Suicide bomber kills 75 at Pakistan sports event

[DomainK]

A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives on to a field during a volleyball tournament in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 40 people, police said. The blast occurred near Pakistan’s tribal belt, and was the latest in a series of attacks in the country since the Army launched a military offensive against Taleban fighters in the South Waziristan tribal region. More than 500 people have died in reprisal attacks. Police said that today's bombing in Lakki Marwat city, not far from South Waziristan, was possibly in retaliation for local residents’ efforts to keep militants out of the area. “The locality has been a hub of militants. Locals set up a militia and expelled the militants from this area. This attack seems to be a reaction to their expulsion,†Ayub Khan, the local police chief, told reporters. In North Waziristan a suspected US missile struck a car carrying alleged militants, killing three men, intelligence officials said. It was the second such strike in less than a day. The strikes are part of an American campaign to eliminate "high-value" militants who use Pakistan as a safe haven to plan attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan and on the West.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6973227.ece

[DomainK]

Where is Imran Khan who once so confidently claimed that terrorists would never touch sports persons?

[EnterTheVoid]

.... And Pakistan welcomes 2010 in the only way it knows how.

Where is Imran Khan who once so confidently claimed that terrorists would never touch sports persons?

Hiding behind a flowerbed

[Sachinism]

Sky News now reporting 70 dead

[Pakistan-India]

really astonishing to see who does this, believe me when i went it was nothing different to what it was 10 years ago, same people, nothing has changed in punjab and sind part of pakistan, over there in villages(thats 75-80%) of people dont really care about this, they ignore it by saying "oh one day everything will be fine) afterall they have nothing to do with it, they get up in morning into fields or their work place, earn there money and back to homes at night, a day gone past just like it did 30 years ago. Every pakistani love pakistan, i mean every human being loves its country(thats human beings not human killers). but when it gets so confusing as to who is doing all the bombings and why are they(a muslim cant do this) but at other hands the so called muslims are major cause of it(the talibanisation), then public turn their eyes to americans israeelis and to some extent indians. so am afraid it might be like this for another decade, untill someone wakes up and handle the situation, but as of yet i dont see any big change happening.

[punjabi_khota]

really astonishing to see who does this, believe me when i went it was nothing different to what it was 10 years ago, same people, nothing has changed in punjab and sind part of pakistan, over there in villages(thats 75-80%) of people dont really care about this, they ignore it by saying "oh one day everything will be fine) afterall they have nothing to do with it, they get up in morning into fields or their work place, earn there money and back to homes at night, a day gone past just like it did 30 years ago. Every pakistani love pakistan, i mean every human being loves its country(thats human beings not human killers). but when it gets so confusing as to who is doing all the bombings and why are they(a muslim cant do this) but at other hands the so called muslims are major cause of it(the talibanisation), then public turn their eyes to americans israeelis and to some extent indians. so am afraid it might be like this for another decade, untill someone wakes up and handle the situation, but as of yet i dont see any big change happening.

