Ibrahim says air strikes to complicate situation
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PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief and member of the Taliban talks committee Prof Mohammad Ibrahim has condemned the shelling in Khyber Agency and North Waziristan and described it as an action against innocent citizens.
In a statement issued by the JI here on Thursday, he said that the air strikes would further complicate the situation, adding that the ultimate sufferers would be the innocent people because random firing and shelling could never prove useful for restoration of peace.
Prof Ibrahim said that military operation was no solution to the problems because thousands of innocent people had become prey to the operations during past 10 years and if the government did not stop the action the casualties might go up.
He said that the deadlock in negotiations was not due to the Taliban committee, as the government itself had unilaterally stopped the process. He said that negotiations could succeed only with complete ceasefire from both the sides.
“We were waiting for response of the government committee, but it failed to respond positively despite our contact. He said that the government committee’s response refusing to meet Taliban committee was very irresponsible and childish.
Prof Ibrahim said that the government committee also took the Taliban committee members as Taliban and avoided meeting it. He said that they were not Taliban, but making efforts for restoration of peace.
He said that the government committee had created the deadlock and now it would contact them for resumption of talks. “The Taliban committee will not make any contact for the purpose because it has fulfilled its responsibilities,” he said.
Describing the government’s demands against the custodial killings of security personnel as legitimate, he asked the government to assure Taliban that there would be no extrajudicial killing.
Referring to a statement of Federal Minister for Information Pervez Rasheed, the JI leader said that the religion did not allow anyone to slit throats, but Islam also forbade killing of people through violence and throwing of bodies in gunnysacks on roads.
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Feb 21, 2014 07:37am
Dear Professor, move to Miranshah where your heart really belongs.
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Feb 21, 2014 07:37am
'...and described it as an action against innocent citizens.'
I wonder why dont we hear a similar condemnation when the TTP and all the other factions take lives of innocent civilians living outside of Fata? Hmm!!!
Respected Prof. Ibrahim, your silence on killing of innocent Pakistanis explains why 'the government committee also took the Taliban committee members as Taliban'.
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Feb 21, 2014 07:42am
Govt. should declare Taliban as terrorists and only then Govt. will be able to deal with friends of terrorist as a crime and treason.
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Feb 21, 2014 07:44am
I hope Allah punishes this professor. If he is so upset about the so called gunnysack for which there is no proof, where was he when Taliban were blowing up innocents everywhere.
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Feb 21, 2014 08:05am
Jamaat-i-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief and member of the Taliban talks committee Prof Mohammad Ibrahim speaks the language of Taliban, the enemies of Pakistan, no question about it. Mr. Nawaz Sharif must take all actions to protect Pakistanis by eliminating the terrorists entirely with clear understanding that there are innocent casualties in every war and without war the enemies cannot be entirely eliminated. There is no place in Pakistan for traitors and friends of traitors,
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Feb 21, 2014 08:07am
Can't this gentleman advise Talibans likewise to stop killing of innocent citizens and security personnel? Is the blood of Talibans more sacred than the blood of innocent citizens of Pakistan?
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Feb 21, 2014 08:12am
You people don't have a heart do you? You are so quick to condemn army response but when they slaughter soldiers, you are silent. We don't need peace intermediaries like you.
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Feb 21, 2014 08:24am
This operation should not stop, bring them to their knees , then they will negociate , NS is a coward we need Mussraff back to fight, when Pakistan is at the brinsk of breaking down the army nor the citizens of Pakistan should tolerate this nonsense anymore ,we had enough.
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Feb 21, 2014 08:42am
" Prof Mohammad Ibrahim has condemned the shelling in Khyber Agency and North Waziristan and described it as an action against innocent citizens"
LOL! I wish the learned professor should have uttered similar sentiments for the peoples being killed by the most cruel action of the Taliban. May be the professor has forgotten the several bombing in market places in Peshawar where women, children & elderly persons were converted into small pieces of bone & flesh.
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Feb 21, 2014 08:46am
Actually, it the continued massacre of Pakistani citizens by the Taliban that has complicated the situation. Hit them until they renounce violence.
