They are reporting a bomb blast in Karachi, at a GuruMandir at GEO? Was it a false alarm or did it really happen?
Wasn't it three blasts?
So far 3 blasts.
2 infront of the US consular office and one in Karachi port. The last thing we need right now with other ports getting all the traffic.
Who ever did this was a dumbass. Al Qaeda of paki, they should be shot and their mothers slapped for bring these idiots into the world.
Anybody know the death toll?
The blasts killed one policeman and wounded 25 other people - including 12 police, said Kamal Shah, the provincial police chief.
There are some very ugly pictures on CNN'fn. SO uch mayhem...for what?
I had spent so much time at Pak American Cultural Center when i moved to pakistan..the place was always scheduling interestign events.
man.. this is so horrible. this has to stop. people need to open their eyes.
I’m really sorry that these attacks are happening. People have a right to go on with lives without fearing for safety. These acts are truly worthy of scorn and condemnation from all.
But, i’m afraid as long as Pak govts play with snakes, they can sometimes pop up and bite you.
Below is an interesting editorial in a Pak paper on this matter.
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EDITORIAL: General Musharraf and ‘the fanatics’
Speaking at a youth convention in Islamabad, General Pervez Musharraf declared that fanatics and extremists could not be allowed to rule Pakistan. He linked extremists to the terrorism of Al Qaeda, saying he was ‘500 percent sure’ that Al Qaeda activists were in Pakistan and ‘1000 percent sure’ that they were terrorists. He revealed that Al Qaeda elements were operating from the Tribal Areas and were responsible not only for acts of terror inside Pakistan but in other friendly neighbouring states too, including China, whose most dangerous wanted man, he confirmed, was recently killed in South Waziristan.
As if to underline what he said, the same day Karachi police was engaged in a shootout with six terrorists of Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami. The men who were captured as a result of the encounter revealed that they were involved in the 2002 attempt on the life of General Musharraf and the bombing of the US consulate in Karachi. The police encounter with the terrorists took place after the capture of their leader Kamran Atif who confessed to trying, unsuccessfully, to blow up the motorcade of the President in 2002. The six captured were in possession of hand-grenades, rockets, parcel bombs, and large amounts of explosives they were going to use in a car-bomb attack on a Karachi prison to get their companions released.
Almost anyone who is familiar with the rudiments of the terrorist underworld in Pakistan will tell you that Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami is one of the five Al Qaeda-linked organisations that have vowed to assassinate General Musharraf. What is surprising is that General Musharraf has either allowed or is allowing the leaders of some of these organisations to roam freely and issue statements against his policies. It is not possible that he is unaware of their statements because they are published prominently in the Urdu press everyday. It should be remembered that at least three militias included in the five that have vowed to kill him have also been the most effective ‘freedom-fighters’ in Held Kashmir.
**The five-member ‘coalition’ of the jihadi organisations was launched in 2001 to avenge the invasion of Afghanistan. The coalition was called Brigade 313 (the number of warriors in the battle of Badr in the times of the Prophet PBUH) and comprised Lashkar-e Tayba, Jaish-e Muhammad, Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami, Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami and Lashkar-e Jhangvi. The leaders of most of these organisations are either publicly free or have been allowed to conveniently disappear at home or abroad. **
Available literature on Al Qaeda reveals close contacts between the Lashkar-e Tayba and Osama bin Laden. For example, the leader of the Lashkar was allowed to establish his headquarters near Lahore. His stronghold is in Faisalabad from where a top leader of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaida, was most dramatically captured and handed over to the United States. And so on.** Everyone knows who wants to kill General Musharraf. But most people don’t know or understand why General Musharraf is allowing the ‘fanatic’ terrorist elements to roam around freely in Pakistan? **
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there was one on tuesday at the karachi port trust
there were two on wednesday in front of the pak american cultural ctr [pacc]
on Geo they showed the police man who died. it was sick. you could see his intestines were out ..
poor guy .. he was gonn aget married in 2 weeks or 2 months.
damn the idiots who were behind this
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the last time two or maybe 2.5 yrs ago they had that blast in front of the american consulate or sheraton where several ppl died, my friend's teacher who was going to get married the next day died in that blast...her father had only passed away a couple weeks back....
on hearing abt her death her mother had a heart attack and passed away too...
Well the war on terror hasn’t been so bad for Americans or Brits, the two leading coalition members. We haven’t had any major attacks in those countries for a long time, but seems like Al Qaeda hate muslim countries more that’s why they are bombing Pakistan. 
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EXCELLENT observation…great point :k:
pakistan is going under the pressures ov sum evil ppl n i thnk tht those blast only means the siren(alarm) of a new horrible pakistan !! May God Bless Pakistanis >>
this is getting too serious...karachi is dying...
these terrorists, the freaking crazy mullahs...dammn! who brain washes these ppl...?what are they fighting for...killing their own...
the avg rate of bomb blasts each yr out here must be among the worlds top 10 (for cities that are fully functioning normally).
May Allah bless us all.
Top Jihadi cleric Mufti Shamzai assassinated in Karachi
**Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai martyred, three others injured in firing **
(Updated at 09:10 PST) By Afzal Nadeem Dogar
KARACHI: Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, a prominent religious scholar has been martyred in a firing attack, when he was coming out of his residence near Jamia mosque Binnori Town, here on Sunday morning.
