Where the Jihad Lives Now

awesome report , you have given a very true pic of pakistan , but unfortunatly its one side , the part of the story is why its hapening in pakistan who is behing , why in 1980's pakistan was being used , why the litracy rate is low , why people are jahadist , how inocent they are who cheated them , don't present the report like a lay man , every person know pakistan is insecure , how easily taliban are moiving everything is alright,
But to Make you sure , my people my country men are paying the price of helping the whole world peaceful we are suffering because we want to bring peace in the whole world so you could sleep eaisly in home we are the solidres who are in state of the war with so Called taliblization or business people like osama,
i humbly requrest you to present a report subject to pakistani lay man , and let the world know how inocnet they are , and how pakistan is secrificing to bring peace in the world/

Why do people trust Bin Laden so much, who the hell is he to tell Pakistani's what to do... WHY AREN'T WE ASKING OURSELVES THAT QUESTION. Al-Qaeda prey's on the poor, but they aren't poor. Osama and his followers speak of Islam as if they are scholars. They are cowards! Before you start accusing me of not being muslim... I am and I was born in Pakistan! Lets stop blaming ALL our problems on the West!!!

I would love for someone to answer this question for me... Bin Laden(he's not a true Muslim) loves to preach for Pakistani's to take action against Musharraf because he has ties with the US. Why the hell isn't he over in Saudi Arabia(his own country) and worrying about their relations with the US????

If you are are a true Muslim.. stand up against militant Muslims!! Remember one thing, we(Muslims) believe in one god, Christians believe in one god, Jews believe in one god! There aren't any enimies, civilians do not need to pay for extremeism.

I hope I don't offend anyone, but i'm passionate about this... because I feel militant Muslims are ruining the lives of the TRUE Muslims.

Why do people trust Bin Laden so much, who the hell is he to tell Pakistani's what to do... WHY AREN'T WE ASKING OURSELVES THAT QUESTION. Al-Qaeda prey's on the poor, but they aren't poor. Osama and his followers speak of Islam as if they are scholars. They are cowards! Before you start accusing me of not being muslim... I am and I was born in Pakistan! Lets stop blaming ALL our problems on the West!!!

I would love for someone to answer this question for me... Bin Laden(he's not a true Muslim) loves to preach for Pakistani's to take action against Musharraf because he has ties with the US. Why the hell isn't he over in Saudi Arabia(his own country) and worrying about their relations with the US????

If you are are a true Muslim.. stand up against militant Muslims!! Remember one thing, we(Muslims) believe in one god, Christians believe in one god, Jews believe in one god! There aren't any enimies, civilians do not need to pay for extremeism.

I hope I don't offend anyone, but i'm passionate about this... because I feel militant Muslims are ruining the lives of the TRUE Muslims.

hahaha ... i have once again gone through all of the comments potsed here by people who're NOT pakistanis!
i take great pride and solace in the fact that these people do not know or understand ( OR EVER WILL )as much as we do about our history !! makes me fell just that much more smarter ! =) .

This is an insidious attempt by these two writers to promulgate the malevolent wishes of the 2 neighboring Capitals of Islamabad (Kabul and New Delhi), backed by Washington. This report comprises of factoids, not facts.

The report insinuates that the Camps setup near Peshawar in the aftermath of Soviet-Afghan War have somehow become base camps for terrorist activities. Nothing could be more far fetched from the truth. Pakistanis are proud of the fact that they took care and rendered Pakistan's resources to more than 3 million Afghan Refugees after the Soviets were booted out Afghanistan. This example of humanitarian goodwill shall never be forgotton.

And as far as the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda men whom the writer contends to have met is concerned, I quite frankly think that his stories can be summed up in one word: BALONEY!

I mean anyone can make up names and give the names their special rank and title and then ascribe these name to an organization. If the world works that way, then anyone can fabricate a shadowed mob in 5 minutes. NEWSWEEk has simply obfuscated the whole picture of Pakistan.

