Pakistan releases 16 Taliban prisoners

[Shah-i-Kot]

Pakistan releases 16 Taliban prisoners

Thursday, April 03, 2014
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's government met one of the Taliban's key demands in ongoing peace talks by releasing 16 Taliban prisoners on Thursday, Pakistan's interior ministry confirmed.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved the release of 16 prisoners belonging to the Mehsud tribe, which founded the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) network of militant groups from across the country, from a detention center in South Waziristan.
"The released prisoners do not include any Taliban commander. They all are non-combatants," said Islam Zaib, the administrative officer for South Waziristan, a region near the Afghanistan border.
The prisoners were taken into custody in a 2009 military onslaught on Mehsud-dominated areas of South Waziristan, which were considered TTP strongholds.
A senior interior ministry official told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonimty that the decision to release the first batch of prisoners had been taken in a meeting between the Prime MInister Nawaz Sharif and army chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday as a "goodwill" gesture.
The Taliban had earlier accused the government of not fulfilling its promises regarding the peace process and one of its senior members had warned that a month-long ceasefire may not be extended because of alleged government violations of the agreement.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news/398364/

[HalloIsBack]

why does the gorvernment release the taliban prisoners?

[Admin Khan]

Because Pakistan enjoys its favorite import -- terrorism.

[HalloIsBack]

Because Pakistan enjoys its favorite import -- terrorism.

but they don't do a favor for themselves....

[Admin Khan]

but they don't do a favor for themselves....

As long as Punjab is in peace, the blood of Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan is pretty cheap. Think of all the people that have died in the Pashtun belt.

[HalloIsBack]

As long as Punjab is in peace, the blood of Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan is pretty cheap. Think of all the people that have died in the Pashtun belt.

what goes around comes around

[کیش]

why does the gorvernment release the taliban prisoners?

well if you actually read the article it says they were all non-combatants. but since you're not Pashtun, you're thinking if a Pashtun is in prison he's automatically a Talib. generalization failed

and 5 years in prison is equivalent to 5 life times.

also, this issue is have no concern to you.

and why on earth as a mod not removed that giant size signature of a criminal?

[HalloIsBack]

well if you actually read the article it says they were all non-combatants. but since you're not Pashtun, you're thinking if a Pashtun is in prison he's automatically a Talib. generalization failed

and 5 years in prison is equivalent to 5 life times.

also, this issue is have no concern to you.

and why on earth as a mod not removed that giant size signature of a criminal?

next time i will ask you what i should wtite my majesty

[HalloIsBack]

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[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

I support the peace process but the Govt should have also demanded the Pakistanis such as the son of Ex PM gilani in return

I hope they will not return to the battlefield because these 16 can destroy lots of families

[Bost Bastan News]

پاکستان: افغانان به د وسله والو طالبانو له ګوښونو سره سره په ټاکنو کې برخه واخلي

پاکستان وايي، هيله لري چې د وسله والو طالبانو له ګواښونو سره سره به ګڼ افغانان د خپل هېواد په ټاکنو کې برخه واخلي. دغه څرګندونې د پاکستان د بهرنيو چارو د وزارت وياندې تسنيم اسلم پرون په اسلام اباد کې اونیزې خبرې غونډې ته وکړې. اسلم وویل، چې هېواد به يې په افغانستان کې د ټاکنو پرمهال کرښې ته څېرمه امنيتي تدابيرلا سخت کړي او د غیر قانوني تګ راتګ مخه به ونيسي. هغې يو ځل بيا پردې خبرې ټينګار وکړ، په داسې حال کې چې په کابل کې او د افغانستان په نورو سيمو کې د ترورېستي بريدونو مسووليت افغان طالبانو منلى دى، د افغان دولت له خوا پر پاکستان لګول شوي تورونه د اندېښنې وړ دي. اسلم همدا راز وويل، چې په افغانستان کې د ټاکنو د امنيت ټينګول د افغان امنیتي ځواکونو دنده ده، خو که افغان دولت وغواړي، نو دوی مرستې ته چمتو دي

[hk1992]

Taliban demands Pakistan give back women, child prisoners

• Amanda Hodge
• The Australian
• March 28, 2014 12:00AM

A Pakistani girl, whose family was displaced from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, holds on to a plastic sheet used as a rain cover against the wind, on the outskirts of Islamabad. Source: AP



SENIOR Pakistani Taliban figures have demanded the release of women and child civilians it claims are being detained under the country’s terrorism act as a condition for continued peace talks, in the first face-to-face meeting between insurgency commanders and government mediators.

