PAKISTAN -- update: 40 mati, letupan di masjid

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Pakistan 'not housing Taliban head'

Pakistan has rejected a claim that Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban's fugitive leader, is living in the country under the protection of its spy agency. The claim by Mohammad Hanif, a Taliban spokesman being held in Afghanistan, appears to be the first time a Taliban member has said Omar is in Pakistan and not leading fighting in Afghanistan.Shaukat Sultan, a Pakistani military spokesman, said on Thursday: "This is as absolutely absurd and ridiculous a statement that one could have." Afghan officials have often said they believe Omar and other Taliban leaders are living in Pakistan.Afghan and US military officials have also previously said in private that they believe members of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency are helping the fighters. Suicide bombers John Negroponte, the US intelligence chief, said last week that al-Qaeda leaders were hiding out in Pakistan and it would be necessary to eliminate Taliban safe havens in Pakistan's tribal areas to end the Afghan unrest. The Afghan government said on Tuesday that authorities had arrested Hanif, who was also an aide to Omar, along with two other men the previous day after they crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan. In a video recording of part of his interrogation released by Afghan authorities, Hanif said Omar was living in the Pakistani city Quetta under the protection of the ISI. He also said Hamid Gul, the former ISI chief, was organising the training of suicide bombers at a religious school in Pakistan. Speaking of Hanif's video evidence, Sultan said: "It appears that it has been given under coercion and we outrightly reject it." He said Afghanistan should have provided evidence to Pakistani authorities. Claim rejected Gul, ISI chief during the 1980s when the agency helped organise Afghan opposition to the Soviet invasion of their country, also dismissed Hanif's statement, saying: "This is absolutely nonsense. The same thing appeared some time back in the New York Times, my name was mentioned. It's a rehash of the same story." Referring to Hanif, Gul said: "I don't know who he is. It's totally wrong." Afghan suspicion of Pakistani support for the Taliban has seriously strained relations between the neighbours as the anti-government campaign intensified over the past year. Pakistan was the main backer of the Taliban during the 1990s but officially stopped helping them after the September 11, 2001, attacks, when it joined the US' so-called "war on terrorism". A UN official in Afghanistan this month called on Pakistan to do more to tackle Taliban leaders in Quetta. Link : http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/70670CDD-F5DF-4645-BF0D-95B5A84EC871.htm ----------------------------- I think it must be an irony for Pakistan now that to found their once "allies" US turning the gun into their face. Perhaps they realize now that this has always been a US plan from the begining. Its just plain naive to expect US to remain silence when everybody knows that Taliban is always from Pakistan.

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Pilihan raya Pakistan bermula esok

PARA pekerja mengangkat peti undi di Islamabad untuk diagih-agihkan kepada pusat pengundian di seluruh Pakistan semalam.

ISLAMABAD - Ahli politik Pakistan semalam mula menggulung kempen masing-masing berikutan pilihan raya umum yang bakal menyaksikan perubahan penuh kepada pemerintahan awam.

Pilihan raya yang dijadualkan berlangsung pada Isnin ini untuk peringkat parlimen dan dewan undangan negeri merupakan detik penentu kepada riwayat politik Presiden Pervez Musharraf.

Proses demokrasi tersebut diadakan dalam suasana bergolak selepas jadual pemilihan pada 8 Januari lalu ditunda berikutan kematian Benazir Bhutto akibat pengeboman berani mati pada 27 Disember lalu.

Ramai rakyat Pakistan lebih bimbang terhadap kenaikan harga keperluan harian dan kekurangan komoditi asas seperti tepung gandum serta bekalan tenaga elektrik.

"Sukar untuk mengubah negara ini. Apa yang ahli politik lakukan adalah untuk diri mereka sendiri," kata seorang pekerja kedai runcit, Mohammad Abbas.

Parti Rakyat Pakistan (PPP) yang dipimpin Benazir dijangka akan memenangi pilihan raya berikutan undi simpati setelah kematiannya.

Namun Parti Liga Muslim Pakistan yang memihak kepada Pervez serta parti bekas Perdana Menteri Nawaz Sharif juga dijangka akan meraih sokongan.