Also, if America can't control the deluge of 12 million immigrants across its Southern border, then how can it expect Pakistan to stop the influx a few thugs from Afghanistan across its porous border. Pakistan has even suggested to build a fence with electronic devices on the Afghan/ Pakistan border and guess who is balking at that proposal? Who else, but Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President and the American puppet over there.

I think if Pakistan is being pushed into a culdesac by the United States, then Pakistanis have every right to hurl a few missles at Karzai's Presidential Palace, maybe give him a few sleepless nights, possibly rout him out of his sack and make him and the Americans appreciate the sacrifices of the Pakistani people in this struggle to root out extremism.

And to Mr. Hirsh: If you and the Democratic Congress in Washington think that somehow the treading of American soldiers into Pakistan will be seen by the Pakistani people as an army of liberators, then you are badly mistaken. And just because the Democrats are trying to refute the Bush Adminstration's policy of working with Pakistan and just because the Democrats are using this political tactic of doing everything different from the Bush Administration, simply doesn't mean they are talking sense here. I mention this because this is exactly the ulterior motive of publishing this article as it may well be used as a pretext to wage war on Pakistanin the next year or so when Democrats control not only the Congress, but the White House as well. American people should cast a wary eye on such unobjective journalism. Pakistan will not be a Hershey Park for American Soldiers.

So the bottom line is this: We must resolve to work together to combat extremism rather than pursue the path of finger pointing.

This is an insidious attempt by these two writers to promulgate the malevolent wishes of the 2 neighboring Capitals of Islamabad (Kabul and New Delhi), backed by Washington. This report comprises of factoids, not facts.

The report insinuates that the Camps setup near Peshawar in the aftermath of Soviet-Afghan War have somehow become base camps for terrorist activities. Nothing could be more far fetched from the truth. Pakistanis are proud of the fact that they took care and rendered Pakistan's resources to more than 3 million Afghan Refugees after the Soviets were booted out Afghanistan. This example of humanitarian goodwill shall never be forgotton.

And as far as the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda men whom the writer contends to have met is concerned, I quite frankly think that his stories can be summed up in one word: BALONEY!

I mean anyone can make up names and give the names their special rank and title and then ascribe these name to an organization. If the world works that way, then anyone can fabricate a shadowed mob in 5 minutes. NEWSWEEk has simply obfuscated the whole picture of Pakistan.

Also, if America can't control the deluge of 12 million immigrants across its Southern border, then how can it expect Pakistan to stop the influx a few thugs from Afghanistan across its porous border. Pakistan has even suggested to build a fence with electronic devices on the Afghan/ Pakistan border and guess who is balking at that proposal? Who else, but Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President and the American puppet over there.

I think if Pakistan is being pushed into a culdesac by the United States, then Pakistanis have every right to hurl a few missles at Karzai's Presidential Palace, maybe give him a few sleepless nights, possibly rout him out of his sack and make him and the Americans appreciate the sacrifices of the Pakistani people in this struggle to root out extremism.

And to Mr. Hirsh: If you and the Democratic Congress in Washington think that somehow the treading of American soldiers into Pakistan will be seen by the Pakistani people as an army of liberators, then you are badly mistaken. And just because the Democrats are trying to refute the Bush Adminstration's policy of working with Pakistan and just because the Democrats are using this political tactic of doing everything different from the Bush Administration, simply doesn't mean they are talking sense here. I mention this because this is exactly the ulterior motive of publishing this article as it may well be used as a pretext to wage war on Pakistanin the next year or so when Democrats control not only the Congress, but the White House as well. American people should cast a wary eye on such unobjective journalism. Pakistan will not be a Hershey Park for American Soldiers.

So the bottom line is this: We must resolve to work together to combat extremism rather than pursue the path of finger pointing.

This is an insidious attempt by these two writers to promulgate the malevolent wishes of the 2 neighboring Capitals of Islamabad (Kabul and New Delhi), backed by Washington. This report comprises of factoids, not facts.