Shut the **** up man. There is no confusion unless your brain cell count is lesser than Afridi's. Here's a nice article for you: Smokers’ Corner: It is us By Nadeem F. Paracha Across Pakistan’s history a number of politicians, lawyers, journalists, student leaders and party workers have bravely wrestled with the establishment’s civil, military and economic arms. These arms have played every dirty trick in the book of destructive Machiavellian politics set into motion against democrats so the ‘establishment’ can retain a stagnant and largely reactionary political and economic status-quo; a status-quo that fears the pluralistic and levelling qualities of democracy. Many from the higher echelons of society have prospered from this status-quo. They are always ready to ward off democracy through a synthetic brand of ‘patriotism’ concocted from overt displays of nationalistic chauvinism and politicised Islam. Though they are quick to blame the masses for falling so easily for democratic parties’ ‘empty’ promises, the truth is, the same masses have been more susceptible to whatever hate-spewing gibberish and mythical brew these magicians have been feeding the people for decades in the name of history, Islam and patriotism. This brew, present in the history books our children are taught, has been gradually turning the average Pakistani into a paranoid and pessimistic android who, as if instinctively, lets out his frustrations by pounding the democrats with cynical blows, also swinging wildly at Pakistan’s many enemies he is told are lurking within and outside its borders. In this mangled discourse, the documented horrors of the long military dictatorships that this republic has suffered are conveniently forgotten; sometimes even by those in the political and journalistic circles who had struggled hard for a democratic setup; they suddenly seem to lose all their painfully cultivated tolerance and patience, once that democratic setup is revived. No wonder, in this day and age, we are still debating whether democracy is right for Pakistan, and/or is it compatible with Islam. It is not surprising that such debates crop up in a nation constantly injected with a heavy dose of dubious history which begins not five thousand years ago with the Indus Valley Civilisation, but many centuries later with Muhammad Bin Qasim’s conquest of Sindh. In fact, some textbooks have had no qualms of completely bypassing logic by claiming that Qasim was actually the first Pakistani! This history then cleverly ignores the many terrible intrigues and murders that were committed by a series of Muslim rulers against their own comrades and kin, sometimes in a fit of jealously and sometimes owing to pure power play. This historical narrative goes to work right away when we are quick to present ourselves as noble people who are incapable of murder, genocide and intrigue, and assert that it is actually other races and religions who have been targeting us. We forget West Pakistan’s controversial role and the bloodbath that followed in the former East Pakistan. We forget how the founder of Pakistan was treated while on his death bed, as he lay lamenting how some of his closest colleagues couldn’t wait to see him die. We forget how a wily general calling himself a pious Muslim sent a popularly elected prime minister to the gallows on the feeblest of evidences. We forget how an Islamic party being led by a renowned Islamic scholar was behind two of the most shameful acts of mass rioting against the Ahmadiya community. We forget how, long before Hindu fanatics tore down the Barbri Masjid in India, varied Islamic sects and sub-sects were busy going to war against one another in the streets of Lucknow (Muharram processions are banned in that city for over a decade now owing to Sunni-Shia and not Hindu-Muslim rivalry). We forget the terrible sounds of the army’s tanks rolling into Balochistan (1962, 1973); and then in Sindh (1983), slaughtering a number of young Baloch and Sindhis, accusing them of treason, when all they wanted were their democratic rights. We forget the terrible decade-long armed action by the state against ‘Muhajirs’ in Karachi, in which whole families were wiped out. We forget how our intelligence agencies schemed the downfall of one democratic government after another in the 1990s, all the while fattening scores of holy monsters many of whom are now blowing up our markets and mosques. There are many more of these horrid episodes in which Pakistanis killed Pakistanis and Muslims slaughtered Muslims. Why is it so difficult then for us to understand that the mayhem rained on us today is by monsters like the home-grown Taliban? ‘It can’t be us. It can’t be Muslims,’ we say. Back in 1971, very few Pakistanis were willing to advise Yahya Khan to get into a dialogue with rebelling Bengalis. But today, after years of unprecedented violence perpetrated by the Taliban, we have many politicians, TV hosts, and journalists suggesting a dialogue with men who one can’t even be described as human. These people’s minds and those of their followers have been influenced by all the concocted and mythical moments of glory, and of justified hatred in the name of religion and patriotism present in our historical discourse and the false memories that it has created in us. Unfortunately such demagogic claptrap still manages to pass as being Pakistan and Muslim history in the textbooks and on popular TV http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect...aracha-it-is-us

[Pakistan-India]

Shut the **** up man. There is no confusion unless your brain cell count is lesser than Afridi's. Here's a nice article for you: Smokers’ Corner: It is us By Nadeem F. Paracha Across Pakistan’s history a number of politicians, lawyers, journalists, student leaders and party workers have bravely wrestled with the establishment’s civil, military and economic arms. These arms have played every dirty trick in the book of destructive Machiavellian politics set into motion against democrats so the ‘establishment’ can retain a stagnant and largely reactionary political and economic status-quo; a status-quo that fears the pluralistic and levelling qualities of democracy. Many from the higher echelons of society have prospered from this status-quo. They are always ready to ward off democracy through a synthetic brand of ‘patriotism’ concocted from overt displays of nationalistic chauvinism and politicised Islam. Though they are quick to blame the masses for falling so easily for democratic parties’ ‘empty’ promises, the truth is, the same masses have been more susceptible to whatever hate-spewing gibberish and mythical brew these magicians have been feeding the people for decades in the name of history, Islam and patriotism. This brew, present in the history books our children are taught, has been gradually turning the average Pakistani into a paranoid and pessimistic android who, as if instinctively, lets out his frustrations by pounding the democrats with cynical blows, also swinging wildly at Pakistan’s many enemies he is told are lurking within and outside its borders. In this mangled discourse, the documented horrors of the long military dictatorships that this republic has suffered are conveniently forgotten; sometimes even by those in the political and journalistic circles who had struggled hard for a democratic setup; they suddenly seem to lose all their painfully cultivated tolerance and patience, once that democratic setup is revived. No wonder, in this day and age, we are still debating whether democracy is right for Pakistan, and/or is it compatible with Islam. It is not surprising that such debates crop up in a nation constantly injected with a heavy dose of dubious history which begins not five thousand years ago with the Indus Valley Civilisation, but many centuries later with Muhammad Bin Qasim’s conquest of Sindh. In fact, some textbooks have had no qualms of completely bypassing logic by claiming that Qasim was actually the first Pakistani! This history then cleverly ignores the many terrible intrigues and murders that were committed by a series of Muslim rulers against their own comrades and kin, sometimes in a fit of jealously and sometimes owing to pure power play. This historical narrative goes to work right away when we are quick to present ourselves as noble people who are incapable of murder, genocide and intrigue, and assert that it is actually other races and religions who have been targeting us. We forget West Pakistan’s controversial role and the bloodbath that followed in the former East Pakistan. We forget how the founder of Pakistan was treated while on his death bed, as he lay lamenting how some of his closest colleagues couldn’t wait to see him die. We forget how a wily general calling himself a pious Muslim sent a popularly elected prime minister to the gallows on the feeblest of evidences. We forget how an Islamic party being led by a renowned Islamic scholar was behind two of the most shameful acts of mass rioting against the Ahmadiya community. We forget how, long before Hindu fanatics tore down the Barbri Masjid in India, varied Islamic sects and sub-sects were busy going to war against one another in the streets of Lucknow (Muharram processions are banned in that city for over a decade now owing to Sunni-Shia and not Hindu-Muslim rivalry). We forget the terrible sounds of the army’s tanks rolling into Balochistan (1962, 1973); and then in Sindh (1983), slaughtering a number of young Baloch and Sindhis, accusing them of treason, when all they wanted were their democratic rights. We forget the terrible decade-long armed action by the state against ‘Muhajirs’ in Karachi, in which whole families were wiped out. We forget how our intelligence agencies schemed the downfall of one democratic government after another in the 1990s, all the while fattening scores of holy monsters many of whom are now blowing up our markets and mosques. There are many more of these horrid episodes in which Pakistanis killed Pakistanis and Muslims slaughtered Muslims. Why is it so difficult then for us to understand that the mayhem rained on us today is by monsters like the home-grown Taliban? ‘It can’t be us. It can’t be Muslims,’ we say. Back in 1971, very few Pakistanis were willing to advise Yahya Khan to get into a dialogue with rebelling Bengalis. But today, after years of unprecedented violence perpetrated by the Taliban, we have many politicians, TV hosts, and journalists suggesting a dialogue with men who one can’t even be described as human. These people’s minds and those of their followers have been influenced by all the concocted and mythical moments of glory, and of justified hatred in the name of religion and patriotism present in our historical discourse and the false memories that it has created in us. Unfortunately such demagogic claptrap still manages to pass as being Pakistan and Muslim history in the textbooks and on popular TV http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect...aracha-it-is-us