Kempen berakhir tepat pada pukul 12 tengah malam waktu tempatan semalam manakala Ahad adalah hari bertenang.

Kerajaan mengerahkan lebih 80,000 anggota tentera untuk melicinkan proses pilihan raya serta mengisytiharkan 30 peratus daripada 64,000 pusat pengundian sebagai sensitif dan sebanyak 14 peratus lagi sebagai sangat sensitif.

Walaupun dikawal ketat oleh askar, sebutir bom berjaya diletupkan oleh kumpulan militan di sebuah pusat pengundian di barat laut negara itu.

Sementara itu, pegawai kanan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya Pakistan menyatakan semua parti politik akan bertanding sama rata dan tidak ada peluang untuk memutar-belit keputusan rakyat.

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Pejabat PPP diserang, 27 terbunuh

PARACHINAR 16 Feb. - Seramai 27 penduduk dipercayai terbunuh dan 93 lagi cedera akibat serangan bom kereta berani mati terhadap pejabat parti pembangkang, Parti Rakyat Pakistan (PPP) di bandar Parachinar, berdekatan sempadan Afghanistan hari ini.

Seorang saksi memberitahu seorang lelaki memandu laju sebuah kereta ke arah pejabat PPP ketika ramai penyokong parti sedang bermesyuarat sebelum berlaku letupan.

''Keadaan amat mencemaskan sekali, ramai yang cedera berada di dalam kritikal,'' kata seorang doktor di hospital utama di sini kepada AFP.

Sebelum itu, puak militan telah meletupkan sebuah pusat mengundi di Pakistan dan polis pula menahan seorang lelaki bersama-sama jaket dilengkapi bahan letupan, sekali gus meningkatkan kebimbangan terhadap tahap keselamatan dua hari sebelum pilihan raya umum diadakan.

Pusat mengundi di bandar Khar dalam wilayah Bajaur yang terletak bersebelahan dengan sempadan Afghanistan musnah akibat letupan sebuah bom jangka tetapi tiada kemalangan jiwa, kata seorang pegawai kanan keselamatan, Javed Khan.

Beliau menyatakan serangan itu dilakukan untuk menjejaskan proses pilihan raya.

Dalam pada itu, polis Hyderabad menahan seorang lelaki yang merancang untuk melakukan serangan berani mati semasa hari pengundian berlangsung.

- AFP

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Nawaz rancang perarakan besar

ISLAMABAD: Calon pilihan raya Pakistan berlumba menggunakan jentera parti bagi memperhebatkan kempen masing-masing di saat akhir menjelang proses demokrasi itu yang bakal diadakan esok.

Kempen yang berakhir tengah malam ini (jam 3 pagi waktu Malaysia), mengharamkan semua bentuk mesyuarat dan perarakan kempen bagi pilihan raya yang sebaliknya dilihat menjadi penentu masa depan politik Presiden Pervez Musharraf.

Malah, Musharraf yang disifatkan sekutu utama Barat, berdepan pendakwaan jika pilihan raya itu menyaksikan pelantikan anggota Parlimen yang memusuhinya.

Berikutan tempoh saat akhir itu, sekutu Musharraf yang juga bekas parti pemerintah, Liga Muslim Quaid (PML-Q) serta parti pembangkang pimpinan bekas Perdana Menteri Benazir Bhutto yang mati dibunuh dan penyokong bekas Perdana Menteri Nawaz Sharif sedang bersiap sedia untuk melakukan perarakan bagi memancing undi rakyat.

Suami Benazir, Asif Ali Zardari akan berada di bandar Lahore di timur negara itu dan diramal menghadiri satu seminar anjuran salah satu persatuan media sebelum menemui delegasi Parti Rakyat Pakistan (PPP), kata pegawai kanan parti Naveed Qamar.

Nawaz belum merancang acara kemunculannya di khalayak ramai tetapi jurucakapnya, Zaem Qadir berkata, beliau mungkin berucap dalam satu perarakan di Lahore.

Sekumpulan pakatan pembangkang yang memulaukan pilihan raya itu, termasuk parti diterajui legenda kriket, Imran Khan dan pertubuhan Islam, pula dijadual mengadakan pertemuan juga di Lahore.

