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| shaolin_Z |
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Bomb carnage at Karachi prayers
At least 47 people have died in a suspected suicide bombing at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's birth in southern Pakistan.
More than 80 people were injured when the blast ripped apart a wooden stage where religious leaders were sitting.
Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims had been taking part in evening prayers in Karachi's Nishtar Park at the time.
Angry crowds later went on the rampage in the city, accusing the police of failing to provide adequate security.
Three days of mourning has been declared.
The attack was condemned by Shia leader Allama Hassan Turabi as well as President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
| quote: | The blast shook the earth... It was like hell
Mohammad Ehtesham |
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao confirmed the death toll had risen to 47.
He told the BBC the attack appeared to have been carried out by a suicide bomber.
Initial reports suggested the bomb had been planted under the wooden stage, but Mr Sherpao said "investigators have found no crater in the ground under the stage".
"People sitting on the stage were killed which suggests the bomb was carried by someone on the stage," the minister added.
No-one has claimed responsibility for the explosion at what was believed to be the biggest of such events being held in Pakistan.
Karachi has a history of sectarian and ethnic violence, but this is the first time in decades that a religious gathering celebrating the Prophet's birthday has been targeted, the BBC's Zaffar Abbas in Pakistan says.
"The blast shook the earth. It was like hell," Mohammad Ehtesham, 70, told Reuters news agency.
Sunni Muslim leaders taking part in the ceremony were believed to be among the dead.
"I saw body parts everywhere. I saw people collecting body parts and putting them in ambulances," another witness said.
An emergency has been declared at the city's hospitals. Off-duty doctors and paramedics have been called in and appeals are being made for blood.
Twenty-four bodies were reported at one hospital alone.
'Nothing is working'
Anger at the attack spilt over into violence as hundreds of enraged worshippers took to the streets accusing the authorities of failing to provide adequate security.
They hurled rocks at the security forces who fired shots in the air to try and disperse the crowd. A petrol station as well as cars were burned.
Sherbanoo Raza told the BBC her mother had been in her car when it was set alight, along with up to 30 others nearby.
"My mother panicked, she was terrified. She went up to a friend's house nearby," she said.
"It's not even safe enough for her to cross the road and get a cab home. Nothing is working."
The event had been organised by the Sunni organisation Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat.
The group draws support from the same Sunni community that lost 29 women and children in a stampede during prayers also marking the Prophet's birthday in a Karachi Islamic centre at the weekend. |
EDIT: Forgot this. Source: BBC |
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| Q5echo |
| Muslims have been blowin up Muslims for a while now. especially there. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
Muslims have been blowin up Muslims for a while now. especially there. |
Yes, I'm aware of that, but it's usually sectarian/ethnic clashes, not stuff like this. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
Yes, I'm aware of that, but it's usually sectarian/ethnic clashes, not stuff like this. |
oh really. did it look like this stuff?
>>STUFF<<
i mean it's like deja frikken vu if you ask me. but whatever. |
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| Lemonad |
| There are different form of Muslim beliefs, Sunni and Shi, and they both hate each other, so this news isn't suprising at all. |
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| Q5echo |
how about the Quetta masacre in 2004? 43 dead, 160 wounded.
now that was some pretty repugnant Muslim stuff right there.
no wait! the massacre in 2003 in Pakistan, Quetta was worse stuff. 53 dead.
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| Q5echo |
| now if you want some non-sectarian stuff, your gonna have to take your happy ass all the way back to Nov 19, 2002...just 17 dead. not much stuff there. |
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| Q5echo |
a summary of stuff.
Major incidents of terrorist violence in Pakistan, 1988-2006
2006
March 19: Seven persons, including three personnel each of the police and Frontier Constabulary, were killed and as many injured in the Dera Ismail Khan district of North West Frontier Province when a police vehicle was blown up through a remote-controlled device on Bannu Road.
March 10: At least 29 people are reported to have died during a landmine explosion in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province. A wedding party, comprising some 35 people of a family, including women and children, was en route to Rakhni from Bekar when their tractor-trolley hit an anti-tank landmine near Dera Bugti.
March 2: A US diplomat, identified as David Fyfe, his Pakistani driver and a Rangers official were killed and 54 persons injured in a suicide car bombing near the US consulate in Karachi, a day before the US President George W. Bush reaches Pakistan.
February 9: At least 40 people are killed and 50 others wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a Muharram procession of Shia Muslims in the Hangu town of North West Frontier Province.
January 25: Six passengers were killed and five others sustained injuries when a minibus hit a landmine at Kharcha in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province.
January 10: Seven soldiers and 14 suspected terrorists are killed following an attack on a Frontier Corps outpost at Sarbanki in North Waziristan.
