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7 Police Men injured. No dead.
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it was the Anti terrorist police building.
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Police say blast in Pakistan’s capital wounds 9 - International Herald Tribune
Blast targeting police wounds 9 in Pakistan
The Associated PressPublished: October 9, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: An explosives-laden vehicle blew up an anti-terrorist squad building and wounded nine people Thursday in a police complex in Pakistan’s capital just moments after a man delivered sweets to the facility, officials said.
Police said they are probing whether it was a suicide attack and whether the delivery of sweets was at all linked. Some body parts were found that might belong to a suicide bomber, Islamabad Police Chief Asghar Gardaizi said.
The incident occurred as lawmakers gathered for a security briefing. Pakistan, a U.S. ally in the war on terror, is besieged by militancy, and the capital has been under tight security because of the private session.
Ambulances streamed into the smoke-filled Police Lines neighborhood after the blast.
The front section of the three-story, red-brick building was destroyed and a staircase had collapsed. Shoes were strewn among the rubble. Police officer Suhail Iqbal said the building housed an anti-terror squad. It stood fairly deep inside the complex.
Police commando Gulshan Iqbal told The Associated Press he was sitting at a nearby barrack when a “Suzuki car hit the ant-terror squad barrack and exploded with a big bang.”
He said the main building was largely empty because many officers were guarding Parliament and other areas of Islamabad. “About 10 people were inside at the time, and we saw six or seven injured,” he said.
Gardaizi said a man in a green car had driven up to the building, entered and handed the boxes of sweets to a person inside. Within moments, the explosion occurred, Gardaizi said.
It was unclear what happened to the delivery man. The police chief said authorities would probe why a civilian vehicle was allowed in the area.
The attack drew condemnations from the prime minister, president and other leaders of Pakistan, where the military says suicide attacks have killed nearly 1,200 people since July 2007, most of them civilians.
The statistics also said that 1,368 security force personnel had been killed since late 2001, when Pakistan’s former military ruler, President Pervez Musharraf, allied the country with Washington in its war on terror.
The violence has largely been concentrated in the northwest regions bordering Afghanistan, where al-Qaida and Taliban fighters have bases, but the insurgents have shown they can reach further. On Sept. 20, a suicide truck bombing of the Marriott Hotel killed 54 in the city.
Pakistani lawmakers were at the Parliament building for a question-and-answer portion of the briefing by military officials about the domestic threat posed by militants.
The young civilian government called the joint Parliament session in an effort to build a national consensus on the Muslim nation’s role in the U.S.-led war on terror.
Many in Pakistan believe the alliance with the U.S. has increased violence in their nuclear-armed country. The U.S. has shown impatience with Pakistan by launching cross-border missile strikes against militant hide-outs in the northwest, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is rumored to be hiding.
On Wednesday, lawmakers were shown images of militants killing people, according to two attendees who requested anonymity because like others at the meeting they were sworn to secrecy. Statistics on militancy were also given, one said, declining to divulge specifics.
Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, an army general tapped to take over Pakistan’s main spy agency in the coming days, gave the briefing. The topics included Pakistan’s military offensives against insurgents in tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
Speaking in general terms, some politicians said the briefing Wednesday was superficial.
“It was more like the description of the symptoms than diagnosis of the disease,” Khurram Dastagir, a member of the opposition party of ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, told Dawn News TV. “I am seeking to find out what is causing this extremism and how did it come about.”
Pakistan’s attorney general, Sardar Latif Khosa, said Thursday’s session was arranged to allow lawmakers to ask questions. He said the meetings could go on for several more days.
Concrete barriers and barbed wire ringed a wide perimeter around the Parliament building. Members of the media were not allowed in.
Associated Press Writer Munir Ahmad contributed to this report.
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Bomb kills four children on school bus in Pakistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
Bomb kills four children on school bus in Pakistan
Pakistan was hit by two deadly bomb attacks today as the country’s spy chief briefed politicians on the security situation.
Eleven people were killed in the Upper Dir district of North-West Frontier Province when a roadside bomb exploded near a police van carrying prisoners. Four schoolchildren in a passing bus were among the dead, officials.
Earlier, a suicide bombing at the police headquarters in Islamabad injured up to 10 people.
A grenade was thrown outside a college in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan in the south-west, but there were no casualties.
The blasts bring to 91 the number of terrorist attacks in Pakistan since July last year. Islamic extremists began a violent campaign after security forces stormed Islamabad’s radical Red Mosque, resulting in around 100 deaths.
The bombing at the police complex on the edge of Islamabad targeted the barracks of the anti-terrorist squad. One side of the building collapsed but the police officers normally inside were instead deployed around parliament to guard the building while members of the assembly were given a confidential assessment of the terror threat.
Asghar Raza Gardezi, the inspector general of police for Islamabad, said the entry of a car into the complex had breached all security arrangements. He said the car was driven up to the anti-terrorist squad building, where the passenger got out carrying two baskets of sweets and went inside to hand them to an officer.
“The moment he gave basket to the policeman, an explosion took place,” Gardezi said, speaking at the site of the blast.
Other reports said the bomb was in the car. Body parts were scattered around the area. Kamran Lashari, a senior bureaucrat in Islamabad, said: “The other side wants to show its potency and its determination. We have to measure up and deal with it.”