Pakistan: Corpses lie exposed in retaken Swat town

Source: Associated Press

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — Corpses lay exposed in the Swat Valley's main town on Sunday, and residents rushed to mostly empty markets in search of food a day after the military claimed to have retaken the city from the Taliban.

Elsewhere in the northwest, officials said scores of militants were killed in fighting with soldiers that could signal Pakistan is expanding the offensive from Swat into other parts of the northwestern border region with Afghanistan.

Many buildings were damaged in parts of Mingora seen by The Associated Press, but not badly. Two decomposing bodies, apparently those of insurgents, lay unburied in a cemetery, while a third charred corpse lay close to a shopping mall. The smell of explosives hung in the air.

"We have been starving for many days. We have been cooking tree leaves to keep ourselves alive. Thank God it is over," said Afzal Khan. "We need food, we need help. We want peace."


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DEAR America, Kindly send more of your money and support the fighting Pakistani army.....
:sarcasm:

The Taleban are a threat to the people of Pakistan, as well as our troops in Afghanistan. The Taleban will threaten India as well, if they are able to turn Pakistan into another Somalia.

their tribal areas with Sharia Law. They are known to the Pakistani government and have had numerous deals with them in the past. In fact, these areas have had self rule tribal laws for many many years without any Pakistani government involvement. Their main goal is to rule with strict Islamic laws. They could have taliban supporters in their midst but they are not the same Taliban group we are fighting against in Afghanistan.

and they give aid and comfort to Al-Qaeda.

When we have things like this:



If you reject the name they give themselves, what do you want to call them instead?

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independent tribe in this country. I believe that the Pashtun of Afghanistan are the dominant tribe.

Since Pushto speakers make up virtually all the population of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas - not the area that Swat is in - I'd say you'd be highly inaccurate to call the people the government is fighting in Swat 'the Pashtun people'.

Does that make them US allies?

I think Sharia is new (since 9/11) and I think it is the Taliban that brought it. This is the first I've heard claimed that it's not the Taliban.

November 17, 1999

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_39_17/ai_79167198/



A member of the Taliban's religious police beating a woman in Kabul on 13 September 2001. The footage, which was filmed by RAWA,

video
http://www.rawa.us/movies/beating.mpg


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

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n/t

http://users.skynet.be/sky50779/mohammed.htm

"A better scientific examination of the sources has made clear that all symptoms of acromegaly are present with some psychopathological paranoid traits. Acromegaly is caused by a small tumour of the hypophysis,..snip"

"snip...According to the hadith Muhammad suffered from a long-lasting disease, which he treated by means of bleeding. He walked as somebody who comes down from a hill. His skin-colour was peculiar, not white, not too tanned, somewhat rosy. His eyebrows were conspicuous. He was sweating heavily, especially when he was receiving revelations. He heard the noise of bells and voices. He had a great appetite and suffered from hunger. Notwithstanding his sexual relations with ten young women, he remained quasi-sterile: one only child after the age of forty years. During his last illness he suffered from intense headaches, losses of consciousness, ...snip"

so.. maybe it is the product of un-educated peoples understanding of organic disease.. Hallucinations and paranoia which seems to be interwoven into the religion

the ignorance of Mohamed's day gave the myth life... the ignorance of today feeds it and enables it, gives it life.. propagates it's inherent congenital paranoia... and every neighborhood's closet psychopath can manipulate themselves to become a Mullah to fuck over everyone.

i do think this Acromegaly diagnosis is unique.. it seems all the other religions are the product of Schitzophrenia

You are not Muslim but I am and if you don't believe in Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) then don't believe nobody is hurting you but atleast show respect for others belief and Prophets because we believe in him and believe firmly in Islam too.

Islam is as repellant and disgusting as the rest. It - and its imaginary "Prophet" - deserve no respect whatsoever. I don't care what nonsense you believe, I'll not show fairy tales and institutionalized misogyny any respect.

in the brain that produce the results claimed by Prophets and zealots. it is the Contemplative practices that train the mind to become "Tolerant", spacious, inclusive.. that is where the goodness of man comes from.. not faith in archaic delusions and halucinations... the bloodiest, most horrific acts of this millennium, slavery and brutality on the planet are made by the Faithful.. i cant respect that, nor any other fellow follower professing "Piety" that doesn't risk laying their own life down to end it.. sorry, i dont think the Dar Fur is a badge of honor for Islam, Muslem women being raped in the open as they attempt to get water for what is left of their family slaughtered by fellow muslims, now being repetedly savagely and repetedly raped by theit brothers in Islam, nor do i honor the Jews for their Apartheid and cultural genocide in Palestine.. it is what happens when people do not train the mind. when cultures glorify teaching ignorance, hate, intolerance in their schools.. when separation by cast is institutional in 'Religion' by honoring, teaching intolerance and bigotry as an aspect of their religion thru emotionally charged concepts such as Infidel/Gentile.

i was raised in a cult fundamentalist church, tortured and tormented all thru my childhood.. i despise religion of any kind now.. unfortunately yours also, i respect you/your's for your dedication to a goal to improve, not your method.. there are a lot easier ways involving only reality . i am sorry for all the good good people in them .. all people are born pure and good.. i have nothing against you personally, you are obviously a good person trying to do better..

i considered converting to Islam at one time.. the deeper i got into it, the less it made sense and the more shocked ans frightened i became at how intolerant much of the literature was.. i was a research scientist, i research a spectrum of everything, i'm not much of a follower