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Feb 21, 2014 08:55am
Apparently they are bearded pious looking men but sometimes I wonder at their audacity . They consider air-strikes , which was a reaction as complicating the situation but not once, not once these god fearing men condemned the Taliban who killed soldiers in cold blood. may they go where they deserve to go after their death. Inshallah.
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Feb 21, 2014 09:02am
perhaps prof ibrahim could also condemn slaughter of army men with equal zeal
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Feb 21, 2014 09:05am
Preposterous statement by Prof. Ibrahim!
Now entire Pakistan knows who is complicating the life of this nation. You and your proteges are now completely naked in front of this nation.
Stop supporting terrorists and terrorism. We always expected this kind of statements from you when innocent Pakistanis were losing their lives due to terrorism of your children called TTP jihadis.
The days of your politics and the lives of your terrorists are numbered now. We want ruthless actions against this takfiri group.
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Feb 21, 2014 09:08am
Well said
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Feb 21, 2014 09:29am
Killing of 23 Soldiers did not complicate the situation?
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Feb 21, 2014 09:42am
Yeah Islam are not allowed to slit humans throat but Islam also nor allow to do any Jihad against their Neighboring Countries too.
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Feb 21, 2014 09:46am
How dare he made such comments! Did he forget that 22 innocent army men were beheaded? What morals he stands by? Anybody who sides with terrorists must be declared terrorist also. Enough is enough! We are tired of this type of animals.
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Feb 21, 2014 09:56am
Clearly the JI people are working against the government and for the TTP...these guys ignore the murderers of citizens and soldiers and want the government to just continue talks while terrorist continue to terrorize the country...JI is working for the enemy of Pakistan...
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Feb 21, 2014 10:06am
Ibrahim,why didn't you condemned Taliban when they killed 23 Pakistani soldiers.
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Feb 21, 2014 10:07am
the mullahs will never be satisfied... they want nothing else but the whole country so they can practice their imaginary, never-proven so-called stone-age islamic system. They must be destroyed and their sympathizers and apologists silenced before they destroy Islam completely (its already considered a backward ideology in most of the world) even in the Islamic countries.
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Feb 21, 2014 10:49am
Can he prove the people bombed were innocent. Making these claims with an intention to misguide the public is exactly the agenda of the Taliban; to hide behind innocent citizens and continue killing them. Why doesn't he consider that? If he sympathizes with these atrocious humans who are more animal than human, he is one of them.
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Feb 21, 2014 10:55am
I say, bomb the Terrorists, their sympathisers/supporters & abettors!
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Feb 21, 2014 10:59am
Dear Professor, if you are not Taliban then who are you? You are Taliban and great protector of Taliban. Secondly, if air strike will kill Talibans you call it killing innocents. When Taliban ruthlessly kill innocent Pakistanis, I do not see you expressing any concerns. Government need to ban JI and try their leaders for treason.
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Feb 21, 2014 11:03am
Pakistan is a Muslim country, being Muslim country citizen our responsibility is to protect each other life as well as Pakistan Muslim protect non Muslim life. Pakistan Government and Taliban realized that killing in Islam not allowed in all respect. Muslim should not kill Muslim as well as non Muslim because our religion does not allowed innocent people killing. Allah never forgive a person or leader of a group or country who is not protecting a innocent person life, if Muslim keep killing non Muslim or own Muslim brother then Muslim damage Islam image. We should learn tolerance in this difficult time. Allah may reward you for your patient. Taliban Muslims destroying Islam image, they should tolerate and wait for the good time. Allah reward you if you wait and very soon you see the changes, please do not force Islam on other non Muslim
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Feb 21, 2014 11:18am
JI is complicit and are supporting Taliban all over Pakistan. Maybe the FIR should reflect the leadership names of JI when Taliban claim an attack as their own.
When once these guys are mentioned the atrocities will cease.
It will take courage and Pakistan doesn't have it; Bangladesh did.
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Feb 21, 2014 11:23am
Oh yes, talibans should be allowed to decapitate pakistanis anytime and anywhere according to this character.
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Feb 21, 2014 12:25pm
Well said. Very few have the courage and guts to speak truth , clearly and loudly.