The report insinuates that the Camps setup near Peshawar in the aftermath of Soviet-Afghan War have somehow become base camps for terrorist activities. Nothing could be more far fetched from the truth. Pakistanis are proud of the fact that they took care and rendered Pakistan's resources to more than 3 million Afghan Refugees after the Soviets were booted out Afghanistan. This example of humanitarian goodwill shall never be forgotton.

And as far as the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda men whom the writer contends to have met is concerned, I quite frankly think that his stories can be summed up in one word: BALONEY!

I mean anyone can make up names and give the names their special rank and title and then ascribe these name to an organization. If the world works that way, then anyone can fabricate a shadowed mob in 5 minutes. NEWSWEEk has simply obfuscated the whole picture of Pakistan.

Also, if America can't control the deluge of 12 million immigrants across its Southern border, then how can it expect Pakistan to stop the influx a few thugs from Afghanistan across its porous border. Pakistan has even suggested to build a fence with electronic devices on the Afghan/ Pakistan border and guess who is balking at that proposal? Who else, but Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President and the American puppet over there.

I think if Pakistan is being pushed into a culdesac by the United States, then Pakistanis have every right to hurl a few missles at Karzai's Presidential Palace, maybe give him a few sleepless nights, possibly rout him out of his sack and make him and the Americans appreciate the sacrifices of the Pakistani people in this struggle to root out extremism.

And to Mr. Hirsh: If you and the Democratic Congress in Washington think that somehow the treading of American soldiers into Pakistan will be seen by the Pakistani people as an army of liberators, then you are badly mistaken. And just because the Democrats are trying to refute the Bush Adminstration's policy of working with Pakistan and just because the Democrats are using this political tactic of doing everything different from the Bush Administration, simply doesn't mean they are talking sense here. I mention this because this is exactly the ulterior motive of publishing this article as it may well be used as a pretext to wage war on Pakistanin the next year or so when Democrats control not only the Congress, but the White House as well. American people should cast a wary eye on such unobjective journalism. Pakistan will not be a Hershey Park for American Soldiers.

So the bottom line is this: We must resolve to work together to combat extremism rather than pursue the path of finger pointing.

This atcicle is completely biased towards the one sided propaganda. The author wrote about the big cities of Pakistan,, as I live in the biggest city of Pakisan. As we see the recent explosion against the PPP leaders rally. Offcourse its the dangerous in terms of victims in this sad event but if somebody is going to link this with the Pakistan's safest assets like nuclear power , then its totally wrong. The main problem in pakistan currently is the politiical imbalance,. But it doesnt mean that Pakistan is forgetting its role in the rest of the world. We pakistanis are the front line ally with america in the so called warr on terrorism and our soldiers are combating the aliens in the northern part and they are also sacrificing their lives. I totally disagree with the author of this article and condemn this one sided propaganda... You can't compare Pakistan with Afghanistan and Iraq,, The situation is totlaly opposite in Pakistan...I want to say the authors to go Pakistan nd then write the real facts and don't do what they are not supposed to...It is whaty we call it yellow journalism.. You just make the cover story so that people may atttract towards the news.... Please try to justify with you job...

This atcicle is completely biased towards the one sided propaganda. The author wrote about the big cities of Pakistan,, as I live in the biggest city of Pakisan. As we see the recent explosion against the PPP leaders rally. Offcourse its the dangerous in terms of victims in this sad event but if somebody is going to link this with the Pakistan's safest assets like nuclear power , then its totally wrong. The main problem in pakistan currently is the politiical imbalance,. But it doesnt mean that Pakistan is forgetting its role in the rest of the world. We pakistanis are the front line ally with america in the so called warr on terrorism and our soldiers are combating the aliens in the northern part and they are also sacrificing their lives. I totally disagree with the author of this article and condemn this one sided propaganda... You can't compare Pakistan with Afghanistan and Iraq,, The situation is totlaly opposite in Pakistan...I want to say the authors to go Pakistan nd then write the real facts and don't do what they are not supposed to...It is whaty we call it yellow journalism.. You just make the cover story so that people may atttract towards the news.... Please try to justify with you job...

