Taliban May Take Over Pakistan!

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE53L5BO20090422

Clinton says Pakistan abdicates to Taliban and extremists

Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:40pm BST

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday Pakistan's government had abdicated to the Taliban by agreeing to Islamic law in part of the country and that the nuclear-armed nation posed a "mortal threat" to world security.
Clinton was asked by U.S. lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee about Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, under pressure from conservatives, earlier this month signing a regulation imposing Islamic law in Swat, once one of Pakistan's main tourist destinations.
"I think that the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists," she said.
Earlier she had told the committee that Pakistan "poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world."
Clinton said the Pakistani government had to deliver basic services to its people or it would find itself losing ground to the Taliban, whose influence has spread in northern Pakistan and has raised concerns about the stability of the country.
"The government of Pakistan ... must begin to deliver government services, otherwise they are going to lose out to those who show up and claim that they can solve people's problems and then they will impose this harsh form of oppression on women and others," she said.
(Editing by Bill Trott)

 

[singveld]

yes yes an excuse for USA to invade it

 

[Leongsam]

They can have the whole damned country. There's nothing better than putting all muslim extremists in one place so the civilized world can nuke them all in one fell swoop.

 

[annexa]

They can have the whole damned country. There's nothing better than putting all muslim extremists in one place so the civilized world can nuke them all in one fell swoop.

Agree. Sam, how about putting all the multiple nicks in one basket, and nuking them all at one swop too?

 

[saratogas]

nuking them all at one swop

Ya! The world can be a safer place without these dark people.

 

[pia]

The Indians for once were rite when they declared Pakistan the Epicentre of Terrorism.

 

[annexa]

The Indians for once were rite when they declared Pakistan the Epicentre of Terrorism.

Yes bro pia. I say we send weapons to India, and get Russia to send weapons to Pakistan. Then get them to nuke each other.

The world will be so much more peaceful without fundamentalists and hot air balloons.

 

[TheBonerman]

Agree. Sam, how about putting all the multiple nicks in one basket, and nuking them all at one swop too?

I thought you love multiple cocks in your arse, you cunt!

 

[annexa]

I thought you love multiple cocks in your arse, you cunt!

Yawn.

Try harder.

 

[TheBonerman]

Yawn.

Try harder.

Yawn but you do have a sweet arse! I bet you suck good too!:p

 

[tun_dr_m]

They can have the whole damned country. There's nothing better than putting all muslim extremists in one place so the civilized world can nuke them all in one fell swoop.

Extremists are in Washington DC & White House. Pse nuke there.

 

[fivestars]

Taliban, China, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan had to sit down and talk. Stop the war and peace.

It has been speculated that Zoroastrianism might have originated in what is now Afghanistan between 1800 to 800 BC, as Zoroaster lived and died in Balkh.[34][35] Ancient Eastern Iranian languages, such as Avestan, may have been spoken in this region around the time of the rise of Zoroastrianism. By the middle of the sixth century BC, the Persian Empire of the Achaemenid Persians overthrew the Median Empire and incorporated Afghanistan (known as Arachosia to the Greeks) within its boundaries. Alexander the Great conquered Afghanistan after 330 BCE. Following Alexander's brief occupation, the successor state of the Seleucid Empire controlled the area until 305 BCE, when they gave most of the area to the Mauryan Empire as part of an alliance treaty. During Mauryan rule, Buddhism became the dominant religion in the region. The Mauryans were overthrown by the Sunga Dynasty in 185 BCE, leading to the Hellenistic reconquest of Afghanistan by the Greco-Bactrians by 180 BCE. Much of Afghanistan soon broke away from the Greco-Bactrians and became part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom. The Indo-Greeks were defeated by the Indo-Scythians and expelled from most of Afghanistan by the end of the 2nd century BCE.

