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Punjab under endless terrorist attacks
It just happened.They did it again at Lahore.At least four people including Jamia Naeemia principal Dr Sarfraz Naeemi were martyred and several others injured in a suicide blast at Jamia Naeemia situated in Garhi Shahu area of Lahore.I watched the news on Geo News.
LAHORE: At least four people including Jamia Naeemia principal Dr Sarfraz Naeemi were martyred and several others injured in a suicide blast at Jamia Naeemia situated in Garhi Shahu area of Lahore, Geo News reported Friday.
The blast occurred after the Friday prayers when the people were making their way out of the mosque after offering the Friday prayers.
Jamia Naeemia principal Dr Sarfraz Naeemi was present at his office at the Jamia Naeemia at the time of blast, the eyewitnesses said.
The blast was so powerful that the outer walls of the Jamia Naeemia Masjid collapsed. The nearby buildings were harmed in the blast. The blast occurred when a lot of people were present in the mosque.
The personnel of the security forces cordoned off the area and started the relief operation.
The injured are being rushed to the Meo Hospital. Emergency has been declared in the hospitals of the Lahore.
The security forces are searching the building on the apprehension of another bomb.
Timeline: Terror attacks in Lahore
Thursday, 28 May, 2009 | 02:38 PM PST |
Pakistan’s cultural capital has been targeted several times in recent months. On Wednesday morning terror revisited Lahore. Here is a timeline of recent attacks on the city:
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May 27, 2009 : On Wednesday morning terror revisited Lahore, the country’s second biggest metropolis and capital of the Punjab province. A van carrying high-intensity explosives hit a police checkpost outside the offices of the Rescue-15 and the Inter-Services Intelligence on Lawrence Road, killing 26 people and leaving more than 251 injured.
March 30, 2009 : Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed a Manawan police training centre in Lahore, killing at least 12, wounding many and holding off police and troops for eight hours. The attack was claimed by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. Four militants were killed and three were arrested.
Pakistan’s cultural capital has been targeted several times in recent months. On Wednesday morning terror revisited Lahore. Here is a timeline of recent attacks on the city:
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March 3, 2009 : Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricket team to the Qadhafi Stadium in front of popular Liberty Chowk market. Seven people were killed, and many other injured including six cricketers and a British coach.
January 9, 2009 : Five low-intensity explosions rip through two theatre halls; no casualties were reported as theatres were closed for Muharram.
August 13, 2008 : A suicide bombing in front of a police station at Dubai Chowk killed two policemen and seven civilians
March 11, 2008 : Bomb rip through the seven-story headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency and a house in Lahore, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 200.
There are reports that the blast was suicide attack.
Lahore attacked again srilankan team
Attach on police academy
Attack on 15 rescue
Attack
On paf
March 4, 2008: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the parking lot of the Naval War College in the Jati Umrah suburb. Eight were killed and many injured.
January 10, 2008: A suicide bomber blow himself up among police guards outside the High Court building in Lahore, killing 24 people and injuring many.
Madressahs as a cover
Dawn Editorial
Wednesday, 15 Jul, 2009
We dont know how many other Kambohs are using madressahs as cells for terrorist activity. — AFP
It was not a suicide bomber who left 12 people, including seven children, dead in a village near Mian Channu on Monday; it was a huge quantity of ammunition stored in a seminary that blew up, spewing death and destruction. This is just a small indication of what some of those who run madressahs do behind what would appear to be an innocuous, even laudable, activity.
The man who ran the seminary, Riaz Kamboh, was known to have militant links, had gone to Afghanistan for training and was arrested twice but then released. Seemingly, the madressah he ran was teaching the Holy Quran to village boys and girls. However, the recovery of propaganda literature and suicide jackets from the debris makes it abundantly clear that he was using the madressah as a cover for organising a terrorist cell which brainwashed and trained young people to become terrorists and suicide bombers.
What happened at village 129/15-L in south Punjab is symptomatic of a larger phenomenon throughout the country, for many — though not all — madressahs have links with banned militant organisations and serve as recruiting grounds and as centres of indoctrination for both boys and girls. Let us not forget that Jamia Hafsa was an intrinsic part of the Lal Masjid empire run by the Aziz-Rashid duo, and it used girls for unlawful activities like raiding and occupying a government library and kidnapping a woman.
There are thousands of such madressahs and seminaries in Pakistan, and though all of them cannot be tarred with the same brush the security agencies must be able to separate the wheat from the chaff. That Kamboh’s activities remained undetected constitutes a sad commentary on the efficiency of our security agencies whose performance leaves a lot to be desired. We do not know how many other Kambohs are using madressahs as cells for terrorist activity.
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