Reports said that he was in double cabin vehicle when eight to ten unidentified men opened fire on his vehicle leaving him seriously injured. His son Saleemuddin, guard and drivers also sustained injuries.
Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai and other injured people were shifted to Liaquat National Hospital within no time, where they underwent operation, but Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai succumbed to injuries.
His body has been brought to Jamia mosque Binnori Town
ekk aur Alim. humaree kaum se ziada badnaseeb kaun hugaaa.
maybe blasphemy law ko abolish karne ke leyee, uskee
major advocate ko raste se clear kardia.
It must be so difficult for business owners to run business in Karachi. You never know when a riot would start and mob burns down your shop. Do they have any insurance?
Killing of Cleric Leads to Riots in Pakistan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 30, 2004
Filed at 11:49 a.m. ET
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) – Gunmen killed a senior pro-Taliban cleric on Sunday, sparking riots across this southern Pakistani city by thousands of his Sunni Muslim supporters who ransacked shops, banks and a police station.
Tens of thousands of mourners later gathered amid tight security for the evening funeral of the cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Police fired warning shots over the heads of the throng after some started throwing stones.
At least nine policemen and four protesters were injured earlier Sunday as Shamzai’s supporters – mostly seminary students wearing beards, traditional white caps and tunics – rampaged through the southern port city after the shooting.
Angry crowds shouted slogans against rival Shiite Muslims, raising fears of sectarian unrest.
The violence started after assailants riding in two cars and a motorcycle shot the cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, a fervent critic of the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was traveling in a pickup truck to his Islamic seminary in the east of Karachi, said police official Fayyaz Qureshi.
A bodyguard of the cleric returned fire and wounded one of the six attackers, Qureshi said, quoting witnesses. Four others in Shamzai’s vehicle were wounded – one of his sons, a nephew, his driver and a body guard – but none seriously.
Shamzai, who was in his 70s, died of gunshot wounds in a nearby hospital. No one claimed responsibility for the killing, and there were no arrests.
Government adviser Aftab Shaikh described Shamzai’s shooting as a targeted killing and said authorities had warned the cleric that his life was at risk and had given him a police bodyguard.
Police prepared a sketch of one of the gunmen based on a description from Shamzai’s bodyguard. ``He saw three people firing on the vehicle. There could have been more,‘’ said Syed Kamal Shah, police chief of Sindh province.
Some 15,000 police and paramilitary rangers – most of the city’s police force – were deployed to cover the six-mile funeral procession after evening prayers, Shaikh said.
After the shooting, angry students from Sunni seminaries in ethnic Pashtun-dominated areas of the city poured onto the streets, setting fires and pelting passing vehicles with stones.
Shamzai, a soft-spoken and scholarly man, was a strong supporter of Afghanistan’s former ruling Taliban regime. He headed the Jamia Islamia Binor Town religious school where thousands of students get an Islamic education.
He rose to prominence after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America when he led a delegation of clerics from Pakistan to Afghanistan in a last-ditch effort – that failed – to save the Taliban from U.S. attack in late 2001 for hosting Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida members.
Shamzai’s supporters – mostly seminary students wearing beards, traditional white caps and tunics – raided a police station near his school, beating up three policemen, and setting vehicles on fire. Rioters also set fire to four banks and ransacked shops and other buildings and landmarks.
In the worst clashes, about 2,000 rioters attacked a building housing a bank and a newspaper. Police in armored cars fired in the air and with tear gas, and from within the crowd, automatic gunfire crackled back.
Shaukat Imran, a police official, blamed rioters for shooting at the police who returned fire. He said three police and four protesters were wounded in the firing, none seriously. At least six other police were hurt in stone-throwing.
About 300 people also protested Shamzai’s killing in the southwestern city of Quetta, but dispersed peacefully.
Calls were being made over loudspeakers at Shamzai’s seminary – which has 18 branches in the city, attended by more than 10,000 students – urging his supporters to remain peaceful. Cleric Iqbal Mohammed said 17 students were detained by police during the unrest and they were seeking their release.
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Shamzai was a ``great Islamic scholar’’ and condemned his killing as a tragedy. But Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the head of Pakistan’s largest Islamic group, Jamaat-e-Islami, blamed the government for failing to prevent it.
Karachi – Pakistan’s largest city of 14 million people and the country’s commercial center – has been the scene of recent sectarian violence and terrorist attacks, including twin car bombings near the U.S. Consul’s residence last week. On May 7, a suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque killed 22 people.
Much of the violence is blamed on Islamic militants, angered by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s support of the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism in Afghanistan, but clashes also occur between rival Sunnis and Shiites.
Shamzai had met with bin Laden sometime before the Sept. 11 attacks, and the reclusive, one-eyed leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar.
You play with fire and you get burned. Karachi ends up suffering due to the power games of mullahs and generals.
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*Originally posted by Imdad Ali: *
You play with fire and you get burned. Karachi ends up suffering due to the power games of mullahs and generals.
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OK u get 15 dollars for this berry aka imdad ali .....
shah say ziada shah kay wafdar ....
shame on u .....he was such an scholarly allim .....
And the list of sunni ulema goes on..
Allama haq nawaz
Moulana Abdullah
Moulana Yousaf
Moulana Dr Habib ullah
Mufti Abdus Sami
Moulana Azim tariq
Moulana Nizam shamzai
to name few..