During the first century, the Parthian Empire subjugated Afghanistan, but lost it to their Indo-Parthian vassals. In the mid to late 1st century AD the vast Kushan Empire, centered in modern Afghanistan, became great patrons of Buddhist culture. The Kushans were defeated by the Sassanids in the third century. Although various rulers calling themselves Kushanshas (generally known as Indo-Sassanids) continued to rule at least parts of the region, they were probably more or less subject to the Sassanids.[36] The late Kushans were followed by the Kidarite Huns[37] who, in turn, were replaced by the short-lived but powerful Hephthalites, as rulers of the region in the first half of the fifth century.[38] The Hephthalites were defeated by the Sasanian king Khosrau I in AD 557, who re-established Sassanid power in Persia. However, the successors of Kushans and Hepthalites established a small dynasty in Kabulistan called Kushano-Hephthalites or Kabul-Shahan/Shahi, who were later defeated by the Muslim Arab armies and finally conquered by Muslim Turkish armies led by the Ghaznavids.

 

[fivestars]

Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, Persian: پشتونستان) or Pakhtunistan (Persian, Urdu: پختونستان), was the idea of an independent country constituting the Pashtun dominated areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan that found support in the 1970s. Pashtun nationalists believe this historic homeland was divided in 1893 by the Durand Line, a border between British India and Afghanistan.[1].

Today, however, Pashtunistan is a term which refers to all areas inhabited by Pashtuns, and does not convey separatist emotions, although it does have a romanticized notion of a land belonging to the Pashtun people, although being administered by Afghanistan and Pakistan. While Pashtunistan is a term which has lost much of its separatist connotation, Pashtuns in Pakistan will often use the term Pakhtunkhwa, since the Pashtunistan movement was at one time a separatist one, while the Pakhtunkhwa movement is one that aims to simply rename Pakistan's North West Frontier Province to Pakhtunkhwa ("Pashtun's Quarter").

The Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Pashto is their main language, spoken by 80%. They are concentrated mainly in the south and east. In Pakistan the Pashtuns are found in the North-West region. The Pakistani part of Pashtunistan comprises an area that runs from Chitral in the north (where Pashtuns are a minority, with Khowar people being the majority) to Sibi in the southwest and intentionally includes the ethnically mixed region of Balochistan. The Pashtun majority areas in western Pakistan include the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Mianwali District and the northern portion of Balochistan. The main language spoken in the delineated Pashtunistan region is Pashto, but a small number of Persian-speaking Afghans can also be found where Afghan refugees are temporarily staying. [2]

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, over 5 million refugees, mostly Pashtuns, migrated to Pakistan. These refugees are not included in the official count of Pashtuns in Pakistan as they are not Pakistani citizens but are only remaining temporarily until December 2009. [3] In May 2008, it was reported that there are 2 million Afghan refugees, mostly Pashtuns, that still remain in Pakistan[4].

 

[fivestars]

Tajik may refer to:

Tajiks, an ethnic group living in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Iran, and western China.

Tajik Assata Anwar Bahoul, the birth name of Black nationalist activist Taj Anwar.

Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan; Persian written in Cyrillic.

The Sarikoli language, spoken by Tajiks in China and officially referred to as the Tajik language in China.

The Arabic-schooled, ethnically Persian administrative caste of the Turco-Persian society.

 

[fivestars]

Pashtuns (Pashto: پښتون Paṣtūn, Paxtūn, also rendered as Pushtuns, Pakhtuns, Pukhtuns), also called Pathans[11] (Urdu: پٹھان, Hindi: पठान Paṭhān), ethnic Afghans,[12] are an Eastern Iranian ethno-linguistic group with populations primarily in Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. The Pashtuns are typically characterized by their usage of the Pashto language and practice of Pashtunwali, which is a traditional code of conduct and honor.[13]

Pashtun society consists of many tribes and clans which were rarely politically united,[14] until the rise of the Durrani Empire in 1747.[3] Pashtuns played a vital role during the Great Game as they were caught between the imperialist designs of the British and Russian empires. For over 250 years, they reigned as the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan. More recently, the Pashtuns gained worldwide attention after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and with the rise and fall of the Taliban, since they are the main ethnic contingent in the movement. Pashtuns are also an important community in Pakistan, where they are prominently represented in the military and are the second-largest ethnic group.[15]

The Pashtuns are the world's largest (patriarchal) segmentary lineage ethnic group.[16] The total population of the group is estimated to be around 42 million, but an accurate count remains elusive due to the lack of an official census in Afghanistan since 1979.[17] There are an estimated 60 major Pashtun tribes and more than 400 sub-clans.[18]

 

[fivestars]

Hazara may refer to:

The Hazara people - An ethnic group from the Hazarajat region in central Afghanistan and in Quetta, Pakistan.