dear Mr mir waahug baloch i cant believe you are talking like this ungreatful parasite, sitting i the country that gave birth to you and nurtures you. keep your separatist bulls**t to yourself. the only thing that you are doing is making a fool of yourself by asking the UN to intevene. your post shows your selfishness. you want the divison of your country only because a handful of people want separate land. please grow up and think outside the box. this is a place for Pakistanis not separatist anarchists, who want to spoil the peace of a country. i wonder why cant you live in peace, separating will not solve your problems, getting rid of the supresing tribal system will. i beg you to think big, and if u cant do that just dont open your mouth and say non sense like our friends Ron and Micheal!
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long live Pakistan and may the separatist burn in hell, or better just leave Pakistan and let us Pakistanis live in peace and serenity. Amen

It seems nice story but full of lies without statistics and facts . Pakistan is not such dangerous circumstances as like Iraq where American Army had killed nearly 3 Million innocent civilians. You must be careful to report on such sensitive issues , be professional not biased in your reporting . Your writter mentioned pakistani made camps for Jahidis who sponsored them Americans? Pakistan is country with rich culture and history, majority of people are moderate and your western media only projected bad image . Please take serious notice .



With regards,



Irfan Aziz

Petroleum Engineer

Uk

I do not agree with this article

Your cover story of this issue ???The most dangerous state of the world is not Iran it???s Pakistan??? was one of the most irresponsible, biased and one sided piece of journalism that I have ever seen. I still have failed to draw the connection between the actual story and the catchy/shocking cover heading. Was it a strategy to sell more copies of the magazine, or an attempt to over sensationalize some of the prevailing facts?

Nothing justifies labeling Pakistan as the most dangerous state of the world. Using such expression refers to a generalization which is far from reality. There are a great number of educated people in Pakistan and also the common man who are against this talibanisation and in their own way are struggling to stop it. Simply because some terrorist are spreading their ideology does not mean the whole nation is like that. How can such an untrue piece of immature, deranged and ignorant analysis be published I really fail to understand.

The article has totally interpreted the facts in the wrong light and paint a negative picture of the Pakistani society. Pakistan is not dangerous it is in fact itself a victim of terrorism. Few incidents of suicide bombing can not determine the peace and security levels of Pakistani urban cities, as the article claims are ruled by the terrorist. Living in Pakistan I frequently move about between different cities, and I see no trouble, in fact the growing trend in the urban cities is tilting towards more free and liberal women and media

This article should be widely condemned and the writer should be banned and an apology needs to be published to every Pakistani citizen for the defamation caused by labeling them dangerous. The editors of Newsweek should be ashamed of them selves for deliberately trying to provoke Pakistanis and publishing hate speech in their magazine. In such a crucial time when American leaders have literally lost their mind attacking every county they don???t like, such propaganda to create mistrust, hatred and confusion between ordinary people was something beyond irresponsible. This seems like a malicious act in furtherance of some evil designs.

Though every word of that unnecessarily long article was full of nonsense, I was wondering before the writers called Jinnah ???whisky swilling founder???, did they even bother to think that you can???t point to others for things you do yourself. I am sure they would themselves love wine and drink alcohol themselves, so why the negative connotation for him? Their immaturity and failure to express their hatred for Pakistan in a coherent and mature way was some what amusing to see. I think its time that the editors bother their Human Resource department and get new, better informed and mature critics and correspondents.
There were so many mistakes in the article that it would take me one whole night to point them out, funny they were missed by the (probably) whisky swilling editors???

