Chemical Weapons used in Lal Masjid Operation

By Teeth Maestro on Jul 14, 2007 in Politics, Pakistan | Share This

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On 12th July, AAJ Tv boradcasted a program of Live with Talat in which Talat Hussain visited Jamia Hafsa. While touring the bullet ridden compound a number of military personal hovered around, at a certain point Talat Hussain asked an accompanying Army personal about all the evidence of smoke around the area asking, “Why is there so much smoke?”, the solider replied “WP”, Talat put another question “Please explain WP?”, the solider answered “White Phosphorus.”

White Phosphorus is a flare / smoke producing incendiary weapon which is also used as an offensive Anti-Personnel flame compound capable of causing serious burns or death. White phosphorus weapons are controversial today because of its potential use against humans, for whom one-tenth of a gram is a deadly dose and according to the Geneva Convention which was later amended by the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons signed into effect in 1997, expressively prohibits the use against civilians. White Phosphorus weapons have been used in the recent past by Israel in Lebanon and US and UK in Iraq, but probably the first time ever by a an army against its own people

Article 1 of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (Wikipedia) defines an incendiary weapon as ‘any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target’. The same protocol also prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilians or in civilian areas. However, the use against military targets outside civilian areas is not explicitly banned by any treaty.

There continues to be a strong debate on how Musharraf should have handled this situation, but what surprises me is the inhumanity of this attack, dexterity of the assault should have meant targeted exchange of fire maybe an occasional rubber bullet to pacify the milder militants, but the indiscriminate use of chemical weapons, by the National Army against its own people. Is jaw dropping serious, its akin to the mass murder which happened in Karachi on May 12th when the Army headed off to the barracks leaving the city at the hands of ruthless killers for six hours..

To understand the gravity of the situation one has only to look at these two images of burnt bodies the sight is excruciatingly painful, when the Americans used White Phosphorous on the victims in Fallujah back in April 2004.

If you look at the top most image which appeared in Dawn on 13th July (link) one sees the classic signs of a high intensity flame, which reached astounding temperatures to melt the steel framework of ceiling fans, one must also noted that the public was not shown the remains of numerous people killed in the disaster and quickly buried them in concealed wooden coffins the next day.

I am shocked and stunned at what has just happened, it should be enough for the world to wake up and ask for an unconditional removal of the dictator

Story credit:: Asma

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http://www.teeth.com.pk/blog/2007/07/14/white-phosphorus-used-in-operation-silence/

My Thoughts on Lal Masjid Issue!

Throughout the Musharaf’s regime, we are facing incidents one after the another and each time the Islam of the Pakistanis is blamed one way or another. Whats going on at Lal Masjid, its horrible and highly shameful for both the people inside the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa and the government for making a mess of the situation. It could have been solved through negotiations earlier, but the government needlessly lengthened it by displaying a complete lack of responsibility. We live in Islamabad and are in a continuous state of tension since the issue has intensified.

I am a Muslim and like all Muslims it’s my desire to live in an Islamic Society. The regime of Musharaf has since the beginning, criticized the beliefs of the Muslims and publicized the Enlightened Moderation. This is the cause that nearly every good Muslim in Pakistan hates him no matter what he does. Due to different policies of the government, people like the clerics at Lal Masjid have started their obnoxious efforts against the govt. I don’t defend the actions of these clerics but criticize the way they took the matter, it was not Islamic and due to them our government has got a strong base to take actions against every religious seminaries throughout the country no matter how good they are serving.

There are few things which lead me think that government is responsible for this catastrophe. First of all how was it possible that government and law enforcement agencies were not aware what was going in Lal Masjid? How is it possible and why they didn't stop them at that time? For the past few weeks, the Government was facing pretty bad response from the people due to its bad policies and being in the Election year, it was harming the cause of government to hold on in these elections. During that time, the government of Prez Musharaf was busy in its case against Chief Justice instead of handling the situation at the Lal Masjid by negotiations. They intentionally lengthened the issue so that they could have something to divert the people’s attention to.

The goals achieved by government!!!