Kempen itu bagaimanapun secara keseluruhannya disifatkan sebagai kurang 慼angat

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Rakyat mengundi hari ini -- Pilihan raya Pakistan diteruskan walau ada pihak cuba sabotaj

ISLAMABAD 17 Feb.

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Parti Benazir dijangka menang  pilihan raya

   
               

Pervez Musharraf

                  
Sentimen simpati pembunuhan bekas PM faktor bantu PPP

LAHORE: Parti pembangkang dijangka menang besar dalam pilihanraya umum Pakistan hari ini, walaupun wujud kebimbangan penipuan dankeganasan baru menjejaskan proses pengundian.

Pengundian bermula pada 8 pagi dan berakhir pada 5 petang hariini dengan 80 juta rakyat akan mengundi di 10,000 pusat untuk memilih272 anggota Parlimen.

Keputusan pilihan raya akan diperoleh esok.
        
    Sentimen simpati terhadap parti pemimpinpembangkang Benazir Bhutto yang dibunuh dalam satu letupan pada 27Disember lalu, dijangka membantu Parti Rakyat Pakistan (PPP) dalampilihan raya itu yang pada mulanya dijadualkan pada 8 Januari, tetapiditangguh kepada hari ini berikutan pembunuhan Benazir.

Kerajaan mengerahkan  81,000 anggota tentera dan 392,000 anggota polis untuk mengawal keadaan dan  melindungi pengundi.
Serangan bom kereta di Parachinar di barat laut negara itukelmarin yang menyaksikan sehingga 46 orang mati di rapat umum pilihanraya pada hari terakhir berkempen, tidak dijangka pengundian buat masaini.


Presiden Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, berkata sebarang usaha untuk menggagalkan 'proses demokrasi' akan diperangi.

Beliau berkata pilihan raya tetap akan diadakan seperti dijadualkan hari ini.

Tinjauan pendapat terbaru membayangkan parti pembangkang akanmenang besar, menyebabkan pengkritik Musharraf khuatir bekas jeneralitu akan cuba melakukan penipuan undi.

Ini adalah kerana walaupun jawatan presiden tidakdipertandingkan pada pilihan raya ini, penguasaan dua pertiga partipembangkang di Parlimen akan membolehkan mereka membawa tindakanmemecat Musharraf.
                                Bagaimanapun,dalam kenyataannya kelmarin Musharraf berjanji pilihan raya bebas, adildan aman akan diadakan bagi membentuk kerajaan yang stabil.

"Dengan kerajaan stabil yang dipilih secara demokratik olehrakyat, kita dapat memerangi pengganas dan golongan pelampau denganjayadan berkesan," kata Musharraf dalam ucapannya yang disiarkantelevisyen milik kerajaan, Pakistan Television.

Menurut tinjauan pendapat, parti Liga-Q Muslim yang menyokongMusharraf ketinggalan di tempat ketiga di belakang PPP yang berada ditempat pertama dan satu lagi parti pembangkang dipimpin oleh bekasPerdana Menteri Nawaz Sharif di tempat kedua.

Apa sekalipun keputusan pilihan raya ke-10 Pakistan itu, ia dijangka membawa keadaan tidak menentu di negara berkenaan.

Penganalisis berkata jika keputusan tidak dijangka berlakuiaitu jika parti proMusharraf menang besar, ia akan membentuk kerajaanyang tidak popular, sekali gus mencetuskan keganasan.

Sebaliknya, jika parti pembangkang menang besar ia akanmewujudkan konfrontasi berpanjangan antara kerajaan baru pimpinanpembangkang dengan Musharraf.  AP/Agensi

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Pembangkang menang besar -- Parti pemerintah sekutu Pervez mengaku kalah

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[/td][/tr][tr][td]PARA penyokong parti PPPmeraikan kejayaan mereka menguasai kerusi Parlimen menewaskancalon-calon parti sekutu Pervez Musharraf.

