ISI exporting violence to Afghanistan: US 

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 The US military's top officer bluntly accused Pakistan on Thursday of "exporting" violent extremism to Afghanistan by backing militants that attack American and NATO troops.

Admiral Mike Mullen said the country's main intelligence agency ISI was actively supporting Haqqani network militants blamed for an assault on the US embassy in Kabul last week.
"The Haqqani Network, for one, acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency," Mullen told the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
With ISI backing, Haqqani militants this month carried out a truck bombing on a NATO base in Afghanistan that wounded 77 Americans; assaulted the US embassy and NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital; and in June staged an attack on the Inter Continental Hotel in Kabul.
“In choosing to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy, the government of Pakistan -- and most especially the Pakistani Army and ISI -- jeopardizes not only the prospect of our strategic partnership, but also Pakistan's opportunity to be a respected nation with legitimate regional influence," he said.
“By exporting violence, they have eroded their internal security and their position in the region. They have undermined their international credibility and threatened their economic well-being,” he added.
Mullen, who is due to step down at the end of the month as chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff after four years, defended his efforts to build a dialogue with the Pakistani military.
He said more than a dozen meetings with army chief General Ashfaq Kayani were crucial despite Islamabad's refusal to meet Washington's demands.

Burhanuddin Rabbani killed in Kabul bombing

Kabul—A suicide bomber hiding explosives in his turban assassinated former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed a government peace council trying to cultivate contacts with Taliban insurgents. Four of Rabbani’s bodyguards also died and a key presidential adviser was wounded in the attack at Rabbani’s Kabul home Tuesday.

President Hamid Karzai cut short a visit to the U.S. over the killings, which dealt a harsh blow to peace efforts after a decade of war.

The turban bomber entered Rabbani’s house in the evening and blew himself up inside, said Mohammad Zahir, the chief of criminal investigation for the Kabul police. Fazel Karim Aimaq, former lawmaker from Kunduz province and a friend of Rabbani’s, told reporters outside the former president’s home that a man who arrived to meet Rabbani was not properly searched. The visitor shook Rabbani’s hand and bowed as a sign of respect, Aimaq said.”Then his turban exploded,” he said.

Rabbani’s death will also dent efforts to keep the regional and ethnic rivalries that partly feed the insurgency in check. As one of the wise old man of Afghan politics and the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Rabanni’s role in the attempts to reach out to the Taliban and seeking a political deal with them — with the U.S. blessing — will be hard to replicate in the near future. His death could unleash a well of resentment building up among some senior Northern Alliance members, who accuse Karzai of colluding with the Taliban.

President Barack Obama said the killing would not deter the U.S. and Afghanistan from helping that country’s people live freely. He said the former president’s death is tragic because he was a man who cared deeply about Afghanistan. Obama commented at the top of a meeting in New York with Karzai.

Shukria Barakzai, a lawmaker from Kabul, was visibly shaken as she stood outside Rabbani’s house in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of the city, near the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters.

“We don’t want the whole peace process to get stuck,” she said. “We have to continue, we have to.”

Rabbani, who was about 70 years old, headed the country’s High Peace Council, which was set up by the Afghan government to work toward a political solution to the decade-long war. However, it had made little headway since it was formed a year ago.

Just last week, Rabbani led a conference of provincial governors and officials who met in the southern city of Kandahar to develop policies for reintegrating insurgents who want to give up the fight.

The reintegration of lower-level militants has started alongside the push for higher-level peace talks as a way to whittle away at the insurgency on both ends. At the conference, he urged those in the provinces to work to counter insurgent propaganda claiming that international forces were invaders in Afghanistan.

Rabbani was president from 1992-1996, heading the Afghan government that preceded the Taliban rule. After he was driven from Kabul in 1996, he became the nominal head of the Northern Alliance, mostly minority Tajiks and Uzbeks, who swept to power in Kabul after the Taliban’s fall. Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik, headed the Jamiat-e-Islami political party.

“We lost our leader. We lost our leader,” Habibullah, a close friend of Rabbani’s, said as he stood crying outside a hospital.

Already Afghanistan’s ethnic minorities have begun to re-arm in the face of negotiations with the Taliban. Rabbani’s death is likely to accelerate the re-arming and lay the foundation for a bitter civil war once U.S. combat troops leave the country or take on support roles by the end of 2014.

Karzai’s adviser Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai was wounded in the attack. A relative who answered Stanekzai’s phone said that the wounds did not appear to be life-threatening, but Stanekzai was in the hospital. The relative declined to give his name because of the sensitivity of the situation

Stanekzai is chief executive of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program, a highly touted program funded by the U.S. and its coalition allies to bring mid- and lower-level Taliban back into Afghan society.

