Terrorism claims 223 lives in Lahore in 6 months

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This is just in one city. I wonder what the numbers are for entire country? :frowning:

http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\05\story_5-7-2010_pg13_4

Terrorism claims 223 lives in Lahore this year

  • 108 people died in 2009, 72 killed in 2008 in various suicide bombing incidents

By Imran Chaudhry

LAHORE: Around 223 people, including a number of women and children, died in terrorism-related incidents in the provincial capital in 2010.

Around 108 people died in 2009, while 72 were killed in 2008 in various suicide bombing incidents in the city.

On March 8, around 15 people were killed and 80 others injured in a suicide blast in front of the Special Intelligence Agency office in Model Town. The 15 people killed included a woman, a five-year-old girl and a security guard.

On March 12, at least 62 people, including eight soldiers, were killed and more than 90 injured in twin suicide blasts that ripped through the city’s RA Bazaar in the Cantonment area. Later that day, five people were injured by seven low-intensity explosions, six in the Allama Iqbal Town police precincts and one in Samanabad.

On May 2, three policemen were injured when unidentified gunmen fired at a police checkpost in the Hanjarwal police precincts in Marghazar Colony. Four motorcyclists opened fire at the checkpost when the policemen were having dinner. Two constables, Tahir Siddique and Ali Sher, along with a volunteer, were injured in the attack. On May 21, seven people, including three police officials, were severely injured as five low-intensity explosions occurred at the Tibbi area in the Walled City.

On May 28, at least 95 people were killed and 92 others injured as seven terrorists, including three suicide bombers, attacked two Ahmedi worship places in Model Town and Garhi Shahu. On May 29, at least three policemen, including a sub-inspector, were killed when unidentified gunmen fired indiscriminately at a police checkpost in Samanabad.

On May 31, at least five people, including a woman, were killed when at least four unidentified militants stormed the Jinnah Hospital at night. According to reports, the attack was an attempt to free an arrested terrorist, Muaz, who was receiving treatment at the hospital after being arrested following the attack on the Ahmedis’ worship place in Model Town.

Also, the triple suicide blasts at Data Darbar on July 1 claimed around 43 lives and injured around 180 people. The attacks occurred while the devotees were offering the weekly special prayer at the shrine.

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these are official figures, for the real figures multiply by 4 or 5...

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Do you have evidence of this?

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Re: Terrorism claims 223 lives in Lahore in 6 months

hey make sure to add the** 2000+** Pakistanis killed by drone attacks (by American+Pakistani terrorists) and thousands more innocent Pakistanis killed by the Pak army.

or wait, the north doesn't count? pashtuns are not humans? hmm

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I support the US drone campaign.

I wonder how many potential terrorist attacks have been stopped because some Taliban Animal Suicide Bomber got blown up by a US missile.

Keep up the good work USA!

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the so-called terrorists were less than 100 dead, not even. if they even were terrorists that is.

not to forget how Mehsud came back from the dead. how does your master USA explain that?

PS: your master needs to send in more troops so the taliban can take care of them. afghans are very hospitable people. :)

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And what proof do you have?

One Meshud....the other survived...barely....but dont worry...your hero will Inshallah be taken out by another drone....

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well, the evidence is moon market lahore bombing...my wife is a doctor and her clinic was about 500 meters away from the bombing site, and the patients started pouring in straight away, the government at that time also claimed 60-70 ppl dead although the people killed there were in hundreds, as the market was jampacked at that time and many more were burnt alive in their shops, especially jewellers...

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that still doesnt justify the killings by your ladlas...that means that there is nothing islamic in them, or they consider only themselves muslims and the rest of pakistan as kafirs...

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Sachhi?? That is terrible.

Do you think the same is true for Data Darbar?

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so back to square one, just say yes or no:

Do you think Pakistan is Dar al-Harb? A simple yes/no answer, if you have balls to do so :)

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so what justifies the killing of the 2000+ people in SWAT? is it because they're not considered humans? citizens?

