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can we call it civil war?
not yet, but we are almost there. we are fast becoming another iraq.
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PD was bored and looking for his joridaar. Now he is happy.
So what is the point of closing business and make lives of people even more difficult.
That would mean the criminals win. These kind of strikes never work.
Altaf gives three-day ultimatum to arrest culprits
Altaf Hussain has expressed his deep sense of grief and sorrow over the deaths of innocent people in Abbas Town blast in which 45 people were killed and 150 others were injured.
He offered his condolences over the loss of lives in the blast and prayed to Allah to shower blessings on the souls of the people who lost their lives. He also prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.
He gave three-day ultimatum to the government to arrest culprits behind Abbas Town blast. He said that** if the culprits were not arrested then the people of Sindh will close all business activities till the end of terrorism in the province.**
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Just heard Rana Sanaullah on dawn news. He said if Rehman Malik and Govt has any proof against ASWJ, then why does it not take action?
Obv Rana Sana Ullah has not said they will not form an alliance with ASWJ anymore. Well done Rana sb. 2 seats punjab mayn aur pakki.
I am so much against imran but he is a saint as compared to khariji supporters like Nawaz, shahbaz and sanaullah.
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So what is the point of closing business and make lives of people even more difficult.
That would mean the criminals win. These kind of strikes never work.
Sure. It hunk the STRIKES should be made at terrorist dens in al asif square of sohrab goth. Just like the strikes made against lal masjid khariji brigade.
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Zionists of the Apache Land share as much responsibility of this incident as Shahbaz and Nawaz of PMLN. Just like PMLN, the best friends of Apache Land are Saudis. And Saudis are the biggest sponsors of madrassahs which inculcate kids with hatred and extremism.
It is common knowledge that there is no love lost between the Saudis and any kind of Zionists. Besides preaching hatred toward other groups, Saudi textbooks and school curriculum have been widely documented to indulge in the most extreme hatemongering against Jews, and worse against Israelis or zionists. As for "Apache land," most Americans are disgusted by and do not want to do anything with that medieval Saudi kingdom and even the leaders are largely indifferent to it.
**It is the Pakistanis like Nawaz Sharif who bend over backwards to kiss the feet of their Saudi masters. The Saudis are given a free hand to do as they please in Pak by opportunistic Pakistani leaders and they gleefully oblige by funding the factories of hatred aka madrassas in Pakistan. **Instead of trying to deflect blame to china or the US or some other Western country, we should call a spade a spade and boot out the Saudis and their nefarious agenda from Pak.
Also, the Punjab government that is in bed with the kharjites and killers of Shias in the country need to end its policies of cultivating and appeasing terrorists. And there is a dire need for operation cleanups; the military needs to go after their sanctuaries, wherever they are, of ALL terrorists without any ifs and buts. Sections of the incompetent law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the military, and members of the state, especially PML-N, are all complicit in the genocide of Shias. And they are the ones who should be condemned.
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Just heard Rana Sanaullah on dawn news. He said if Rehman Malik and Govt has any proof against ASWJ, then why does it not take action?
Obv Rana Sana Ullah has not said they will not form an alliance with ASWJ anymore. Well done Rana sb. 2 seats punjab mayn aur pakki.
I am amazed at his arrogance. He and his party-members have the blood of hundreds of Pakistanis on their hands. He needs to be rounded up and handed over to the International Court of Justice in Hague. May be that way some of the relatives of the victims of the Shia genocide can find closure.
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I am so much against imran but he is a saint as compared to khariji supporters like Nawaz, shahbaz and sanaullah.
please dont use IK and SanaUllah in one sentence :)
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My name is Hussain and I don’t want to be a terrorist | Blog | DAWN.COM
Karachi’s Abbas Town has been struck again and Sunday’s attack has caused the most casualties and damage. As while it is far easier to speak of and listen to death tolls, it is extremely difficult to imagine the plight of those who have lost their loved ones sitting right beside them in their homes. In the blink of an eye, dozens of families have been destroyed, emotionally as well as financially. Innocents are under the debris and their family members are looking for them. In the midst of the turmoil, MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s statement has brought a bitter truth to light – that establishment-backed banned organisations are playing havoc with the lives of the people and state agencies have been keeping mum over the surreptitious mass slaughter of Pakistan’s Shia community. Finally, this grain of truth that had been held back for the longest time has being publicly uttered by a politician.
