Unrest in Pakistan, fighting on border with Afghanistan

Pro-Taliban tribesmen exchanged fire with Pakistan's army. Supposedly this is in retaliation for a strike the army conducted against a suspected al-Qaida camp.
Pakistan's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said many have been killed.

Sultan said the militants were led by a local cleric Maulvi Abdul Khaliq, who this week called for a jihad, or holy war, against Pakistan's army.

Earlier Saturday, Khaliq had demanded that authorities stop killing "innocent" people in military operations and urged local elders, in an announcement broadcast from mosques and loudspeakers mounted on pickup trucks, to stop contact with the local government as a protest against the Saidgi operation.

How can the cleric Khaliq complain about killing "innocent" people? He calls for a Jihad - which means innocent people are going to die. Innocent people in Iraq are dying in large numbers because of militant terrorists. Innocent people died in the attacks on the World Trade Centers and Madrid trains. Innocent people die because of the twisted religious viewpoints held by fanatics like Khaliq.

If there is a God, he / she must be totally disappointed with the Human race.