Blast in Gulshan Colony Peshawar

[babajees]

SO SAD that there is no peace in our country

 

[Axis Of Logic]

RIP... These kind of Terror attacks on Pakistan are aimed at Sowing the seeds of discord among the pakistani people! One shouldn't see it through religous angle as the people martyred were, infact, Pakistanis!

 

[Jade]

RIP...........

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

14 killed

So what is the actual death toll?

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Suicide attack kills 15 at Pakistan Shiite mosque

By S.H. Khan (AFP) – 51 minutes ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attack on Friday killed 15 people and wounded more than 25 others at a Shiite Muslim mosque and religious seminary on the edge of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said.

The bomber struck in the largely Shiite area of Gulshan Colony on the outskirts of the city, which abuts Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked strongholds in the northwestern tribal belt on the Afghan border.

The attack came just days after US officials said they hoped to open peace talks with Afghan Taliban in Doha, capital of the Gulf state of Qatar.

"It was a suicide attack in which 15 people were killed and more than 25 others were wounded," senior police official Shafi Ullah told AFP at the scene.

"The suicide bomber, who was on foot, first opened fire at police guards who were deployed outside the mosque, then entered the prayer hall where he blew himself up amid worshippers just before the start of prayers," he added.

The force of the blast punched holes in the walls and roof of the prayer hall, the floor of which was littered with bloodied pieces of human flesh, dead bodies, Islamic books and prayer caps, an AFP reporter said.

Prayer leader Aamir Shakiri said he was just about to join the worshippers when he heard gun shots, followed by a "deafening blast".

"Thick mosque engulfed the entire mosque and it was difficult to see anything but I was able to see dead bodies and injured people shouting for help," he said.

Police official Imran Shahid told AFP that at least three suicide bombers had originally intended to carry out the attack.

"Two of them fled while one of their accomplices managed to enter the prayer hall and blow himself up," he said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but attacks waged by Sunni Muslim extremists against Pakistan's minority Shiite community are on the rise.

Ali Iqbal Qazilbash, a 24-year-old Peshawar University student, told AFP he rushed out of his uncle's home when he heard the explosion.

"It was really horrifying to see blood soaked and mutilated bodies lying on the floor of the hall," Qazilbash said.

"I immediately started knocking on doors in the neighbourhood and calling people for help."

Shiites account for 20 percent of the 180 million population in the nuclear-armed state.

Extremist Sunni militant faction Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Shiites in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed at least 25 people on June 15.

In Pakistan's business capital of Karachi, gunmen shot dead a provincial lawmaker, his son and a passer-by outside a mosque.

Sajid Qureshi, in his early 50s, and his 25-year-old son were targeted after Friday prayers in the congested Nazim Abad neighbourhood.

Qureshi was a member of the secular Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the most powerful political party in Karachi now considering whether to join the government in southern Sindh province.

"He died on the spot, while his son and the third victim died at hospital," police official Amir Farooqi said.

Karachi, a city of 18 million people, contributes 42 percent of Pakistan's GDP but is rife with murder and kidnappings and has been plagued for years by ethnic, sectarian and political violence.

Officials also said two members of a pro-government militia were killed when militants armed with guns and rockets attacked their homes in the northwestern tribal district of Bajaur on the Afghan border.

To tribal policemen were also injured, administration official Abdul Haseeb said.

Writing in English-language newspaper The News on Friday, analyst Ayaz Amir reflected on the repercussions for Pakistan of prospective peace talks between the Afghan Taliban and the United States.

He said talks would make it almost impossible for Pakistan to open a new military front against domestic insurgents in the northwest.

He said the "significance of the Taliban gaining, at long last, virtual American diplomatic recognition" would be a triumph for Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar but a "problem" for Pakistan.

"Because Mullah Omar's resurgent emirate, waiting patiently for the Americans to depart, now extends, like a dagger, into Pakistan - in the form of (Pakistani Taliban leader) Hakimullah (Mehsud)'s Waziristan."

A US-led NATO combat mission numbering nearly 100,000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan is due to withdraw next year, leaving Afghan government forces in charge of countering any persistent Taliban violence.

Copyright © 2013 AFP. All rights reserved.

AFP: Suicide attack kills 15 at Pakistan Shiite mosque

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Suicide attack kills 15 at Pakistan Shiite mosque

JUST WHEN WILL IT STOP???!!!!!

 

[batmannow]

man I am pretty confused about these people now a days, they cannot be incorporated in the society as normal human beings, they are freaking zombies, ready to blow themselves up... no matter how much we blame 3,4,5 hand, the core of the matter is they are grown in our own soil, from our own madrissahs in Pakistan !

its time to tell KHAN , he should stop listing to munawar hassan forget about JI!
announce a acceptence of surrender to those who are willing to laydown thier terrorism against pakistanis?
if not lets hve a war with out any end, this will increase his crediblity in the eyes of nation, & inshallha he will come up as the ultimate united leader of pakistan?
if not i am sorry 6 more months PTI kpk govt finished, with that no crediblity for imran shb in the eyes of terrorized nation?