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They failed to curb militancy, they failed to curb criminals. If they had captured/kicked'em out I don't think we'd have lost them. Everyone's life is precious as long as he is not criminal/dacoit etc.

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talibs are not humans, they had their chance in swat and i was in a fovor of them getting the chance, but they spoiled that!!! no country will allow their writ be demolished in some area to such an extent that they have to ask some rag tag army permission to pass through their own land...

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Re: Terrorism claims 223 lives in Lahore in 6 months

Militants carrying out major attacks belong to Lahore

LAHORE: Police say a group of militants taken into custody in connection with all major attacks in Lahore and other parts of the country belongs to the provincial metropolis.

They are involved in recruiting terrorists, planning, gathering information and storing explosives and sophisticated weapons at different places in the city and its outskirts and providing logistic support to other groups.

Their future plan was to create anarchy in society and unrest among different sects besides carrying out more attacks on important political personalities, sensitive agencies, offices working on law and order and sensitive installations.

Addressing a press conference at Qilla Gujjar Singh Police Lines on Monday, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Aslam Tareen said that terror suspects identified as Rizwan, Abbas, Haroon Saeed, Umair, Umer and Haji Javed Alam were detained from different localities of the city by teams of Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA).

He said all of them got training in Afghanistan and a majority of them acted as facilitators. The suspects informed the investigators that five to six separate militant groups were carrying out terror attacks in Pakistan.

The suspects disclosed that they were involved in terror attacks on Rawalpindi’s Parade Lane Mosque, Karachi’s Ashura procession, worship places of Ahmadis in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu and Model Town and Lahore’s Moon Market, Jinnah Hospital, Gulshan-i-Iqbal and Samanabad.

CCPO Tareen said suicide attacks on Data Darbar Complex were a conspiracy to provoke misunderstandings among different sects and disintegrate the country.

Police teams began investigation with two suicide bombers, Moawia, alias Asmattullah, alias Moaaz, of Lahore, and Abdullah, alias Muhammad, of Karachi, who were caught from Ahmadis’ worship place in Model Town on May 28, 2010.

The police also seized two motorcycles from the spot but their engine and chassis numbers had been removed. The investigators with the help of the Forensic Science Laboratory found the chassis numbers of the motorbikes.

Both motorcycles were purchased from Bahawalpur United Company by using the identity card of Gulzar Hussain, alias Muneeb.

Abdullah informed the police that he had come to Lahore from Karachi by a local company’s bus under ticket name Jafaar on May 22. He carried a cell phone which was taken away by his accomplice Hafeez, alias Shah, before the attack.

The police contacted the bus company’s Karachi office about seat No 10 and got a cell phone number which was being used by Hafeez and Rana, who masterminded the attacks.

They would use the number for conversation with girls in an attempt to deceive law-enforcement agencies.

The police also received a new number from one of the girls which was being used in new terror network. After getting all information, police with the help of intelligence agencies busted the network and arrested several of its members.

To a question, the CCPO said that all federal intelligence agencies were sharing secret information with the Lahore police on time.

The arrested suspects had concealed 18,000 kilogrammes explosives at different places and Javed Alam, of Bund Road, Islampura, had given the suspects his rented house to stay. Umair, of Jiya Moosa, and Umer would use their identity cards to facilitate others.

Meanwhile, CCPO Traeen told Dawn that 18,000kg explosives recovered from two weapon-manufacturing units in outskirts of Lahore would be destroyed with the help of Pakistan Army. He said at least three or four members of the terror network were still at large.

He said two suspects identified as Haroon Saeed, of Shafeeqabad, and Rizwan, of Mohni Road, Lower Mall, would recruit militants and suicide bombers and mastermind terror attacks.

SUSPENDED: The inspector-general of police has suspended from service the Lower Mall circle DSP while the CCPO has suspended the Lower Mall SHO, Data Ganj Bakhsh shrine police check-post in-charge and two constables in connection with terror attacks on the shrine.

The five have been suspended for poor security arrangements which led to the entry of two suicide bombers into the shrine.

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