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With 180 girls' schools torched since 2008 in Pakistan's Swat Valley and some 900 indefinitely closed, the future for education for some 125,000 young women is under dire threat by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The latest bombings took place Monday in the district capital, Mingora, "once considered the safest place in Swat," according to The Guardian . Five girls' schools were leveled by TTP militants who last week decreed a permanent ban on education for girls. In recent weeks, residents who have crossed the TTP have been strung-up from trees, beaten, or had their shops destroyed while markets have been ruled " no go " areas for women. First mobilized during the 1980s by the CIA and Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI) as "plausibly deniable" assets to wage "holy war" against Afghanistan's socialist government, organized crime and drug-linked jihadi groups now threaten Pakistan itself. Call it "blo...

A journey Through Time... scrolling just a few pages of BBC and Indian Media. (I am sorry, the text is in image form and comprehendible to english readers only, for other languages, please open this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5394686.stm and use a translation service, such as http://babelfish.yahoo.com/) ‘Samjhauta, Hindi for friendship, Express’ is only one of many CBM’s that have been undertaken by the two countries to improve relations, was initiated to increase people to people to contact between the two arch rivals. On February 17,2007, the train that travels from Delhi to Lahore was hit by a bomb, killing as many as 68 people. Most of the casualties consisted of Pakistani nationals. Many conspiracy theories were hatched in an attempt to explain what had really gone by. Always the Poor Sufferers of INDIA: The Muslims of INDIA Déjà Vu Some Interesting User comments.... can you see the same comments this time as well ALL THE BLAME GAME AND HATRED/ANGER Then Comes M...

NEW DELHI, India—Feb 19 2007: Wahid Khan had come to the Old Delhi Railway Station here last night to see off his relatives who were going to Pakistan to attend a marriage. Shock and disbelief writ large on his face, Khan, a resident of adjoining Ghaziabad, was back at the station this morning frantically looking for information about his relatives as news came in of twin explosions on the Samjhauta Express . Khan's 70-year-old mother, brother Tariqat (25) and friend Isteghar were on the train. " They were going to Pakistan to attend a marriage function. They were so happy to be able to go to Pakistan. I am just hoping somebody tells me they are safe and sound ," he said. Sixty-eight-year-old Mohammad Ali came to the station looking for his son Tanveer's father-in-law, Afzal Khan who had come from Pakistan to attend a function and was going back. Afzal's wife and his 18-year-old daughter Tanya were also with him on the train and their whereabouts were unknown. Al...