“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” Jean Paul Sartre ”

In tit for tat attacks Pakistanis die on both sides. When a drone or a missile attacks Pakistanis inside the borders, Pakistanis are killed. When the suicide bomber takes retaliation, Pakistanis die.

“For a long time, people thought the Enlightenment had settled these issues.”"Now they arise again.” -Mark Sullivan

Where is our Voltaire? Where is our Twain? Where is our Fiaz? The elections were supposed to put a stop to this. What happened. While the parties haggle over the prime minister-ship, and their new licenses, Pakistanis are dieing. 

Hubris and arrogance doesn’t care.

“I am self contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.” – Dickens, Little Dorrit

To end the suicide attackers, they want an end to the drones and missiles. The drones attack to eliminate and prevent the suicide bombers from reaching people.

The cycle of violence must come to an end. The peace deals are intact and many times the taliban and the Al-Qaeda deny the attacks. So who is doing the bombing to destroy peace in Pakistan?

Britain has been training taliban secretly and just got caught Mr. Karzai by surprise. the base in Tajikistan is training many people in the art of sabotage. The four Indian consulates and the 13 information centers are dispatching marauding teams of attackers to the sacred land of Pakistan.

Bombs targeting police kill over 40 in Pakistan

By Augustine Anthony, Reuters, Friday, February 29, 2008; 2:41 PM

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners at a police funeral, killing at least 38 people in northwest Pakistan on Friday, intelligence officials said.

The attack in Swat district came days after the military said it had cleared most areas in the mountainous region of Islamist militants, who it had been battling there for months, aside from a few pockets of resistance.

“The blast occurred after people had offered prayers and pall bearers were carrying the coffin for a police salute,” said Deputy Superintendent Karamat Shah. He was among more than 500 mourners at the funeral for a senior colleague in Swat district.

The policeman being buried was one of three policemen killed earlier on Friday when their van struck a roadside bomb in another region of North West Frontier Province, where Taliban and al Qaeda fighters are active.

Mohammad Khan, the senior doctor at the hospital in Saidu Sharif in Swat, said 34 bodies had been received and more than 50 people were being treated for wounds after the attack.

But intelligence officials said the death toll was at least 38, and Shah said he saw some people carrying bodies of relatives home to prepare them for burial.

The funeral was being held after dusk in accordance with Muslim custom, and Shah said a power cut immediately after the blast added to confusion.

The earlier roadside bomb occurred near Bannu, a town at the gateway to North Waziristan, a tribal region where al Qaeda cells have become entrenched.

“The device targeted the police van, killing three people and critically wounding two,” said Hamza Mehsud, chief of police in Bannu district.

A missile, believed to have been fired by a U.S. pilotless drone, struck a house in North Waziristan on Thursday, killing 13 suspected militants including some believed to be Arabs.

On Monday, the army’s top medical officer was killed in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi. The lieutenant-general was the most senior officer killed so far in the conflict with al Qaeda inspired Islamist militants.

Over 450 people have been killed in militant-related violence this year alone. A suicide bomb campaign targeting security forces intensified after the army stormed Islamabad’s Red Mosque last July to crush a militant student movement.

The escalating violence has raised concern about the stability of the nuclear-armed state, as it passes through a period of political transition with doubts over how long President Pervez Musharraf can hold onto power after his allies lost a parliamentary election on February 18.

(Additional reporting by Kamran Haider and Zeeshan Haider, writing by Simon Cameron-Moore, editing by Myra MacDonald)

(For a Reuters blog about Pakistan please see:

http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan )

Six foreigners among 8 killed in Waziristan: Locals suspect missile strike from across border
By Our Correspondent

WANA, Feb 28: Eight suspected militants, four of them Arabs and two from Central Asian states, were killed and three others wounded in a missile attack on a house in Kalosha area of South Waziristan after Wednesday midnight.

Sources said that the militants belonged to the Abu Hamza group whose leader was said to be a follower of local militant commander Maulvi Nazir.

Maulvi Nazir won government’s support after launching an armed campaign against Uzbek militants in the Ahmadzai Wazir area in April last year.

Local people said they heard three loud explosions at about 2am and found the compound destroyed. They said three Turkmen occupants of the compound had been injured in the attack. They believed that missiles fired from Afghanistan might have caused the explosions.

The house belonged to one Shero Wazir of the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe who had rented it out to an Arab.

An official of the political administration said four Arabs, two Turkmens and two people hailing from Punjab had been killed in the air strike.

The sources said the bodies were charred and it was difficult to identify them. They were buried in a graveyard in Kalosha.

A large number of Arabs and other foreigners had been living and doing business in the area for years with local tribal names, the sources said.

A spokesman for Maulvi Nazir denied the killing of Arabs or Turkmens in the attack and said that some Afghans had died. “They were common Afghans and had been living in the area for a few years.” He claimed that missiles had been fired from Afghanistan.

Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Laith Al Libi was reported to have been killed in a similar missile attack in Mirali, North Waziristan, on Jan 29.

US media reported last week that the Bush administration had reached an agreement with Pakistan to step up secret air strikes on targets in Pakistan.

AFP adds: Residents of Azam Warsak said the house was blown up by a missile fired from a drone and the blast was heard miles away in the valley.

“There was no immediate information about the presence of any high-value target,” an official said.

Armed militants cordoned off the site after the missile strike, residents said. They said four unknown ‘guests’ had arrived late on Wednesday at the house.

A spokesman for the US-led coalition force based in Afghanistan said it had no reports that either it or the Nato-headed force was involved in the strike.

Pakistan’s chief military spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas told AFP that information from the area indicated the deaths were caused by explosive material stored in the house.

“As per our information it was an explosion caused by explosive material in a house,” he said, adding that the blast reportedly killed 10 to 12 people. Their nationalities were not known, he said.