TTP rejects govt’s call for unconditional ceasefire
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MIRAMSHAH: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has rejected the government’s call for an unconditional ceasefire. “If this is what we have to do, we would have done it 10 years ago,” TTP’s spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said on Tuesday.
“It is the government which has waged a war against us and it is for the government to end it now. Let the government hold fire and we shall follow suit,” he told this correspondent.
He blamed intelligence agencies for Monday’s killing of its senior commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani.
He said Shaheen Bhittani, whom he described as a colleague and a veteran of jihad, had been on the hit list of intelligence agencies.
He said that there had been a few other incidents of killing of TTP commanders and his organisation suspected them to be the handiwork of the agencies. “This is a drone’s alternative. Now we are being hunted through ground drones.”
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Feb 26, 2014 07:56am
Hats off to intelligence agencies if that's true. Please continue the 'ground drone' policy!
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Feb 26, 2014 08:18am
"Now we are being hunted through ground drones"... I am very happy to hear this. Someone has to put fear in their hearts and minds. It has gone on for too long.
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Feb 26, 2014 08:24am
He means to say the hunters are being hunted.Well that's how the saying goes "what goes around comes around"Now it is the turn of the Govt Thankyour lucky stars I am living far off or I would personally have waged a war against you savages and taken you out one by one.
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Feb 26, 2014 08:36am
TTP leaders will be hunted down in every nook and corner of Pakistan. There is no room for such hooligans in Pakistan. People of Pakistan, government and opposition is standing behind Pakistan military. InshaALLAH we will eradicate this menace from our homeland.
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Feb 26, 2014 10:19am
Beacsue this is what you barbarians deserve.
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Feb 26, 2014 10:46am
Dear Pakistan Army,
Hit them again please.
Regards,
Usman
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Feb 26, 2014 11:02am
good. if it done by agencies, good work by them.
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Feb 26, 2014 11:16am
Jab Chunti Ki Moat Ati Hai To Uske Par Nikal Aete Hain.
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Feb 26, 2014 11:19am
I hope what they did not understand 10 years ago understand now that how much people of Pakistan HATE them...
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Feb 26, 2014 11:30am
We, the lawyers distributed sweets in Lahore on the occasion of elimination of Asmatullah.
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Feb 26, 2014 11:39am
There is very simple solution how to clean this mess,do what sadam did with kurds in halabja first let civilians to leave and then gas them without any warning even the world community wont mind it.
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Feb 26, 2014 12:54pm
I cant wait to see this man's lifeless head on top of his bullet ridden body.
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Feb 26, 2014 01:32pm
Ground drones are cost effective as compared to sky ones. Any person or organization waging a war against our country must be eliminated without thinking about a dialogue with them.
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Feb 26, 2014 01:38pm
You are an elected government and there is an overwhelming mandate from the Pakistani people to wipe out these uneducated fools, why are you still talking to them. They understand the language of only guns and bombs, so talk to them only in that language they understand. Please don't waste your time. They are a disgrace not only for Pakistan but for the entire Muslim nation. Please save the innocent Pakistanis by wiping out these heartless murderers. Have no mercy whatsoever!
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Feb 26, 2014 02:26pm
@Abid Hussain:
The lawyers of Pakistan also showered Tahir ul Qadri with roses, so let's not go there.
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Feb 26, 2014 02:26pm
Pakistan Army is a sleeping Giant, These TTP pests have been biting at its toes for way too long, Pak army should move the civilian population from the troubled areas and make an example of these terrorists once and for all, that anyone who thinks that they can break up Pakistani nation or hurt Pakistanis and walk away with it. These are cowards who can't face Pak army like men that
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Feb 26, 2014 03:07pm
No need of dialogue, if the civilian leader ship does not have courage then I will ask Military to take over and wipe out these barbarian and the suppoter of these evils in the assembly once for all. See how peaceful now is Sri Lanka after killing all the terrorist there. Our Army is class A in the world if they want they can do it within no time Go Pak Army Go people are behind you. Pak Army Zindabad Pakistan Paindabad
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Feb 26, 2014 03:51pm
@zia khan:
No man, we weren't footing the bill of the 'aerial drones', so not, this is NOT cost-effective. Pakistan should have owned up to the drone program, positioned itself as an equal partner with the US, and then killed all this vermin on American tax payer's money.
