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?
Calculating_Misfit:
obama may be commander in chief but he cannot go against the wishes of the general, who want to maintain their hold anywhere and everywhere they can. the only solution is the withdrawal of foreign troop from the region and in fact from all over the world. there are close to 800 us military basis in more than 130 countries wreaking havoc.
what is the alternative? not drone attacks that kill more civilians than al-qaeda! who are al-qaeda anyway?
it would be worthwhile to revisit what happened during jfk’s administration when he listened to the generals.
I have always raised this issue of madrassas but for some reason the post gets censored. These saudi funded madrassas are in fact the real face of terrorism. The very words of so called jihad which is preached in these saudi funded wahabi & ahle-hadith madrassas can have you beheaded in saudi arabia. Elimination of these madrassa through a brutal crack down is the only way to tackle this menance of mullah terrorism. That would also serve a lesson for all the clean shaven neo/pseudo islamists talibs amongst us.
The propaganda of the Taliban Gestapo is amazing. They just relentlessly keep repeating their lies and are not even embarrassed at doing so.
Any movement like Taleban, that subverts the law and imposes its own will , attracts criminals. It should be no surprise that any criminal with an IQ over 80, would consider himself safe if he is part of Taleban.
@razia
“[Obama] might listen and be able to convince the generals that drone attacks and more troops is not the answer.”
What is the alternative? Give in to the Talibs and their psychopathic demands? The Americans have had 7 years of zero progress in confronting the Talibs in Pakistan’s tribal areas by relying on others and are frustrated with the lack of progress. The drones have been enormously successful at killing key Al Qaeda and Talib commanders.
P.S.
President Obama is the Commander-in-Chief of the army at the end of the day he is person that makes the decision. He does not have to convince the generals of anything.