We need more people like Hashwani in Pakistan. Hats off to him.
He paid tribute to one of his employees - named Raees who was very dear to him. He was the physical trainer at the gym. He left 5 daughters and a widow.
Mr Hashwani said they are now my daughters.
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That "attempt" was one of many by your heroes, to bring more unrest in Pakistan and cause war within. You have not studied this simple rule in history? "Divide and Rule!"
and no I was not there with my "friends", maybe you were, kindly tell me how that truck that was on fire (as we see on video, poor guy burning alive) starts a fire in the hotel.
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It’s called an explosion. Do you know what happens with 600kg of incendiary explosives detonate? Here watch a video and educate yourself:
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ehtasab,i complelety agree with u..we must seal our borders completely and make a new force from tribal areas to defend afghan borders...
my dear ajju,people like u r the biggest problem..and unfortunately same mind set people r in our govt and even in army..
if we dont change our policies and our army does not eliminate its pro american image,then wait for few more suicide bombings..ajju dear,calling some one terrorists just beac he has diff point of view then urs is stupidity....app logon ko halaat ki seriousness ka pata nahi..
we have made a easy option for us to blame each and everything on taliban or al qaeda or blah blah..
.. if we dont change our policies and our army does not eliminate its pro american image,then wait for few more suicide bombings..ajju dear,calling some one terrorists just beac he has diff point of view then urs is stupidity....app logon ko halaat ki seriousness ka pata nahi.. we have made a easy option for us to blame each and everything on taliban or al qaeda or blah blah..
So if someone wants to change governement policies then all he has to do is get a few people to blow themselves up and that is it ... change of policy.
A terrorist is not someone who has a different point of view. In west you will find people having divergent views and they promote their views and convince people ...... if their views make sense people make changes ......
Now to say a person is a terrorist because of his his views only is really stupid .... but if the same person goes and starts killing people for his views ... that is terrorism
so anyone tell me how is a crater that big in size created with what we saw on video? and how did that cause the fire in the hotel. all fishy fishy.
What about cars that were 100s of feet away from the truck, how did they all turn to ashes? Were there more "boxes of steel" implanted around the cars too?
What you saw in the video is just the explosives the guy used to kill himself. It started a fire in the truck which set off a larger explosive in the back consisting of TNT, RDX, mortar shells, artillery shells, and aluminium powder.
Al-Qaeda, TTP behind Marriott blast: Malik
*"The explosives expert in this committee, however, has submitted his report within 16 hours and on the basis of his past experience he has disclosed that the explosive material was high quality RDX and TNT. Earlier, in most of the cases potassium chloride, made of the fertiliser, was used. But this explosive material is of military type.
“We have recovered splinters of mortar shells and artillery rounds as well. There was one additional item seen this time and that was aluminium powder. It accelerates fire when it is mixed with the explosive material. So when these shells blew out and hit the Marriott Hotel it became a chemical that spread the fire fast and could not be extinguished,” the Adviser on Interior said.*
So unless you know better than an explosives expert (who was able to account for the fire), why would you think it is fishy?
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Although the events of this weekend were terrible indeed, I hope that it will inspire the government to exact a terrible vengeance on those who carried it out; those who ally with them; those who shelter them; those who give them food and drink; and all those who support them in any way at all.
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A few things:
Mariott does not have gas pipelines in the 3rd floor and above. Also, why doesnt the CCtv footage show the actual blast?
A few things:
Mariott does not have gas pipelines in the 3rd floor and above. Also, why doesnt the CCtv footage show the actual blast?
Depending on the speed of the camera (most CCTV cameras take images at a slower rate than normal video cameras, in order to maximise the amount of recording time they can store on a tape / disk), the camera could have been destroyed by the blast wave between frames.
Depending on the speed of the camera (most CCTV cameras take images at a slower rate than normal video cameras, in order to maximise the amount of recording time they can store on a tape / disk), the camera could have been destroyed by the blast wave between frames.
But they said that the blast occured about 2-3 minutes after the end of the video?
Is this what they said? I thought they said the blast occurred 2-3 minutes after the suicide bomber blew himself up in the truck… 
I read the same.
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so i am not happy wih zardari, i was not happy with mush, i was not happy with NS, i am not happy the way Imran is running his party, i am not happy with PML(N/Q/A-Z) and i am not happy with the current situation of pakistan..
what am i to do? nothing .. i guess i can just stay unhappy..
The fires are out at the Marriott, finally; there are brave declarations of building a better hotel on the same spot and promises that not one employee among those who survived the carnage will lose his or her job.
The questions to ask are: will a forensic and detailed examination of the hotel be carried out before it is pulled down inside of a few days? Will someone determine if the sprinkler systems that should be installed in every room and in every public area of the hotel were in working order? Did they work at all when the fires broke out?
Will some authority check if emergency exits to evacuate hotel guests were adequate? And if so, how many guests were safely evacuated? Indeed, will stock be taken of fire-extinguishing equipment inside the hotel, whether it was used or not, and when last the hotel carried out a fire drill?
The Islamic Republic’s security czar, Rehman Malik, has told us that the destruction was caused by more than a ton of a cocktail of RDX and TNT explosives, aluminium powder, and, as he put it, ‘artallery’ (artillery) shells, carried aboard a dumper truck.
