Pakistan Poll Results

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Pakistan Public Polls

Support for Sharia

Terror Free Tomorrow: June 2008 Pakistan Poll - "Pakistanis Strongly Back Negotiations with Al Qaeda and
Taliban over Military Action; Public Support for Al Qaeda Gaining Ground"
http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/PakistanPollReportJune08.pdf
--- Support for Sharia Law: Q8g, page 44
On Question of Implementing strict Sharia law throughout Pakistan
-- 36.8 Percent - Very Important
-- 37.9 Percent - Somewhat Important
-- Total: 74.7 Percent

Terror Free Tomorrow: January 19-29, 2008 Pakistan Poll - "Pakistani Support for Al Qaeda, Bin Laden
Plunges; Moderate Parties Surge; 70 Percent Want President Musharraf to Resign: Results of a New
Nationwide Public Opinion Survey of Pakistan before the February 18th Elections"
http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/TFT%20Pakistan%20Poll%20Report.pdf
--- Support for Sharia Law: Q12G, page 31
On Question of Implementing strict Sharia law throughout Pakistan
-- 42.2 Percent - Very Important
-- 31.4 Percent - Somewhat Important
-- Total: 73.6 Percent

Terror Free Tomorrow: August 2007 Pakistan Poll - "Pakistanis Reject US Military Action against Al Qaeda;
More Support bin Laden than President Musharraf: Results of a New Nationwide Public Opinion Survey of
Pakistan"
http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/Pakistan%20Poll%20Report.pdf
--- Support for Sharia Law: Q16E, page 34
On Question of Implementing strict Sharia law throughout Pakistan
-- 41.2 Percent - Very Important
-- 34.8 Percent - Somewhat Important
-- Total: 76 Percent

June 2008 TerrorFreeTomorrow.org Pakistan public poll results
http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/PakistanPollReportJune08.pdf
-- 74.7 percent think "implementing strict Sharia law throughout Pakistan" important for Pakistan govt (Q8g, page 44)
-- 73.7 percent oppose U.S. military action against Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan (Q11c, page 52)
-- 69 percent oppose U.S. military working with Pakistan military against Taliban and Al-Qaeda (Q11b, page 52)
-- 51.8 percent view U.S. to blame for violence in Pakistan today (Q14, page 52)
-- 58.2 percent favor negotiations with Taliban (Q15c, page 63)
-- 49.6 percent favor negotiations with Al-Qaeda and Uzbek fighters (Q15a, page 63)
-- 56.5 percent agree with Al Qaeda's goals (Q16a, page 64)
-- 79.5 percent view Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda's goals are "to stand up to America" (Q29a1, page 75)
-- 57.1 percent agreed with Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda's goals "to stand up to America" (Q29a2, page 75)

--- Pakistan Public Polls on Support for Sharia
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/sources_reconciliation.html#Pakistan_Sharia

Terror Free Tomorrow: June 2008 Pakistan Poll - "Pakistanis Strongly Back Negotiations with Al Qaeda and
Taliban over Military Action; Public Support for Al Qaeda Gaining Ground"
http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/PakistanPollReportJune08.pdf
--- Support for Sharia Law: Q8g, page 44

Taliban's Goals

October 31, 2007 - BBC: Pakistan militants firm on Sharia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7070640.stm

January 29, 2007 - BBC: Pakistan Taleban vow more violence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6292061.stm
-- BBC on Taliban's Baitullah Mehsud:
-- "'Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God's orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world,' he says."
-- "The militant leader on several occasions in the past had openly admitted crossing over into Afghanistan to fight foreign troops."
-- "'We will continue our struggle until foreign troops are thrown out. Then we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state).'"

Taliban International Objectives
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/taliban_international.html

Jeffrey Imm articles on Pakistan:

August 4, 2008
Pakistan and Another "Wake-Up Call"

August 1, 2008
Pakistan and Delusions about Negotiating on Jihad

June 10, 2008
Pakistan and the Growing Threat of a Sharia Mini-State

May 22, 2008
Another Pakistan Deal with the Taliban Jihadists

November 7, 2007
Pakistan: Media Reports on Pakistani Islamists Conceal Their Anti-Freedom Ideology

November 3, 2007
Pakistan Emergency Amidst Growing Talibanization

November 1, 2007
Pakistan Polls and Growing Support for Islamism

August 13, 2007
Pakistan President Seeks Mainstream Taliban

Short List of Poll Questions on Pakistan Sharia Support