Twin Suicide Bombs Kill 24 In Quetta

[-SeeKeR-]

May Allah(swt) save this country!

QUETTA: Twin suicide bombs targeting security forces responsible for the recent capture of senior Al Qaeda operatives killed 24 people and wounded 82 others in southwest Pakistan Wednesday, police said.

One attacker detonated his bomb-laden car outside the residence of the deputy chief of the Frontier Corps in Quetta city, before a second attacker blew himself up inside the house, said senior police official Hamid Shakil.

The attack on the home of deputy chief Farrukh Shahzad wounded him, killed his wife and injured at least one of his children, security officials said.

“The death toll has gone up and 24 deaths are now confirmed. There were at least 82 people wounded and taken to different hospitals. We have reports that at least seven of them are seriously hurt,” said Shakil.

Flames from the blast engulfed security vehicles and motorcycles parked outside Shahzad’s residence, where paramilitary forces had been waiting to escort the deputy inspector-general to work.

Two children and at least 11 troops from the Frontier Corps and army — including an army officer — were among the dead, Shakil said.

A mosque and official residences nearby were also badly damaged, he said.

Shakil said the car had been packed with 50 kilograms of explosives. He said the head of one of the bombers was found, along with an identity card that indicated he could have been from Afghanistan’s Kunduz province.

The Frontier Corps is Pakistan’s paramilitary force. On Monday the army announced the corps had arrested a senior Al Qaeda leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on the United States, Europe and Australia.

Younis al-Mauritani was picked up in the suburbs of Quetta, the main town of Balochistan province bordering Afghanistan and Iran, along with two other high-ranking operatives, after US and Pakistani spy agencies joined forces.

The army named the two other senior operatives as Abdul Ghaffar al-Shami and Messara al-Shami.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/07/twin-blasts-near-quetta-commissioner-office.html

http://ftpapp.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151827&Itemid=2

Edited September 7, 2011 by -SeeKeR-

[Mullah_Habib_uDeen]

May Allah(swt) save this country!

May god protect this country and save us from the zaalims , jaahils and enemies ...and give them aqal

:( :(

[habib e najjaar]

Ya Ilahi :no:

O Allah, terrible was the calamity, and its evil consequences are visible, the covering has been removed, (all) hopes have been cut off, the (plentiful) earth has shrunk (with very little to spare), the heavenly blessings have been withheld. You alone can help, we refer our grief and sorrow to You, we have full faith in You, in the time of distress, as well as in good fortune. O Allah, send blessings on Muhammad and on the children of Muhammad, whom we must obey as per Your command, through which we become aware of their rank and status, and let there be joy after sorrow for us, for their sake, right away, in the twinkle of an eye, more rapidly than that. O Muhammad, O Ali, O Ali, O Muhammad, Give me enough, because both of you provide sufficiently. Help me, because both of you help and protect.

O our master, O the living Imam, HELP! HELP! HELP!Reach me! Reach me! Reach me!

At once, in this hour. Be quick, be quick, be quick, O the most merciful, for the sake of Muhammad and his pure children.

[The Green Knight]

I hope Farrukh Shahzad takes a massive and grand revenge for his wife's murder at the hands of those nasibi kafir pigs.

[SlaveOfAllah14]

The situatution in the whole Pakistan are getting worse day by day. Specially in Quetta the situation of the shias and specially shia Hazaras are getting far worse. Shias specially shia Hazaras had been targetted since the 2004 and earlier Ashura bombings. They bombed them on the Al-Quds protest, Ashura, Muharram, Eid-ul Fitr 2001 and nearly every week there is bombings in Quetta. May Allah help the victims and grant them Paradise!

[Hussien]

May god protect this country and save us from the zaalims , jaahils and enemies ...and give them aqal

:( :(

After condolences to humanity in general for such dark state of affairs and the victims in particular I must express my grief in a different way. I see the the very concept of 'country' or 'state' as the root of all our social problems in general and Pakistani ones in particular for all these terrorists and half men are simply the creations of that country or state. There would have been no Talibans or Alqaidas if not with the immense help and assistance from the country or state of Pakistan. Its a major source of its income and foreign reserves. It recieved more than 20 Billion or so I believe for 'services rendered". I wonder what those 'services' could be? We outright condemn Israeli state for checkpoints or some target assassinations of political or military Palestinian figures. Whats then the honest way one should feel about the state of Pakistan for unleashing upon humanity such vicious organizations as the Taliban, Lashkars, or the Alqaidas that outright murder or justify the murder of innocent people all over the world including specially Afghanistan and Pakistan?

[-SeeKeR-]

^It surprises me that you don't think the root that started it, i.e., America is the problem but the off shoot is? How does that logic work?!

There is a big difference between Israel and Pakistan, the people of pakistan are also victims whereas Israel is a terrorist state in itself alongside its people. We are not the one's who are inflicting terror on anyone, rather its we who are terrorized.

What 20 Billion USD are you talking about, its Pakistan that has suffered so much economic loss that this meager amount of 20 is not gonna help us. Where you ask it went? Don't be so blinded that you fail to see the correct facts....have you any idea what this war has done to the economy of Pakistan. I have with my own eyes seen the slide of Pakistan into a deep ditch since 2001. You think money means anything to us when we have lost our freedom to visit anyplace in the city lest we get blown up by a bomb?! I knew this woman who was actually standing in her own house when a bomb that blew up nearby caused a sharpnel to pierce her, splattering her daughter with her blood while she was getting ready for school. You think 20 covers that. According to a report Pakistan has faced a loss of 2.1 Trillion UDS.