January 5: Unidentified gunmen are reported to have killed eight tribesmen, including seven of a family, in two separate incidents in South Waziristan.
2005
December 22: Seven people were killed in a gunfight in North Waziristan, as seminary students, calling themselves the Taliban, raided homes searching for rivals, residents and a representative of the students said.
December 8: At least 12 people are killed and 50 others sustain injuries in a powerful bomb explosion at Jandola Bazaar in the Tank tribal area of South Waziristan.
November 15: At least three people are killed and 20 others, including two South African women, sustain injuries in a powerful car bomb explosion in front of the KFC restaurant in Karachi.
November 10: At least six people are killed and six others sustain injuries in a landmine explosion in Brabcha village of Balochistan province, which lies close to Afghanistan’s Hilmand province.
October 13: Four civilians, including two women, and two personnel of the Rangers are killed and 25 persons were wounded in incidents of sectarian violence in the Gilgit town of Northern Areas.
October 7: Eight persons are killed and 19 others were injured when unidentified assailants opened fire in an Ahmadiyya place of worship at Mong village near Mandi Bahauddin in the Punjab province.
October 4: At least six people, including three Pakistanis and a woman, are reported to have died and 14 others wounded in a powerful bomb blast at Spin Buldak on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
September 22: Six persons are killed and over 36 persons sustain injuries in two separate bomb blasts in Lahore.
August 10: Four persons are reported to have died when the vehicle of a tribal elder supporting the ongoing military operations against terrorists hit a landmine in the Taza Ghondai area of South Waziristan.
August 4: Five security force personnel, including an Army officer, are reported to have died and two SF personnel sustained injuries in a bomb blast in the Ghalnamai area of North Waziristan.
July 22: Unidentified gunmen assassinate nine tribesmen, including two leading pro-government tribal elders, in different parts of South Waziristan.
May 31: Five women die and six persons, including two children, sustain injuries during a land mine blast in the Chamalung area of Loralai district in Balochistan province.
May 30: Six people, including two of the three assailants, among them a suicide bomber, are killed and 19 persons sustain injuries during an explosion in the courtyard of a Shia mosque at Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Karachi.
May 27: At least 25 people, including a suspected suicide bomber, are killed and approximately 100 others sustain injuries during a powerful explosion at the Bari Imam shrine of the Shia sect located in vicinity of the diplomatic enclave in capital Islamabad.
May 25: Six members of a family are killed and three others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at their residence in the Bandkhel village of South Waziristan.
March 19: At least 50 people are killed and over 100 others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at a crowded gathering near the shrine of a Shia saint at Fatehpur village in the Jhal Magsi district of Balochistan province.
January 8: At least 15 people are killed, including six members of a family who were burnt alive, and 14 were injured during sectarian clashes at Gilgit in the Northern Areas of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) where a curfew was imposed and troops deployed to restore law and order.
2004
December 10: Eleven persons, including two army personnel, are killed and 26 others sustain injuries when a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded at Quetta in the Baluchistan province.
October 26: Seventeen persons belonging to the Mahsud tribe are killed and many injured in a rocket attack near Jandola in South Waziristan.
October 10: Five people are killed and six others sustain injuries as a suicide bomber blows himself up at a Shia mosque in the Mochi Gate area of Lahore.
October 7: At least 40 people are killed and more than 100 injured in twin explosions in the city of Multan, at a large gathering assembled to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Sunni leader and Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) chief Maulana Azim Tariq.
October 1: At least 31 people are killed and 75 others sustain injuries in a suspected suicide bombing at a Shia mosque at Sialkot in the Punjab province during the Friday prayers.
September 28: Four soldiers are killed and five others sustain injuries during a remote-controlled landmine explosion in the Shakai area of South Waziristan.
August 31: Four people, including three intelligence officers, are killed and 15 others sustained injuries during a bomb explosion at a sweet shop in Qalat, 140km south of Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
August 16: Five paramilitary troops are killed and 12 others sustain injuries in two attacks near the Sui gas fields of Balochistan province.
August 8: At least 10 people, including a three-year-old boy, are killed and 50 others sustain injuries in two bomb explosions near the Binoria mosque and seminary in Karachi.
August 2: Baluchistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousaf escapes unhurt when his cavalcade was attacked by unidentified terrorists near Surab, about 180 kilometers south west of Quetta. A constable and one of the attackers were reportedly killed and three persons sustained injuries during the incident.
August 1: Five soldiers and a civilian are killed when three unidentified terrorists attacked their vehicle at Khuzdar in the Baluchistan province.
July 30: Seven persons, including the attacker, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on the car of Finance Minister and Prime Minister-designate, Shaukat Aziz, at village Jaffar in Fateh Jang.
