Karachi bus attacks leaves 47 Ismailis dead, 24 injured

[Adecypher]

Disgusted by this cowardly terrorist attack.

It was a well planned attack to harm Pakistan's image & surely the script was given by foreign powers to their assets to achieve some goals for them. I want PA to start massive operation in Sindh & Balochistan province as soon as possible, words will not do anything & nothing will be achieved by condolences because thousands of people have been killed by foreign agents & their assets, people are demanding for justice & justice can only be achieved by getting & killing foreign agents & their rented terrorist groups or assets.

Nothing good can be expected by corrupt politicians & they had proved it yesterday when Gadari & ganja were busy having lunch & having fun, this is a clear proof on how much they care for Pakistan. Pakistan will always for ever suffer by the hands of these corrupt bastards. I dearly hope PA takes over for the sake of Pakistan & Pakistan only.

Go & cry in India you bastard, troll face SOB.

I 100 % agree with you...

 

[pak-marine]

‘Had we not heard the cries of pain, we would have thought that everyone was dead’
SHAZIA HASAN — PUBLISHED about 17 hours ago
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Relatives of bus attack victims being comforted by their family members at a private hospital on Wednesday.—Online
KARACHI: Al-Azhar Garden and surrounding residential buildings in Safoora Goth give a serene view. Almost all the residents there hail from the Ismaili community and to facilitate their travel within the city there are various shuttle services.

On Wednesday morning, one such shuttle bus of Al-Azhar Garden, carrying around 60 passengers, was attacked soon after it left the residential area when six armed assailants stopped it, got on it and opened fire killing the driver and dozens of others, while leaving many wounded.

“We were the first ones to reach the scene. We got there in less than five minutes. What we saw there cannot be described easily in words. Had we not heard the cries of pain, we would have thought that everyone was dead. We found Sultan, the bus conductor, too, hiding and playing dead under a seat. Realising that the killers had left he came out and we helped him remove the lifeless form of the driver from his seat as he got into his place and drove full speed into the nearest hospital,” said Nasruddin, a resident of the area.

Take a look: 43 killed in attack on bus carrying Ismailis in Karachi

One of the victims was also named Sultan. Full name: Sultan Nur Mohammad. “He was my uncle,” said Salman Abdul, another area resident who was also one of the young men who reached the bus before everyone else to help. “My cousin, Shameer, needed his CNIC made and was about to board the shuttle to get dropped near the Nadra office when his father got his documents to go there instead of him citing that being a senior citizen would help him in hurrying up the process. The gunmen’s bullets killed him instantly,” the nephew said.

The pink and brown Al-Azhar Garden bus parked at the Memon Memorial Institute Hospital was the centre of everyone’s attention. There was blood on its doors and only a couple of bullet holes where they fired to make the driver stop before getting on it themselves. Inside the hospital, the main hall was crowded with Ismaili community members trying to find out the names of the deceased and the wounded. The hospital authorities hadn’t put up any lists with their names. “They will be doing that as soon as the police are done with their initial report,” said a hospital employee. There was maximum security with police and Rangers personnel posted everywhere.

Asked if he had located his relatives in the hospital, Zahid Hashim, one gentleman there, said he didn’t have any immediate family member there. “But we Ismailis are also one community so it is like our family was attacked,” he said.

“We came here to offer our help as soon as we heard,” he added.

Most of the victims who couldn’t be moved easily were kept at the Memon Memorial Institute Hospital, while the Aga Khan University Hospital initially received six wounded of whom five were female and one male.

When approached for a few comments as to what happened, the mother of a wounded lady broke into sobs. “We have never even harboured ill feelings for anyone. Why would anyone do this to us?” she cried.

“It was so easy for them to have killed so many members of the Ismaili community as a shuttle service leaving an Ismaili community apartment building only had to have Ismaili people on board,” said a bystander at the hospital as he regrettably shook his head thinking about the grave incident.

Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2015

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[pak-marine]

The innocent survivor - Al Azhar Bus Karachi Attack

vigil for bus attack victims

she was killed yesterday by the savages .. her name asmita

Pakistani Shiite Ismaili minority community mourners attend a funeral for the victims of a bus attack in Karachi. PHOTO: AFP

Ambulances transport the coffins of the victims of an attack on Pakistani Shiite Ismaili minority community members to a graveyard for their burial in Karachi. PHOTO: AFP

 

[pak-marine]

Mourners pray for the victims of Wednesday's attack on a bus during their burial ceremony at a graveyard in Karachi. PHOTO: REUTERS

another one of the young victims

 

[fatman17]

SSG at AKU?

@Irfan Baloch @Bratva @balixd @fatman17 @Icarus

a little too late

 

[Shan-e-ibrahim]

barbaad ho gaye hum log. yeh siyasati afraad or siyasatdano ne is Pak mulk ko kahin ka nai chora.. yeh silsila chalta rehna hai kya javab denge hum apne wali generation ko. Allah reham kar, ameen!

 

[Patriots]

 

[@nline]

"RAW" & "MQM" are behind this terror attack in Karachi, Pakistan!

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

"RAW" & "MQM" are behind this terror attack in Karachi, Pakistan!

Read you idiots: Initial probe points the finger at Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - thenews.com.pk

 

[@nline]

Read you idiots: Initial probe points the finger at Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - thenews.com.pk

Try to accept your poor face of Indian Terror into whole South Asian Region, you idiot!

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

Try to accept your poor face of Indian Terror into whole South Asian Region, you idiot!

This is your own investigation agency... speaking to your own News Paper... they clearly say that LEJ might be involved.... speaking of selective amnesia.

Read the last 3 lines in the news item

The Foreign Secretary had said that if RAW was found involved in the massacre of Ismailis in the Karachi bus attack, Islamabad would take up the issue at all international forums.

 

[@nline]

This is your own investigation agency... speaking to your own News Paper... they clearly say that LEJ might be involved.... speaking of selective amnesia.

Read the last 3 lines in the news item

The Foreign Secretary had said that if RAW was found involved in the massacre of Ismailis in the Karachi bus attack, Islamabad would take up the issue at all international forums.

Indian Terrorist Organization RAW supporting TTP, MQM, Jhangvi and lot other terrorist group to destabilize Pakistan. You Indians are "disease" for South Asian countries. Especially for Pakistan!

 

[Patriots]

"RAW" & "MQM" are behind this terror attack in Karachi, Pakistan!

Any evidence....??????

 

[Cruizer]

Indian Terrorist Organization RAW supporting TTP, MQM, Jhangvi and lot other terrorist group to destabilize Pakistan. You Indians are "disease" for South Asian countries. Especially for Pakistan!

Any evidence....??????

@Patriots,
It looks like that you are from MQM.
Well, @nline has said it 100% correct! Because MQM is just destroying peace in Karachi. And one more thing you should remember that we Kahsmiri hate you. Because your leader is always drunk when he speak on the phone. He always use so bad words against Pakistan. MQM is a terrorist political party with the support of RAW.

Your leader "Altaf Hussain" become British nationalist after spending 10 years in UK. You all MQM workers/supporters living in Karachi, Pakistan since 1947 still calling yourself "Refugee" (Mohajir"????? What a shame!!!

STOP TERROR IN KARACHI!!!

 

[Patriots]

@Patriots,
It looks like that you are from MQM.
Well, @nline has said it 100% correct! Because MQM is just destroying peace in Karachi. And one more thing you should remember that we Kahsmiri hate you. Because your leader is always drunk when he speak on the phone. He always use so bad words against Pakistan. MQM is a terrorist political party with the support of RAW.

Your leader "Altaf Hussain" become British nationalist after spending 10 years in UK. You all MQM workers/supporters living in Karachi, Pakistan since 1947 still calling yourself "Refugee" (Mohajir"????? What a shame!!!

STOP TERROR IN KARACHI!!!

Provide evidence in support of your claim instead ranting ...........