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Large blast in Quetta:
Large blast shakes Quetta; 20 killed | Pakistan | DAWN.COM
Breaking News: 20 dead, 58 killed.
R.I.P. This has to stop.
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Large blast in Quetta:
Large blast shakes Quetta; 20 killed | Pakistan | DAWN.COM
Breaking News: 20 dead, 58 killed.
R.I.P. This has to stop.
While the militants continue to present the main physical threat, the militarys poorly conceived counter-insurgency strategies, heavy-handed methods and failure to restore responsive and accountable civilian administration and policing are proving counter-productive, aggravating public resentment and widening the gulf between FATAs citizens and the state. Meanwhile neither the federal nor the KPK provincial government is fully addressing the security concerns of residents.
heavy-handed methods
Why? Why does it have to stop?Islam is being cleansed, so that "Real, True Islam can prevail
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Five dead in militant attack on PA’s office in Peshawar: Officials
Militants including a suicide bomber attacked the office of a senior official on Bara Road in Peshawar on Monday, killing five people, officials said.
The top political official, Mutahir Zeb, for the northwestern tribal district of Khyber was holding a meeting in his office but was not hurt in the attack.
At least five people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the entrance to the Peshawar complex, which also contains cells where police detain suspected militants, officials said.
“We have five dead. Seven are injured. They have been admitted with serious injuries,” Jamal Shah, spokesman for the Lady Reading Hospital.
“The dead include four security officials and one civilian, an old man of about 60,” he added.
Some officials suggested the militants staged the attack to free detainees and unconfirmed reports indicated that some prisoners may have escaped.
Muhammad Iqbal Afridi, local leader in the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), told AFP that he heard heavy gunfire.
“We were inside the office when we heard gun shots. Suddenly firing started and then they hurled some grenades,” Afridi said.
“Then there was intense exchange of firing between the militants and the security forces. Later, security forces evacuated us from the building. While leaving, I saw two dead bodies and blood everywhere,” he added.
Witnesses said there had been three attackers. Security officials told AFP that soldiers were combing the area for the other two.
“One of them blew himself up, killing two local police officials and a search is on for other suspected suicide bombers,” one of the officials said.
“We were holding a meeting and some others were joining us when firing started inside the political compound, and then there was a heavy blast, and again heavy firing began,” said tribal politician Niaz Ahmad Khan.
“We were told by the officials to take shelter inside the office as the terrorists had attacked the political compound.”
He said he saw two bodies and some injured people lying on the ground inside the compound in the northwestern city.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Note: This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.
Five dead in militant attack on PA
Why? Why does it have to stop?Islam is being cleansed, so that "Real, True Islam can prevail
I am a bit confused here, Muse. I suppose my lack of knowledge on the specifics of Pakistan's situation is to blame but how could a bombing in a public place be acceptable, especially since explosions rarely differentiate between sectarian appurtenance in victims?
I think I missed your point on that ( less it was a jest? ); please explain in greater details.
Thanks in advance, Tay.
Islam is being cleansed, so that "Real, True Islam can prevail - If you want True Islam to prevail, why would you want this to stop? - Of you think "THE truth" is something we can only see in facets/reflections, then of course, we would want it to stop.
@muse,
The worrisome part is that a good proportion of the Citizenry/People will get "cleaned/eliminated" before this "cleansing" (as you put it) will happen. What about that? Why on earth are people so bl00dy unmindful of that?
What is all this? Another manifestation of a "scorched earth" policy? Who will be spared from that Armageddon? Who can (in his right mind) think that he or his own will remain "unscorched" from the conflagration?
Yeah, what about it?
Who will escape being scorched? No one. And the biggest is loser will the idea of Islam, the "fat cats" of so called Real Islam, they'll escape to the West for asylum
Islam is being cleansed, so that "Real, True Islam can prevail - If you want True Islam to prevail, why would you want this to stop? - Of you think "THE truth" is something we can only see in facets/reflections, then of course, we would want it to stop.
All I can see is a huge human tragedy unfolding. Slowly and not so slowly. And honestly, I can't ignore that.