Blast in Quetta. (Merged)

ehsan · February 17, 2007, 11:30am

Desperate measures by desperate morons.

Civil Judge among 15 killed in Quetta suicide blast](Geo News: Latest News Breaking, Live Videos, World, Entertainment, Royal)

QUETTA: At least 15 including a senior civil judge were killed and over 25 were wounded Saturday in a powerful blast at Quetta district court’s licence branch.

The powerful blast at Quetta district court’s licence branch was a suicide bombing attack, police sources said.

The blast occurred in the chamber of civil judge Abdul Wahid Durrani, claimed 15 lives including the civil judge and lawyers, police sources further said.

Over 25 persons were injured in the blast, four of them said to be in a precarious state.

I.G. Balochistan Tariq Khosa talking to Geo News said the blast was a suicide attack. A head and body of an unidentified person was found from the spot, CCPO Quetta Rao Ahmed Khan told.

The agencies are investigating into the incident. According to officials, the bomber was about 20 years of age with small beard.

Authorities have declared emergency in Civil Hospital Quetta after the bombing incident.

Federal ministry of interior have said that the blast occurred at 11:05 am in the compound between civil court and the licence branch.

In Karachi Capital City Police Officer Azhar Ali Farooqui has declared security high alert in the metropolis and issued directives to DIG Operations and all town police officers for tightened security at key points of the city and increase in police patrolling.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhry has expressed grief over killing of a senior judge and lawyers in the blast and called for stern action against the perpetrators.

Governor of Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad and Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim have condemned the Quetta blast and expressed sympathy with the victims.

Rush · February 17, 2007, 11:44am

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inna lillahe wa inna ilahe rajeoon :(

GreenBird · February 17, 2007, 12:03pm

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Lets all just pray that these guys get to normal.

Though it seems really difficult with the advent of suicide killings in the world.

denada · February 17, 2007, 1:08pm

Another Bomb Blast in Pakistan - Now its courtroom

This has become a regular thing in Pakistan...... This time in Courtroom with Judge dead. The latest attack came a day after police announced that they had arrested five suspected militants from the southern city of Karachi and Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad, and that the suspects were planning suicide attacks on foreigners and minority Shiite Muslims.

Bomber Kills 14 in Pakistan Courtroom
By ABDUL SATTAR

Pakistani security officials examine the site of a suicide bombing at the District Courts in Quetta, Pakistan,

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a courtroom in troubled southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing a judge and 13 others, police and other officials said. (AP Photo/M. Farman)

QUETTA, Pakistan - A suicide bomber killed 14 people _ including a judge _ after blowing himself up inside a courtroom in a southwestern Pakistani province that has seen intense civil conflict for years, police said.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack at the District Courts complex in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. At least 25 people were injured, some of whom were in critical condition, said city police chief Rauf Khan.

A senior intelligence official in Quetta _ who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media _ said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.

The blast killed 15 people, including the bomber, a judge, five lawyers and relatives of some of the defendants, Khan said.

Afaq Zahid, an area police chief, said they had transported the dead and injured to a hospital.

Information was not immediately available about who was on trial. The blast shattered windows and destroyed furniture inside the courtroom. Shoes, strips of clothing and body parts littered the scene.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao quickly condemned the blast, calling it "an act of terrorism."

Shortly after the attack, lawyers and relatives of the dead and injured gathered outside the District Court complex and chanted anti-government slogans.

Hundreds of relatives thronged a main government hospital where the dead and injured were taken, according to witnesses, who said police were trying to control the crowd.

Government forces have clashed with ethnic Baluch rebels in the vast desert province, scene of long-running unrest over political rights and royalties from rich natural gas fields.

Authorities in recent months have also arrested hundreds of suspected Taliban from Quetta and elsewhere as part of a campaign aimed at deporting Afghans living here without valid travel documents.

The conflict in the sparsely populated and impoverished region has drawn little attention from Western nations more concerned about Taliban militants believed to launch attacks from border regions of Baluchistan into Afghanistan, where NATO forces operate.

Humanitarian concerns emerged in the spring amid reports that tens of thousands of Baluch people had fled their homes in the volatile districts of Dera Bugti and Kohlu.

In August, a UNICEF survey counted 84,000 displaced and recommended to the provincial government that they needed help.

The latest attack came a day after police announced that they had arrested five suspected militants from the southern city of Karachi and Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad, and that the suspects were planning suicide attacks on foreigners and minority Shiite Muslims.

GreenBird · February 17, 2007, 1:34pm

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Foreign hand. Thats all I have to say.

denada · February 17, 2007, 1:45pm

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You mean INDIA, Iran, Saudi Arabia, US or Afghanistan?

Haris · February 17, 2007, 2:21pm

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God!

Allah bless the martyred...

Haris · February 17, 2007, 2:22pm

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denada, pls always post material with link/source.

Spock · February 18, 2007, 12:56am

Re: Blast in Quetta. (Merged)

Turns out he was an Afghani...

GreenBird · February 18, 2007, 4:51am

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Though many people regard such acts to our Easterly neighbor. But I hold responsible Uncle Sam for this. This is part of an ongoing covert campaign to malign Islam, Islamic countries and Muslims.

Light_Bearer · February 18, 2007, 5:03am

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^Well I agree uncle sam is doing his bit but we are also responsible for maligning Islam i.e. 99.9% suicise bombers are muslims, who is teaching/brainwashing them?

GreenBird · February 18, 2007, 5:54am

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@Above:

That again is a ploy by the West. Its them who are conducting this training. They are the masterminds behind all this gameplan. And we, naivly, sit back and feel pity on ourselves, on Muslims.

Light_Bearer · February 18, 2007, 2:51pm

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^Long live the blame culture. How do you think we are ever going to rectify the problem if we are not ready to accept that we have problem. BTW please give me the source of your indepth analysis of these so called "master minds behind this gameplan".