Four Blasts in Lahore

[rubyjackass]

wheneva some cricket team decides to come to pak, we hear a blast in lahore.
result: tour either gets cancelled or postponed.

True

terror groups responsible for blasts in india are different with those involved in pakistan. both of them have different objectives in mind.
just imagine urself. a terror group responsible for blasts in both india and pakistan has an objective of achieving wat??

Also true...

 

[BATMAN]

so you supplied money perviously and not now?
so you are taken by a ride by taliban

Do not quote out of context words.
Champ is reffering to Afghan war time era.

But do you really believe that Pakistan was that rich that it won a financial war with super power Russia!

Further talking about ur beliefs; Pakistan funded Taliban for their freedom but they become loyals to indians and are carrying out terrorism in Pakistan on behalf of india.

 

[abbasniazi]

Well, The score has risen upto Five Blasts now, Fifth one near Mazang Chungi, on Ferozepur Road, Outside Tamaseel Theatre, Mozang Chungi is Famous for its "Parathas and Lassi" i spent almost six years in that area when i was a Student of ICMAP and Later on did MCS, anyways its terrible to know bad things happening around, i feel so much pain when i see humans killing or intending to kill humans, whether its palestine,kashmir,mumbai or lahore, my dear fellows please try to work for peace in this world, coz every religion teaches and propogates peace, peace is the basis of human nature, it brings satisfaction, and thats what we seek in this world, the only conflict is that we seek peace only for ourselves and not for others, lets give a try to bring peace for everyone irrespective of religion,ethnicity,gender or caste....Thanx

 

[rubyjackass]

Plz keep us posted.

 

[waraich66]

Do not quote out of context words.
Champ is reffering to Afghan war time era.

But do you really believe that Pakistan was that rich that it won a financial war with super power Russia!

Further talking about ur beliefs; Pakistan funded Taliban for their freedom but they become loyals to indians and are carrying out terrorism in Pakistan on behalf of india.

There is no taliban organisation in afghanistan when russia was defeated.Talaban are student organisation took over afghanistan without any fight with support of local war lords.



There is no talib fighting inside pakistan who ever is resposible for terrorist activities killing innocent people are terrorists sponser by RAW/MOSAD/RSS.

 

[RescueRanger]

**** the Terrorists, whoever they are, hindus muslims sikhs or christians or jews! Kill the mfs, tired of innocent people dieing!

Fully in aggreement!

 

[Jihad]

These people who carried out these attacks should be publicly humiliated, killed, castrated whatever, they need to hunt down each and every piece of these scum bastards that tend to ruin our beautiful country.

 

[SSGPA1]

LET and other terror groups after the blasts in India declare that jihad or power to islamic forces..something like to kill ppl

What do they say in pakistan...killing innocent ppl without any purpose? what do they want in pakistan.

Roopesh,

This could have been done by Indian agents like Col. Prohit.

BTW, how is the Samjotha Express investigation coming along?

Have the Indian media or the govt. been able to find the obvious connection between the murder of ATS chief and Mumbai attacks?

 

[tarrar]

I am 100% sure that Raw is behind thins bomb blast. They were also involved in car bomb blast in Lahore our agency caught 4 of them but sadly thr no investigation and they did not even show them to the world and indians. Y did that happen bcoz of the corrupt and sold out govt. dam them.

 

[Patriot]

can this be ISI ? just to take off the blame of mumbai attack they decided to kill some of their own countrymen and show how helpless they are....they are victim of terrorism. buhu

Yeah, you're right.Last time they raped girls in India and then there some some blasts in Lahore and they did it because they though otherwise India will put extreme pressure on ISI that Pakistanis ISI rouge agents raped Indians Girls.

 

[rubyjackass]

can this be ISI ? just to take off the blame of mumbai attack they decided to kill some of their own countrymen and show how helpless they are....they are victim of terrorism. buhu

Lol
nice one!!

 

[Patriot]

Can you please make some sense ? ISI can never rape indian girls. for that to happen they need a Dang which god have forbidden for them.

anyways i think this cant be done by Indian agency cause these bombing are happening alot in Pakistan and Indian authority cant make it such large scale.
I feel terrible to hear of such news and if there are some Indian involved (which i highly doubt) they need to be wasted as well and handed over to pakistan.

I don't think so..India also accused ISI for spreading HIV/Aids in India

 

[Khuda Baksh]

Mr Tarrar, don't worry about your govt being "sold-out". They are actually very patriotic. They are so patriotic that they made up those stories about the so-called "Satish Anand Shukla" and the alleged "Indian female spy".

Fortunately they don't seem to have made up any stories this time around. But maybe they can use low-flying jets again to keep up the frenzy.

Anyway, it is good there were no deaths. Sympathies to the injured people.

I am 100% sure that Raw is behind thins bomb blast. They were also involved in car bomb blast in Lahore our agency caught 4 of them but sadly thr no investigation and they did not even show them to the world and indians. Y did that happen bcoz of the corrupt and sold out govt. dam them.

 

[linkinpark]

Problem of ‘sympathetic’ terrorism

Lahore experienced five low-intensity “timed explosions” on Friday, the first day after Ashura, targeting theatres at Al Falah and on Ferozpur Road near Mozang. They were planted on the premises, implying that little or no watch was set up in anticipation of “cultural” terrorism in the city. The last time it was threatened, hardly a few yards away from Al Falah, against the “obscene-CD” sellers of Hall Road, the shopkeepers simply took out their CDs and burned them.

