Deaths Mount in Islamabad Blast as Suicide Bombers Target Lawyers Rally in Pakistan Capital

103 responses to “Deaths Mount in Islamabad Blast as Suicide Bombers Target Lawyers Rally in Pakistan Capital”

1. king_faisal says:

   July 19, 2007 at 12:04 pm

   yes we should listen to the grievances of suicide bombers and enforce sharia in pak jehadis have the right to feel frustrated because some men don’t pray 5x a day, some women don’t dress in black from head to toe and some pakistanis don’t think hazrat abu bakr should have been the second khalifa. similarly, if jehadis want pakistan to declare war against iran, americans and cheenas, we must not refuse cause otherwise jehadis will feel frustrated and take to suicide bombings.

   i have news for those people sitting outside pakistan who think that what goes on does not effect them. the disease spreading inside pak cannot be contained within our borders. sooner or later, these people will strike abroad and create a situatiom that will make events of 9/11 look like childs play. at that point in time, we will be looking at iranians and afghanis with envy. don’t forget that after pearl harbour, japanese-americans were thrown in jail. don’t think our plight will be different if people from pak start going abroad to replicate what they are doing in pak right now.

   the saddest thing about the current situation in pak is that so many people actually with the demands of jehadis. i would particularly like to highlight the role of our electronic media as well as urdu newspapers which are portraying the suicide bombers as heroes. while as pakistanis don’t appear to have a problem with innocent people getting killed randomly, the rest of the world does not agree with our moral position. while we may be able to justify our actions by some twisted logic, rest of the world will shoot first and ask questions later.

2. Umar says:

   July 19, 2007 at 11:52 am

   Petro-dollars indeed! Some neo-con Bush supporter once called Saudi Arabia “the kernel of evil”… this is perhaps the only time one of those neo-cons was right… its time we woke up to the fact that this so-called “Baraadar Islami Mulk” has been striking at the very root of our identity and history by shoveling their brand of Islam down our collective throat… of course we’ve been guilty of gulping it down too by stupidly accepting it just because it comes from the land of the holy places… time to regurgitate it and spit it out and rinse our collective mouth with some heavy-duty Sufism maybe? :)

3. Akif Nizam says:

   July 19, 2007 at 11:19 am

   In my opinion, no one’s going to come over the border. The West can’t handle the fronts they have already opened in Iraq & Afghanistan; they are not going to open another one here. There will be aerial and financial support but no troops.

   And Mazhar there is a huge different between committing a suicide and carrying out planned suicide attacks. And as for addressing grievances, that’s the most self-defeating fallacious argument widely used in the muslim world to justify incomprehensible actions of fellow muslims. The premise is that until there is any perceived injustice in the world, we will continue to kill random people. It minimizes muslims to the level of beasts who have no self-control or a mechanism to cope with adversity than to spill blood. When you say that these people are part of society, I would urge you to look up the definition of society first. You really think their loyalties lie with the geographical entity called Pakistan? ….or is it with the ideology that is being funded by Petrodollars?

4. Umar says:

   July 19, 2007 at 10:54 am

   Well, NATO help will not “help” as far as the domestic situation is concerned… there are plenty of people who may well approve of or at least tolerate action against the militants, but once a foreign element (NATO) comes into the picture, domestic support may drop alarmingly, and understandably so, given the sensitivity most if not all people have towards the sanctity of their borders… the fact that the militants are guilty of blatantly violating our borders by housing foreigners will go unnoticed, but with the love-hate relationship we have with the US, NATO interference may result in a dramatic drop in support for action against the militants… which is all the more reason for Mush to wake up from his stupor and actually go kill them with everything he’s got…

5. mazhar butt says:

   July 19, 2007 at 10:52 am

   Stranger,,,,,,,,,, whether I am linked with some Jihadi or not is not the point. The point is that grievances of the suicide bombers or any one grieved ought to be resolved. If grievances are let to smoulder they would ultimately turn into fire ! As you are grieved by the Jihadis so are the Jihadis with you. We ought to find a balance somewhere between this. If grievances are addressed though force I don’t think suicide bombings will stop. After all , the dissidents–the suicide bombers , are also a part of our society and some thought ought to be given to their grievances. Just hating them isn’t going to help. It’s not a joke giving up life voluntarily–ther must be some terrible provocation or desperation which leads a suicide bomber to take away his own life —as well as other collaterally. You seem to forget that some people had burned themselves to death by way of protest in Nawaz Sharif’s regime and there had been cases of suicide by burning by some people who had received excessive electricity bills which were not considered for correction. Thus suicide bombing is not entirely related to religion —–it is also a socio-political problem. Please try to understand.