Seven killed as SHC judge targeted in Karachi bomb attack

[UmarJustice]

At least seven people were killed and several others injured on Wednesday when an explosion occurred near Karachi’s Burns Road area, targeting the convoy of Sindh High Court judge Justice Maqbool Baqar.

The attack happened as Maqbool Baqir, a senior judge at the high court of Sindh, drove past with his security detail in Burns Road.

Police said Baqir was rushed to a nearby hospital with critical injuries and that his driver was killed.

“According to initial information, seven people have been killed,” Sindh information minister Sharjeel Memon told reporters.

The deceased include five policemen, one paramilitary Ranger and Baqar's driver.

Rangers and police made up Baqir's security detail, the minister said.

Police and Rangers personnel and rescue team workers reached the site of the incident. Security personnel cordoned off the area as investigations into the incident went underway.

The bomb also damaged a motorcycle and a police mobile van.

The casualties were subsequently shifted to Civil Hospital.

Meanwhile, lawyers have announced boycott of court proceedings across Sindh in the wake of the incident.

SHC judge Baqir has a reputation for honesty and also served as a judge in special anti-terrorism courts set up in the country to pass down quick punishments to convicted terrorists.


Seven killed as SHC judge targeted in Karachi bomb attack - DAWN.COM

 

[Parul]

Sad incident! Rest in peace.

 

[abbas.hasan]

Shia Genocide continues in the country where militants are for talks and people esp minorities are for massacres!

 

[David James]

Bomb Targeting Senior Judge Kills 7 in Pakistan


By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press
ISLAMABAD June 26, 2013 (AP)

A bomb targeting a senior judge in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi wounded him and killed seven members of the osecurity frces on Wednesday, a senior government official said. The Taliban took responsibility for the attack.

The dead included six policemen and a paramilitary Ranger, said Sharjeel Memon, the information minister for southern Sindh province of which Karachi is the capital. The explosion also wounded 15 people, including policemen and Rangers as well as the judge, he said.

The Sindh High Court judge who was targeted, Maqbool Baqir, was being treated at a private hospital, and his condition was stable, said Memon.

"We had provided maximum security to Maqbool Baqir, and he was wounded in today's bomb attack at his convoy," said Memon.

Baqir was on his way to court when the bomb exploded, said senior police official Ameer Sheik. The bomb, which was attached to a motorcycle, was so powerful that it damaged some nearby shops.

Local TV footage showed authorities transporting victims of the attack to the hospital.

Ahsanullah Ahsan, the spokesman for Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility, saying they detonated the bomb by remote control.

"We attacked the judge in Karachi as he was taking decisions against Shariah and he was harmful for mujahideen," he told The Associated Press in a telephone call from an unknown place.

Karachi is Pakistan's largest city with 18 million people and has a long history of violence, both by gangs connected to political parties and increasingly by Taliban militants who have relocated there from sanctuaries in the northwest along the Afghan border.

Earlier this week, on the other side of Pakistan, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban took responsibility for a militant attack on a climbing camp at the foot of the country's second-highest mountain in which 10 foreign tourists and a Pakistani guide were killed.

——

Associated Press Writer Ishtiaq Mahsud contributed to this report from Dera Ismail Khan.

Bomb Targeting Senior Judge Kills 7 in Pakistan - ABC News

Pakistan judge wounded in bomb attack - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

 

[Parul]

Sad Incident! Rest In Peace....

 

[muse]

May be if we won their hearts and minds or invited them to Doha




Pakistani Taliban claim attack on SHC judge in Karachi
DAWN.COM

Updated 2013-06-26 13:42:17

KARACHI: At least nine people were killed and 15 others injured on Wednesday when a bomb targeting the convoy of Sindh High Court judge Justice Maqbool Baqir exploded near Karachi’s Burns Road area.

Spokesperson for the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Ehsanullah Ehsan, told Dawn.com that the militant organisation was responsible for the attack on the senior SHC judge.

