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.
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.
Well “ShairNoName”; my first suspect goes to CIA+RAW+Afghan Intelligence. The reason is that during last years of soviet invasion (1986-1988) we saw many such blast from garbage which were later proved to be hand of “Afghan Intelligence”.
MQM normally uses “firing squad” from moter bykes and it is not their style but off course one can change their style.
Other Afghan government today blamed Pakistan for blast in Kabul. So it make sense that it is “retaliation” by Afghan government with blessing from “RAW” and “CIA”.
We dont know how many of our leaders and security official are on CIA payroll.
this under-cover hand is that hand that these politicians talk about is the same that feeds all these low lives so called leaders, sorry i have lived through all the operations in Karachi & 9/11 so none of these leaders & i mean none of then have the social, intellectual or moral caliber to lead us, we the people are lead like sheep
I agree with Faraz Waseem.
Reading Peer Sahib’s Rhetoric in Jang and DAWN, it will not be far feteched to see the under-cover hand.
In Karachi these blasts have taken different dimension. First they are not suicide and I don’t think that they are done by Taliban.
They are done in mainly Pashtun area to fire a “linguistic” riots between Pashtuns and Urdu-speaking areas.
So who done it? I think they are retaliation of blast in Kabul in Indian Embassy and these blasts are done by coperation of “Afghan Intelligence” and “RAW” and their purpose is to fire “ethinic riots” in Karachi.