Karachi Bomb Blasts

Sirus —

News just in.....

[size=18]Karachi park explosion 'kills 20'[/size]

At least 40 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a huge gathering to mark the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.
Dozens more were injured when the bomb went off under the wooden stage where senior religious leaders were sitting.

Eyewitnesses said the explosion happened as tens of thousands of people were taking part in evening prayers.

Chaos broke out crowds of people rushed to leave Nishtar Park where the event was being held.

"It is a very unfortunate incident," Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao told the Associated Press news agency.

"I can confirm that 40 people have died in the bomb blast."

No-one has claimed responsibility for the explosion at what was believed to be the biggest of such events being held in Pakistan.

Karachi has a history of sectarian and ethnic violence, but this is the first time in decades that a religious gathering being held in connection with Prophet Muhammad's birth anniversary has been targeted, the BBC's Zaffar Abbas in Pakistan says

Angry scenes

The blast was so powerful it ripped apart the wooden stage in the city centre park.

Television pictures showed scores of men clad in long white robes clambering onto the stage to help the victims.

"I saw body parts everywhere. I saw people collecting body parts and putting them in ambulances," one witness said.

Hospitals in the city were put on alert as ambulances ferried away dozens of people from the scene.

As security forces tried to control the situation, dozens of angry people began pelting them with stones accusing them of failing to provide adequate security.

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4900402.stm]BBC[/url]

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Sirus — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 - 18:01

Karachi, PAKISTAN: An ambulance carrying people who were injured in a bomb blast makes its way past a van which was set fire by angry mobs near the blast site in Karachi, 11 April 2006. A powerful bomb ripped through a gathering of Sunni Muslims celebrating the Prophet Mohammed's birthday in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, killing at least 40 people, a minister said

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a pic of the stage...bomb was beneath the stage and blew up in 2nd rakaat of maghrib jamaat...

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[size=18]not for the faint-hearted....[/size]

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MuslimSister — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 - 22:44

I've been watching this all day.

Its terrible what's happened this year. THANK GOD my family from Karachi just happened not to attend this specific Milad celebration.

May Allah (swt) grant them all a place in Paradise.

*DUST* — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 - 23:26

inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon.

gosh this world is so messed up. 😢

Sirus — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 - 14:22

inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon

and Ameen

i heard yesterday that they now saying it was a suicide bomber

why would someone do that? :?

iRazor — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 - 14:52

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4901892.stm[/url]

[quote]Police in Pakistan are investigating a suspected [b]double suicide bombing[/b] that killed at least 57 people at a festival held in honour of the Prophet Muhammad.[/quote]

Double suicide, what in the world!!!

Cant understand why anyone would suicide bomb a milad gathering. It had to have been a hidden bomb somewher, they jus blaming suicide bombers.

Either that or therz some crazy lunatics "muslims" out there who like to blow themselves up.

[b]Disgusting[/b]

star — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 - 07:02

may allah grant the deceased paradise ameen.

guyz im hearing al-haaj owais raza qadri died in these karachi bomb blasts, anyone else heard, i hope this is a stupid rumour that has apparently reached me this is sad.

iRazor — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 - 12:46

[quote="naj"]may allah grant the deceased paradise ameen.

[b]guyz im hearing al-haaj owais raza qadri died in these karachi bomb blasts, [/b]anyone else heard, i hope this is a stupid rumour that has apparently reached me this is sad.[/quote]

Nah according to yanabi.com he's unhurt

Sirus — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 - 18:57

hes fine Alhamdulillah, i too heard what you haerd, but pay no attention to it....he came on ARYOne world just after it happend

iRazor — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 - 16:02

I was jus watchin QTV a program called Ruhani Masayal, n the guy was sayin what happened on tuesday was real bad n he sed a bomb went off in a sunni mosque in Delhi aswell.....Did i misunderstand him cuz i looked on bbc.co.uk/news but nuffin there.

MuslimSister — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 - 16:04

[quote="razor"]n he sed a bomb went off in a sunni mosque in Delhi aswell.....Did i misunderstand him cuz i looked on bbc.co.uk/news but nuffin there.[/quote]

Yeh, a few people died. I just heard that too on some Asian news channel on sky.

iRazor — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 - 16:29

[quote="MuslimSister"][quote="razor"]n he sed a bomb went off in a sunni mosque in Delhi aswell.....Did i misunderstand him cuz i looked on bbc.co.uk/news but nuffin there.[/quote]

Yeh, a few people died. I just heard that too on some Asian news channel on sky.[/quote]

Did it happen today?

Omrow — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 - 21:56

Salam

Only an animal commits these kind of acts.

Any person, whether he is a muslim, christian or jew, whoever kills innocent people will go to hell in the next life.

In this life he deserves to hang.

Omrow