Hazara, Pakistan - A region in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Hazara Division - An administrative subdivision of the North-West Frontier Province.

Hazara-i-Karlugh - Turk soldiers that founded and ruled the Turki Shahi dynasties from circa 1400 to 1700

Kala Dhaka, also known as the Black Mountain of Hazara, a mountain range and a tribal area in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Taliban Area

 

[fivestars]

Uzbek and Uzbekistani may refer to:

Something of, from, or related to Uzbekistan, a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union.

A member of the Uzbeks (persons from Uzbekistan, or of Uzbek descent). For more information, see Demographics of Uzbekistan and Culture of Uzbekistan. For specific persons, see List of Uzbekistanis.

The Uzbek language See also Languages of Uzbekistan.

Uzbek cuisine

Ozbeg, the Khan of the Golden Horde of the Mongol Empire.

 

[fivestars]

Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to:

Of or relating to Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, specifically:

Turkmen SSR, that country as a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union

Turkmen language, the national language of Turkmenistan

Turkmen people, an ethnic group speaking the Turkmen language located in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran

Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq

Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples

In Turkey and the former Ottoman Empire, 'Turkmen' often refers to those now called Yörük

Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus

Türkmən, Barda, Azerbaijan
Türkmən, Goychay, Azerbaijan
Türkmən, Qabala, Azerbaijan
Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
Turkoman (horse), the proper name of a thoroughbred race horse

 

[fivestars]

The Nooristani people are an ethnic group found mostly in Laghman Province and Nurestan Province of Afghanistan and in Chitral city in the adjacent Chitral district of Pakistan. The Nooristanis are a Muslim people whose ancestors practiced what was apparently an ancient Indo-European polytheistic religion, until they were converted to Islam around the year 1895 by Abdur Rahman Khan. Non-Muslim religious practices endure today to some degree as folk customs. Like certain other groups in the region, they sometimes exhibit European-like physical characteristic of light hair, eyes, and skin. These physical features have variously been held to be a preservation of characteristics from the initial migration of Indo-Iranian peoples into the region (likely in the 2nd Millennium B.C.), or characteristics introduced by later migrations into the region such as the armies of Alexander the Great (3rd Century B.C.)[citation needed].

Angmo!

The Nooristani were formerly classified into "Siah-Posh (black-robed) Kafirs" and "Safed-Posh (white robed)/Lall-Posh (Red-Robed) Kafirs" (The Gates of India, p 270, Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich). Timur fought with and was humbled by the Siah-Posh Kafirs[1]. Babur advised not to tangle with them. Genghis Khan passed by them. In fourth century B.C., Alexander the Great also encountered them and reduced them after stubborn and prolonged fight.

The Arabic word "Kufr" means not only to disbelieve, but also to blaspheme, and therefore, its derivative "Kafir" means one who commits blasphemy against Allah in the Islamic tradition, and the Nurestan province was known as Kafiristan, before the majority were converted to Islam during Abdur Rahman Khan's rule around 1895. They are now known as Nooristani. However, they have retained some of their old customs and traces of their previous beliefs.

 

[fivestars]

The Baloch (بلوچ) alternative transliterations Baluch, Balouch, Bloach, Balooch, Balush, Balosh, Baloosh, Baloush inhabit the region of Balochistan in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Southwest Asia, including parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

The Baloch speak Balochi, an Iranian language, and Brahui, a Dravidian language. They mainly inhabit mountainous terrains, which have allowed them to maintain a distinct cultural identity and resist domination by neighbouring rulers. The Baloch are predominantly Muslim, with most belonging to the Hanafi school of thought of Sunni Islam, but there are also a significant number belonging to Shia school of thought in Balochistan. Some 60 percent of the total Baloch population live in Pakistan. About 25 percent inhabit the contiguous region of southeastern Iran. Baloch population in Iran is estimated at about 8,800,000. "In Pakistan the Balochi people are divided into two groups, the Sulaimani and the Makrani, separated from each other by a compact block of Brahui tribes."[11]