Desi Cartman Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 PESHAWAR: A suicide car bomber ordered to stop his vehicle detonated it instead at a road block in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing seven police officers and wounding several others, a senior police official said. The bombing underscored the challenge facing Pakistan in rooting out al-Qaida, Taliban and other militants who are based in its northwest and believed involved in assaults on US troops across the border in Afghanistan. The Saturday morning explosion occurred in an area on the outskirts of the main northwest city of Peshawar, senior police official Safwat Ghayur. The police were checking cars coming through from the Khyber tribal region, a part of Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal belt where military forces have staged offensives to stem militant activity. The road block was also close to the rough-and-tumble Dara Adam Khel area, a major bazaar from weapons. Ghayur, who confirmed the casualties, said it was unclear whether the security forces were the original target, although many suicide bombers have gone after Pakistani police. Ghayur said the attacker blew up his vehicle after he was signalled to stop. Pakistan recently claimed victory in an offensive against militants in Bajur, a nearby tribal region where the military and insurgents have been battling since August. Officials also say they are close to flushing out militants in nearby Mohmand tribal area. But while the US has praised those offensives, saying it has helped reduce violence in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan has raised alarm bells in the West by engaging in peace talks with Taliban militants not far away in the northwest's Swat Valley.
punjabi_khota Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 Religion of peace and land of pure. What an electric mix.
cochise Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 Why can't these suicidal mofos just kill themselves and not take others with them? I mean...you want to check out man...go ahead...why take someones mother, someones son, someones sister, someones brother...someone you dont know and has nothing to do with your grievance with the world... Why take them along with you? Why cause so much pain in this world? Just check out. Silently.
EnterTheVoid Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 I myself cannot believe I am saying this. This goes against every instinct in my body, every thought process, every idea, everything .. but a tiny tiny tiny part of me, deep down, deep deep deep deep deep ...... deep down actually feels a little sorry for them. About what in particular ? I don't know Why feel this way ? I don't know Simply put, I myself cannot believe why, how and what for what reason I have this nagging little feeling in the back of my head that feels this way
cochise Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 You feel sorry because of this...implicitly you realise that this is failure as a human being....this is the pits...the lowest a human being can go.... Every human being is the same fundamentally. This act reminds you again of the depths that a human can plumb. Just think about it. This is not stepping onto the battlefield....the fight is somewhere else...this is stepping into peace...and just imagine, you decide that this is the final act that you will commit in this life...you have no idea whose life you will take...but you know you will cause suffering....and you care not for anyone around you....this is primarily selfish... So you sit there in the car, the security guard comes up....these are the last seconds of your life as you have your finger on the button... The pressure is immediate and strong from brain to button...and then...the ripples of that small action will affect human beings for centuries. You are a nasty dead end in humanity. You are forgotten. The pain of what you caused will be forgotten...in time. Congratulations! You wasted the jewel of human life in such a way.
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