Death toll at Karachi Ashura procession blast hits 43
Death toll at Karachi Ashura procession blast hits 43
KARACHI – Khursheed Abbasi: The death tally, in suicide blast at the mourning procession in connection with Ashura – 10th Muharram, has mounted to 40 people while as many as another 95 unfortunate persons sustained wounds here at MA Jinnah Road in Karachi on Monday, Geo news reported.
According to MLO Civil Hospital Dr. Karrar Hussain, a total number of 38 dead bodies have been deposited at hospital so far.
The blast struck the city’s main Ashura procession when the suicide bomber blew himself up near Light House at MA Jinnah Road, killing initially at least 32 people and wounding 80 more.
More than 400 shops and over 50 vehicles were set on fire by the enraged mob in different parts of the metropolis.
The blast triggered stampede and panic among the participants of the procession. Some unknown armed men also fired shots. Fire broke out after the blast in Karachi, fanning thick smoke into the sky, and people were running in all directions.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of mourning processions converged to Nishtar Park, from where they marched down the MA Jinnah Road. As the mourners reached the Tibet Center, a powerful blast took place.
Fahim Siddiqui, senior reporter of Geo News, is also among the injured. Siddiqui has been shifted to a nearby hospital, where he is getting emergency treatment.
Speaking to Geo News, Interior Minister Rehman Malik strongly condemned the blast and termed it a suicide attack. Malik said no Muslim could be involved in such heinous acts of terrorism.
MQM chief Altaf Hussian also called upon the people to maintain calm.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, in their separate messages, have also strongly condemned the blast at main procession of Aushra in Karachi on Monday.
The President and the Prime Minister also ordered immediate inquiry and submission of report. They also ordered for provision of immediate best medical facilities to the injured. The two leaders also appealed to the masses to remain peaceful.
According to media reports, angry mob have set ablaze Light House building situated at the MA Jinnah Road. While several vehicles, parked around the city court, have also been set on fire, sources said.
People are stranded in the building, which was set on fire.
There are also reports of unrest at different parts of the city, including Numaish, Jafar Society and MA Jinnah Road.
Edhi ambulances, KESC vehicles and police mobiles were torched.
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Kuttay ki aulad. Allah inko gharat kyon nahi kerta?
ARY: Karachi: 2500 shops gutted in arson attacks
Around 2500 shops have been gutted in arson incidents in the business district of Karachi after Youm-e-Ashur suicide attack at a mourning procession in the metropolis that killed 40 people and injured several others.
The fire tenders still fighting blazes raging in the area located largest wholesale markets of the country.
Several vehicles were also set on fire after the bombing.
A traders body leader Fahim Noori has said the traders have suffered rs 20 to 30 billion losses in arson attacks in which 1500 to 3000 shops were set on fire by the miscreants.
Talking to ARY News on phone Fahim Noori posed question the authorities, who provide such dangerous inflammable material to the miscreants, which rapidly spread the fire.
President Karachi Chamber has called a meeting this afternoon to set strategy, he said.
Finally he got something right now only if he can grow some balls and grab some ANP and MQM karachi qayadat he will know who the culprits were.
Geo: Malik sees calculated plot behind Karachi blazes
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said it was not Azadars who torched buildings and vehicles; instead, it was a calculated conspiracy to set ablaze the properties, Geo News reported Tuesday.
He said this while talking to media after the funeral prayers of Pakistan Rangers personnel Abdur Razzaq in Bagh-e-Jinnah Karachi along with DG Rangers Sindh Maj Gen Liaquat Ali, the provincial ministers of MQM including Dr Sagheer Ahmed, Raza Haroon.
He expressed concerns over the conflagration process, as it started soon after two minutes of the blast, adding a team of experts pertaining to the various departments with DIG East as its head has been constituted, which would present its report soon.
MQM vs Zulifqar Mirza fight in Karachi. I think.
no, it will be, Mr.Khappay vs Mr. Na Khappay.
Ub yeh pimps decide kerain gey Pakistan ka future.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=94764
Zia, teri hudian bhi qabar mein stink ker rahi hoon gi mardood.CIA ki najaeyz aulad.
Sure, I have taken everything into account. I was cursing zia only because I love doing it. Kalaija thunda ho jata hai. Hehe
Is anyone watching bolta Pakistan? Mushtaq minhas ney mirza ka band buja diya. I loved the way he insulted him. Mirzay ki bissti.
It was all planned I can bet u if suicide blast wouldnt have hapen they would have found a way to provoke unrest and in guise of that go and do their deeds. Who benefits from bolton market land. MQM, ANP and PPP local qayadat must be made to visit pakistani police drawing room. 2 hrs main pata chal jaey gee saree story/
I am more suspicious about bey kar mirza than MQM. Not a single statement on his failure to protect Karachi. He is busy arranging mujra for zardara for new year’s eve in Bilawal house.
The asshole is in Karachi till the 4th. Mur jaey manhoos, heart attack ho jaey suar ko. Keeray parain uski laaash mein. Kuway aur gidh bhi thook dein gey iss ki laash per.
Lo ji Mubarak ho. Moon Market blast ka master mind giriftar ho Gaya. A big round of applause for Rehman Malik.
Lol. Mirza kutta keh raha hai mera tau khandan Pakistan ko 200 saal sey serve ker raha hoon. Pakistan ki khatir khoon baha doon ga. Haye mein qurban jaon.
Jasmine manzoor mirza ki girl friend lagti hai. Saaf lug raha hai k question/answer planned thay. Shame on all of them.
CCTV Footage – PPP liyari group behind looting?
Proves that Mirza is a bigger ghoonda than Altaf Hussain.
So y this moron had called it suicide blast 5 mins after the fact. He is another candidate for STFU.
Geo: Ashura blast was not suicidal, confirms Malik
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Monday said that the blast in the mourning procession on Yaum-e-Ashur was not a suicide blast; the 80 to 85 percent investigations in this connection have been completed and its report would come to the fore in a couple of days.
Talking to media after attending a high level meeting on Karachi situation, he said Karachi City Government was not found negligent in connection with the Karachi tragedy, adding there is no disaster management infrastructure in the country.
The Rangers works in sync with the police but they are not authorized to open fire, he added.
Responding a question, he said he does not want to take anybody’s name; the people having criminal record are involved in the Karachi tragedy, adding someone did cause all this to happen.
The federal minister said the people intent on terrorism want to destabilize the country, as these elements consisting of enemies of Pakistan have been doing the same in the past.
Commenting on target killing, he said it would not be put up with at all, adding a high level committee has been instituted to review these incidents.
He added the common men were made victims in these target killings.
The interior minister said police and the Rangers would go on joint patrol in Karachi.
Geo: Karachi blast: Bomb planted in sacred papers’ box
The chief of the Investigative Committee, probing the Karachi incident, Shafqat Malik has submitted the report to the IG Sindh.
According to the report, Karachi Ashura blast was not a suicide attack.
Talking to Geo News in Peshawar, AIG Bomb Disposal Squad Shafqat Malik said after examining the evidence recovered from the site of the blast, it is established that the Karachi blast was not a suicide attack but a 12 to 15 kilogram explosives was planted in a box meant for keeping sacred papers.
The bomb was exploded with the help of remote controlled device, he added.
Malik further said initial investigation revealed that the blast doest not seem to have the connection with the group carrying out blasts in the country but a new group is behind the Karachi Ashura blast, which seems to have experience of such activities.
“It is a new trend. Previously, vehicles were being used for such attacks but Karachi blast was carried out through a planted bomb, which was exploded through remote controlled device at a time when the Ashura procession was crossing the blast site,” he said.