Wagah bombers say India is next

[madooxno9]

 

[rockstar08]

looks like Indians are so desperate ... to put their nose on everything and everywhere ..

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Actually that's not from India, it's from your higher than mountains big daddy :

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Those are Korean characters.

 

[Foo_Fighter]

Hours after the suicide attack on the Pakistan side of the Attari-Wagah border crossing, the group that claimed responsibility for the carnage sent out a sinister warning: India is in its sights too. In a message posted on Twitter, Jamaatul-Ahrar spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the attack was intended to be a "message" to the governments of both India and Pakistan. At least 61 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest while a large crowd was dispersing after the popular flag-lowering ceremony on Sunday.

"This attack was a message to the governments on both sides of the border. If we can carry out an attack on this side, then we can attack the other side too," Ehsan said in a tweet in Urdu. He claimed the Wagah attack was carried out by "our friend Hafiz Hanifullah" (the suicide bomber), and said in another tweet that the group would release a video of the assault. In another tweet, Ehsan claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the "killer of hundreds of Muslims" and that his group would "take the revenge of innocent people of Kashmir and Gugrat (sic)".

Though two other lesser-known groups - Jundullah (Soldiers of Allah), a breakaway faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the Mahar Mehsud group - claimed responsibility for the attack at Wagah, security experts are now veering to the conclusion that the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar was responsible for the brazen assault. Ehsan described the claims of the two other groups as "baseless" and posted on Twitter that they did not have "the ability to do (sic) such attacks". He said the attack was planned at the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar's headquarters.

The suicide attack in close proximity to the border crossing and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar's threat has sent ripples of alarm through the Indian security establishment. A top official, who did not want to be named, acknowledged that the bombing was intended to be a "message" to India even though it was carried out in a parking lot located some 500 metres from the border gates.



Prevent assault

There is also consternation in Indian security circles that the Pakistani side was unable to prevent the assault despite several intelligence reports about an impending attack at Wagah. Reports from both countries have said Indian and Pakistani intelligence agencies had picked up plans for an attack ahead of the suicide blast.

Pakistani security agencies found explosives and a suicide jacket packed with explosives and ball bearings during a search operation in the Wagah area after the attack. The Lahore Police arrested a teenager named Abdul Rehman from Multan district on the suspicion that he was the second suicide bomber sent to target the Wagah border crossing. They had earlier issued a sketch of Rehman, who had gone missing from a seminary in the old quarters of Lahore about a month ago.

Sources said Indian intelligence agencies, including the R&AW, too had picked up information about a possible attack at Wagah during the flag-lowering ceremony or at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and alerted security forces. BSF chief D.K. Pathak has acknowledged that his force was on high alert at the time of Sunday's attack.

The Jamaat-ul-Ahrar was formed in late August after a leadership dispute within the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and it comprises several jihadi factions drawn from Mohmand and Bajaur tribal regions of northwest Pakistan. The group is led by Maulana Omar Khorasani, a former commander of the TTP.

Many leading members of the TPP have joined the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, and Ehsanullah Ehsan was earlier the spokesman of the TTP. Khorasani is considered to be close to Al Qaeda and its chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, who recently announced the formation of a new wing in the Indian subcontinent. Security experts said the attack at Wagah could be aimed at establishing the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar's supremacy over other Taliban factions.

The TTP is currently headed by Maulana Fazlullah, who has been very low-key and confined his activities to Afghanistan. As the US-led foreign forces begin their drawdown in Afghanistan, there are growing fears in the security establishment that more and more Pakistanbased jihadi groups could turn their attention towards India.

According to the Long War Journal, a website that tracks jihadi groups, the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar participated in a joint suicide assault with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan on two Pakistani military airbases in Quetta two weeks before the group officially announced its formation. The group has also welcomed the formation of the Al Qaeda wing in the Indian subcontinent, saying it would work for the "rights of Muslims" in the region.



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[janon]

Those are Korean characters.

Fine. Anyway, east of the Mcmohan line!

 

[janon]

looks like Indians are so desperate ... to put their nose on everything and everywhere ..

"Everything and everywhere" - you mean, like a powerful bomb blast 600 meters away from our border, supposedly one of the most heavily militarized international borders on earth? You really find it surpising that Indians would be concerned at the development? And by the way, Ehsanullah Hassan is not an Indian - he is a mard-e-momin purelander.