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Feb 26, 2014 04:18pm
@Imran:
It seems you are a bigger savage than him for having a mindset like yours
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Feb 26, 2014 04:27pm
The official reply has come from the 'horse's mouth'; if they are not willing to an 'unconditional ceasefire' nor' accept peace-negotiations 'under the framework of the Constitution', then the armed forces should hit them hard, until this lawlessness comes to an end and the writ of the Govt. is re-established across the whole of Pakistan incl. FATA, and before they regroup and continue their nefarious and barbaric activities against us, however long it takes to subdue them. But every action has a reaction, so the innocent civilians must be prepared for casualties, too, and a long drawn-out and bloody affair, ahead, as this is guerrilla warfare (similar to the Sri Lankan experience)!
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Feb 26, 2014 04:42pm
TTPs are terrorists to the core and must be eliminated, not spoken to. Infact, TTP spokesmen will also be taken out in due time.
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Feb 26, 2014 04:55pm
@Sri Lankan Muslim:
Well said. I agree 100% with your view.
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Feb 26, 2014 05:13pm
hi,
Pak intelligence and forces well aware of their hides. once our so called democratic govt and innocent peoples tie up dismantle them , it will turn up in few months.
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Feb 26, 2014 05:13pm
good job done pak intelligence agencies.
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Feb 26, 2014 05:21pm
Yes, it is time for Intelligence agencies to hunt these criminals down. Also time for media to stop covering their press conferences. Let us hunt these spokespersons and silence them. I am sure media can help.
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Feb 26, 2014 06:39pm
Thank you for your strength dear a Pakistani brothers and sisters.It is this collective will and of decisive action by the nation Inshaa Allah that will defeat these animals.The only problem is that the animals are much better and civilized than these lunatics.Happy to see that Allhumdulillah after 14 comments in this blog I have. Counted 767 likes to 49 negatives.The people of Pakistanare speaking the umbers will grow Inshaa Allah.
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Feb 26, 2014 07:18pm
People, demand removal of capital punishment stay order and creation of special courts for speedy trial and execution of these TTP leaders. As they said that its a war and war laws should apply to these enemy of state.
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Feb 26, 2014 07:19pm
Oh My God, how they talk, just like an established, accepted, bonafide political entity, as if they are equal in all respects to an independent state. But they are nothing but a bunch of ignorant barbarians who kill girls to stop them to go to school and kill children just to make a mark.
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Feb 26, 2014 07:33pm
Bravo!!!! Pakistan Army. Clean this menace from every nook n corner of Pakistan, our beloved country.
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Feb 26, 2014 07:55pm
"Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has rejected the government
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Feb 26, 2014 08:25pm
My question to PTI and JI : What next ?
Can we give a go ahead signal to our forces now to kill them all ?
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Feb 26, 2014 08:44pm
this guy needs to be arrested and paraded in front of the media
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Feb 26, 2014 08:46pm
what do you all think about the interior minister joking about playing cricket with killers? I am extremely disgusted by this lack of clarity and understanding of the situation by someone in the govt!
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Feb 26, 2014 08:57pm
@Asghar hussain:
Trust me then so called human rights organisations will start crying about them as It is their business not service to human being.
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Feb 26, 2014 09:55pm
It all seems like aggression now, but soon the govt will start the old mantra of peace and talks. This is what they have done in the past 10 years; why would they change it now knowing that a full scale war would be disastrous for TTP and Pakistan.
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Feb 26, 2014 10:48pm
Dear Prime Minister,
There you go. TTP just told you that you must cease fire, first.
