India cinema blast, At least six killed

[IceCold]

Sunday, October 14, 2007
LUDHIANA, India: At least six people were killed and scores injured Sunday in a suspected bomb attack in a packed cinema hall in northern India, police and eyewitnesses said.
There were scenes of panic after the explosion, which happened as hundreds of people were watching a late-night screening of a newly-released Bollywood comedy.

The apparent attack took place in the industrial city of Ludhiana in northern Punjab state. Police officials in Amritsar, the main city in Punjab, put the toll at five dead and scores more injured.

"We were watching the film when I suddenly heard a huge blast and I rushed outside. I saw some four or five bodies inside," an unidentified eyewitness also told the Hindi-language Aaj Tak news channel.

Indian television news footage showed at least one body lying on the floor of the cinema, which was strewn with shards of broken glass and bloodstains. Shoes and pieces of torn clothing also littered the blast site.

The Punjab blast comes days after two people were killed and nearly a dozen injured Thursday in a bomb attack near one of India's most revered Islamic shrines in the northern state of Rajasthan.

India had sounded a nationwide alert after the attack coming ahead of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, on Sunday, and the Hindu festival of Dussehra on October 21.

Some Indian officials had pointed the finger at hardline Muslim militants allegedly backed by neighbouring Pakistan for the Rajasthan blast.

The explosions also come ahead of a scheduled October 22 meeting in New Delhi of senior Indian and Pakistani officials on efforts to combat cross-border militancy.

India blames Pakistan for not doing enough to prevent Islamic extremists from using its soil as a springboard to launch attacks in India, especially in Kashmir, where a separatist revolt has claimed more than 44,000 lives since 1989.

Pakistan, which launched peace talks with India in 2004, denies the charge.

 

[IceCold]

As usual blasts are done, blamed on pakistan. They knew pakistan was going to highlight the issue with their indian counterparts regarding indian sponspered terrorism from afghanistan into pakistan in the upcoming peace procress and so needed some laverage to counter it. Poor indians who died for nothing, just a plot to drag pakistan in.

 

[su-47]

condolences to the families of the dead.

As usual blasts are done, blamed on pakistan. They knew pakistan was going to highlight the issue with their indian counterparts regarding indian sponspered terrorism from afghanistan into pakistan in the upcoming peace procress and so needed some laverage to counter it. Poor indians who died for nothing, just a plot to drag pakistan in.

Many times india has offered proof that these terrorists come from inside pakistan to kill indian civillians, and yet pakistan doesnt do anything! Best example is Dawood Ibrahim. He is wanted for 1993 blasts, and there's conclusive proof that h is in pak, and yet pak refuses to hand him over to indian authorites! Isnt that proof enough that pakistan supports terrorism in india?

 

[roadrunner]

Many times india has offered proof that these terrorists come from inside pakistan to kill indian civillians, and yet pakistan doesnt do anything! Best example is Dawood Ibrahim. He is wanted for 1993 blasts, and there's conclusive proof that h is in pak, and yet pak refuses to hand him over to indian authorites! Isnt that proof enough that pakistan supports terrorism in india?

Funny the way when a Muslim kills Hindus in India (or is suspected of it), then the Indian authorities go into overdrive trying to catch the alleged culprits (or make millions of announcements and advertizements over it), yet when Hindus massacre Muslims as in Gujerat, most escape the courts and everything is hushed up.. it pays to be a Hindu in "secular" India it would seem.

 

[IceCold]

condolences to the families of the dead.



Many times india has offered proof that these terrorists come from inside pakistan to kill indian civillians, and yet pakistan doesnt do anything! Best example is Dawood Ibrahim. He is wanted for 1993 blasts, and there's conclusive proof that h is in pak, and yet pak refuses to hand him over to indian authorites! Isnt that proof enough that pakistan supports terrorism in india?

The things you provide us are not proofs rather a list or people india wants pakistan to hand it over having no clue whether they are in pakistan or not. Things dont work out this way. If you have some information, you call upon your counterpart, discuss the matter with them, hand them over the proof and then wait for their action to be taken. Just providing list of people will just go in the dust bin. No proofs no nothing. Its simple.

 

[Spring Onion]

Blast??????

Well please forgive me but it was a patakha

 

[QADRI]

ooo nooo another blast means another false blame on ISI oooo ISI should be ready about this.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

It is nothing out of the ordinary.

There was also a blast at Ajmer Sharif.

Firework during Eid!

Nothing more, nothing less.

Another day in Exciting India!