By way of explaining the presence of the 12-ton truck in what can only be described as the younger sibling of Baghdad’s Green Zone, Rehman Malik tells us that dump trucks are allowed into Islamabad at night. But was it night-time that this particular dumper careened its way to the Marriott Hotel?
No sirs, it was barely night; it was just after iftar, and if I have my facts right no big truck is allowed into most cities before 10 pm. So, unless Islamabad the Beautiful has its own peculiar rules that allow these behemoths entry any time after 7 pm, Malik is dead wrong.
Add to that the fact that exactly at the time that the truck blew up taking countless lives — just wait for the real numbers to get out — every VVIP in Islamabad the Beautiful was tucking into a feast at the PM’s House barely a kilometre away. This was a massive security and intelligence failure, pure and simple, and heads must roll if their owners will not do the right thing and resign. Those who rate the ISI highly please note yet another failure of this mother of all agencies.
I watched every bit of the unfolding horror on TV; I watched first one room on the fourth floor catch fire; 20 minutes later another; an hour later 10 or 12; two or so hours after that a whole floor until some three hours later more than half the hotel was in flames.
I saw a man and a woman wave to the people below to attract their attention; I saw a man hold a baby up and point to it, begging for it to be saved. I thought about those guests who were staying in rooms that looked over the swimming pool at the back of the hotel and wondered what was going on there. On the morning after the event we read that the poor Czech ambassador who was living in the hotel and was killed in the fire called his embassy to say that he was trapped.
Not one fire truck of the two or three that the Capital Development Authority proudly acquired some time ago and showed off to the public appeared for at least two hours, the one that finally came poured a half-hearted stream of water into a room on the second floor. Not one guest was seen being rescued by firemen — there was only the customary chaos and confusion and shemozzle that attends every single crisis-like situation in the fatherland.
Will someone carry out an immediate enquiry into the reasons for the very late arrival of the Islamabad fire brigade at the hotel, and the completely inadequate fire-fighting/rescue millions of viewers witnessed on their TV screens? The CDA must be held to account and charges of criminal neglect placed at the door of those responsible. Indeed, let the ministry concerned, none other than Rehman Malik’s, face the music too. It should become clear to the babus that even goldmines can explode in your face.
Also, it must be drilled into their greedy little heads that merely tarting up Islamabad the Beautiful for the rich by building great big avenues and naming them after inconsequential bureaucrats is not enough. That very high up in the duties of a civic body is the safety of the people who live in a city.
It is not as if the CDA is the only culprit. All of the fancy National Disaster Management Authorities and National Disaster Management Commissions were conspicuous by their absence. Only the common, poor people who attend to the needs of and wait upon those that frolic in our star-rated hostelries — drivers, waiters, passers-by — could be seen helping where they could.
The only well-organised rescue team visible the next day was from the Aga Khan Disaster and Crisis Management. The brave and efficient men and women of this organisation were dressed as rescue teams should be dressed — in uniforms and hard hats; and equipped as rescue teams should be equipped — with sound-detecting equipment and all.
As usual, the Edhi ambulances were the first on the scene, followed by others, giving one new respect for that wonderful human being, Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi — may his tribe increase — who has so efficiently put such a great organisation together. In a recent article, I had suggested that sports in the country be handed over to Imran Khan. Let me in this one suggest that all the disaster management activities be handed over to Maulana Edhi.
Before I end, let me go back to fire-fighting. Not one of Pakistan’s cities has even a tenth of what is considered adequate fire-fighting and rescue equipment, or trained personnel for this hugely critical task. One F-16 costs something like $12m; initial research tells me a state-of-the-art, fully-equipped ladder fire truck costs approximately $1m. Could we please forego four F-16s and buy 48 fire trucks please? There are cheaper used/refurbished alternatives available; could we buy 100 of these fire-trucks please?
I, for one, would have no objections if the local agents of the F-16s are the local agents of the fire trucks too, so that the kickbacks stay where they should. It will make everything more palatable too.
In view of all of the foregoing, the Government of Pakistan ought to be hugely ashamed of itself.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Be ashamed, sirs, be very ashamed
The massive failure, shamefully this very “Interior Minister/Advisor” was begging for “credit” when the security guards showed courage (very likely out of their own strength instead of “training”) in the CCTV footage video.
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The bomb maker of the Marriot attack has been arrested and produced in a court where he confessed to making this and many other vehicle bombs. No connections with RAW/CIA/Mossad or other intelligence agencies is reported of him. The only foriegn connection is his training in Afghanistan. He is reported to be of Baitullah Mehsud group and was arrested from Waziristan.
The bomb maker of the Marriot attack has been arrested and produced in a court where he confessed to making this and many other vehicle bombs. No connections with RAW/CIA/Mossad or other intelligence agencies is reported of him. **The only foriegn connection is his training in Afghanistan. **He is reported to be of Baitullah Mehsud group and was arrested from Waziristan.
So who trained him in Afghanistan?
BTW it proves my theory that TTP is getting its training, sources, resources from outside Pakistan... the earlier Pakistan seals the border with Afghanistan the better.
So who trained him in Afghanistan?
BTW it proves my theory that TTP is getting its training, sources, resources from outside Pakistan... the earlier Pakistan seals the border with Afghanistan the better.
TTP might be getting trained in Afghanistan but trained by RAW. IDs of Indian Army