Ehsan further said that the judge was targeted for what he said were "anti-Taliban and anti-mujahideen decisions" adding that the group would continue to target judiciary.

Initially, Sindh's Information Minister Sharjeel Memon had stated that seven people had died in the attack and that the bomb was a planted device.

Later, SSP Nasir Aftab put the death toll at nine after two more policemen succumbed to their injuries during treatment at a hospital..

The attack happened as Justice Maqbool Baqir drove past with his security detail in Burns Road.

Police said Baqir was rushed to a nearby hospital with critical injuries and that his driver was killed.

Justice Baqir was later shifted to a private hospital where he will undergo surgery, according to doctors, who added that the the High Court judge was in stable condition.

The doctors, not wanting to be named, told Dawn.com that Baqir had sustained injuries to his head as he was hit by ball bearings and glass shards in the explosion.

The deceased included seven policemen, one paramilitary Ranger and Baqir's driver.

Police sources said Justice Maqbool Baqir was on the hit-list of the proscribed militant organisation Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.

Police and Rangers personnel and rescue team workers reached the site of the incident and cordoned off the area as investigations into the incident went underway.

The bomb also damaged a motorcycle and a police mobile van.

The casualties were subsequently shifted to Civil Hospital.

Meanwhile, lawyers have announced a boycott of court proceedings across Sindh in the wake of the incident.

SHC judge Baqir has a reputation for honesty and also served as a judge in special anti-terrorism courts set up in the country to pass down quick punishments to convicted terrorists.

— Zahir Shah Sherazi and Saher Baloch contributed to the reporting of this story

 

[RescueRanger]

That was a massive explosion, a very sad state of affairs.

 

[pak-marine]

Shia Genocide continues in the country where militants are for talks and people esp minorities are for massacres!

What has this event got to do with shia genocide ??

 

[Spring Onion]

Shia Genocide continues in the country where militants are for talks and people esp minorities are for massacres!

oh apni bakwas band karo they had also killed sunni DSP today in Peshawar.

so Shut your iranian propaganda

 

[RescueRanger]

oh apni bakwas band karo they had also killed sunni DSP today in Peshawar.

so Shut your iranian propaganda

It's Mr. Iranian Troll, 25 posts registered Dec 2012, the other chap registered Nov 2012. I bet if you check IP addy's you will find Abbas Hasan sahib and Iranian Troll to be one and the same entity.

 

[Spring Onion]

It's Mr. Iranian Troll, 25 posts registered Dec 2012, the other chap registered Nov 2012. I bet if you check IP addy's you will find Abbas Hasan sahib and Iranian Troll to be one and the same entity.

could be false flaggers too from our neighbourhood they have this habit of many old ids inactive ones and suddenly when new one is banned they resort to old ones but as a backup file they dont use old ones for they had reserved those ones for some accute trolling at the end.

 

[Cheetah786]

What has this event got to do with shia genocide ??

Absolutely positivily nothing but the attack was carried out by L J.

 

[pak-marine]

Absolutely positivily nothing but the attack was carried out by L J.

TTP attacked and explained reason wasnt sectarian he was a judge and was targeted due to his professional conduct.

 

[Cheetah786]

TTP attacked and explained reason wasn't sectarian he was a judge and was targeted due to his professional conduct.

Police sources said Justice Maqbool Baqir was on the hit-list of the proscribed militant organization Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.

Pakistani Taliban claim attack on SHC judge in Karachi - DAWN.COM

 

[pak-marine]

Police sources said Justice Maqbool Baqir was on the hit-list of the proscribed militant organization Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.

Pakistani Taliban claim attack on SHC judge in Karachi - DAWN.COM

I am quoting from the article following :

Ehsan further said that the judge was targeted for what he said were "anti-Taliban and anti-mujahideen decisions" adding that the group would continue to target judiciary.

these people are pretty blatant in claming in their misdeeds , he was targeted due to his decision

however in my opinion if you ask me TTP >> LJ >> SSP >> JUD >> LET etc etc are all in the same , their is no diffrence btw