Acts of Terrorism in Pakistan

[BelligerentPacifist]

... These guys arent humans...hell they are not even animals...

So, plants then

These guys must be gutted and skinned alive in my opinion!

So you're ready to go some steps beyond what they did, which might have simply been a bullet to the head, and want me to believe you're less inhumane then them. Strange world this.

 

[ZhengHe]

western source?

oh and taliban, al queda, bin laden, etc terrorist are all arms of the CIA.

 

[Jigs]

I hope this is a wake up call for those trying to still figure out the real enemy. It is plain and simple religious extremism. It must be shut down at all costs or it will be too late. This should take priority over everything else.

RIP

 

[A.Muqeet khan]

western source?

oh and taliban, al queda, bin laden, etc terrorist are all arms of the CIA.

and in my eyes

 

[RabzonKhan]

13 killed in Kurram attack on minibus

Daily Times
March 26, 2011

HANGU: Thirteen passengers were killed and eight wounded when unidentified gunmen, who also abducted 16 others, opened fire at two Parachinar-bound passenger coaches in Bagan area of Lower Kurram Agency on Friday. In a similar incident, five government officials, including an irrigation contractor, were kidnapped from Maidani Dam area of the agency.

According to sources, some armed men attacked two passenger coaches coming from Peshawar with heavy shelling in Bagan area, killing 13 and wounding eight people on-board.

Leaving the injured, the attackers drove away 16 passengers in the coach they were travelling in to an unidentified location, said the sources, adding that the other vehicle had caught fire due to the firing. The injured were ferried to hospitals in Ali Zai and Sadda areas.

According to a security official, “the victims were all Shias”.

Local sources claimed that as many as 45 passengers travelling in three passenger coaches were whisked away on Friday. Government sources, however, did not confirm this information.

Shias were heading in a three-vehicle caravan when the attackers, who came in two vehicles, opened fire and fled, leaving a number of people dead and injured, a local administration official, Fazal Hussain, told a foreign news agency. He said that a woman and a child were among the killed.

Khalid Umarzai, another senior administrative official, confirmed the incident and said the attackers also kidnapped over 20 Shias travelling in three coaches before fleeing.

The coaches were mostly carrying people from the Toori tribe, one of the main Shia tribes said Javid Khan, a local administration official.

The vehicles were attacked as they were traveling on the main road that runs through Kurram that connects the main town in the region, Parachinar, with Peshawar, said Khan.

Sectarian violence had kept the road closed until the peace deal was struck in February.

Entrenched terrorists oppose jobs and education for women in the deeply conservative tribal region of Kurram, which has for five years been a flashpoint for violence between Shia and Sunni communities.

More than 4,000 people have died in outbreaks of sectarian violence between the groups since the late 1980s. Tribesmen in Kurram have reported that the Haqqani network – a fiercely independent branch of the Afghan Taliban and a major enemy of the US and NATO forces – had helped cut the deal with the Shias so it could use Kurram as a staging ground for fighting in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, in a similar incident, five government employees, including an irrigation contractor, were kidnapped from Maidani Dam area by unidentified abductors. staff report/agencies

 

[RabzonKhan]

Two girls schools blown up in Khyber Agency

Daily Times
March 26, 2011

LANDIKOTAL: Two government primary schools for girls were destroyed on Thursday in Sultan Khel area in Khyber Agency. Unidentified men had placed explosives inside the buildings of the two schools, Hukam Khan Kallay and Awal Said Kallay, in Sultan Khel area of tehsil Landikotal. As a result both building were completely destroyed. However, the nearby houses were saved from the explosions that shook the whole area. More than 800 girls of the area were studying in the schools, who were devastated when they found out about the attack. Locals gathered on the sites and strongly condemned the blasts. They were of the view that the attackers were against girls’ education and wanted them to be deprived of this basic right. They also said that it was the basic duty of the security forces and the government to protect public property, including government schools, which are often neglected. The administration of both schools arrested the watchmen, identified as Nazar Sher and Inam Shah. So far 43 government schools have been blown up in the Khyber Agency. sudhir ahmad afridi

 

[RabzonKhan]

Lower Dir | Struck hard

Officials visit the site of an explosion on Friday. Two tribal police officers were killed and two others injured when their patrol vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb attack. ap

 

[RabzonKhan]

Suicide attack in Darra Adam Khel kills 2

April 01 2011

A suicide blast in the Darra Adam Khel area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa killed two people on Friday.

According to Express 24/7 correspondent Iftikhar Firdous, the suicide bomber was in a closed room on the first floor of Khalid market when he blew himself up killing one other person.

Security officials say that the target was possibly a mosque situated close to the market.