Although no specific banned organisation has claimed responsibility of the attack so far, historically the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi accepts having engineered such bombings in its quest to accomplish its anti-Shia agenda. In fact, the conflict between the Sunni and Shia communities in its recent form can be traced back to the Iranian revolution of 1979 and General (retd) Ziaul Haq’s collusion with the United States and Saudi Arabia in its war against communism in Afghanistan. Iran, a predominantly Shia country, has an ideological clash with Saudi Arabia, a state with an overwhelming majority of Sunnis, and has also been in America’s bad books over the revolution, as well as the subsequent nuclear program. Pakistan factors in the equation in the sense that the country, it seems, has become a land where proxy wars can easily be funded and fought – gradually losing its options to come out of declared and undeclared alliances.
In the 1990s, the Shia and Sunni clashes in Pakistan damaged thousands of families. Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was murdered and the LJ announced to take revenge from Shias living all over the country. With the ban on militant organisations in 2003, LJ split and regrouped in the form of different groups which attached themselves to organisations like al Qaeda and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Although it does not have a global agenda, the LJ is contributing to it by partaking in the mass killings of Hazaras and perhaps of other non-Hazara Shias as well. There are those that argue that the so-called Iranian-backed Hazaras pose a threat to ‘religious laws’ that the Afghan Taliban want to introduce after capturing Nato-dominated areas. And further on, state agencies that are likely to have invested in the future of Taliban in Afghanistan seem to be keeping quiet over these killings.
Along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, the renewed Shia-Sunni conflict is also evident in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain have predominantly Sunni ruling elites who are known for persecuting the minority Shia community; whereas, the ruling elites of Syria and Iran are accused of persecuting the Sunni minority communities in those countries. While the contentions between the two groups is not new to our societies, the apparent inaction of state agencies, which usually claim having informed law enforcement agencies of possible threats of attacks is a reason to worry.
In the wake of Sunday’s bombing, a man was arrested and it was reported that he had confessed being involved in the attack, adding that his two other companions had fled from the scene. We often come across these references but never do we hear of the detained suspects once they are handed over to investigative agencies. Of late, Usman Saif Ullah Kurd and Badini were found involved in the Alamdar Road blast in Quetta and the truth is both these terrorists had escaped from a jail situated in a highly secure zone.
Rehman Malik says the LJ has its roots in Punjab and that the Punjab government should arrest the 534 people whose list has been provided to the government, however, Asif Zardari yesterday said some political parties had interests attached with these banned outfits. The president’s statement can be viewed in the light of Ludhianvi’s claims that he had no ties to the LJ and its activities, as well as the fact that both Ludhianvi and Malik Ishaq have close links with the Punjab government.
It is astounding that in such circumstances political parties have been mulling over, nay, actually working to initiate a dialogue with the TTP. The very premise that we’ll achieve peace by negotiating with the Taliban is wrong as for that we would need complete cooperation from the state agencies. People in Swat, Waziristan, Quetta and now in Karachi have been crying that attacks are launched when security officials are stationed only a few yards away from the scene but the media is diverting the attention from the real issue by implicating analysts in the question as to whether we should start a dialogue with the Taliban or not. When the valid question to be asking is, whether the state will take action or will it compel members of the country’s Shia community to take up arms?
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There is hardly any hope of ending this violence as we have too many people who support these type of killings - I know many from my friends in Pakistan who thinks as these people do tabbarrah on Sahaba, it is very much justified to kill them!
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Since many hundred years Shia Sunni lived in Indo-Pak and no serious regular clashes between them . This all started with Zia .
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Since many hundred years Shia Sunni lived in Indo-Pak and no serious regular clashes between them . This all started with Zia .