The programme has so far only managed to reintegrated about 2,000 of the estimated 25,000-40,000 insurgents in Afghanistan.

 ہفتہ 17 ستمبر 2011
 آٹھ مقام ( بیورورپورٹ ) ایس سی او کی غفلت، ٹیلی فون لائنوں کا نیٹ ورک مصروف کال ملنا ناممکن ہوگئی صارفین کو مشکلات کا سامنا پی ٹی سے سے نوٹس لینے کا مطالبہ۔ سول سوسائٹی سیاسی و سماجی مذہبی رہنماﺅں سردار اعجاز سلطان ایڈوکیٹ، چیئرمین شاہنواز خان، رستم بٹ، مفتی اشفاق احمدخان، چیئرمین خواجہ عبدالرشید، ابراراحمد خواجہ نے صحافیوں کو بتایا کہ وادی نیلم میں مواصلات ٹیلی فون کی سروس فراہم کرنے والا صرف ایک ادارہ سپیشل کمیونکیشن ارگنائزیشن ہے جو کہ لینڈ لائن فون سروس کی سہولیات مہیا کر رہا ہے لیکن مسابقت نہ ہونے کی وجہ سے ٹیلی فون سروس نہایت ناقص ہے وادی نیلم میں ایس سی او کی طرف سے 06 ڈیجیٹل ایکس جینجز چلہانہ، میرپورہ، جورا ، کنڈل شاہی آٹھمقام نگدر کا آپٹیکل فائبر سے میڈیا کی سہولت ہونے کے باوجود بیک وقت سینکڑوں صارفین صرف ساڑھے تین سو افراد بات کر سکتے ہیں میڈیا نیٹ ورک مصروف ہونے کی وجہ سے صارفین ایمرجنسی کال سمیت گھنٹوں بیٹھ کر ایک نمبر کو بار بار ی ڈائل کرنا پڑتا ہے ٹیلی فون پر موجود دیگر سہولیات ایس ایم ایس سروس، کال ویٹنگ، کانفرنسنگ کی سہولت کی دستیاب نہیں ہے پری پیڈ سروس سے کال ملنا مشکل بلکہ ناممکن ہوتا ہے پیکیج کالنگ کارڈ سے ملائی گئی کالز کو بھی ماہانہ بلات میں ڈال دیا جاتا ہے بوگس بلات کے ذریعے عوام کو لوٹنے کا سلسلہ جاری ہے بلات درستگی کے لئے ہزاروں روپے خرچ کر کے مظفرآباد جانا پڑتا ہے ایس سی او کی ٹیلی فون سروس عوام کے لئے سہولت کے بجائے عذاب بن گئی ہے انھوں نے حکومت پاکستان، پی ٹی اے سے آزاد کشمیر کا مواصلاتی نظام پی ٹی سی ایل کے حوالے کرنے کا مطالبہ کیا ہے۔


 آٹھ مقام ( بیورورپورٹ ) محکمہ بہبود آبادی کو نارمل میزانیہ پر نہ لایا جا سکا، تین وزراءاعظم کے اعلانات کے باوجود سینکڑوں ملازمین کا مستقبل داﺅ پر لگ گیا۔ تفصیلات کے مطابق آزاد کشمیر میں محکمہ بہبود آبادی کو تین سابق وزراءاعظم کے اعلانات کے باوجود ملازمین کو نارمل میزانیہ پر نہیں لا یا جا سکا ہے پاکستان میں این ایف سی ایوارڈ کے بعد محکمہ صوبوں کو منتقل کر دیا گیا تھا جبکہ آزاد کشمیر میں محکمہ بہبود آبادی کو کشمیر کونسل کے سپرد کیا گیا ہے محکمہ کا باقاعدہ سیکرٹریٹ قائم کیا گیا ہے روان مالی سال میں محکمہ بہبود آباد ی کو نامل بجٹ میں شامل کرنے کے اعلان پر بھی عملدرآمد نہیں ہوا ہے کشمیر کونسل سے ملازمین کی تنخوائیں ری وائز نہیں ہو سکی ہیں تنخواﺅں کی عدم ادائیگی سے سینکڑوں ملازمین مشکلات کا شکار ہو گئے ہیں محکمہ کا مستقبل داﺅ پر لگ گیا ہے ملازمین کے ورثاءنے ارباب اختیار سے نوٹس لینے کی اپیل کی ہے ۔