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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46331)	5/27/2004 3:41:07 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

A new battle, ---- a fight that is most for us important than anything else.. Police and ‘extremism’ We charge our police with the task of eliminating the extremists and fanatics that General Musharraf talks about. But the latest incident in Lahore sends out a different message: he had better watch out for the extremist policemen of whom there is an increasing number in the force. Consider. A Lahore Christian of unsound mind was accused of blasphemy by the narrow-minded among us and sent to police custody. He was in a lockup when it was discovered that his general health was poor and in fact he could die while in custody. A scared SHO had him examined by a doctor who advised that Samuel Masih was in an advanced stage of tuberculosis. He was at once removed to a hospital. Then the unspeakable happened. The police constable on duty at the hospital ‘discovered’ that Samuel was a blasphemer. He went up to his bed and smashed his head in with a steel bar. We know what happens to Christians accused of blasphemy. If not killed, they spend an average of eight years in jail before being acquitted by the Supreme Court, only because the judges there are better guarded and are not scared of being bumped off by the religious fanatics. The police is included among these fanatics. There is a lingering suspicion that General Musharraf’s would-be killers in Rawalpindi were being tipped off about his location by a constable. The police has been found involved in sectarian killings too. The minorities are defenceless in Pakistan. Yet the self-righteous are ‘offended’ that Islamabad’s think-tank SDPI had recommended that matter discriminating to the minorities be taken out of our school textbooks. The police officers need to talk to their ‘jawans’ in the police lines and not leave them at the mercy of the local maulvi in the local mosque. Meanwhile, Samuel is yet another innocent man sacrificed to our national pastime of minority-baiting. * dailytimes.com.pk

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46331)	5/27/2004 3:44:06 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Instead of the cells planning quietly the success on war on terror has resulted in these criminals and these terrorists being pursued and unseen enemy being surfaced. reuters.com The wild west of East the frontier province is now under siege, the breeding grounds for free man with no accountability are now being closed, I would highlight that this war pursued by neo-cons under Bush has changed the dynamics of the century old sanctuaries of resistance to change, IT IS THE LAST FRONTEIR ! I highlighted yesterday < So when the British troopships finally sailed away from Karachi in 1947, they left behind one of their biggest headaches, the NWFP. With the partition, the Pakhtuns of the Frontiers threw in their lot with Pakistan but remained as determined as ever to preserve their quasi independence and traditional way of life. According to Charles Allen, how the government of Pakistan has managed the Frontier since 1947 and what goes on today in those same divisions and districts that Nicholson and the rest of Henry Lawrence’s young men first governed is a story in itself. The romance continues and today, as yesterday, the politicals of the Frontier trade daily on the brink of eternity. These warriors of centuries whom even the Brits could not conquer; to be pacified by Pakistan is a very tall order.>