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Pervez kini 憈empang

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Mullah

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Konflik lebih buruk jika Malaysia undur

MANILA: Gencatan senjata antara pemisah Islam dan tentera kerajaan di selatan Filipina bakal berada dalam risiko selepas Malaysia membuat keputusan menarik balik berpuluh-puluh pasukan pengaman dari wilayah terbabit.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Khamis lalu dilaporkan berkata bahawa kerajaan negara itu akan mula mengundurkan pasukan keselamatannya mulai bulan depan.

Malaysia menghantar kira-kira 60 tentera menyertai kontinjen bagi memantau gencatan senjata 2003 antara kerajaan dan Barisan Pembebasan Islam Moro.

Perunding pemisah, Mohagher Iqbal semalam berkata sukar untuk menghalang konflik antara tentera dan pemisah daripada tercetus sekiranya tanpa kehadiran pasukan pengaman asing berkenaan.

Kumpulan pelampau Islam lain dan kumpulan bersenjata yang menentang rundingan damai juga akan mengambil peluang terhadap ketiadaan pasukan pengaman untuk melancarkan serangan mereka di wilayah berkenaan.

Pasukan pengaman asing bertanggungjawab mengurangkan kejadian keganasan di Mindanao, kata Iqbal yang merujuk kepada wilayah minoriti Islam di negara yang hampir seluruh rakyatnya beragama Roman Katholik.

揝ekiranya mereka berundur ia akan diikuti keganasan yang akan kembali,

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Sembilan pendaki maut di Gunung K-2

GILGIT

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sherpa x ikut sama ke..?

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August 05, 2008

Pakistani helicopters save climbers after K2 disaster

AFP Photo K2 in the Himalayan Karakoram Range in the north of Pakistan. Rescuers airlifted two frostbitten Dutch climbers to safety from K2 on Monday, but were unable to reach an Italian stranded by an ice fall that killed 11 men on the world's second highest peak.

GILGIT, Pakistan (AFP) - Rescuers airlifted two frostbitten Dutch climbers to safety from K2 on Monday, but were unable to reach an Italian stranded by an ice fall that killed 11 men on the world's second highest peak.

The Pakistani military mounted a dramatic helicopter operation to save survivors of the deadliest disaster to hit the 8,611-metre (28,251-foot) Himalayan summit, regarded as far more dangerous to scale than Mount Everest.

The Dutch mountaineers were helped down to base camp by team members and Pakistani guides from a position near the summit overnight, army officer Captain Azimullah Beg told AFP from the 5,200-metre camp. "They were then picked up by army helicopter from base camp this morning and have now been shifted to hospital for treatment for severe frostbite," said Beg, identifying the climbers as Wilco Van Rooijen and Cas van de Gevel.

But the military helicopters were later grounded by a dust storm at their base in the northern city of Skardu and were unable to evacuate Italian climber Marco Confortola, officials said. Italy's ANSA news agency, citing members of his climbing team, reported that Confortola had reached an upper camp at 6,100 metres, but was unable to go further.

"His condition is not good. He has some bruises and frostbite and exhaustion," Brigadier Mohammad Akram, vice president of Adventure Foundation Pakistan, a tour organiser, told AFP. "If he is unable to get to advanced base camp tomorrow, from where a helicopter can evacuate him, then he might be sling-lifted. But this is a very technical operation and needs a lot of preparation," he said.

Italian embassy spokesman Oddo Sergio said Confortola "has some problems with his arms and legs due to freezing. An attempt will be made tomorrow to rescue him." Agostino Da Polenza, a member of Confortola's team quoted by ANSA, said after talking to the stranded climber on a rescuer's telephone that his "voice sounded strong and clear".

The climbers who died in Friday's avalanche were three South Koreans, two Nepalis, two Pakistanis, a Serbian, an Irishman, a Norwegian and a Frenchman, officials said.

The disaster happened when a pillar of ice broke away in a steep gully known as the Bottleneck near the summit and swept away fixed lines used by the mountaineers as they made their descent on Friday.

"At least 11 climbers have died. This is one of the worst incidents in the history of K2 climbing," Pakistani mountain guide Sultan Alam told AFP. The deadliest year to date on the peak on the Pakistan-China border was in 1986, when 13 climbers died in a series of incidents.