Sir, Are you going to follow that demand and remove any and all doubts, once and for ever, about your indecisiveness, lack of spine and commitment to protect Pakistan? OR, by agreeing to the terrorists' demand to cease fire first; you will remove the least bit of "Fig Leaf" that might be remaining to your reputation.
Sir, We hope you would stand up to the task of getting rid of these murdering terrorists and have no more negotiations with them.
Sir, The country awaits your decision.
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Feb 26, 2014 11:07pm
TTP does not want dialogue and the govt should not be so naive to expect the issue to be resolved through dialogue. Militancy can only be eliminated via military action that is swift, hard and far reaching. The govt should realize that we have reached the threshold and come out of fool's paradise. Keep those PGMs going.
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Feb 26, 2014 11:11pm
@Kammi Kameen:
A kammi kameen always lives on resources of others at the cost of his dignity. Firstly, we are at war with our own people because of Americans. Secondly, they never shared drone technology & it was not right under any circumstances to allow them to fly drones in our skies and kill our people. Musharraf as army commander had no powers to allow Americans to violate our sovereignty and should be tried for high treason.
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Feb 27, 2014 12:02am
So hilarious to see Taliban apologists (JI and brain washed mullah) supporters giving hands down to all these comments supporting Pak army and these operations!
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Feb 27, 2014 12:07am
why our hackle and jackle government is interested in talks with Talibans since Talibans are not showing any interest in it.
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Feb 27, 2014 12:35am
@Amjad Wyne:
*Someone has to put fear in their hearts and minds.*
Allah has filled the Muslim heart with faith and courage. There is no place left in there for fear. You are only projecting what fills yours.
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Feb 27, 2014 01:31am
Well done Pakistan Army! No need to arrest these pathetic low life criminals. Give them quick justice that they deserve.
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Feb 27, 2014 04:43am
@Abid Hussain:
You, the lawyers, also tossed rose petals on Mumtaz Qadri for murdering Governor Taseer.
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Feb 27, 2014 08:43am
Targeted killing is a legitimate weapon against terrorists and our agencies should be given a free hand in such matters.
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Feb 27, 2014 02:19pm
Good on our political leaders, to proceed with negotiations. AT first, I was against the negotiations as well. But now, as these negotiations, and the actions of TTP, has almost revealed the true face and direction of TTP, I am pleased with the strategy. How long will the people like to be silent supporters of TTP - the enemies of Allah, who are killing muslims, while claiming to spread the will of Allah - these hypocrites (munafiq).
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Feb 27, 2014 07:13pm
@Ahmer:
A very misguided thought.
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Feb 27, 2014 09:45pm
Its "good news" It means the military will have "shoot on sight" for these terrorists" more will be "wiped out" and finish these "janwars" off for good "inshallah"
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Feb 28, 2014 07:02am
@ISHRAT:
Yes Sir,You must not kill muslims, even if they are breaking laws and are declared criminals by the court..But it is ok to kill , law abiding ,non muslims ,and here I thought we are in 21st century??
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Feb 28, 2014 07:03am
@Ahmer:
But doing so will be anti islamic.Is not it??
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Feb 28, 2014 07:04am
@GA:
Because He is a Muslim.Islam as you know is not an equal oppurtunity Institution.
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Feb 28, 2014 07:07am
@El Cid:
Fear Force fraud are used by both sides,as both are following the same Devinely sanctioned only true faith.
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Feb 28, 2014 12:23pm
As a non-Pakistani, it is heartening to see the support for these long overdue operations from most ordinary Pakistanis who have to bear the brunt of the violence and lack of security in their country on a daily basis. And it is also evident that the loudest and shrillest voices in support of the Taliban thugs are from fundamentalist hypocrites who are sitting in their safe cocoons in western nations while egging on these illiterate barbarians to commit mass murder in their home country.
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Feb 28, 2014 04:36pm
There is no need to arrest these evil low life criminals. Give them quick justice that they deserve.
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Feb 28, 2014 07:42pm
@Haroon Rooha:
*both are following the same Devinely sanctioned only true faith*
Not so. The truth escapes you, as is obvious from your self contradictory comment.
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