June 10: At least 11 persons, including seven Army personnel and three police personnel, are killed and 12 others sustain injuries when a group of seven to eight unidentified terrorists ambush the convoy of Corps Commander, Karachi, Lt. Gen. Ahsan Saleem Hyat, near the Clifton Bridge in Karachi.
May 31: At least 24 worshippers are killed and 34 others sustain injuries when a high-intensity bomb explodes during the evening prayers at a Shia mosque situated on the MA Jinnah Road in Karachi.
May 30: The pro-Taliban Sunni cleric and chief of Binoria mosque in Karachi, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, is killed and his son, nephew and driver are wounded, when armed men ambushed their vehicle in front of the mosque.
May 26: Two persons are killed and at least 33 others, mostly police and media personnel, are wounded when two car bombs explode in succession near the Pakistan-American Cultural Centre (PACC) and the residence of the US Consul-General in Karachi.
May 7: At least 15 Shia worshippers and a suspected suicide bomber are killed and over 200 persons sustain injuries when a powerful bomb exploded at Hyderi Mosque, situated within the premises of the seminary Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam, in the Mithadar area of Karachi.
May 3: Three Chinese engineers working on a sea-port project are killed and eleven persons, including nine Chinese nationals, sustain injuries in a car bomb attack near Gwadar, about 500 kilometers west of Karachi, near the border with Iran.
March 22: At least 13 soldiers are killed and 22 others wounded as terrorists ambush a Pakistan Army convoy near the town of Wana in South Waziristan.
March 2: At least 47 persons are killed and more than 150 wounded when a procession of the Shia sect is attacked by rival Sunni extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan.
February 28: A suicide bomber is killed and four worshippers sustain injuries in an attack on a mosque in the Satellite Town area of Rawalpindi.
2003
December 25: At least 18 persons are killed and 40 others are injured during a second assassination attempt in less than two weeks on President Pervez Musharraf in the Jhanda Chichi area of Rawalpindi.
December 14: President Pervez Musharraf escapes an assassination attempt when an explosive device went off at the Chaklala Bridge near Jhanda Chichi in Rawalpindi approximately two minutes after the departure of his convoy. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
October 6: Maulana Azam Tariq, leader of the outlawed Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Member of National Assembly, is assassinated along with four others in Islamabad.
October 3: At least six persons, including four employees of the Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission (SUPARCO) and one army personnel, are killed and eight persons injured in an ambush while they were going to a mosque for offering Friday prayers in the Mauripur area of Karachi.
October 2: At least 12 Al Qaeda terrorists are killed and 18 others arrested during an operation launched by the Pakistan Army in the remote South Waziristan Agency (SWA), close to the Afghanistan border. Two Pakistani soldiers were also reportedly killed and two others injured during the encounter.
July 4: At least 53 persons are killed and 57 others injured as three armed terrorists, including a suspected suicide bomber, attack a Shiite mosque in Quetta, capital of the Southwestern Baluchistan province, during the Friday prayers.
June 8: In a sectarian attack, 13 trainee police personnel belonging to the local Hazara community of the Shia sect are killed and eight others injured at Sariab Road in Quetta.
February 28: Two police personnel guarding the United States Consulate in Karachi are killed and five others injured by an unidentified gunman.
February 27: Three persons are killed in suspected sectarian violence in Karachi.
January 31: Unidentified assailants kill a prayer leader and a worshipper and injure two others after opening indiscriminate fire inside a mosque in Faisalabad.
January 15: Two MQM-A activists, including a unit in-charge, are killed and another injured by two unidentified assailants within the precincts of Jauharabad Police Station in Karachi.
2002
December 25: Three women are killed and 15 persons injured in a grenade attack on the United Presbyterian Church near Sialkot, Punjab province.
December 21: Two persons are killed and seven others, including two security force personnel, are injured in a bomb explosion in a bus in Hyderabad, Sindh.
December 7: Four members of a family are killed and seven more injured in a landmine explosion in Shahkas village, 25km west of Peshawar.
December 4: Three persons are killed in a bomb blast at the Macedonian Honorary Consul General’s office in Karachi.
November 15: Two persons are killed and nine more injured in a bomb explosion inside a passenger bus in Hyderabad, Sindh.
November 1: Unidentified terrorists killed two police personnel in Quetta.
A Shia doctor is killed by an unidentified assailant in the Upper Mall locality, Lahore.
October 16: Three-parcel bomb explosions cause injuries to eight police personnel and a civilian in Karachi
September 25: Seven persons are killed and three others injured in a terrorist attack on a Christian welfare organisation's office––the Idara Amn-O-Insaaf (Institute for Peace and Justice) in Karachi.
August 23: MQM-H chairman Afaq Ahmed and secretary general Amir Khan survive an assassination attempt in Karachi.
August 9: Three women and a terrorist are killed and 24 persons are injured as terrorists attack the John C. Heinrich Memorial chapel in the Mission Hospital at Taxila.
