FC Commandant Sifwat Ghayur killed in Peshawar blast; Coalition lost war

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber killed Commandant Frontier Constabulary Siffwat Ghayur (Gran son of Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar, Brother in law of Aftab Sherpao, Cousin of Governor KPK) and at least four FC personnel in Peshawar’s Saddar area on Wednesday, Geo News reported.

According to sources the suicide bomber hit the vehicle of FC Commandant when he was leaving the office for home.

FC Cantonment, confirming the death of Siffwat Ghayur, said that four guards accompanying him were also killed in the attack.


PESHAWAR: Commandant FC Sifwat Ghayur along with at least four guards has been killed in a powerful suicide blast in Peshawar area of Saddar, Geo News quoted SP Cantt Wednesday.

The SP Cantonment said the suicide bomber targeted the FC vehicle, adding the injured have been shifted to LRH.

The blast occurred at Deens Chowk, a usually crowded commercial spot. The blast damaged at least three vehicles including one FC’s vehicle carrying Sifwat Ghayur, FC’s Commandant.

The FC Headquarters is situated near the blast site.

The Bomb Disposal Squad, police and other law enforcement agencies approached the area before long and put a security cordon around the blast site.

The firefighters are busy with efforts putting out the fire that encompassed the vehicles after the blast.



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Coalition losing Afghan war: Zardari

Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Says ‘frank exchange’ with Cameron to clear the air; Pakistan paying highest price for terror war
PARIS: Coalition forces “are losing the war against the Taliban” in Afghanistan, President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview published here on Tuesday.

“The international community, to which Pakistan belongs to, is losing the war against the Taliban. This is above all because we have lost the battle to win hearts and minds,” he said, in comments published in local French newspaper, Le Monde.

Zardari told the daily that the US and the Nato-led coalition forces had “underestimated the situation on the ground” in Afghanistan.“The success of the insurgents has been to know how to wait. They have time on their side,” he told the newspaper.

“The whole approach seems wrong to me. The population does not associate the presence of the coalition with a better future.”His comments came after US military documents leaked to the media by WikiLeaks pointed to alleged support by Pakistani officials for the Taliban. Zardari dismissed the leaked documents, saying they mainly concerned the period before he took office in late 2008.

“I think Taliban have no chance of regaining power, but their grip is strengthening,” Zardari said. Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron angered Zardari by saying last week that Pakistan must not “look both ways” in secretly promoting violent extremism while pretending to seek regional stability.

Zardari expressed hope his meeting with Cameron would help dispel a “serious crisis”.“I will tell him face to face that the war on terrorism should unite and not oppose us. I will explain to him that it is my country which is paying the highest price for this war in terms of human lives,” Zardari told Le Monde.

“A frank discussion will allow us to reintroduce a little bit of calm ... Relations between our two countries are old and solid enough for that,” he said.Moreover, shortly before leaving France for Britain Zardari set the stage for a difficult meeting with Cameron, saying he hoped a “frank exchange” would clear the air.

Furthermore, a statement released by the president office quoted him as saying it was “unfortunate that certain individuals continue to express doubts and fears about our determination to fight militants to the end.

“Pakistanis were disappointed by Cameron’s comments especially as he said them in India and for this reason it was even more important for the president to visit Britain to address this issue,” the statement said.

“Such fears will only weaken the international effort to fight militants and extremists.” Meanwhile, French officials have said that President Nicolas Sarkozy was conciliatory in talks with Zardari, which did not touch on either the leaked documents or Cameron’s comments.