PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN ON RUN FROM TALIBAN DEATH THREAT

COMPASSDirect.org - COMPASS News ^ | November 27, 2009 | N/A

[Cindy]

"Pakistani Christian on Run from Taliban Death Threat

Islamic extremist sermonizing leads to altercation at barbershop in South Waziristan."

SNIPPET: "LAHORE, Pakistan, November 27 (CDN) — A young Christian man is in hiding in Pakistan from Taliban militants who seek to kill him for “blasphemy” because he defended his faith.

In February Jehanzaib Asher, 22, was working in a barbershop his family jointly owns with his cousin in Wana, South Waziristan – a Taliban stronghold in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan’s northwest – when the Islamic militants showed up to try to convert him to Islam."

SNIPPET: "He told Compass that he only defended Christianity and did not comment on Islam."

SNIPPET: "The cousins’ barbershops in Wana have been closed after the encounter with the Taliban. Zaib Masih said that two relatives have government jobs as janitors, and the two families are surviving on their meager salaries.

Since the closing of their barbershops, Zaib Masih said, the families have living hand-to-mouth – barely able to have two meals a day.

South Waziristan is the headquarters of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Taliban umbrella group fighting the government, and is a hub of Arab and Uzbek Islamic militants. In mid-October the Pakistani Army launched an offensive after the Taliban managed to take the army’s general headquarters in Rawalpindi."

[Cindy]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/11/fighting_intensifies_3.php

“Fighting intensifies in northwestern Taliban strongholds”
By BILL ROGGIO
November 27, 2009 10:26 AM

SNIPPET: “Fighting has intensified in a region in northwestern Pakistan where the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters dodging the South Waziristan operation have regrouped.

Limited military operations, consisting largely of air and artillery strikes backed by the paramilitary Frontier Corps, are concentrating on Taliban strongholds in a region that borders the Arakzai, Kurram, and Khyber tribal agencies.

Meanwhile, the Taliban are continuing their campaign against pro-government tribal leaders. One leader was assassinated in Bajaur and another was kidnapped in Mohmand.”

[Cindy]

Note: Photo included.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/11/pakistan_captures_wa.php

“Pakistan captures wanted South Waziristan Taliban commander”
By BILL ROGGIO

November 27, 2009 12:15 AM

SNIPPET: “Pakistani security forces recently detained a mid-level Taliban commander who was wanted by the government.

Abdullah Shah Mehsud, who was number 17 on the list of 20 most-wanted Taliban commanders from South Waziristan, was captured by Pakistani forces in the district of Tank. He is an “active member of Hakeemullah Mehsud Group from Shaktoi village near Razmak” in North Waziristan, the Pakistani military said in a press release. The military paid “head money,” a sum of about $120,000, to the informer who turned Abdullah Shah in.”

[rawcatslyentist]

>""Pakistani Christian on Run from Taliban Death Threat "

We know the feeling.

Well, some of US citizens do!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Before too long you will be able to replace “Pakistani Christian” with Terror Trial Jurors.

[RoadTest]

Do you get te feeling that all the Muslims would be obnoxiously militant just like the Taliban if they could get away with it?

[SunkenCiv]

A young Christian man is in hiding in Pakistan from Taliban militants who seek to kill him for "blasphemy" because he defended his faith.