August 5: Six persons are killed and four others injured in a terrorist attack at a Christian missionary school in Jhika Gali, Murree.
July 20: Mir Ghulam Qadir Baloch, Baluchistan National Movement (BNM) leader, shot dead in Turbat Bazaar, Quetta.
July 13: 12 persons, including seven Germans, are injured in a terrorist attack at an Archaeological site in Mansehra.
July 3: Four Al Qaeda terrorists and two security force personnel are killed and two police personnel injured in an encounter near Jarma bridge in Kohat.
June 28: A senior official of the proscribed Shia group Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP) is killed in Multan in a suspected sectarian attack.
June 17: Three Shia worshippers are killed in a sectarian attack outside a mosque in Multan.
June 14: 10 persons, including five women, are killed and 51 others injured in a car-bomb blast outside the US Consulate in Karachi.
June 9: Front-ranking leader of Baluchistan National Party (BNP), Mir Aslam Gichki is assassinated along with an associate in Mashkey, Quetta.
May 24: A Sunni Tehreek (ST) cadre is killed and four others injured as unidentified gunmen attack an ST rally in Majeed Colony, Karachi.
May 8: Nine French nationals and five Pakistanis, including a suspected suicide bomber, are killed and 34 persons injured in a bomb explosion inside a bus opposite Sheraton Hotel, Karachi.
May 7: Noted religious scholar Ghulam Murtaza Malik, his driver and a police personnel are killed at Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Lahore.
May 6: Three persons––principal of a government institute, his driver and assistant, are killed in an ambush in Al-Falah, Karachi.
March 16: Five SSP cadres are killed near Merik Sial in Jhang by a group of 10 unidentified assailants.
2001
December 21: Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider's brother is killed in a suspected terrorist attack in Karachi.
December 13: Nineteen persons are injured in a bomb blast at a residential area in Orangi Town, Karachi.
November 4: Five persons, including a former District Council chairman, are killed and two more injured in firing by unidentified gunmen near Mehargam, Quetta.
October 28: A policeman and 17 Christians, including five children, are killed and nine others injured as six unidentified gunmen open indiscriminate fire inside a church in Model Town, Bahawalpur.
January 28: Masked gunmen ambush a school van, killing five Sunni Muslims and wounding three others.
2000
November 23: Anwar Ali Akhunzada, the central general secretary of TJP in Peshawar, is assassinated by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
September 19: Twelve persons are killed in a bomb explosion in Islamabad
July 17: Ten persons are killed in Hyderabad train blast.
March 28: Seven persons are killed and 16 others injured in a bomb blast at a crowded market in the frontier town of Torkham near Afghanistan.
February 5: Eight persons are killed and 40 others injured in a bomb explosion in a train at Hyderabad.
January 17: Eight persons are killed and 31 others injured in a bomb explosion at a bus stop in Karachi.
1998
May 4: Members of the Baluchistan Students Federation (BSF) hijack a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft and attempt to land in India.
1997
November 12: Two unidentified gunmen kill four U.S. auditors from Union Texas Petroleum Corporation and their Pakistani driver near Sheraton Hotel in Karachi.
1996
November 19: A suicide bomber drives a vehicle into the Egyptian Embassy compound in Islamabad, killing at least 16 and injuring 60 persons.
September 23: Four gunmen open indiscriminate fire at a Fajr congregation at Al Khair mosque in Multan, killing 23 worshippers and wounding 50 others.
January 18: Sipah-e-Sahaba Chief Maulana Ziaur Rehman Farooqi is killed along with 18 other persons in a bomb blast in the Lahore Sessions Court.
March 8: Two unidentified gunmen kill two U.S. diplomats and injured a third in Karachi.
1994
November 5: 15 persons are killed and 17 others injured as Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) cadres and security forces clash in the NWFP region.
1992
May 11: MQM chairman Azim Ahmed Tariq is assassinated in Karachi.
1990
December 11: The Iranian Counsel General in Lahore, Sadeq Ganji, is assassinated.
February 23: Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, one of the founder members of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) is assassinated by suspected Shia terrorists.
1988
August 6: Allama Husseini, leader of Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP), is killed in Peshawar. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| I've lived in Pakistan so you're not telling me something I don't already know. :rolleyes: |
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| josh4 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
a summary of stuff.
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lol i think the horse is dead |
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| tranceNlife |
| Pakistan blames such attacks on India. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
...now that was some pretty repugnant Muslim stuff right there...
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Careful; Perhaps you don't see how that is offensive, but try replacing the term "Muslim" with "black" or "Jew" or "mexican" (or maybe you'd prefer to use racial slurs instead), then look at how it reads, and then substitute it with "Muslim" again. Notice anything? |
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