Killings in Karachi

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Looks like Karachi is again becoming a killing field like 95. Looks like these are the effects of the operations in Waziristan …

Gunmen Storm Karachi Police Post, Kill 5
Sun Apr 4, 2004 04:51 AM ET

By Aamir Ashraf
KARACHI (Reuters) - At least 10 gunmen stormed into a police station in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi on Sunday, killing five policemen and wounding one after demanding the officers recite Islamic verses, police said.

The attackers escaped by car after the dawn shoot-out about five km (three miles) from the international airport in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and the scene of frequent religious violence. Police said one of the gunmen may have died.

The assault, one of the boldest on Karachi’s police in recent years, comes as tension is running high following a deadly raid by thousands of Pakistani troops on 400 to 500 suspected al Qaeda and other Islamist fighters last month.

The wounded policeman, Hasan Jatoi, told Reuters the clean-shaven assailants shot several of the officers in the head at close range after bursting into the small police post.

“It’s an act of terrorism,” Karachi police chief Tariq Jameel told reporters. “The police are conducting operations against terrorists and this could be a reaction to the operation.”

It was unclear which group was behind the attack, he said. Police were investigating and tightening security at police stations across the port city of 14 million people.

Islamic militants have been blamed for a string of attacks in Pakistan since President Pervez Musharraf backed the U.S.-led war on terror in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4743822&section=news

TARGETING POLICE

Jatoi said he was shot in the hand after firing on the attackers from a small mosque inside the police compound where he had been praying. Hundreds of bullets were fired in the station, he said.

Two criminals held in the lock-up said the gunmen shouted they would not spare any policeman, said Abdul Khalaq Sheikh, a town police officer.

“We cannot rule out the involvement of militant groups, but nothing is certain at this stage,” said Sheikh.

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:mad3:

:frowning:

:teary3:

who are these cowards…? and what are they going to achieve by killing these innocent policemen, widowing their wives and orphaning their children and taking away support from their old parents…

disgusting :disgust: :frowning:

what i’m even more horrified about is are our police stations so badly equipped that terrorists can enter and kill the policemen? :frowning: thats terrible :frowning:

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irem, these are the same ppl who have been killing the shias for a while..this is nothing new..now its the policeman..it could be the sunnis next..i hope the govt can really get rid of these terrorist this time

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No no, these are american agents. Muslims never kill anyone.

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The zionists (America) are achieving something against the potentially most dangerous country for them in the Muslim world, even without directly fighting. How wonderful is their plan that they did not even have to physically engage with us. Thanks to our policies of blind obeyance of eartlhy lord America that we have new enemies.

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It didn't take long for someone to blame America.

It seems like the terrorists are copying tactics from Iraq in attacking police stations. Roadside bombs should be next then.

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I was suspecting this before, but now it seems it was pro ISI haqiqi islamist terrorists who may hve been involved in this.

He said the attackers forced the five policemen, four Muslims and a Christian, to recite a Koranic verse before shooting them at point blank range.

The police station is housed in a makeshift three-room structure without a boundary wall, making it a soft target, said a police investigator.

The attack came a day after police arrested Afaq Ahmed, an opposition party leader.

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^^

Just because they asked the policemen to recite verses from the Quran doesn't mean that they were Muslims and even if they were that their aim was not a sinister one. They could very well be zionist agents as Br Islamabad said, or RAW agents even. Who knows?

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If government cannot maintain law and order in the most educated and liberal city of pakistan then how will it bring FATA under its writ?

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*Originally posted by irem: *
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Just because they asked the policemen to recite verses from the Quran doesn't mean that they were Muslims and even if they were that their aim was not a sinister one. They could very well be zionist agents as Br Islamabad said, or RAW agents even. Who knows?
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Is it also RAW/Mossad agents attacking Iraqi police stations? Are they RAW/Mossad agents in Waziristan? Are RAW/Mossad agents running terror traing camps, jihadi offices and madrassas all over Pakistan? Did RAW/Mossad agents blow themselves up in order to kill Musharraf?

Closing your eyes to the truth won't help you irem.

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by irem: *Just because they asked the policemen to recite verses from the Quran doesn't mean that they were Muslims and even if they were that their aim was not a sinister one. They could very well be zionist agents as Br Islamabad said, or RAW agents even. Who knows?
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Invariably, when people behind similar attacks in the past have been captured or killed in Pakistan, they turn out to be Pakistani citizens and Muslim, rather than foreigners.

It does nothing but weaken the nation to turn a blind eye to the fact that there are quite substantial number of Pakistani Muslims with misguided ijtihad who believe that it is justifiable to go around killing other Pakistanis, simply because of their religious beliefs or their role in enforcing government authority.

Such people do not need to be urged on or evens supported by outside forces to carry out their murderous attacks - the tools they need are sadly all too readily available in Pakistan. What is needed is for the people of Pakistan to unite behind and support the government's continuing efforts to identify, arrest, and put on trial those Pakistani Muslims who carry out such activities.

Throughout Islamic history, we see many many examples where Muslims start making incorrect ijtihad that leads them to unjustified violence, without outside support. The Kharijite uprising during the reign of Khalif Hazrat Ali (ra) is one example. Another one, over 1000 years later, is the Arab uprising in the Nejd around 1800, where Arabs, following misguided ijtihad, began attacking provinces of the Ottoman Khilafat (such as Karbala) out of misplaced religious zeal.

What you are seeing today in Pakistan is sadly a repeat of past Muslim history - where Muslims misunderstand their own religion and turn against their brother Muslims, be they police, soldiers, government officials, etc.

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oh this is sooooooooo funny..

look what i found

posted by Imdad Ali

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No no, these are american agents. Muslims never kill anyone.
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Two posts down and what do we have?

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It didn't take long for someone to blame America.
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tsk tsk....oh i must give you the comedian award of the year... oh the shock comedy is the new thing init?

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^ have you heard of sarcasm? lol

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Imdad Ali, fellow michaelean, and Mad Scientist…u guys prolly do have a point…all this is quite confusing… :bummer:

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It is so easy to incite hatred and turmoil in Pakistanis, especially those whose minds have been nurtured by the western lies...All one needs to do is to open fire on a crowd, drop a few pamphlets (with the appropriate words depending upon whom the blame needs to fall), and these ignoramuses can jump down the throats of anyone the pamphlet points a finger to...Who cares about proofs and who cares about evidence, all we know is that they recited Quranic verses, so let's aid America in hunting down every bearded man who looks religious...

This is height of ignorance, and is especially coming from those who claim to be 'educated' by the western standards...

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yeh its really easy to blame america..but apparently all the terrorists that get captured have muslim names

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since when did haqiqi become islamists? they are nationlalist secular terrorists, and to blame this attack on islamists is premature. most likely it was the haqiqi terrorists who reacted after one of their leader was arrested.

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Did they burn the corpses and hung them to dry on some bridge in Korangee (or was it Liyari).

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Haqiqi, who are the offspring of ISI have long had ties to sipahe sahaba. In fact they hate Altaf's MQM because it God forbid includes Shias.

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These people should be hunted down and killed, no resource should be spared and now its time for the government to wake up and equip our frontline police with Body Armor and Imporved Training... The public should also play its part and fight these ****ERS where ever they find them, if there are people who hate them as much as me, i am certian we will be rid of them soon. But only if we join hands.. Also could someone tell me who would i send donations for the berrieved's familys?