The repeated attacks in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi has given officials in the district all the excuse they needed to launch a massive series of police actions across the area, including in the nearby capital of Islamabad.
Officials say that around 200 “suspicious persons” have been arrested in what is being portrayed as an anti-terror operation designed to root out members of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who were able to operate in plain sight in Rawalpindi and attack a pair of high profile sites.
But as Pakistani police search homes and check IDs few if any of the “suspicious persons” arrested appear to have had any connection with terrorism, and several were arrested on such flimsy charges as being drunk (banned in the Muslim nation since 1977 though rarely enforced) or having “illegal mobile phone SIMs.”
Indeed, most of the people arrested were arrested simply for refusing to show their IDs to the police. The 200 captives are to be held in police stations around the capital region, pending interrogation.
As the juggernaut of war and general force permeates Pakistan, violence and insensitivity become the idiom of political discourse. These forces ricochet from one sector of formerly [somewhat] civil society to another bringing ruin to an already fractious society. The standoff between the feudal poor and their
land-lords adds an another major and ominous sign of impending chaos of the sort we have seen before as we prosecuted war in Asia. Yes, that would be Cambodia and Pol Pot…. But the Pakistani's have nuclear weapons…. So as you watch this tragedy unfold, remember him.. The neocons are pointing to him too, but not as a consequences of a wanton military reflex, but as a warning to kill more, bomb more and destroy more of THEIR society…. It's the destructive fire of "change" they worship. They want to subdue all resistance to their juggernaut worldwide and they want you to pay for it.. The problem is these policies create the very resistance which they seek to quell.. Their happy mask of occupation and conquest with their oil good buddies cannot cover all the shredded lives and pools of blood their lust has strewn across the globe. The more chaos they create, the more chaos that chaos creates… It is the unicorn of ruin… They are losing the wealth of America in a never the ending crusade of the impossible. They have pawned America's everything to pay for their dream
transformation.. Goodmorning Pakistan….
Our government's ally doing its work. I'm sure that confiscating SIM cards and throwing drunks in jail will solve the terrorism thing. I hope you like it. You're paying for it.