Most of the shops had been shut for Friday prayers.

Rescue teams from Peshawar have been deployed while security forces have reached the site.

In November 2010, a suicide attack on a mosque in the area had killed more than 90 people.

The region is known for providing help to the government in combating militants.

 

[Pak_Sher]

Afghnaistan is training terrorists and it is the center of all terrorism since 1990.

 

[RabzonKhan]

Taliban twin bombers kill 42 at Pakistani shrine

(AP) – 5 hours ago

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of Taliban suicide bombers struck one of Pakistan's most important Sufi Muslim shrines on Sunday, killing 42 people and wounding 100 who were celebrating the anniversary of its founder's death with music, meditation and other practices abhorred by Islamist militant groups.

Another bomber was wounded when his explosive vest partially detonated. He was arrested along with a fourth militant who was seized before attacking, police official Ahmad Mubarak said.

The attack on the Sakhi Sarwar shrine ended a months-long respite in a relentless militant campaign against the shrines founded by ancient adherents of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam that sees dancing, chanting and visiting holy sites as expressions of devotion to God. Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan called The Associated Press to claim responsibility for the assault.

"It was a huge blast. People were running in panic," said Fida Bakhsh, 42, a vendor outside the shrine. "It was horrible. We were running over bodies and blood."

Nineteen men, 14 women and nine children were killed, emergency coordinator Natiq Hayat said. Twenty of the wounded were in critical condition, he said.

From one-room tombs in small villages to large complexes in major cities, Sufi shrines are visited by millions of Pakistanis. The sites are anathema to the Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaida and other militant followers of the austere brand of Wahabi Islam that originated in Saudi Arabia.

Followers of the Barelvi school of Islam, one of the two main branches of the religion in Pakistan, consider themselves the custodian of the shrines. They have been one of the main targets of Islamist militants since some of their leaders issued edict calling suicide bombings religiously illegitimate.

Several thousand people were marking the 942nd anniversary of the death of the saint Ahmad Sultan, better known as Sakhi Sarwar, at his shrine in the Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province when the bombers struck crowds waiting outside, government administrator Iftikhar Saho said.

A stampede followed the bombings, but it was not immediately clear if that caused any casualties.

Local and foreign Islamist militants have carried out hundreds of attacks in Pakistan over the last three years, targeting government buildings and security forces, Western targets like embassies and hotels as well as religious minorities and Muslim sects they consider heretical.

An assault on the shrine of Hazrat Ali Hajveri, known as Data Sahib, killed 47 people in the city of Lahore in July. The attacks have angered many Pakistani Muslims, who see visiting saints' shrines as the best way to communicate to God.

The government and the army have tried to crack down on the militants, but have struggled to unite the nation against the threat and face persistent allegations they are protecting some extremists. Many Islamist politicians do not publicly criticize the militants, preferring to spread conspiracy theories that American or Indian agents are responsible. These views are widely aired, often uncritically, in some media.

Associated Press Writer Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan contributed to this report.

 

[fujistu]

it is very sad because hundreds of people is dieing without any reason in suiside bomb blasting all our the pakistan

 

[fujistu]

it is really sad to know. May ALLAH protect all of us from this incident

 

[RabzonKhan]

Suicide bomber kills 8 at bus terminal in Dir

Daily Times
April 05, 2011

KHAR: A teenage suicide bomber killed a Pakistani anti-Taliban militia leader and seven other people on Monday, in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to hit the country.

The bomber killed his apparent target as he sipped tea with relatives at a car showroom near a bus terminal in the small town of Jandol in the district of Lower Dir, 200 kilometres from the capital Islamabad.

Pakistani troops fought what was widely considered a relatively successful offensive to expel the Taliban from the area nearly two years ago, but Monday’s attack underscored the precarious state of security in the northwest.

The town is close to semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, which Washington calls al Qaeda’s global headquarters and where local troops are under US pressure to widen the fight against militants. Police said the bomber exploded himself on foot at a bus terminal close to the car showroom, where three people were among the dead and several vehicles were also damaged. The overall death toll had risen to eight by mid-afternoon.

“We have found the head of the bomber. He appears to be a teenager, a 15 to 16-year-old boy,” said Dir District Police Chief Saleem Marwat.

“The death toll is eight as one more person died of his injuries,” Doctor Muhammad Karim told AFP by telephone from the district hospital in Timargarah, the main town in Dir and about 28 kilometres southwest of the blast site.

Police said the target of the suicide attack was Muhammad Akbar, head of a lashkar, or tribal militia, set up by the government to fight Taliban.

Akbar, 55, had survived previous attempts on his life, but was in the show room run by his family members when the bomber hit.