 

[Leader]

its time to tell KHAN , he should stop listing to munawar hassan forget about JI!
announce a acceptence of surrender to those who are willing to laydown thier terrorism against pakistanis?
if not lets hve a war with out any end, this will increase his crediblity in the eyes of nation, & inshallha he will come up as the ultimate united leader of pakistan?
if not i am sorry 6 more months PTI kpk govt finished, with that no crediblity for imran shb in the eyes of terrorized nation?

If you dont deliver, you will not be entertain again, be it anyone, simple !!

 

[haviZsultan]

Terrorists have destroyed everything we Pakistanis own and they continue to attack us with impunity. This is a wake up call for all those who believed there would be some quick-fix solution PTI could apply to win the battle against militancy. This proves that there is still a bloody fight that awaits us. I don't have any clue why our security forces run after innocents but fail to capture or kill these high profile terrorists who openly admit in filled courtrooms that they are going to target the Pakistani state.

Enough innocent civilians have been killed. Its time to take the fight to the enemy. Taliban should be utterly vanquished.

 

[batmannow]

Terrorists have destroyed everything we Pakistanis own and they continue to attack us with impunity. This is a wake up call for all those who believed there would be some quick-fix solution PTI could apply to win the battle against militancy. This proves that there is still a bloody fight that awaits us. I don't have any clue why our security forces run after innocents but fail to capture or kill these high profile terrorists who openly admit in filled courtrooms that they are going to target the Pakistani state.

Enough innocent civilians have been killed. Its time to take the fight to the enemy. Taliban should be utterly vanquished.

just because when security forces holds them without proves your CJ asks them to relese them cause thats what happens in the damocrazy?
dont blame on security forces, just a day before 6 of them got buctherd dont u know?
ohh nt cause they r just made to die for this nation?

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Shias already make up only about 15 % of all muslims worldwide.

They already have a lower birthrate than Sunni Muslims and the rate at which they are being killed everyday around the world , their percentage will be down to single digits in no time.

That seems to be the plan of Sunni extremists.

Very Sad.

 

[Ayush]

RIP to the shias..

Shias already make up only about 15 % of all muslims worldwide.

They already have a lower birthrate than Sunni Muslims and the rate at which they are being killed everyday around the world , their percentage will be down to single digits in no time.

That seems to be the plan of Sunni extremists.

Very Sad.

low birthrates??really?? any source??

 

[Patriots]

PESHAWAR: At least 14 people were killed and several injured Friday in a suicide attack on a seminary and mosque in Peshawar, officials said.

Superintendent of Police Rural Shafiullah Khan said the suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the mosque when worshippers were offering Friday prayers.

"One of the attackers wearing a suicide vest entered the mosque and blew himself up in front of the worshippers,” said Khan.

He said three attackers tried to enter the Hussaini madressa in Chamkini area but faced resistance by the security personnel posted at the entrance. He said two attackers were prevented from entering the complex while one managed to enter the Imambargah after the guards were gunned down.

Bomb Disposal Squad official Abdul Haq told Dawn.com that six to seven kilograms of high intensity explosives and four kilograms of pellets were used in the blast.

A loud blast was heard while the Friday sermon was underway at the Imambargah, which was preceded by gun firing, according to eyewitness accounts.

Eye witness Khadim Hussain told that he was inside the mosque when he heard gunfire followed by a huge explosion shattering the windows and the front canopy of the mosque.

Other eyewitnesses said that the attacker shot at the guards posted at the entrance of the complex before entering the premises where the explosives were detonated.

The complex comprises of a madressa and an Imambargah belonging to the Shia sect.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Shauakat Yousafzai told reporters at the hospital that 14 people were killed while at least 30 were wounded from the deadly blast.

Officials at the Lady Reading Hospital said four bodies and at least 30 wounded had been taken to the hospital. Several of the wounded were reported to be in critical condition.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the incident and the loss of innocent lives while ordering immediate treatment of the victims.

Suicide bomber kills 14 at Peshawar mosque - DAWN.COM

 

[pkuser2k12]

Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

RIP to the shias..



low birthrates??really?? any source??

Haven't done too much research on this buddy but just check out the TFRs of shia majority countries like Iran, Iraq , Bahrain , Azerbaijan etc. and Sunni ones like Arab countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan , Bangladesh etc.

Even within most muslim societies , Shias tend to be the more educated ones just like in India so one can assume that they have a lower fertility rate as well.