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| Peshawar kaboom kills another 40 |
| 2013-09-29 |
| Al Qaeda fingers Blackwater for the bomb [CNN] At least 40 people were killed and about 100 were maimed after a bomb went kaboom!at a bazaar in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , officials at a Pak hospital said. A car carrying 220 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives detonated in the city's historic Qissa Khawani bazaar, destroying at least 10 shops, several vehicles and leaving a huge crater, said Shafqat Malik, chief of the bomb disposal unit. The Pak Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban, condemned the attack and denied any involvement. Qissa Khawani bazaar, or the "storytellers' market," was the site of a bloody massacre in April 1930 when British soldiers fired on peaceful demonstrators, killing hundreds. At the time, Pakistain was part of India -- and India was under British rule. Alamzeb Khan was working at a nearby tea stall when he felt the earth shake. The impact of the blast knocked him to the ground. "When I got up, everything was on fire. Women and children were burning in (a) Suzuki pickup, and a number of vehicles were destroyed, besides the shops (that) were also on fire," Khan said. The corpse count is expected to rise, as most of the maimed are critically injured, said Dr. Arshad Javed, chief executive of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. Already, people are sharing stories of incredible loss. One family traveled to Peshawar to attend a wedding. Now they're planning a mass funeral. In all, the family lost eighteen members in the attack, including children. A gruesome week Peshawar, the capital of Pakistain's volatile Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, has endured a violent week. On Monday, 81 people were killed in a suicide kaboom at a Protestant church in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the Christian community in Pakistain. A splinter group of the Pak Taliban grabbed credit, saying the attack was in response to U.S. drone strikes in tribal areas. And on Friday, at least 17 people were killed and more than 30 others maimed in an kaboom that destroyed a bus carrying government employees. Sikander Khan Sherpao, senior minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, suggested the attack had been carried out by forces wanting to sabotage recent efforts by the national government to pursue peace talks with the Pak Taliban. No group immediately grabbed credit for Sunday's attack at the bazaar. The Pak Taliban decried the loss of innocent life but at the same time struck a defiant note. "We are targeting the government machinery and the law enforcement agencies but not general public," said front man Shaidullah Shaid. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is rife with Islamic gunnies and has been the site of festivities between Pak security forces and krazed killers. Earlier this month, Pak officials announced plans to pursue peace talks with Talibs and withdraw troops from parts of the volatile northwestern region, which borders Afghanistan |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 at least their sovereignty is intact |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-29 13:25 |