ok then where was all this hate before 2000s, where were the suicide bombers in the era when all that was happening, during 1947-2000s, there were more suicide bombs and bombings in india than pakistan. offcourse overall scanario changed alot(Pak with nukes, american planned drama about bin laden, war in iraq and afghan, israeel and american knew that nothing is going in there way as to what imuslim countries are achieving):gossip:

[Desi Cartman]

ok then where was all this hate before 2000s' date=' where were the suicide bombers in the era when all that was happening, during 1947-2000s, there were more suicide bombs and bombings in india than pakistan. offcourse overall scanario changed alot(Pak with nukes, american planned drama about bin laden, war in iraq and afghan, israeel and american knew that nothing is going in there way as to what imuslim countries are achieving):gossip:[/quote'] :wall:

[punjabi_khota]

ok then where was all this hate before 2000s' date=' where were the suicide bombers in the era when all that was happening, during 1947-2000s, there were more suicide bombs and bombings in india than pakistan. offcourse overall scanario changed alot(Pak with nukes,[b'] american planned drama about bin laden, war in iraq and afghan, israeel and american knew that nothing is going in there way as to what imuslim countries are achieving):gossip:

Retard. :icflove: It is ok dude, never mind.

[Pakistan-India]

am i being headache for you people, thats nothing i have alot more to offer, BTW do you people agree with my philosophy. ^^^retard?

[Bumper]

ok then where was all this hate before 2000s' date=' where were the suicide bombers in the era when all that was happening, during 1947-2000s, there were more suicide bombs and bombings in india than pakistan. offcourse overall scanario changed alot(Pak with nukes, american planned drama about bin laden, war in iraq and afghan, israeel and american knew that nothing is going in there way as to what imuslim countries are achieving):gossip:[/quote'] Absolutely! Like Napolean once said: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake". I think it needs to be reworded to fit the current state of Pakistan. "Never interrupt a Pakistani when he is thinking"! This is exactly what we would like you to believe. It is not Taliban. No such thing exists. It is us who are doing this to you. It is also the CIA and at times the MI-5 & the KGB. And the Lankan cricketers were attacked by LTTE. How can Pakistanis do this ? I suggest you guys stop worrying about the Afghan Border & start sealing your Eastern borders. Move your troops to the East. You may see a bomb or two go off in your cities every day, but dont be swayed. Focus on the Indians, they are coming after you. Just curious, if you drop a watch in the dark, do you go around the block & look under the lights, by any chance ? I am also going to shock you by revealing your real name. Zaid Hameed ?

[EnterTheVoid]

In related news, the Indian boxing team arrives in Pakistan with some clueless retard with his rammed up his a.rse promising fool proof security

[Pakistan-India]

I am also going to shock you by revealing your real name. Zaid Hameed ?

haha good guess, yes i am zaid hameeeed, anything wrong with that:sniffle:

[King Tendulkar]

You reap what you sow!

[gs]

ok then where was all this hate before 2000s' date=' where were the suicide bombers in the era when all that was happening, during 1947-2000s, there were more suicide bombs and bombings in india than pakistan. offcourse overall scanario changed alot(Pak with nukes, american planned drama about bin laden, war in iraq and afghan, israeel and american knew that nothing is going in there way as to what imuslim countries are achieving):gossip:[/quote'] The same old "fighting someone else's war" bakwaas :giggle:

[achilles]

Did this news get reported in India?