Suicide Bomber on Pak-Afghan border kills during Iftar (breaking of fast)

[Omar1984]

Suicide bomber on Pak-Afghan border kills during Iftar (breaking of fast)​

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide attacker pretending to offer food to a group of Pakistani police officers detonated his explosives among them on Thursday, killing at least 22 people as they gathered to break the Ramadan fast on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, officials and witnesses said.

The attack in or near Tokham, a post on the main route for moving supplies to NATO and American forces in Afghanistan, took place just before dusk, as the men prepared to eat on the lawn outside their barracks. Because the attacker offered food, he was welcomed to join the gathering in accordance with local tradition during Ramadan, said Sajid Shinwari, a policeman who witnessed the attack.

A militant group affiliated with the Taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack, and a spokesman for the group called a local reporter to warn of further strikes against security forces if Pakistan did not stop NATO supplies from passing through its territory.

Medical workers described a chaotic scene at the hospital and blast site.

“So far, we have 22 bodies brought here, but there are many others so we don’t know the exact casualty figures,” said Dr. Zar Alam Shinwari, a local doctor. “We have asked for ambulances from other towns. The situation is bad.”

It was unclear how many of the dead were police officers.

The group that claimed responsibility for the attack, the Dr. Abdullah Azzam Brigade, is based in the Orakzai tribal region and is named after a fiery Palestinian scholar who was a mentor to Osama bin Laden and was killed in a car bomb in Peshawar in 1989.

In another episode, at least four people were killed earlier Thursday in the South Waziristan tribal region in a missile strike by a remotely controlled United States aircraft aimed at a meeting of local Taliban militants, according to local news reports.

The attack took place in the town of Kanigurram, in an area considered to be a stronghold of Waliur Rehman, the man the Taliban chose as its regional leader after Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, died from injuries sustained in another drone attack earlier this month.

A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the number of dead from the strike could rise and that some foreign militants might also have died.


Ismail Khan contributed reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan, and Lydia Polgreen from Islamabad.

 

[waz]

22 people killed, virtually all policemen, whilst they were about to break their fast. These Taliban ba*tards should be exterminated, they have no souls.

 

[Watani]

^ I have my doubt whether they truly are Taliban because even during their times in Afghanistan, Ramzan was only month where they halted their 'evil deeds'. Something fishy is going on here.....

 

[Vassnti]

^ I have my doubt whether they truly are Taliban because even during their times in Afghanistan, Ramzan was only month where they halted their 'evil deeds'. Something fishy is going on here.....

A militant group affiliated with the Taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack, and a spokesman for the group called a local reporter to warn of further strikes against security forces if Pakistan did not stop NATO supplies from passing through its territory.

An audacious Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday killed Afghanistan's deputy head of intelligence and 23 other people outside a mosque in a usually peaceful part of the country.

The assassination of such a high-profile member of the Western-backed Afghan security services, which are on the frontline of an increasingly deadly Taliban insurgency, shocked the country just weeks after controversial elections

Sadly not the peace of Ramadan or the house of Allah is saftey from the taliban.

 

[Watani]

^ How and to whom do Taliban confess their crimes? And if they are that sincere to confess all their crimes anyway then why don't they tell what their next target is? They seem fearless anyway, right? :|

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

^ I have my doubt whether they truly are Taliban because even during their times in Afghanistan, Ramzan was only month where they halted their 'evil deeds'. Something fishy is going on here.....

The Tehrik-e-Taliban claimed responsibility.

The Taliban have not denounced the attack or suggested that they are not responsible.

 

[LiberalPakistani]

I don't get it where in Quran says that sucide bombing is allowed killing innocent people.........and during Iftar its just ridiculous recently bombing of Mosque where is Quran says blow up the Mosque and kill your fellow Muslims Brothers last time i check it was a Jew pretending to be a Tahrik-e-Taliban claim the responsibilty of the attack which was spread by media.

 

[Patriot]

Oh not this **** again..jews jews jews.Come on you people are so blind that een when TTP accepts responsibility you accuse Jews.Give me a break.

 

[Omar1984]

^ I have my doubt whether they truly are Taliban because even during their times in Afghanistan, Ramzan was only month where they halted their 'evil deeds'. Something fishy is going on here.....

The original Afghan Taliban is a different group from this newly formed Tehrik-e-Taliban. Many of us dont believe Tehrik-e-Taliban are Muslims and this just proves it that they kill when Muslims break their fast during Iftar on the holy month of Ramadan.

Also there has been other evidences that suggests Tehrik-e-Taliban are not Muslims. Browse through the forum and you'll see many debates on the real identity of these terrorists.

 

[Watani]

^ I got relatives in Laghman and many Laghmani's are turning against USA. They say incidents take place of which they are sure it's not done by Taliban and while Laghmani's used to be kind of people who completely hated Taliban, now they want Taliban back. USA got many things to fear off now, many Pashtuns turning against them day by day.

 

[Comet]

I don't get it where in Quran says that sucide bombing is allowed killing innocent people.........and during Iftar its just ridiculous recently bombing of Mosque where is Quran says blow up the Mosque and kill your fellow Muslims Brothers last time i check it was a Jew pretending to be a Tahrik-e-Taliban claim the responsibilty of the attack which was spread by media.

Its not written any where to blow your self. Even the business of killing has ethics in Islam. But, due to the fact that most of our people are illiterate (in terms of Religion) they end up doing wrong even if they try doing right.

The suicide bombers are no others but innocent (low I.Q), backward area people who intentionally are doing Jihad but are actually Killing their own country men.