Mian Channu blast toll rises to 11 - Target Gillani

[batmannow]

Mian Channu blast toll rises to 11
Updated at: 1435 PST, Monday, July 13, 2009

KHANIWAL: The death toll of Mian Channu blast has reached to 11 as two more blast victims died in the hospital.

Dozens were injured in the blast as rescue operations are underway. Rockets, bombs and other explosives have been recovered from the blast site.

According to sources, blast took place at a house of Hafiz Riaz where children were gathered for religious education.

 

[fhassan]

Salaam

I have family in Mian Channu. It actually happened on the outskirts of Mian Channu.

A relation of mine went to the site - and he said that he counted ALLOT more bodies than the official figure.

Over 50.

Moreover, according to him this was not done by purpose, but was an accidental blast. The individual involved used the cellar as a storage faculty and the stored explosives went off by accident.

This was an lashkar taibah affair, nothing to do with the Taliban. As far as I know, this group is not involved in activities within Pakistan itself…

 

[shravan]

VOA News - Bomb Blast Kills 9 in Eastern Pakistan

Officials in Pakistan say at least nine people, including seven children, were killed in an explosion at the home of a Muslim cleric in eastern Punjab province.

At least 70 people were injured and more than 20 neighboring homes collapsed in the blast.

Officials say Monday's explosion occurred in the Mian Channu area at the home of a local cleric who provided religious education to children.

Local Police Chief Kamran Khan say there was evidence that the home was used by local militants. He added that police found rocket launchers and several jackets used by suicide bombers in the debris.

 

[batmannow]

GEO Pakistan
President seeks immediate report into Mian Channu blast
Updated at: 0124 PST, Tuesday, July 14, 2009
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday ordered an enquiry and sought an immediate report into the explosion at a village in Mian Channu that killed among others seven children and injured several others.

The President expressed his shock over the loss of innocent lives in the incident in which apparently explosives hidden in a house went off, causing widespread damage to people and property.

President Zardari condemned the incident and said innocent people were falling victim to the acts by unscrupulous elements, who for personal gains were threatening the lives and property of people.

 

[DarkStar]

It's about time that the authorities called a spade a spade, and did something about these Taliban fifth columnists.

All houses, properties, madrassas belonging to the Molvis of the Deobandi sect, or the takfiris among the Ahl Hadeeth sect, must be searched thoroughly, so that we can catch any future culprits, and also safeguard the innocent children studying in such places.

Let's get rid of this fear of targetting the 'religious scholars', or whatever they like to call themselves.

Any scholar who advocates such political violeence, and bloodshed is not a scholar at all...he is ignorant...Putting books upon the back of a donkey, does not make that donkey a scholar.

 

[TexasJohn]

It sould be clear by now that some of these religious schools operate as mere fronts for militant groups. You cannot differentiate between groups that operate inside Pakistan from groups that don't. That's how the cancer spreads.

 

[DarkStar]

It sould be clear by now that some of these religious schools operate as mere fronts for militant groups. You cannot differentiate between groups that operate inside Pakistan from groups that don't. That's how the cancer spreads.

Although I'd like to point out that the vast majority of madrassas in Pakistan do nothing but try to impart religious and worldy education as best they can, there are a minority which either willingly or sometimes unwillingly are used by terrorists as recruiting grounds.

If we take a conservative estimate of the number of madrassas in Pakistan (12,000) and for arguments sake, say there are 2 percent of madrassas that are suspect, this is still a whopping 240 madrassas in the entire country. At an average of 200 children per Madrassa, that would make around 48 thousand potential recruits...

That is a sobering number, even if we consider a minority of 2 percent of Madrassas being suspect. If the real figure is even slightly higher, we're in big trouble.

 

[iPhone]

people of Mian Chanu village protested against the police and rescue workers saying that on numerous occasions they reported to the authorities the suspicious activities of Master Riaz Ali which included him going to afghanistan to fight jihad and suspicious looking people visiting him in cars but authorities paid no heed.

This is going to be a one long and exhausting fight. I wonder what would've been the outcome and people's reaction had the security forces decided to attack the madressa..... another lal masjid like situation? Extremists and their ideolgies are living and hiding among us. I'm glad that instead of totally ignoring the problem like we always did we're not only recognizing the domestic enemy but fighting it as evident by the attack on one medressa two days ago by the police where a huge cache of ammunation was seized along with apprehension of two terrorists and people of mian channu saying they reported this madressa to the authority, though it's a different thing they didn't do anything about it.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Kamboh had a plan to attack Gilani​

Thursday, July 16, 2009

By Mazhar Tufail

ISLAMABAD: Riaz Kamboh, who was arrested by the law-enforcement agencies with injuries after a huge blast at his house in a village on the outskirts of Mian Channu on Monday, revealed he had finalised a plan to attack Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during his next visit to his hometown, Multan, an investigator told The News on Wednesday.

“Kamboh, who is known as a one-man think tank among the extremists, had been using his house to store explosives and weapons since 1999 and had also established a network of such depots in Sargodha, Okara and elsewhere in the southern Punjab for storing explosives said the investigator, wishing anonymity. “Kamboh has been playing the role of a handler and facilitator and his house had been a control centre for all the recent terrorism acts in the Punjab,” he added.

The investigator told The News members of Kamboh’s network of terrorists, who had been apprehended since the Mian Channu blast, also included a most wanted person who fled Lal Masjid just before the operation was launched to purge the worship place of terrorists.

“When the government had clamped a ban on various extremist organisations after 9/11, Kamboh facilitated a large number of members of such outfits to flee to Afghanistan as he had very good connections in the war-torn neighbouring country,” the investigator disclosed.

The investigator said Kamboh was among the people who believed in the philosophy of the banned Egyptian organisation, Ikhwanul Muslimeen (Muslim Brotherhood) which, besides the infidels, also preached Jihad as obligatory against the pro-US and pro-West Muslims.

“Riaz Kamboh often used to quote Riaz Basra, the founder of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant outfit who was killed on May 14, 2002, as saying that we need not bring suicide bombers from homes but thanks to the Punjab Police people are voluntarily joining,” said the investigator.

Kamboh had a plan to attack Gilani