We can thank the British for carving up India, Jinnah for nurturing and bringing to fruition grand plans to run a country of his own (when Nehru as favored candidate was to become India's first Prime Minister), and the Americans for believing for so long that Pakistan was a realiable ally and supporting it in every possible way. Why not ask Pakistan's neighbors how they feel about Pakistan. Paskistan is not the most dangerous country in the world, even though it has supported state sponsored terrorism and continues to train and harbor terrorist. Why are we not talking about China, which remains a ticking time bomb, a threat unto itself and all its neighbors; in the long run to Americans as well. We can expend our valuable resources battling Iraq and deployiing US troops to wherever it sees fit, while China builds itself up.

well i'll just comment that pakistan is not in such a critical condition as the writer has explained. there are militants in our country but they are not powerful yet as they r in in other countries. benazir is not an innocent person as we all know she is invloved in these bombing just to bag some votes to become PM. n every media person is blaming mushrraf. seriously donno y. he has done so much for this country nobody even cares for dat. he has given freedom to media both electronic n print to say wutever is truth but dont just write whatever comes in ur mind. atleast think n work on it bfore just making it public.

O! Yes! You are dead right.

We don't know about 80's. We don't know about Zia ul Haq and CIA and ISI. O! You lie that Hikmat Yaar received Head of The State status when he visited USA> Don't tell us that Taliban were in Texas. Please! Don't make us witness the brutal suicide attacks in Iraq. T.V. screens lie. So does Black Water.

I have gone through the artical of newsweek you have corectly pinpointed the terriorists hide out, the agencies of pakistan government are 100/; behind them they dont allow any political movenment in pakistan and mass mobilization, so we request the united nation and nato allies instead of interfering in iraq,iran and afghanistan they should look towards pakistan where the actual breading of jahadis and terrorists comes from and agencies of pakistan are spreading there wings towards africa, cecheniya,india,malaysia,indonesia,thailand,philipines and other parts of this peaceful world, the peoples who comments aganist this article most of them belong to intellegence agencies of pakistan and from government officals who are close allies of terrorists,talabans and jahadis.pakistan army is a rouge and are also busy in helping the talabans in heroin business. if we liberal people of pakistan speak or write anything against these terriorist or ISI ( THE BLACK SNAKE ) of our beloved country we will be picked up from our homes and there will be no whereabout of us, so we are all afraid to talk against these elements of pakistan, so we request the united states to stop aiding of weapons to this nation as these weapons were used against peace loving and liberal people of Balochistan which have nothing to do with religion, Divide pakistan to eliminate terrorism from all over the world.We request United Nation to please come for our resque before it will be too late for all of us.

ISLAM IS THE ??????RELIGION OF PEACE?????? AND NOT ALLOWS THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
It???s really a counterfeit propaganda against Pakistan and Islam. In Iraq and Afghanistan hundreds and thousands innocent people have been killed in the so called ??????War-against-Terrorism?????? and even then they couldn???t find Osama Bin Laden yet even they are having all the latest technologies and equipments because they just want to use his name and his phobia to keep harassing the world and to spoil the image of peaceful religion ISLAM.
Muslims and Islamic countries are the only victims of the so called ??????War-against-Terrorism??????. They are just trying to blame every Islamic country one by one. Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan are the prime examples and now Pakistan and Iran comes on that list also.
Pakistan is the country who wants peace everywhere in the world and Pakistani nation is against the terrorism and killing of the innocent people and Pakistani nation is against this type of propaganda as well.
Every Pakistani is condemning the suicidal attacks in Karachi on the PPP???s welcome rally but it doesn???t mean in any way that someone could declare Pakistan as a most dangerous country/nation.
Pakistan is supporting extraordinarily against terrorism and is providing every possible help against the terrorism but even then Pakistan is being nominated as most dangerous country and we are bound to think now that this is the reward of being ally in the war against terrorism.
According to India???s own intelligence agencies and media reports the Chief Minister of Gujarat was involved in Indian Gujarat???s riots (2002) and now it has been proved by their own-self that it was the pre-planned attack on Indian Muslim Community. Now the question is this that will Newsweek discuss in detail about this issue or not but it might not be a big issue for Newsweek because Muslims were the most affected community in the Gujarat???s Riots.