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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 08:41 AM
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Balochistan schools receive Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's threatening letters
Source: DAWN (Pakistan)

QUETTA: A number of schools, including at least two girls’ schools, have closed down in Quetta after threatening letters were received by their managements.

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Some of the letters threatened that if purdah was not observed in schools, then teachers and administrative heads will have to bear the consequences. Similar letters threatening against wearing 'western' clothes were also sent to schools in Mastung.

The letters warned the school managements with the presence of informants among the students and the staffers and threatened severe consequences in case of non-compliance.

The letters, sent by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's Balochistan chapter, created a sense of fear and panic among the students and teachers.

Read more: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/04-ttp-letters-schools-balochistan-qs-13



Purdah is the veiling/separating the women business. Meanwhile http://news.oneindia.in/2010/05/15/terrorthreat-forces-red-cross-to-restrict-staffmovement.html">ICRC in Quetta is asking staff to restrict movements due to threats. TeT notwithstanding, Balochistan is not the http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/15-May-2010/Cop-among-four-killed-in-attacks">most peaceful of provinces in Pakistan, yet we are planning to http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/15-May-2010/US-plans-to-open-consulate-in-Quetta">open a consulate there.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 06:45 PM
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1. Balochistan is the ultimate prize
It's a classic case of calm before the storm. The AfPak chapter of Obama's
brand new OCO ("Overseas Contingency Operations"), formerly GWOT ("global war on terror") does not imply only a surge in the Pashtun Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). A surge in Balochistan as well may be virtually inevitable.

Balochistan is totally under the radar of Western corporate media. But not the Pentagon's. An immense desert comprising almost 48% of Pakistan's area, rich in uranium and copper, potentially very rich in oil, and producing more than one-third of Pakistan's natural gas, it accounts for less than 4% of Pakistan's 173 million citizens. Balochs are the majority, followed by Pashtuns. Quetta, the provincial capital, is considered Taliban Central by the Pentagon, which for all its high-tech wizardry mysteriously has not been able to locate Quetta resident "The Shadow", historic Taliban emir Mullah Omar himself.

Strategically, Balochistan is mouth-watering: east of Iran, south of Afghanistan, and boasting three Arabian sea ports, including Gwadar, practically at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz.

Gwadar - a port built by China - is the absolute key. It is the essential node in the crucial, ongoing, and still virtual Pipelineistan war between IPI and TAPI. IPI is the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, also known as the "peace pipeline", which is planned to cross from Iranian to Pakistani Balochistan - an anathema to Washington. TAPI is the perennially troubled, US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline, which is planned to cross western Afghanistan via Herat and branch out to Kandahar and Gwadar.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KE09Df03.html
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Jefferson23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:02 PM
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2. Wow, that was more than a mouthful, I had to read it twice, it was making my head spin.
"Predictably, it all revolves around Pipelineistan."

Incredible.


Thanks for posting.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:06 PM
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3. Pepe is always worth taking a look ...
The Gwadar thing has been going on for a while, but not in the Amurcan press.
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Jefferson23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:24 PM
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4. I have never read any article like this on the subject, so much detail, it was
excellent. I wasn't kidding when I said I had to read it twice.

I'll be following his work from here on out, thanks again.
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