An Austrian climber at K2 base camp said he was aware of 12 deaths resulting from Friday's avalanche, although the figure was not confirmed by Pakistani officials. "The mood at the camp is obviously very low," Christian Stangl was quoted as saying by Austria's APA news agency. "Every expedition has lost at least one or two people."

A Swedish climber who survived said there were too many inexperienced climbers on the mountain, widely acknowledged as much harder to climb than Everest despite being a few hundred metres shorter. "The accident could have been prevented. These mountains lure out way too inexperienced and naive people," Fredrik Straeng told the Swedish news agency TT.

Straeng, who put the death toll at 11, said he had "carried down both living and dead people from the mountain" after the disaster, adding that he feared for his own life when a Pakistani porter fell on top of him.

One Spanish mountaineer who saw the doomed climbers as he was heading down the peak said they may have begun their ascent too late in the day. "They were far from me, hours away, but they were not turning around," Alberto Zerain told the online edition of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. "But then I thought, they know what they are doing," said Zerain.

Missing Irishman Gerard McDonnell, 37, an Alaska-based oil worker who has climbed Everest, was given up for dead by experienced mountaineering friend Pat Falvey.

Norwegian media reported that Rolf Bae, 33, died in the disaster, while his wife was reportedly trying to make her way down with two other Norwegians.

Italian climbers Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli first scaled K2 on July 31, 1954. Between that first ascent and 2007, there were 284 successful ascents and 66 fatalities. In the same period, Everest was summited 3,681 times, with 210 deaths.





tak yah cakap daki K2... kinabalu pun aku sempot....  

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Originally posted by gasing at 4-8-2008 12:46 PM
sherpa x ikut sama ke..?

yg dua dari nepal tu   sherpa ler tu  aku agak ler...

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11 pendaki terkorban salji runtuh

Tragedi terburuk di K-2, gunung kedua tertinggi dunia

ISLAMABAD: Seramai 11 pendaki maut di gunung kedua tertinggi di dunia, K-2, selepas berlaku runtuhan salji yang turut memutuskan tali untuk menyeberangi dinding ais, kata pihak berkuasa dan pendaki lain.

Beberapa penduduk kawasan pergunungan itu juga hilang sehingga menggerakkan usaha mencari di puncak, utara Pakistan itu.

Setiausaha Kementerian Pelancongan Pakistan, Shahzad Qaiser, berkata disahkan 11 maut dalam kemalangan itu dan ia tragedi terburuk sehingga kini.

Antara mangsa ialah tiga warga Korea Selatan, dua rakyat Nepal, dua pengangkut barang warga Pakistan, Perancis, Serbia, Ireland dan Norway.

Katanya, pendaki Itali masih terperangkap pada ketinggian lebih 7,000 meter dan perlu diturunkan ke kawasan lebih rendah untuk diangkut oleh helikopter.
Jurucakap Kelab Alpine Pakistan, Nazir Sabir, berkata 22 orang yang kebanyakannya warga asing dan dibahagikan kepada lapan kumpulan berasingan mendaki puncak K-2, Jumaat lalu.

"Mangsa turut maut akibat kesejukan, kurang oksigen dan terperangkap di zon maut," katanya.

Beberapa pasukan cedera di puncak dan sekurang-kurangnya dua pendaki maut ketika mendaki.

Runtuhan ais turut membunuh tiga warga Korea Selatan dan dua pendaki Nepal selain menyebabkan berpuluh terkandas di kawasan Bottleneck dalam keadaan letih dan kekurangan oksigen.
Naib Presiden Yayasan Pengembaraan Pakistan, Mohammed Akram, berkata satu pasukan penyelamat yang dihantar kelmarin berjaya menemui pendaki Belanda dan Itali yang sakit dan mereka berjaya dibawa ke kem pada ketinggian 6,500 meter.

Helikopter tentera Pakistan, semalam turut mengangkut mangsa terselamat iaitu dua pendaki Belanda dari ketinggian 8,611 meter di Karakoram yang bersempadan dengan China. � AP/ Reuters

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Pakistan PM escapes assassination attempt

The bullet-ridden glass of the black Mercedes car of Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is seen parked at the Prime Minister House after an attack. Gilani escaped an apparent assassination attempt when two shots hit his motorcade Wednesday, just three days before the country's presidential election.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani escaped an apparent assassination attempt when two shots hit his motorcade Wednesday, just three days before the country's presidential election.

