TV, those were different days and the flow of information was much slower than today. The question that the newspaper article thus tried to raise was how did the American ambassador come to know of the assassination before the governor general of Pakistan found out? The newspaper article, as summarized by the declassified US document, then discusses the possible reason for the disenchantment of the US and the UK governments with the Pakistan prime minister and his government. Liaquat was not ready to toe the US line, the newspaper pointed out and hence the US wanted him eliminated. “While the UK was pressing Pakistan for support on the issue of Iran, the US demanded Pakistan use its influence in Tehran and persuade it to transfer control of its oil fields to the US (oil apparently has remained a major issue with the Americans ever since, especially while Mohammad Mosaddeq was in power in Tehran then). According to the article, Liaquat Ali Khan declined to accede to the request. “The US then threatened to annul the secret pact on Kashmir (between Pakistan and the US). Liaquat replied that Pakistan has annexed half of Kashmir without American support and would be able to take the other half too.” Not only that, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan also demanded that the US vacate air bases in Pakistan. “Liaquat’s demand was a bombshell for Washington. Americans who had been dreaming of conquering Soviet Russia from Pakistan air bases were flabbergasted,” the article emphasized. And hence the plot to kill Liaquat was hatched, says the article. However, “the US wanted a Muslim assassin, so as to obviate international complications. The US could not find a traitor in Pakistan (apparently for the reason that the new country was then brimming with nationalistic pride and hope for future),” the article added. The US then turned to Kabul. “Washington contacted the US Embassy in Kabul. They in turn got in touch with Pashtoonistan leaders, pointing to Liaquat as their only hurdle and assuring them that if some of them could kill Liaquat, the US would undertake the task of establishing Pashtoonistan by 1952.” At this the “Pashtoon leaders induced Akbar to take the job and also made arrangements for him to be killed immediately after so as to conceal the conspiracy. The Pakistani currency recovered from the assassin’s body also reveal that others were also involved. Due to already strained relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan no currency exchange was then taking place between the two countries. Hence only the “American Embassy (in Kabul) could have supplied the Pakistani currency notes to the assassin,” the summary argued. The article also mentioned that the cartridges recovered from the body of the assassinated Pakistani premier were US made. The type of bullet used to kill the Pakistani prime minister were in “use by high-ranking American officers”, and were “not usually available in the market”. The rest is for us to deduce. The article then summarized that all these facts prove that the real culprit behind the killing was the US, which had committed similar acts in the Middle East as well. There are many parallels between then and now. And all this could not be just a matter of chance. Oil, assassinations, dollars, Iran, air bases, all these sound familiar even today. Fifty years have passed, yet things may not have really changed.

Declassified Papers Shed Light on US Role in Liaquat’s Murder

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KURRAM AGENCY: Six people were killed in two different incidents of violence in Lower Kurram Agency on Sunday.

Four people die as rocket fired by unidentified people hits their vehicle in the Shahi Dhand area.

KURRAM AGENCY: Six people were killed in two different incidents of violence in Lower Kurram Agency on Sunday.

Four people were killed when a rocket fired by unidentified people hit their vehicle in the Shahi Dhand area. They were travelling from Parachinar to Peshawar.

In another incident, unidentified men shot dead two pedestrians in Lower Kurram Agency.

No one has claimed responsibility for the killings as yet while the identification of pedestrians is yet to be confirmed.

Security forces launched a search operation the area after the incidents took place.