And this continues due to support to those terrorist dens by people, like their support to any action against Lal Masjid mufsideen.
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I know many from my friends in Pakistan who thinks as these people do tabbarrah on Sahaba, it is very much justified to kill them!
Well, such khariji supporters are present right here at paklinks.
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I believe all of us are responsible for this bloodshed as we are quiet. If we don't resist this Fitna then we should wait for our turn. I read Rahman Malik's statement the other day that Punjab is under threat (especially Pindi and Lahore). If that's so that means that the peace in the province has nothing to do with better governance, it's due to appeasement of terror groups. In that case it's better to take them heads on, the consequences we will see later. Besides even at the moment due to inaction of Punjab government people in other provinces are being affected.
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Inaction is only emboldening such groups and it would become much harder to do action against them later. It is like Lal masjid all over again or talk about TTP taking over Buner after sharia deal on swat. Call it Pakistani's bad judgement but they really screwed themselves for allowing a do-nothing PPP, a stain on liberalism, to come to power.
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The people that were making this bomb a few weeks back are probably the one that are responsible for this bomb blast. Bomb kills three suspected militants in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth | Pakistan | DAWN.COM
Three die in Karachi bomb blast | Newspaper | DAWN.COM
This link identifies some of the suspects
This could be a similar bomb
http://www.samaa.tv/newsdetail.aspx?ID=60989
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Since many hundred years Shia Sunni lived in Indo-Pak and no serious regular clashes between them . This all started with Zia .
What about the PM who declared Ahmedi's non muslims and started supporting religious intolerance to keep/please the religious voters and extremist religious organizations.
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Karachi comes together for survivors
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its heartening to see people coming together in these hard times! Karachiites have seen alot in the last 3 years, over 2,000 were killed last year in target killings now series of bomb blast… in spite of all these tragedies, the resistance and courage shown by peace loving Karachites is amazing!
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I read somewhere when these savages were firing on funeral procession, police was watching silently, is it true? and then they have the audacity to say we will go after terrorist organizations? who are they fooling, when there is blood on their hands!
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**Unfit for use: Over 70 flats declared dangerous
KARACHI: **The blast that ripped through Abbas Town on Sunday evening was so powerful that it completely destroyed 70 flats and damaged hundreds more.
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**As the dust settled, the authorities realised that the two blocks of the apartment complex – Iqra City and Rabia Flowers – have been damaged beyond repairs. They estimate that Rs67 million are needed to rebuild these apartments.
“The force of the blast was devastating,” said architect Zia Jaffery, who is part of a government-sponsored team of experts that assessed the structures. “**These projects were poorly constructed in the first place and the blast made matters worse. There are cracks in the supporting columns.” Given this situation, the team declared two blocks dangerous.
**Sunday’s explosion eroded the facade of Iqra City’s Block-D as balconies facing the street came down and attached rooms were completely destroyed. The cracks were clearly visible in the ground-plus-four storey buildings, which house 54 apartments
While authorities have declared the buildings dangerous, no one was ready to say who will finance the cost of reconstruction.
These were small three- to four-bedroom apartments spread over at a maximum of 800 square feet,” explained Jaffery. “Obviously these people can’t afford to rebuild them.” Jaffery suggested forming a public-private partnership, similar to one formed after the arson on MA Jinnah Road. It is very unlikely that the builders of the two apartments will step forward to take up the task, admitted a senior member of the Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD). “Under the lease agreement, it is the responsibility of the occupants to pay for repairs,” he said. “Once a project has been completed, the builder is responsible for one-year maintenance and after that he walks away.”
The official estimated that the repairs may cost anywhere between Rs1,000 and Rs1,200 per square foot, but so far the government has not made any promises on who will bear these expenses.
Unfit for use: Over 70 flats declared dangerous – The Express Tribune
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Zia gone with a jaw remain in his grave but his black deeds remaining in all places from army to agencies and pmnl with Ijaz ul haq are main in to feeding zombies, nothing could be change with current two parties ppp/Pmln in charge of country.