Officials said Gilani was not in the targeted car at the time, but the brazen daytime attack underscored the turmoil and violence that have been shadowing the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic nation.

Gilani's spokesman initially said he was in the hit vehicle but later declined to confirm that, amid the confusion surrounding the shooting in Rawalpindi, the garrison town home to Pakistan military headquarters.

"Two bullets hit the window glass of the bulletproof car," the spokesman, Zahid Bashir, told AFP. "By the grace of Allah, the prime minister is safe."

Television pictures showed cracked glass in the window of a black Mercedes which forms part of the prime ministerial motorcade. Officials said the motorcade was on its way to pick Gilani up at the airport.

Forensic experts examined the car and confirmed it had been hit by gunfire, an investigator told AFP.

"The prime minister and his staff were not in the car," interior secretary Kamal Shah told AFP. "The prime minister had not yet landed from Lahore when the incident took place. The motorcade was on its way to the airport to receive him."

Interior ministry chief Rehman Malik described the incident as "a cowardly act."

"We will catch whoever has done it," he told reporters in the southern city of Karachi. "It is not politics, but terrorism, and we condemn it."

Information Minister Sherry Rehman, announcing that an investigation had been launched into the incident, told state television: "Those who had designs, have failed."

Gilani has been prime minister since March after an election win by his Pakistan People's Party (PPP), the party of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in Rawalpindi in December.

Pakistan has a long history of political bloodshed, and the attempt on Gilani's life comes just three days before lawmakers will choose the country's new president to replace Pervez Musharraf on Saturday.

Musharraf, who survived multiple attempts on his life while in office, resigned last month after the ruling coalition threatened to impeach him. Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, is the frontrunner in Saturday's three-way race.

The attempt to kill Gilani comes amid mounting international concern about the stability of Pakistan, a vital ally in the US-led "war on terror" that is increasingly seen as a safe haven for Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

Musharraf's resignation and the race to replace him follows a prolonged battle with Islamic militants who have carried out a series of suicide bombings and clashed with troops on the Afghan border.

A double Taliban suicide bombing at Pakistan's biggest weapons factory last month killed dozens of people. It was the deadliest ever attack on a Pakistani military site, and put fresh pressure on the government to tackle militants.

Pakistan's remote tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan have become a safe haven for Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

In an incident later Wednesday, government forces said they had killed up to 30 suspected militants in Swat valley, a known hotbed of rebel activity.

While many have accused Pakistan's powerful intelligence service of quietly supporting the militants, the country became a close anti-terrorism US ally under Musharraf in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Violence has often spread from those remote areas to other parts of Pakistan, including the capital Islamabad. Nearly 1,200 people have been killed in bombings and suicide attacks across the country in the past year.

Officials, meanwhile, declined to speculate on who might have been responsible for shooting at Gilani's motorcade.

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pakistan...tak habis2 ngan menembak + meletup PM depa....

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HOPE THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN IN MALAYSIA....NO MATTER WHAT DIFFERENCES WE HAVE.....LETS SORT IT OUT IN A MALAYSIAN WAY.....BERMAAF2AN LAH DI ANTARA KITA....KERANA KITA TIDAK AKAN HIDUP SELAMA2NYA

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Insya`Allah...doakan yg terbaik + harapkan yg terbaik, moga kita semua dilindungi

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Penembak Gilani ada pengalaman
[BERITA HARIAN]

ISLAMABAD: Polis semalam memulakan siasatan terhadap cubaan membunuh Perdana Menteri Yousuf Raza Gilani, sehari selepas tembakan curi mengenai kenderaan pemimpin kerajaan Pakistan itu.

Gilani tidak berada dalam kenderaan ketika serangan, namun kejadian siang hari itu menambah kebimbangan mengenai keselamatan di negara Islam bersenjata nuklear berkenaan menjelang pemilihan presiden esok.

Konvoi kenderaan Perdana Menteri sedang dalam perjalanan untuk mengambil Gilani di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa di bandar berkembar Rawalpindi apabila serangan berlaku.

