Another Bad News Hits the Capital - Brig Moinud Din Shot Dead

Qari Hussain, one of the leaders of the Pakistani Taliban, has declared the whole country to be a war zone.

According a report of Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor, the reported comments of Qari Hussain were made as two Pakistani soldiers, including a brigadier, were killed when suspected Taliban gunmen attacked their vehicle in a drive-by shooting in a suburb of Islamabad which left the windscreen peppered with bullet hole.

The martyred Brig Moinud Din was deputed with UN Peace Force in Sudan, and was in his home country for a short period of time.

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PTV Bans All Anti-Taliban News Items. Is It?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/PTV-News-headed-by-jihadi-blacks-out-anti-Talban-news/articleshow/5056156.cms

I'm not an avid viewer of PTV or PTV News, so never realized that anti Talban news items have been banned from all PTV channels. I wonder if this is true. The Times of India published it as a news item on September 25, 2009 in their website edition. If this is true, it is really strategic and issue should be raised on different platforms and be made a topic of discussion among people because it shows a big dichotomy in government's policy of fighting the terrorism of TTP in Pakistan.

If someone knows the truth, please put in the comments underneath this post. Extremely grateful!

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