The meeting, held late on Wednesday between five government-appointed interlocutors and members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) political shura (council) in the Orakzai agency of Pakistan’s tribal border region, has been hailed as a minor breakthrough by the government, given that no Taliban figures of authority participated in the initial round of talks last month.
Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former diplomat and member of the government’s mediation team, told The Australian no decision was made on extending the current ceasefire, though discussions would continue in coming days, most likely in South Waziristan.
“There’s been no agreement on an extension but we have asked them to not engage in any attacks, assuming that it will be extended very soon. That’s the unwritten consensus,” he said yesterday.
Mr Mohmand revealed that Taliban mediators had handed over a list of non-combatant women and child prisoners it claims are being held by the government and who must be released for talks to progress.
The government has, in turn, sought the release of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son Haider Gilani, kidnapped during last May’s election campaign; Peshawar University vice-chancellor professor Ajmal Khan; and the son of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, who has been held captive for more than three years.
“The sticking point is the unwillingness, or inability, of the government to release some of the prisoners so that confidence and trust levels can be built up and dialogue may continue,” Mr Mohmand said, adding that the list of non-combatant prisoners would be investigated.
Though the government denies holding women or children prisoners, Mr Mohmand said it would still be possible for a prisoner release to be conducted “without any publicity”.
The current month-long ceasefire has provided a rare respite for Pakistanis from deadly militant strikes, which escalated after the November assassination by drone attack of former TTP commander Hakimullah Mehsud, who was replaced by hardline Swat Valley commander Maulana Fazlullah.
While Mr Mohmand acknowledged as positive the Taliban’s decision to replace proxy mediators with senior TTP figures, and described the mood of Wednesday’s meeting as “very good, very informal”, he remained pessimistic that the talks would reap long-term benefits.
“The suspicions are so deep-seated, the litany of grievances so long, the suffering and pain on both sides have been so heavy,” he said.
“The number of people killed and wounded is so large that naturally you can’t expect any significant breakthrough in the first interactions. It will need time and consistency and it will need some courage.”





Maybe that helps clarify the duplicity of pakistan which is the most oppressive country in the world, its just not as well covered by the media or the media doesnt care about pashtun women or children, if i was one of those prisoners and i was a man i would go back on the battlefield until every child and women arrested by the paskistani government was freed.
N.B. Pakistan is not above this they sold afia siddiqui and her children to the americans who did god knows what to her in guantanamo because she is sadly no longer sane after the torture she has suffered and her 3 year old toddler who was also arrested by the americans is "missing".
So please dont go on defending this evil creation that is pakistan, its army and state deserve no sympathy except from people who support there evil and subversive policies.

[Bengal_Tiger]

[B]





Maybe that helps clarify the duplicity of pakistan which is the most oppressive country in the world, its just not as well covered by the media or the media doesnt care about pashtun women or children, if i was one of those prisoners and i was a man i would go back on the battlefield until every child and women arrested by the paskistani government was freed.
N.B. Pakistan is not above this they sold afia siddiqui and her children to the americans who did god knows what to her in guantanamo because she is sadly no longer sane after the torture she has suffered and her 3 year old toddler who was also arrested by the americans is "missing".
So please dont go on defending this evil creation that is pakistan, its army and state deserve no sympathy except from people who support there evil and subversive policies.

1. I don't think even the Israelis have done things like this.


2. The Pakistan army is worse than Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and Israel, for example none of those ran sex camps where they raped their victims claiming they were female concubines from a "jihad". This is what the Pakistan army did in Bangladesh in 1971.

The Pakistani army and state are truly an abomination.

