Blast in Blue Area, Islamabad

[Roybot]

I hope its nothing serious.

Its ridiculous though, with all the top political and army leaders having a meeting in the city, security should have been water tight.

 

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[Jango]

could not have been a bomber.

Security was top level today, with all the members of APC in Isl. It is difficult to get into Isl as well. Most probably some other reason.

4 injured as of now.

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I hope its nothing serious.

Its ridiculous though, with all the top political and army leaders having a meeting in the city, security should have been water tight.

Yeah, but the first signs are that something else exploded, pressurized container maybe.

Suicide bombers dont go to the fourth floor of a building.

You can't get into Isl on a normal day, today it was high level.

 

[53fd]

I think we need to change the title of this thread, as this was clearly not a bomb blast, an accidental explosion from a cylinder blast or something.

 

[Roybot]

Blast in Islamabad’s Blue area injures six – The Express Tribune

A powerful explosion at a commercial hotel located in Blue area of Islamabad injured six people.

According to Express 24/7 correspondent, Sabur Ali Syed said that the blast took place at City hotel in Blue area of Islamabad.He said that police was cordoning off the blast site and would be investigating the cause and nature of the blast. The injured have been shifted to PIMs hospital in Islamabad.

 

[SivHp]

could not have been a bomber.

Security was top level today, with all the members of APC in Isl. It is difficult to get into Isl as well. Most probably some other reason.

4 injured as of now.

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Yeah, but the first signs are that something else exploded, pressurized container maybe.

Suicide bombers dont go to the fourth floor of a building.

You can't get into Isl on a normal day, today it was high level.

I doubt it...lax security

 

[Jango]

Rehman Malik at the site now.

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I think we need to change the title of this thread, as this was clearly not a bomb blast, an accidental explosion from a cylinder blast or something.

Yeah, sorry about that, news channels reported a bomb blast at first.

 

[Lankan Ranger]

Islamabad blast injures Pakistan airline passengers: police


A gas cylinder exploded on the top floor of a Pakistani hotel in Islamabad late Thursday, injuring three women and a child in a city always on guard against feared terror attacks, police said.

The blast struck the Citi Hotel in the Blue Area, the Pakistani capital's ordinarily bustling district of shops and restaurants around 11 pm (1800 GMT) at a time when people still linger over dinner in the cool breeze of evening.

"It appears to be a gas cylinder blast," city police chief Bani Amin told reporters. "It does not appear to be explosives," he added.

He said four passengers whose Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight was delayed and who were staying in the hotel, were injured.

"They were staying in a room," Amin added.

Another police official said three women and a child were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
An AFP correspondent saw shattered windows at the scene of the hotel, where water was flowing from the top floor.

Thursday's blast struck as the country's political and military leadership were locked in rare cross-party talks designed to close ranks against US pressure for action against the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan would not be pressured into doing more in the war on terror after stinging US rebukes accused Pakistan of involvement in recent attacks on the US embassy in Kabul and a NATO base in Afghanistan and demands that the government cut ties with the Haqqanis.

Islamabad is the most heavily protected city in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed Muslim state where routine suicide and bomb attacks largely concentrated in the northwest are blamed on local Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.

Although bombings have targeted embassies, hotels and restaurants in the past, June saw the capital's first suicide attack in nearly two years when a bomber blew himself up in a bank killing a security guard.

Earlier this year, minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti and liberal politician Salman Taseer were shot dead in Islamabad in separate assassinations motivated by their opposition to controversial blasphemy laws.

AFP: Islamabad blast injures Pakistan airline passengers: police

 

[iPhone]

A huge blast has heard in blue area Islamabad on late evening. ... At least 20 people were killed and 35 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up

STFU you miserable, third class Indian troll.

 

[Jango]

Islamabad blast injures Pakistan airline passengers: police


A gas cylinder exploded on the top floor of a Pakistani hotel in Islamabad late Thursday, injuring three women and a child in a city always on guard against feared terror attacks, police said.

The blast struck the Citi Hotel in the Blue Area, the Pakistani capital's ordinarily bustling district of shops and restaurants around 11 pm (1800 GMT) at a time when people still linger over dinner in the cool breeze of evening.

"It appears to be a gas cylinder blast," city police chief Bani Amin told reporters. "It does not appear to be explosives," he added.

He said four passengers whose Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight was delayed and who were staying in the hotel, were injured.

"They were staying in a room," Amin added.

Another police official said three women and a child were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
An AFP correspondent saw shattered windows at the scene of the hotel, where water was flowing from the top floor.

Thursday's blast struck as the country's political and military leadership were locked in rare cross-party talks designed to close ranks against US pressure for action against the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan would not be pressured into doing more in the war on terror after stinging US rebukes accused Pakistan of involvement in recent attacks on the US embassy in Kabul and a NATO base in Afghanistan and demands that the government cut ties with the Haqqanis.

Islamabad is the most heavily protected city in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed Muslim state where routine suicide and bomb attacks largely concentrated in the northwest are blamed on local Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.

Although bombings have targeted embassies, hotels and restaurants in the past, June saw the capital's first suicide attack in nearly two years when a bomber blew himself up in a bank killing a security guard.

Earlier this year, minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti and liberal politician Salman Taseer were shot dead in Islamabad in separate assassinations motivated by their opposition to controversial blasphemy laws.

AFP: Islamabad blast injures Pakistan airline passengers: police

Now what is the need of bringing this in? It was a cylinder blast, it can happen anywhere from Cholistan desert to Presidency. No terror attacks here, there have been less number of suicide attacks now.

 

[notsuperstitious]

I think we need to change the title of this thread, as this was clearly not a bomb blast, an accidental explosion from a cylinder blast or something.

Thats touching, because a cylinder blast in India news was posted by YOU in India Defence and your best friends, who are crying a river here had a field day trolling there. No, you did not change the name of the thread.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/113390-blast-maharashtra-kills-3-injures-12-a.html

Ghairat!

 

[Jango]

Thats touching, because a cylinder blast in India news was posted by YOU in India Defence and your best friends, who are crying a river here had a field day trolling there. No, you did not change the name of the thread.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/113390-blast-maharashtra-kills-3-injures-12-a.html

Ghairat!

You own police filed a case for the blast against four people, and ATS personnel were investigating it. And nobody said that it was a terrorist attack. Everybody endorsed it was an LPG cylinder explosion.

 

[iPhone]

This is blue area, the main road of the area.

Alot of importanat business centres and govt. buildings are located in this area. Radio, TV stations, Stock exchange etc etc. a posh kind of area.

Yeah, look at that. Looks beautiful.

 

[AstanoshKhan]

... and why I'm not surprised at the level of coverage this news is getting? Just and just to inject fear among populace...

 

[notsuperstitious]

You own police filed a case for the blast against four people, and ATS personnel were investigating it. And nobody said that it was a terrorist attack. Everybody endorsed it was an LPG cylinder explosion.

Yes, and the place for an lpg blast is India Defence section where to pay respect to the dead the typical ''the cylinder was sent by ISI'' comments must be made, by YOU.

And now you are complaining to lankan ranger. Hypocricy.