Open your eyes! Stop hating! Even if i let go of the tangible loss, no one can fulfill the intangible loss that we have suffered. It's only a Pakistani that can truly appreciate how this war has ruined our lives and our country! We have lost every freakin' amount of happiness we had....even a small thing like cricket has bene taken from us just cuz of this war. What have you lost....huh? Nothing...Zilch....you still go to your football games and scream crazy while we rot in our homes!

http://www.geo.tv/11-14-2008/28798.htm

Read this from your *precious* IMF:

Three main structural weaknesses can be identified for the current economic difficulty: (i) government spending in excess of revenue (fiscal deficit); (ii) imports in excess of exports (trade deficit); and (iii) inadequate social services to allow the poor and the vulnerable to fully participate in times of economic stability and prosperity and be protected during shocks. More recent reasons for the prevailing macroeconomic instability include domestic law and order situation, an unprecedented global increase in prices of oil, food and other essential commodities, instability in international financial markets and,

most importantly, bearing the direct and indirect costs being a frontline state in the ‘War on Terror’

. As a result of these issues, Pakistan is currently facing major challenges including

growing fiscal and current account deficits; rising inflation; growth deterioration; and depleting foreign exchange reserves.

http://www.imf.org/e...010/cr10183.pdf

Edited September 9, 2011 by -SeeKeR-

[iSilurian]

^It surprises me that you don't think the root that started it, i.e., America is the problem but the off shoot is? How does that logic work?!

There is a big difference between Israel and Pakistan, the people of pakistan are also victims whereas Israel is a terrorist state in itself alongside its people. We are not the one's who are inflicting terror on anyone, rather its we who are terrorized.

Although, for the most part i am siding with seeker in the discussion, for this particular post, i think we should not pass the buck. A situation like the one in Pakistan is the result of many factors (which include the affects of US actions). And we should not simply point at America for all of another countries problems. People need to take responsibility for their own actions.

I think, the people of Pakistan need to organize themselves and create a country wide ideology that will dampen the violence. The issue is that the people themselves are divided, and as an outsider in all honesty i dont understand why theyre divided.

[satyaban]

After condolences to humanity in general for such dark state of affairs and the victims in particular I must express my grief in a different way. I see the the very concept of 'country' or 'state' as the root of all our social problems in general and Pakistani ones in particular for all these terrorists and half men are simply the creations of that country or state. There would have been no Talibans or Alqaidas if not with the immense help and assistance from the country or state of Pakistan. Its a major source of its income and foreign reserves. It recieved more than 20 Billion or so I believe for 'services rendered". I wonder what those 'services' could be? We outright condemn Israeli state for checkpoints or some target assassinations of political or military Palestinian figures. Whats then the honest way one should feel about the state of Pakistan for unleashing upon humanity such vicious organizations as the Taliban, Lashkars, or the Alqaidas that outright murder or justify the murder of innocent people all over the world including specially Afghanistan and Pakistan?

I don't believe this is the creation of the state concept, no it is the result of religious sectarianism and the hatred that is attendent to it. It was an Egyptian named Qutb who planted the seed sadly after he was in the US to study the system of education. It was he who spread the ideology that killing kafirs, Muslim blasphemers, and Muslims who didn't practice fundamentalist Islam was doing Gods work.

I think Pakistan's complicity began when it started using these groups in Kashmir and other places to carry out its foreign policy. It then continued by providing safe havens in places like Waziristan and to include harboring Osama Bin Laden.

Pakistan is a hell of its own creation and reaping what it sowed. My sympathies lie with those who are not fundamentalists, those who don't praise the killers of blasphemers and others of that ilk. My sympathies are with those who want to make Pakistan a progressive 21st century society and the average honest Jane and John Doe just trying to get on with it.

Edited September 18, 2011 by satyaban

[Lanatin]

You know it is repulsive to label anyone who engages in terror attacks as a 'fundamentalist'...

[iSilurian]

You know it is repulsive to label anyone who engages in terror attacks as a 'fundamentalist'...

well, that is what they are. In their own perspective of course, but theyre fundamentalists none the less.

[satyaban]

You know it is repulsive to label anyone who engages in terror attacks as a 'fundamentalist'...

Really? What would you call someone who blows up schools because they don't like progressive education, doesn't want girls to get an education, demands women wear a burqua, and on and on and on?

[titumir]

Really? What would you call someone who blows up schools because they don't like progressive education, doesn't want girls to get an education, demands women wear a burqua, and on and on and on?

I would call them former USA-sponsored CIA-trained armed group.

[JimJam]

^I'd call them a Wahabi-Saudi funded ISI trained bunch of pawns from the Zia era gone rouge or people used by the Pakistani security establishment as the revolver. The government demands moneys from the world by placing the revolver to its head and threatens to blow it's brains out if its not given more aid.

Edited September 18, 2011 by JimJam

[Lanatin]

Really? What would you call someone who blows up schools because they don't like progressive education, doesn't want girls to get an education, demands women wear a burqua, and on and on and on?

I call them poverty-stricken village idiots, not people who desire to practise the fundamentals of their religion. Even a group as heinous as the Taliban doesn't want to prevent women from being educated, they merely call for segregation between the two sexes. When you're calling them fundamentalists you're - in effect - implying that their atrocities are the fundamental teachings of a faith adhered to by over a billion people worldwide. What you call 'progressive' is merely turning attention away from the essential teachings of our faith, coupled with an array of grievous slander such as Islam being against the education of women. Nothing could be further from the truth and ironically when I turn my attention to what my creed teaches, I see the exact opposite.

This is why I find it repulsive whenever a fanatical terrorist is labelled as a 'fundamentalist'.