“Malik Akbar died in the blast,” Qazi Jamilur Rehman, the regional deputy inspector general of police said. “Apparently he was the target,” he added. Residents said local authorities declared a curfew and that the emergency response had been sluggish in the remote town.

“I was in a shop a few blocks away,” Muhammad Irshad, a 30-year-old labourer, told AFP.

“I saw a young boy entering the car showroom where tribal elder Malik Akbar was having tea with his relatives. Soon there was a huge blast,” he said, adding, “The boy disappeared in the smoke that filled the area. His body parts were later seen littered near the show room.”

Local resident Israruddin said it took time for ambulances to arrive from nearby towns, so people used private cars to rush the wounded to Timargarah.

More than 4,200 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other extremist networks, which are based in the tribal belt, since government troops stormed a Red Mosque in Islamabad in 2007.

Monday’s bombing was the sixth in six days. On Sunday, two suicide bombers killed 50 people, unleashing carnage at shrine of Hazrat Sakhi Sarwar in DG Khan. afp

 

[RabzonKhan]

'350 suicide bombers being trained in NW'

Published: April 8, 2011

Arrested Sakhi Sarwar bomber reveals Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst the militants in Mir Ali. PHOTO: REUTERS

The suicide bomber, who was caught alive from inside the Sakhi Sarwar Shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan a few days ago, has claimed that up to 350 suicide bombers are being trained in Mir Ali, North Waziristan.

In an exclusive interview to Express 24/7, the bomber, Umar Fidai, said Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst militants in the area.

Fidai said his mission was to attack the shrine half an hour after the first wave of attacks so that people gathered at the site could be targeted. He claimed a man known as Sangeen Khan travels from Waziristan to Afghanistan and picks out targets for the bombers. He also claimed that a man known as Naeem indoctrinates the bombers.

Fidai went on to apologise to the nation for attempting a suicide attack and called on other suicide bombers to not undertake such activities.

Taliban commander held in Lahore

A Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander was arrested on Lytton road following an operation by law-enforcement agencies in Lahore.

Police and other law-enforcement agencies arrested the suspect associated with the plan to target religious shrines across Lahore.

The suspect identified as a main Taliban commander claimed that he along with three accomplices were planning the attacks. The suspect has been moved to an unidentified location for further investigations.

Meanwhile, a search operation has been launched in different parts of Lahore headed by SSP Operations, Faisal Rana, to arrest the other three terrorists.

New statistics on terror attacks

From 2008-2010, there have been around 2,500 incidents of blasts killing more than 3,000 people and injuring over 9,000. These figures came to light in Senate proceedings on Friday.

Just over 600 people have been arrested in follow-up investigations, while 352 were later released on court orders. In 2008, organizations including Lashkar-e-Islami, Haji Namdar group and Tehrik-i-Taliban were banned for alleged involvement in terrorist activities.

 

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'350 suicide bombers being trained in NW'

Published: April 8, 2011

Arrested Sakhi Sarwar bomber reveals Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst the militants in Mir Ali. PHOTO: REUTERS

The suicide bomber, who was caught alive from inside the Sakhi Sarwar Shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan a few days ago, has claimed that up to 350 suicide bombers are being trained in Mir Ali, North Waziristan.

In an exclusive interview to Express 24/7, the bomber, Umar Fidai, said Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks are amongst militants in the area.

Fidai said his mission was to attack the shrine half an hour after the first wave of attacks so that people gathered at the site could be targeted. He claimed a man known as Sangeen Khan travels from Waziristan to Afghanistan and picks out targets for the bombers. He also claimed that a man known as Naeem indoctrinates the bombers.

Fidai went on to apologise to the nation for attempting a suicide attack and called on other suicide bombers to not undertake such activities.

Taliban commander held in Lahore

A Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander was arrested on Lytton road following an operation by law-enforcement agencies in Lahore.

Police and other law-enforcement agencies arrested the suspect associated with the plan to target religious shrines across Lahore.

The suspect identified as a main Taliban commander claimed that he along with three accomplices were planning the attacks. The suspect has been moved to an unidentified location for further investigations.

Meanwhile, a search operation has been launched in different parts of Lahore headed by SSP Operations, Faisal Rana, to arrest the other three terrorists.

New statistics on terror attacks

From 2008-2010, there have been around 2,500 incidents of blasts killing more than 3,000 people and injuring over 9,000. These figures came to light in Senate proceedings on Friday.

Just over 600 people have been arrested in follow-up investigations, while 352 were later released on court orders. In 2008, organizations including Lashkar-e-Islami, Haji Namdar group and Tehrik-i-Taliban were banned for alleged involvement in terrorist activities.

Very very disturbing news. I personally feel drones strikes produce more terrorists.