[jaan maan]

1. I don't think even the Israelis have done things like this.


2. The Pakistan army is worse than Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and Israel, for example none of those ran sex camps where they raped their victims claiming they were female concubines from a "jihad". This is what the Pakistan army did in Bangladesh in 1971.

The Pakistani army and state are truly an abomination.

Bongoli i have read about it, Bengalis have even financed bollywood movie on rape propaganda 1971 war. Where they claimed Pakistanis raped millions of bengali woman to change genetic composition

No one believes it a part from Bengali butt hurt nationalists.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Bongoli i have read about it, Bengalis have even financed bollywood movie on rape propaganda 1971 war. Where they claimed Pakistanis raped millions of bengali woman to change genetic composition

No one believes it a part from Bengali butt hurt nationalists.

Post reported for mockingly misspelling the ethnic term "Bengali", a tactic Pakistani nationalists use to disparagingly refer to Bengalis whom they consider inferior.


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Gen A.A Khan Niazi did not deny rapes were being carried out and opined, in a Freudian tone, “You cannot expect a man to live, fight, and die in East Pakistan and go to Jhelum for sex, would you?”

http://sindhudeshliberationmovement.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/bengali-women-in-1971-bangladesh-war-of-independence/

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Quoting other eye-witnesses of the Bangladesh holocaust, Newsweek wrote, New Jersey Congressman Cornelius Gallagher, who visited the Agartala hospital, says he came to India thinking the atrocity stories were exaggerated. But when he actually saw the wounded he began to believe that, if anything, the reports had been toned down. A much-decorated officer with Patton in Europe during World War II, Gallagher told me: "In the war, I saw the worst areas of France, the killing grounds in Normandy, but I never saw anything like that. It took all of my strength to keep from breaking down and crying."

Cornelius Gallagher.


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A report published in Newsweek on June 28, 1971, titled "The terrible blood bath of Tikka Khan", quoted Tony Clifton, a correspondent of Newsweek, who visited some refugee camps in Agartala of India. Clifton wrote:

"Anyone who goes to the camps and hospitals along India's border with Pakistan comes away believing the Punjabi army capable of any atrocity. I have seen babies who have been shot, men who have had their backs whipped raw. I've seen people literally struck dumb by the horror of seeing their children murdered in front of them or their daughters dragged off into sexual slavery. I have no doubt at all that there have been a hundred 'Mylais' and 'Lidices' in East Pakistan -- and I think, there will be more.

Other foreigners, too, were dubious about the atrocities at first, but the endless repetition of stories from different sources convinced them. "I am certain that troops have thrown babies into the air and caught them on their bayonets," says John Hastings, a Methodist missionary who has lived in Bengal for 20 years. "I am certain that troops have raped girls repeatedly, then killed them by pushing their bayonets up between their legs."

http://archive.thedailystar.net/forum/2010/December/bangladesh.htm

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Time magazine reported on 563 girls who had been kidnapped and held by the military; all of them were between three and five months pregnant when the military began to release them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bangladesh_Liberation_War

Coggin, Dan (1971). "East Pakistan: Even the Skies Weep". Time 98: 157.


To everyone else, I am going to place the Pakistani nationalist troll above on ignore. Maybe in the due course of time this Pakistani nationalist may violate forum rules, abuse people and be banned. We all know what Pakistani nationalists like.

However on a more important note is the fact that Saudi Arabia and Saudi regime officials totally back Pakistan over 1971 and have nothing but contempt for Bangladesh's existence as an independent state and for the Bengali people in general. The educated classes and liberals of Pakistan are quite ashamed of what the Pakistan army did in 1971. You cannot blame a whole nation for the actions of an army. However Saudi Arabia and its regime need to stop condoning the genocide of 1971.




Faisal Al-Saud who has been the foreign minister for Saudi Arabia for the past few decades. Some even speculate that he is the de facto unofficial ruler of Saudi Arabia, as a Qatari prince once did. His regime are strong supporters of the Pakistani military and are heavily anti-Bangladeshi including imposing sanctions on Bangladesh and organizing police harassment of Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia to show anger when Bangladesh displeases pro-Pakistan elements.