 

[Burhan Wani]

For India, it has always been about the lives of our people, for a long time now. Whether it was Mumbai 26/11, or Chittisingpura massacre, or diwali bomb blasts in Delhi, or innumerable other acts of terror, it was always Indian people being murdered by (mostly) Pakistani terrorists. (And some domestic ones as well.) Pakistanis have begun having this revelaton only in recent times, that "non state actors" should not be allowed to kill innocent people.

I really do hope those who did this latest attack try to cross the LoC. We will be sure to give them the welcome they deserve.



I strongly encourage you and all wannabe jihadis to try what you see in that picture. Don't worry, that fence does not have high voltage, high ampere electricity running through it. And there are no anti personnel land mines between and around the fences. And no armed patrols or observation posts watching every inch. So go ahead, do it. It must be a picnic.

Don't lie.....BTW we know about every counter measures

 

[rockstar08]

"Everything and everywhere" - you mean, like a powerful bomb blast 600 meters away from our border, supposedly one of the most heavily militarized international borders on earth? You really find it surpising that Indians would be concerned at the development? And by the way, Ehsanullah Hassan is not an Indian - he is a mard-e-momin purelander.

look at your own media crying like a baby for AQ and possible treats ... nothing happened though ?!?
the attack was something more than anyone think ... isnt it fishy that at the time of muharaam when Shia jalsa can be a easy target ,they choose to target wagha ? its not what it looks like ..

 

[osama zafar]

Lol i love TTP logic.

 

[janon]

look at your own media crying like a baby for AQ and possible treats ... nothing happened though ?!?
the attack was something more than anyone think ... isnt it fishy that at the time of muharaam when Shia jalsa can be a easy target ,they choose to target wagha ? its not what it looks like ..

The muharram processions were given the highest importance from a security POV. They chose the easier target.

Our media reports news, doesn't make it. The Al qaeida chief Ayman al Zawahiri announced the formation of an Indian wing, so obviously the media reports it. Note one distinction - the media reported AAZ's announcement - not that a wing has been started.

BTW, it is better to be extremely wary of such threats, and err on the side of caution, than to err on the side of negligence, as Pakistan is learning now. If you had been as guarded as we are against the activities of islamist terrorist groups, you wouldn't be in this situation today, with various groups trying to compete with each other to take credit for a bomb blast, and not even the terrorists knowing how many terror groups there are in the country.

 

[Sugarcane]

Told yaa

Probably easier target when administration (if working at all) is more focused to secure Muharam gathering, and also get more international coverage by doing it near India (i.e. ISIS is about to enter in India) i am sure in next few days you will see this kind of articles and also don't ignore 4,000 Sikhs to visit Pakistan to mark Guru Nanak birth anniversary | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

Multiple Terrorist groups claim Wagah Border attack, 55 people killed. | Page 30

 

[rockstar08]

The muharram processions were given the highest importance from a security POV. They chose the easier target.

Our media reports news, doesn't make it. The Al qaeida chief Ayman al Zawahiri announced the formation of an Indian wing, so obviously the media reports it. Note one distinction - the media reported AAZ's announcement - not that a wing has been started.

BTW, it is better to be extremely wary of such threats, and err on the side of caution, than to err on the side of negligence, as Pakistan is learning now. If you had been as guarded as we are against the activities of islamist terrorist groups, you wouldn't be in this situation today, with various groups trying to compete with each other to take credit for a bomb blast, and not even the terrorists knowing how many terror groups there are in the country.

its not that post precaution but over hyping a matter ... you media is shouting from many months first about AQ and than ISIS ... is this something that your media is trying to make a mind of your Awaam and international media that any possible false flag attack can be straightly put to ISI and AQ collaboration ?
been ready for possible threat is good but over hyping something is fishy ...

 

[Cheetah786]

LOved this one

If you love that sign,You gonna love this one too.


They are both from United states , i didn't know United states is part of India.

 

[janon]

If you love that sign,You gonna love this one too.

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They are both from United states , i didn't know United states is part of India.

I didn't say that last sign is from India - that was the message I wanted to convey. The "inconvenient objects" mentioned in my post were depicted above that. That sign was the last image for a reason.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Pakistan needs to seriously consider investing in a specialized anti-terror unit which tracks down terrorists and apprehends them before they do any damage. The ISI can only do so much. Too many innocent people died on such an auspicious day. This must be a wake up call to the Pakistani government