· Humiliation of Beared and Burqa, arrest of Khalid Khawja( an activist of Human Rights with islamic perspective), a new plan against the so called extremism and Madrassas(seminaries) on its way ( as it is reported that a high official meeting is held in which it is decide to have a crack down on Seminaries like lal masjid). One has already taken place at Jamia Faridia in Islamabad.

· Deriving people's mind towards enlightened moderation through tense media coverage and showing off the rigid behavior of lal masjid clerics.

It was a case that could have easily talked down by the government much earlier but was made a disaster by the government intentionally to gain these benefits.

Beautiful Places of Pakistan

Beautiful Places of Pakistan !!!
Pakistan is blessed with one of the most beautiful places. Especially in the hot summer season the northern areas are one of the favorite tourist attractions....


Lake SaifulMuluk





K-2



Lalazar Kaghan



Baltoro Glacier



Skardu



Camping Site in Kaghan !

Consequences of the debacle of 05/12

It was indeed the worst day in the history of Pakistan even worse than the 71 war and breakage of Pakistan and apparently it looked like Pervez Musharraf and Co. was busy buying the participants for his utterly disgraceful rally while giving the totally free hand to the Terrorists in Karachi to do what they had committed.

Pakistani rulers have history of acting miserably unjust on the hope of approval of their American Masters, with Prez Musharraf leading them all but this time its totally different from the previous actions. Just to show the world of the support of people, he bought thousands of laborers just to attend the rally and that too at that time when Karachi was facing the worst time in History.

As the Zionist forces controlling USA and Europe etc. alwyas wanted dictators in Muslim world, this game is nothing new. Yesterday they had overthrew Dr. Musaadiq (A very popular and democratically elected Prime Minsiter Of iran and imposed Shah of Iran as dictator).
It is the duty of each and every Pakistani to liberate Paksitan from the clutches of Zionism and in this regards they will have to follow the Sunnah of the Propeht and Companions in terms of acquiring weapon and eliminating the real murderers and terrorists. Now the entire world has seen the ugly picture of Pervaiz Musharraf's enlightened moderation

May Allah guide us all.

Some photos of trip to Murree

Last week I went to Murree with an excursion trip with the students. Here are some of the photos we took there..

Shoaib Malik, Is it beginning of a new Era for Pakistan Cricket.

Cricket is my passion and as an ardent follower of cricket around the world especially my team Pakistan I am writing my views on the recently formed tides after the world cup debacle.

Yesterday it was finally announced that young and gutsy Shoaib Malik would be the next captain of the Pakistan team. This is certainly a bold step taken by the board because Pakistanis have a history of not accepting a younger captain. But as a matter of fact I think it would mark a great move and Pakistan Cricket team will enter a new level InshaAllah.

There are a few things that the cricket board has to understand and discourage among the players. Malik has been made captain and in addition to this also hangs a sword over his head by announcing the evaluation on series to series basis. In simple words they are planning to change him with someone else if he doesn't do well. I think if it happens as I fear it would be a very unfortunate step for the development of cricket in Pakistan. Everybody is busy quoting that we are following the steps of South African Cricket who made G Smith the captain after their really disappointing performance in the WC2003, and say that because of that decision the South African team climbed to No. 1 in the ranking. I strongly disagree with these people because most of them clearly forgets one main point which was the basis on which South African team became successful. They dont even remember what happened soon after Smith was made captain. The South African team performance was declined to their worst and their ODI ranking slipped to their worst. There was also a run of 11 defeats in 12 one-day internationals back in 2004-05. There was no sign of improvement but their cricket board didn't lose confidence and trust on Smith and they bounced back ultimately to become the world beaters.

By saying all this I didn't mean that Pakistan will play like that. I pray for the success of Pakistan team under Malik but we should analyze carefully about all the possibilities. It is indeed a possibility that Pakistan may not start winning straight away. In order to see our team as a world class team we should put trust in Malik. The captain's skills can never be judged by only a couple of chances. He needs trust as well as guidance from the greats of Pakistan cricket and we should groom him to be the another legend in the list of Captains of Pakistan.

I hope that the World Cup debacle would prove to be the turning point for Pakistan Cricket on road to great cricket team. All the best to Shoaib Malik for his yet another role in Pakistan Cricket team.