Following yesterday’s murderous attack on Islamabad, Karachi has been rocked today by a series of blasts (seven reported till now).
According to The News:
One person was killed and 50 others injured in a series of 6 blasts that ripped through different areas of the busiest city of country on Monday. Two explosions occurred here in Banaras area. One of the blasts happened in a pile of garbage while the other one at a footpath near Banaras chowk, injuring 16 people. They were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, sources said. Enraged people took the streets and started pelting stones at moving vehicles.
The third explosion ripped through a mini truck in North Nazimabad area of Shahra-e-Noor Jehan near Sohail mosque. Five persons were injured, police sources said. However, Chhipa sources said 8 persons were taken to hospital. There are reports of the fourth blast in Hyderi area near a children’s school. Police mobiles have reached the blasts’s sites while ambulances are shifting the injured to local hospitals. The fifth blast occurred here in a motor cycle in Qasba colony area, killing one person.
A policeman was injured in the sixth blast in a bicycle in Manghopir. Two blasts also occurred in Pak colony in which 7 persons are reported injured. Police has not come up with any statement confirming the above blasts. Police and Rangers have been put on high alert in the city following the series of blasts.
How long will these murderous attacks on innocent Pakistanis continue? There can be no excuse for them. No justifications. No bahana-baazi. These terrorist acts are calculated moves to purposely spread fear and terror. These are clearly a war on Pakistan. A war on Pakistanis. A war on human decency.
Yesterday, after Islamabad’s blast we had written about a friend who survived the ghastly and cowardly attack on innocent people and had written this in an email (to Owais):
Today my belief in Allah’s power and what we call qismat(fate) was re-enforced. One of the things I learned while in overseas (i.e. to stop when a traffic police man tells me to stop) literally saved my life.I was on the other side of the road trying to make a uturn when the suicide bomber hit the policemen in Melody chowk today. If I had not stopped because a traffic policeman signaled me to stop and tell me that I cant make a U-turn, I would literally have been less the 5 feet from the suicide bomber. Luckily I stopped and being on the other side of the double road it placed a distance of around 20 feet between my car and the bomber. Somehow I was lucky enough to only have minor cuts and bruises while some really sharp pieces of metal landed inside my car and completely missed me.
It was one of the most un-nerving experience of my life since Ojhri Camp and also one of the saddest. I would really hope such events would stop in our country and as I fail to see what they achieve except for killing many innocent.
Our friend was extra lucky but for how long will Pakistanis continue to pickup ‘laashe’ of their unlucky loved ones?
This madness, brutality and violence must stop NOW !
Reference: Detailed news of Islamabad’s tragedy here.
This picture you have of the young man carrying a bleeding baby targetted by this murderers tells the story of how each one of us feels today-destroyed and helpless!
Bhaio or behno,
I have no soft corner for Taliban and I know they kill our brothers without mercy.
But Afghan government and India are not our friends either. So we should investigate foreign hand in Karachi. Specially the way the blast happened seems to be a retaliation from Afghan government. Tell me why Afghan government is blamming Pakistan for its failure?
I think instead of going after “foot soldiers”, we need to ban “Wahabi philosphy” in Pakistan and should arrest their vocal supporters on media like Hamid Mir ;) and Dr. sahhid Masood.
I googled to search for Ahmad Faraz’s great poem on the tragedy of violence in Karachi and found it right here on this blog: here
Sadly it was about another recent Karachi blast.
Kiya ho giya meray piyarey shehr ko yaaro!
Khud ko kuch Na kehna!!!!
RAW/ Well done/ Afghan/ Chechen/ Iran and CIA.
But No Pakistani would kill another Pakistani ………its unheard of….
Stop blaming everyone else and its Pakistanis killing Pakistanis.
We have become beyond failed nation and are on the verge of becoming a African Country with a ongoing civil war.
What a mess. Quaid-e-Azam would have been Ashamed of us and would have never fought for Pakistan if this was going to happen.
The Stupid Mullahs are killing us and we have to fight back and destroy their instituitions.
gimme a break !!!!! Al Qaida ? RAW ? you really think so………..wakeup smell the burning flesh……………..there more to than that what meets the eye
Dear Mastan Mirza, you are obviously no Sherlock Holmes!
The Taliban and Al Qaida are experts at killing other Muslims. In fact, that is all they do. Their entire record of “acheivement” is to kill other Muslims, specially Pakstani Muslims.
You are right, lets ask who benefits. The people who benefit are these religious fanatics who never wanted Pakistan to be created and are now trying to dismantle it by killing Pakistanis everywhere. Even children as the photograph in this post shows!
Thank you, Sir, for demonstrating through your post that it is the Taliban and Al Qaida who benefit from destabilizing Pakistan and from killing Pakistanis!
Friends. Remember Sherlock Holmes investigation strategy? The first question to ask is - qui bono? Who benefits?
Clearly, it is not the ordinary Pakistani citizens who benefit from such dastardly attacks; so they are ruled out. Pakistani Army and Government would not like to destabilize their own rule. Hence they are also ruled out. Some people here have cast aspersions on Talibans and Al-Qaeda. They may be retrogressive organizations, but it fails to convince me that they would kill their fellow Muslim brothers without any reason. So, they are also ruled out.
The only party that benefits from these blasts is India. By engineering such blasts they can kill two birds from one stone: first, destabilize Pakistan; second, malign all Muslims as violent. It is quite probable that Indian government is behind these attacks.
I think it is very clear who is spreading terror and dong the murders here. Trying to see “outside” hands is either a desperate bid to fool oneself and others or a conscious attempt to distract people. All day yesterday in Islamabad, one militant after another made speeches against Pakistan trying to incite violence and murder, and now this is what you get. We shoudl kick all these fanatics out of the country.