Adil Najam
The enemies of Pakistan struck again today killing 50 people at a mosque in Jamrud.
According to a report in The News:
JAMRUD: A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people when he blew himself up in a crowded mosque near a security check post in Jamrud town of Khyber Agency on Friday… Police, paramilitary forces and government officials were among the congregation in the mosque, about 30 km (20 miles) from the Afghan border. The bomber set off his explosives as a cleric began prayers. “So far we have counted 50 bodies,” Tariq Hayat Khan, the top administrator in the Khyber region, told Geo news, adding the toll could rise.
Between 250 and 300 people were in the mosque and about 125 wounded had been taken to Sherpao, Lady Reading and other hospitals in Peshawar, he said. “It was a suicide attack. The bomber was standing in the mosque. It’s a two-storey building and it has collapsed,” he said.
Worshippers searched through piles of bricks, pulling out bodies and carrying them to ambulances in sheets and on rope beds. There was no claim of responsibility but militants had earlier threatened to blow up the police post next to the mosque, residents of the area said.
“It’s surprising, those who claim that they are doing jihad and then carry out suicide attacks inside mosques during Friday prayers,” Khan said. “They are infidels. They are enemies of Pakistan. They are enemies of Islam,” he said.
The attack came hours before U.S. President Obama is to make a major speech on U.S. strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan (Af-Pak). Details continue to come in what has now become an all too familiar set of events.
What makes this even more worrisome is the sectarian nature of this. Another Muslim sect is being targetted to induce Muslim-Muslim fighting.
@ Till Drone do us part
You asked a question…..I’ll answer it for you…
Maybe …no one who saw who blew himself up has been able to come forward because of the rather small detail that they are…(how to put this so you understand)…..ALL DEAD????
I think these religious fanatics are undermining their own legitimacy by such sectarian acts of murder. As we saw in your poll, this will only make teh public more angry at them. That is teh first step towards the elimination of religious extremism.
my suggestion for Pakistani Government would be:
- set up extensive, state-of-art monitoring system in these troubled areas and in sensitive areas across the country. Lay out a web of cameras, spies, speakers, bug phones, etc. We should be able to have an eye in every place.
This is the only way we can identify who is causing such things and nail them for good. Until then, the only thing we can do is to pray that such things go away from Pakistan, Ameen.
It is not surprising that these Taliban types target mosques. After all, their real enemy is Islam and Muslims. So anyone who disagrees with these heathen kafirs (and any real Muslim would) automaticlly becomes their enemy.
@Zohaib
You say:
“Even the “Kafirs” wouldn’t do such a thing.”
But the extremists say the prophet himself had got a mosque destroyed, which he had found to be a bastion for creating hatred and division among the Muslims.
The Punjabi sage poet, Bulleh Shah, had said:
“Masjid dhaa de, mandir dhaa de, dhaa de jo kujh dheindaa
Ik bande da dil nah dhaavein Rab dilaan wich rehndaa”
Allama Iqbal had said:
“Diin-eMullah fi-sabilillah fassaad”
As it is, and since the entire face of earth has been declared as a ‘Masjid’ in Islam, the question arises, why should the people go to the Mullah’s mosque to listen their hateful preaching which ultimately results in providing soft targets and the basis for extremists’ terrorism causing murder of innocent people.
These murdering Taliban are really the scum of teh earth. They even do not respect a mosque.
did some poems on the swat situation….posting 1 now as a new commer to the forum
Tally Ho…!
The holy ones, their scepters and orbs
The unholy ones plush in their jobs
Insanely oblivious of what they gob
Where they tread and whom they rob
Scraggly beards and impeccable crease
But two sides of a well knit sleaze
A jacket is spirited a grenade is thrown
For good measures sake a shop is blown
Who gets blown is a matter o chance
Unwittingly caught in a deathly romance
A buck is passed a palm is greased
In a back of beyond a grave is leased
The brimming jehadi has lost his fuse
Crossing his mind is a handy ruse
He thinks of the father who’d cut him loose
Praying five times amid gander an goose
The gnats and drones silently cruised
In the big mens capital an ego is bruised
On a far far hill, amid pomp and glow
Wisdom an wine too amply flow
John is destined for a better slot
Salman and seema are left to rot
Serene Swat was a stones throw
Now a million miles as fly’s the crow
Teenage widow with a daughter in tow
Has nothing but venom an hatred to sow
Imploring the clutches to let her go
Vainly searching for friend or foe
Every few miles its another post
Fatigued jawan or turbaned ghost
Shes all alone in a zero sum game
Their searching eyes, know no name
Her eyes the envy of a yearling doe
Now fixed on the spikes of a broken hoe
Milkman’s toddler hobbles to school
Precariously perches on the broken stool
Blearily surveys the dangling board
Through jagged hole she sees the hoard
Bomb it out the burly one says
Raising his hand the leader stays
Too late for her, a packet is thrown
She an the stool, to bits are blown
Chuck chuck chuck the chopper whirs
Violating the stoeic and age old firs
Not far from the rag doll another boom
Shrieks of an old one from within the room
Outside in the dust is a Writhing goat
Bleating an wrenching in blood afloat
A rocket has landed near the hoard
Unleashing the anger of its deadly load
The rags below and the flattened huts
fluttering greens amid smoldering butts
Fleetingly remembers his father’s lawn
Where maulvi sahib taught him Quran
His heart swells with “God is great”
Amid crackle an static speaks his mate
The wingman grimaces, bites his lip
Shakes his head an remembers the whip
Whooa! I got em, the leadman shouts
The extremos are a bunch of filthy louts
Bingo! Concurs his mate on the line
To base then?…sir, you did just fine
Damn! Look to your rt, burnt out pine
Something their continues to shine
Huh! The leadman mumbles an jowls
Looks askance, shudders an howls
Lock on…lock on…, hell I’m done
In a devlish dance no medals are won
Oh lord my tail it’s the mullahs SAM
Not a devils chance, its thud and wham
He fell to the ground in a zillion bits
Wing mate stunned and out’a his wits
God! what shall I tell his mourning wife
How he was killed? in who’s strife?
He trudges to the door to ring the bell
Gathers up courage to sound the Knell
Deafening Silence, searching gaze
The cables gyrations lost in a haze
She dropped her apple, drained of life
Last she saw was the glint of her knife
Original by
saadat.
Couple o weeks back