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Feb 21, 2014 12:39pm
Taliban and innocent! My foot. No sympathy for these criminals. They are ruthlessly killing so many innocent citizens of Pakistan on a daily basis and people like such, who are themselves complicit trying to defend the criminals whenever and where ever they can. These sort of people should be brought to book as soon as possible without delay.
Pakistan forces should bomb their hideouts and finish off where possible these criminals and terrorists. This leadership of Pakistan seems to be also hand in gloves with the terrorist. Armed forces should wake up and do what they have to do without delay.
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Feb 21, 2014 12:50pm
@Kamal:
its is beyond my comprehension why the paklstani media would allow these ignorant barbarians/professors so much space in the media....?
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Feb 21, 2014 12:56pm
Allow the Drones then.
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Feb 21, 2014 12:57pm
Solution is simple, kill them All.
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Feb 21, 2014 02:31pm
We as pakistani nation will never bend our head down to the illness TTP. If they kill our defenders of pakistani borders, and its citizens in the name of their own religion ( not Islam ), we will strikes back.
I am very well of aware of the results - hates make more hates, but let it so bee. I will never accept that somebody can imagine to change our constitution with something else home made...
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Feb 21, 2014 03:15pm
Mr Ibrahim, with all due repsect does the throat cutting of 23 FC soldiers only this week not completcate matters?
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Feb 21, 2014 03:23pm
@Khan:
I think you are crazy, brainwashed person. wake up we are in the 21 century and not living in 18 century anymore. Look where the world has gone. Taliban will push you back to stone age and seeing everything through religious lenses will be no good. It is after all yourown country whether you wish to be secular or Islamic will not matter to a common man. And remember the leaders propagating the sharia are not deprived of any luxury in their lives while they do not want a common man to be enjoying any freedom.
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Feb 21, 2014 03:35pm
Government should not allowed Taliban to kill innocent people. Taliban's and there supporter should be finished moreover.
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Feb 21, 2014 03:38pm
@Raza:
Exactly why did you not condemned killing of innocent citizens of Pakistan. They are not made of Plastic or anything else.
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Feb 21, 2014 04:00pm
Biggest problem with muslims is that they always see everything through the prism of Islam as if everything else doesn't have a relevance. The moment muslims start thinking about world and humanity at large everything will fall in place.
Can't imagine a country made in the name of Islam is still trying to come in terms with its true identity.
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Feb 21, 2014 05:18pm
@Khan:
stop living in the imaginary world in which muslims dont kill other muslims. They have been killing each other since islam came into the world. 3 of the first 4 caliphs were murdered by other muslims. the breakup of the ottoman empire was also mostly driven by the muslim populations living within it. look at syria, libya, afghanistan, pakistan now.
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Feb 23, 2014 01:14am
which came first head slitting or airstrikes?
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Feb 23, 2014 06:24am
Ibrahim, now you complain when Sharia Law is enforced on TTP killers? Bombing of the killers only complicates life for the killers, it simplifies matters for Pakistan. Ibrahim you cannot save your own life by supporting criminal killers who violate the Sharia.
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Feb 23, 2014 06:26am
@about time: So we can identify them for drone strikes.
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Feb 23, 2014 07:56am
I have seen people like prof Ibrahim, they talk about Islam; but never act on the Allah refrains us from doing. They are in truth a perfect hypocrite that the prophet PBUH described as the biggest enemy of Islam. The media should stop giving them coverage and cause confusion in my beloved country. The army has been given permission by the majority of Pakistanis to rid us of 1% of this cancer. PLEASE DON'T STOP NOW!
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Feb 23, 2014 08:23am
agreed 100%
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Feb 23, 2014 05:07pm
"government committee
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Feb 24, 2014 08:29am
We should kill the top leadership of the Taliban whenever possible, blind the movement's direction, they will turn on each other and kill themselves off...no point killing lowly foot solders right now
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Feb 24, 2014 08:23pm
@TUNG:
"which came first head slitting or airstrikes"
Air strikes and extra judicial murders by Pakistan's military started 12years earlier...you were not informed, I guess.
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