Adil Najam
UPDATE: April 5: More Pakistani Muslims – this time 30 in Chakwal – were martyred today by the enemies of Pakistan. Here are details from The News:
At least 24 persons died and 35 were injured at the Imambargah suicide bombing here. One killer blew himself up with explosives during annual Majlis Aza being held at the Imambargah located in the centre of the town at Mohala Sarpak of City police station area. The blast ripped apart the bodies of the faithful at the Imambargah, leaving a horrific scene of scattered body parts and blood all around the incident site.
Eyewitnesses said that following a Majlis, the faithful had crowded the main gate of the Imambargah, while those entering into the Imambargah were being frisked, when a youth 16/17 year old during checking blew himself up, which resulted in on the spot death of 20 persons, while the other four succumbed to their injuries in hospital. Four children were also included among the dead, they said. The bodies and the injured were shifted to the Chakwal District Headquarter Hospital, while some injured were sent to Rawalpindi.
Ambulances from Rawalpindi and Jhelum reached the scene of incident and stated relief operations. High police officials, DCO and heavy contingents of police also arrived following the blast. The police besieging the area have collected the evidences. Several vehicles were also damaged in the blast. Large number of people had thronged the hospital for finding out the welfare of their relatives, while the town remains drowned in an environment of mourning.
Six more Pakistanis were killed today by the enemies of Pakistan in a suicide attack in F-7 Islamabad. According to The News:
Six security men were killed and several others injured in a suicide blast near check post of Frontier Corps (FC) in Sector F-7/3 Margala Road, Islamabad on Saturday, Geo News reported. SSP Tahir Alam said security men were taking dinner when the attacker entered the check post and blew himself up, killing six of the security men and injuring several others. He denied any exchange of fire, saying the security men fired in the air to scare away any other attackers. Police has cordoned off the area. The injured have been brought to Poly Clinic Hospital. The incident has set off panic among area residents.
This is just more in the ongoing war on Pakistan by the enemies of Pakistan. Mosques are targeted in Jamrud, little girls are flogged in Swat, attacks are conducted in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and everywhere in between, political leaders are assassinated in Karachi, everyday and everywhere the enemy is within us and killing us in every way. It does not help that our so-called friends are also bombing and killing Pakistanis.
But why, oh why, are too many are still reluctant to call these suicide bombing murderers what they are. How may Pakistanis must they kill off before Pakistanis recognize the face of the enemies of Pakistan?
Today, April 4, former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was killed by Gen. Zia-ul-Haq. The killing has not stopped ever since. It is not that there was not killing before that. Even Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was himself no angel. But the demons unleashed by the this and other actions of Zia-ul-Haq continue to grow in size and sway over society. What will it take to push these demons back?
@ ahsan.
I am sorry if I was not clear enough in my previous post. I was trying to make a point about the fact that people living in areas which are poorly served by state institutions become an easy breeding ground for the likes of Taliban, but please don’t take me wrong; I find absolutely no redeeming value in the Taliban obscurantist Taliban ideology. None whatsoever.
Perhaps I did not seem to make this point well enough in my previous post because I was trying to make another point that even if the Taliban has some local passive support, it is because of the weakness of the state institutions rather than anything admirable about them.
I wholeheartedly agree with you and others like you that the Taliban has nothing more to offer to Pakistan other than pain and suffering.
These so called Muslim are murderers of many innocent Muslim. These Taliban bandits and all the supporter of Taliban are going in hell.
Gorki .Stop the crap forgodsake. Talibans are no robin hoods. They are a sectarian outfit, emboldened by the complacent criminal attitude and support of our own army. And its a sectarian war going on in Pakistan. THe only solution to the rabid menance is to arm yourself to teeth and be ready to kill the rabid stray dogs when they come howling.
The desperateness of Taliban supporters to deflect the blame on America or spread lies about this video not being authentic even after the Taliban spokesperson has himself said that it is shows just how low they will go and how intense their hatred for all Pakistanis and all Muslims really is.
@ Imran Khan: You actually sound like Imran Khan, the politician. Don’t you know that these Talibans are made up of local bandits?