The great Talibanisation movement in Pakistan is not restricted to the Tribal Areas of Pakistan; it has spread into the settled areas and threatens to extend into additional segments of the market catering to the entertainment of the cities. The representatives of the Lahore administration present at Friday’s blasts made a few “connections” but not all of them.

The Bomb Disposal Squad official connected the five blasts to ones that took place last year at Alhamra Art Centre, a few hundred yards from Al Falah, and at Garhi Shahu, ice-cream parlours being the target in the latter incident. Governor Punjab Mr Salmaan Taseer described the blasts as “acts of cowardice” committed by anti-Pakistan elements. Dr Mehdi Hassan of Beaconhouse National University said extremist groups were trying to lay down their own anti-culture sharia and should be opposed by civil society. Unfortunately, however, reporters describing the blasts on some TV channels tended to repeat some of the charges brought against the theatres by arch-reactionary circles of Lahore: that the dramas enacted on their stages contained “obscene” matter and that there was much prohibited dancing by women during the performance. One must recall, however, that this misplaced objection has always been there. Some sections of society have always objected to theatre and display of art as “ideologically repugnant”.

But the phenomenon of the “culture blasts” is new. No one tried to blow up the theatres in Lahore, Gujrat and Gujranwala where the populace increasingly took to them for entertainment. After complaints and some “vigilante” action — strange to say, by the police — these theatres were strictly regulated by the cultural authority of the province. The explosives have come into play after Talibanisation when threat to life became the expression of the ideological extremist in our midst.

This ideological extremist who spoke against entertainment in the past to firm up his identity among the “majority of the moderate” in the tolerant society of Lahore is now on the brink of advancing his cause to new intense heights. People who stood and commented on the blasts on Friday forgot to connect them to Talibanisation in general and the growing agenda of prohibition in particular under inspiration from the sharia being enforced in Swat and many normally administered cities of the NWFP.

Last year, Lahore also saw the more ominous extension of the Taliban’s prohibition of girls’ education. There were no bombs but over fifty threats were received in various girls’ schools and colleges which were then evacuated by way of precaution. It can simply mean that the extremists of the past are receiving strength from the Taliban and feel empowered enough to threaten terrorism through explosives and are now actually carrying it out. This is not Taliban terrorism but “sympathetic” terrorism on the part of those who actually favour their violent brand of Islam.

It would be folly to dismiss the Friday blasts as extremist acts against culture. The next stage can suddenly be on us: explosions with devices that can kill hundreds of people. The Taliban and Al Qaeda have already made a demonstration of that holocaust in Lahore a number of times, targeting the military and the police. Many suicide-bombers involved in terrorism have been found to be Punjabis. Those who do “sympathetic” terrorism today are a part of the network emerging all over Pakistan as foot-soldiers of Al Qaeda.

What encourages this development is our general attitude of denial of the true source of violence, and we do that in the name and cause of “nationalism”. Since we are opposed to the United States we deny that there is the threat of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the Tribal Areas; and our parliament actually says that our army should quit fighting them. Since we hate India, we tend to connect all terrorism to RAW. Shockingly, at least one commentator has linked the Friday blasts to the pressure being mounted on Pakistan in the wake of our latest stand-off with India. *

 

[RabzonKhan]

Terror in Lahore

Editorial
January 11, 2009

FIVE blasts in quick succession in Lahore on Friday night added to the chill in the air. The first four explosions took place around the Al Falah building, formerly housing a cinema house which has been converted into a venue for holding stage plays. The fifth blast came soon afterwards and the apparent target this time was the Tamaseel Theatre at Mozang Chungi. With two of the busiest parts of the city hit, the panic spread fast.

Thankfully the damage was contained since the two theatres happened to be closed at the time of the explosions because of Muharram. Nonetheless Lahore’s residents were once again reminded of the terrors that may be brewing in their midst and the damage the terrorists are capable of causing. One year ago, on Jan 10, a suicide bomber struck at the GPO square close to the Lahore High Court killing 25, mostly policemen. Even more powerful attacks followed in March in one of which the terrorists aimed to and almost succeeded in destroying the Federal Investigation Agency offices on Temple Road. In a recent incident on Dec 24, a woman was killed in a car bomb explosion in the Government Officers’ Residence-II.

Friday’s blasts were, however, readily linked to another series that has been played out at the so-called cultural venues of Lahore, with the suspicion being that these were the handiwork of a local group of prudes. In early October last year, three bombs went off in Garhi Shahu inside fruit juice corners frequented by boys and girls. In November, just when everyone was about to celebrate the peaceful holding of the World Performing Arts Festival, the show was hit by blasts on its penultimate day. Mercifully, large-scale damage was avoided and the organisers, in a show of courage, went ahead with the closing ceremony the following evening. A similarly heartening resolve has been shown by a producer scheduled to stage a play at Al Falah. But the official response leaves much to be desired. It is as if the officials are out trying to take credit for the ‘mildness’ of the terrorists’ effort. Let’s hope that this is for public consumption only and back in their thinking rooms, the officials are in receipt of the real message that these ‘trial bangs’ bring. The fear will stay unless and until, beyond the convenient catching of a suspect or two; there is a swoop on terror in earnest.