Pihak berkuasa keselamatan memberitahu AFP polis sedang memeriksa laluan di lebuh raya utama ke lapangan terbang dan sedang menunggu laporan balistik.

"Siasatan sedang dijalankan untuk mengenal pasti punca insiden itu," kata Setiausaha Dalam Negeri, Kamal Shah.

Seorang penyiasat polis berkata cubaan pembunuhan itu kemungkinan tindakan 'simbolik.'

"Apa yang jelas penyerang tidak mungkin dapat menembusi tingkap kalis peluru dengan tembakan itu," katanya.

Sementara itu, seorang pegawai polis berkata jika kenderaan itu ditembak oleh penyerang hendap jarak jauh, penembak mestilah seorang yang berpengalaman.

"Seorang penembak curi mungkin sukar untuk mensasarkan kenderaan bergerak dua kali pada jarak tembakan," kata pegawai itu, merujuk kepada dua peluru yang mengenai tingkap pemandu kereta Mercedes yang terbabit dalam kejadian itu.

Gilani menjadi Perdana Menteri sejak Mac selepas pilihan raya dimenangi Parti Rakyat Pakistan (PPP), parti bekas Perdana Menteri Benazir Bhutto, yang dibunuh di Rawalpindi Disember lalu.

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Rakyat Pakistan pilih Presiden hari ini


ISLAMABAD 5 Sept. - Parti-parti politik di Pakistan semakin rancak berkempen bagi meraih sokongan pada hari terakhir menjelang Pilihan Raya Presiden, esok.

Suami bekas Perdana Menteri Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari yang juga Pengerusi bersama Parti Rakyat Pakistan (PPP), dijangka memenangi pilihan raya itu.

Beliau akan ditentang oleh bekas Ketua Hakim, Saeeduzzaman Siddique yang juga pembantu bekas Presiden, Pervez Musharraf.

Pencalonan Saeeduzzaman disokong oleh parti Liga Muslim Pakistan-N (PML-N) pimpinan bekas Perdana Menteri, Nawaz Shariff.

Undang-undang Pakistan memerlukan seorang Presiden baru mendapat sokongan dewan rendah dan dewan tinggi Parlimen serta empat dewan wilayah.

Pegawai berkata, tahap keselamatan akan dipertingkatkan pada hari pengundian.

Sementara itu, Asif Ali juga dilaporkan telah berpindah rumah kerana bimbang ancaman serangan berani mati, yang turut mengorbankan Benazir ketika berkempen, sembilan bulan lalu.

Ketegangan dilaporkan semakin memuncak, selepas kegagalan cubaan bunuh ke atas Perdana Menteri, Yousuf Raza Gilani kelmarin.

Sekiranya menang, Asif Razi, 52, bakal berdepan dengan pelbagai masalah politik dan ekonomi yang semakin mencengkam negara ini.

Selain itu, beliau akan mengetuai negara kuasa nuklear ini di mana serangan bom dan berani mati telah mengorbankan lebih 1,200 orang pada tahun lalu sahaja.

Seorang pembantu Asif Razi memberitahu AFP, beliau akan bertemu dengan anggota Parlimen dan pegawai parti lewat hari ini bagi mengemas kini strategi menjelang pilihan raya esok.

"Isya-Allah beliau akan menang dan 500 daripada 700 badan perwakilan pemilih telah menjanjikan sokongan mereka kepada beliau," katanya merujuk kepada dewan rendah, dewan tinggi Parlimen dan empat dewan wilayah.

Sementara itu, jurucakap PML-N, Siddiqul Farooq menuduh PPP menggunakan taktik kotor menjelang pemilihan esok.

"andangan umum ialah PPP telah menggunakan semua sumber kerajaan dalam kempen pemilihan Presiden.

"Kami bertanding untuk pemilihan yang adil dan tidak akan menerima sebarang penipuan serta sebarang taktik di luar demokrasi," katanya.

- AFP




undi....jgn tak undi....  aku bab2 prez  pakistan ni mmg kacau jiwa dibuatnya... kena bunuh sana  bunuh sini... gantung sana  gantung sini.....  mcm curse ajer jadi prez pakistan ni woooo  

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