Maybe if India did what Bush is doing with his Patriot Act etc, things would be better.

But then, we are secular!

More blast, the merrier!

 

[Spring Onion]

It is nothing out of the ordinary.

There was also a blast at Ajmer Sharif.

Firework during Eid!

Nothing more, nothing less.

Another day in Exciting India!

Maybe if India did what Bush is doing with his Patriot Act etc, things would be better.

But then, we are secular!

More blast, the merrier!

keep enjoying the firework than sir why to blam us for mere Patakhas
lo ji ilzam hi lagana ha koi theek tau lago ab patakhoon ka ilzam laga ka sharminda tau na karo.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Why blame us for Balochistan and NWFP?

lo ji ilzam hi lagana ha koi theek tau lago ab patakhoon ka ilzam laga ka sharminda tau na karo.

As the Punjabis would say:

Lo! Kar lo gal!

 

[Spring Onion]

Why blame us for Balochistan and NWFP?

lo ji ilzam hi lagana ha koi theek tau lago ab patakhoon ka ilzam laga ka sharminda tau na karo.

As the Punjabis would say:

Lo! Kar lo gal!

LO gee Sir jee India pe patakhoon ka ilzam bhi lag jae tau shukar karoo Azaz ki baat ha ap ka lia

Lo ab Tifan me rakha howa patakha bomb blast ke barabar ho gaya

Lo hun kar lo gal

 

[Awesome]

condolences to the families of the dead.



Many times india has offered proof that these terrorists come from inside pakistan to kill indian civillians, and yet pakistan doesnt do anything! Best example is Dawood Ibrahim. He is wanted for 1993 blasts, and there's conclusive proof that h is in pak, and yet pak refuses to hand him over to indian authorites! Isnt that proof enough that pakistan supports terrorism in india?

Correction, India has not once offered proof. It has said it HAS proof, but it can't share it. Lol.

Condolences. Let me assure you no one in Pakistan is happy some 6 Indians died. Too bad. I hope you put your efforts in blaming your security agencies who have not been able to put an end to this. Maybe blaming Pakistan is just not working?

 

[Spring Onion]

Correction, India has not once offered proof. It has said it HAS proof, but it can't share it. Lol.

Condolences. Let me assure you no one in Pakistan is happy some 6 Indians died. Too bad. I hope you put your efforts in blaming your security agencies who have not been able to put an end to this. Maybe blaming Pakistan is just not working?

Yes agreed Asim look at this
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Terror attacks take political hue with UPA blaming BJP- Hindustan Times

Terror attacks take political hue with UPA blaming BJP

Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, October 15, 2007
First Published: 22:23 IST(15/10/2007)
Last Updated: 23:07 IST(15/10/2007)


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The terror attacks in Punjab and Rajasthan on Monday acquired a political hue with Congress-led UPA blaming BJP-ruled states for not paying proper heed to its advice to beef up security and the saffron party rubbishing the charge.

"State governments are not that vigilant as they should be. They are not that effective on the internal security front and the result is before us to see," Union Minister of State for Home Sri Prakash Jaiswal said.

He was replying to a question if states were taking the Home Ministry's advisories seriously and if Punjab and Rajasthan had acted promptly.

Jaiswal hoped that in future states will draw lessons from these incidents and strengthen security arrangments.

Home Ministry officials said that being the festival season, all states were asked to step up vigil, especially in view of inputs provided by central intelligence agencies.

They pointed out that even Punjab was alerted to remain vigilant about some area-specific groups that might create problems.

Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had also cautioned that soft targets, including religious and public places normally crowded, could be attacked by terrorists.

Hitting back at Jaiswal, BJP spokesman Ravishankar Prasad said he (Jaiswal) has the habit of "talking loose" and should stop "politicising" such crucial matters in the larger interest of national security.

"Rather than entering into a blame-game, the need of the hour is a coordinated response from the Centre and states," he added.

 

[Awesome]

Say what you may about India's belligerence, this government HAS done a few things a little differently vis-a-vis Pakistan. The trend is there, it's slow, but I think if it continues for a decade or two, we will be in agreement on a lot of other things too.

Being blamed for murder isn't something the Pakistanis are going to take lightly. It's seriously very offensive!

 

[ied_blast]

keep enjoying the firework than sir why to blam us for mere Patakhas
lo ji ilzam hi lagana ha koi theek tau lago ab patakhoon ka ilzam laga ka sharminda tau na karo.

u r trying to suggest that killing few innocents (5 or 6) is way below
pakistans standard.