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Malegaon blast probe is still the issue

Saturday, December 20, 2008

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The world’s largest democracy is going through one of the most critical phases of its 61-year old life. We should call it India’s mid-life crisis; a period of dramatic self-doubt where one tragedy is being matched or answered by a greater tragedy. It seems that competition – one of the main features of marketing – [...]

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Peshawar blast kills 25, injures 80

Friday, December 5, 2008

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PESHAWAR: At least 25 people were killed and more than 80 injured in a powerful blast at Namak Mandi Chowk of Saddar area here, sources said. According to a local in the city, the blast was so powerful that it was heard in the whole city. The blast occurred outside an Imam Bargah in Koocha [...]

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Peshawar blast claims two lives; Foreign diplomats’ security beefed up; PM condemned

Monday, November 24, 2008

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PESHAWAR: Two persons were killed and twenty others injured in a blast near Imam Bargah at Hisht Nagri on Monday. Emergency activities were kick started in the area where ambulances were ferrying the injured to a nearby Lady Reading Hospital where emergency was declared. The relief work was hindered due to the congested alleys where [...]

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Security beefed up in Lahore

Sunday, November 23, 2008

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Lahore: Security has been put on high alert in the provincial capital after yesterday’s series of blasts at Qaddafi Stadium. Law enforcement agencies arrested more than a dozen suspected people in connection with these blasts and shifted them to some undisclosed location. Police launched an overnight search operation in the city and arrested more several people [...]

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3 Blasts hit Punjab Institute of Language in Lahore

Saturday, November 22, 2008

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LAHORE: 3 persons, including a child, were injured when a series of 3 blasts occurred with intervals at the building of Punjab Institute of Language (PIL) near Gaddafi Stadium Saturday night. According to reports, all three blasts were of low intensity while other sources say the blasts could have been triggered by time device. IG [...]

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20 killed, 62 injured in suicide bomb blast in Bhakkar

Monday, October 6, 2008

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BHAKKAR, Oct 6 (APP): Twenty persons were killed and 62 others including MNA Rashid Akbar Niwani injured in a suicide bomb blast at Niwani House on Monday afternoon. According to DPO Muhammad Ahmad Kamal, the blast occurred at Niwani House at about 4.45 p.m where an Eid Milan party was underway. As a result, 20 [...]

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Malegaon Bomb Blast: The Smell of Blood is Still in My Head

Sunday, October 5, 2008

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The deadly bomb blast which ripped apart bodies of the believers on September 29 has left a deep scar on the psyche of the town. Without losing any time, I was at Bhikku chowk, the epicentre of the blast, which resembled more like a battlefield than an ordinary chowk in a Muslim neighbourhood. The members [...]

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5 killed 12 injured in Charsadda suicide bomb blast

Thursday, October 2, 2008

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PESHAWAR: At least five persons including two policemen and a suicide bomber were killed and 12 others injured in a suicide bomb blast outside the hujra of ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan at Wali Bagh in Charsadda on Thursday. People in a large number were coming to greet Eid to chief Awami National Party (ANP) [...]

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Six injured in Quetta blasts - PM and President condemned

Sunday, September 28, 2008

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QUETTA : At least six people were injured, two of them seriously, when two blasts occurred after brief succession, in a CD Center and a Shopping Plaza, here in main commercial area, on Sunday afternoon, in jurisdiction of city police station, police said. The first blast took place when a home-made explosive device went off [...]

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4 killed, 12 injured in passenger train blast

Friday, September 26, 2008

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BAHAWALPUR: Four persons were killed and several others injured when a passenger train derailed near Hasilpur due to a bomb blast on a railway track, some 96 kilometer off here this afternoon. According to District Police Officer (DPO), Azhar Hameed Khokhar, a passenger train was heading towards Bahawalnagar from Samasatta when it reached near Bahawalpur, [...]

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Marriott blast: an Update

Sunday, September 21, 2008

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Pakistan has released security camera video footage of a suicide attack The attacker blew himself before the big blast and no other attack was made at the Marriot hotel here Saturday evening. Sources revealed that this has been revealed in close circuit TV footage during the investigations that the suicide attacker driving the truck blown himself [...]

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Marriott blast 10th suicide attack in Islamabad

Sunday, September 21, 2008

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ISLAMABAD: Islamabad hotel suicide blast was the deadliest attack among 10 others blasts in the history of federal capital. According to sources, 1000-kg explosives were used in the Saturday’s suicide blast in Islamabad. More than 100 people have lost their lives in these ten suicide attacks in Islamabad so far, report says. The first ever suicide [...]

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Media, Muslims and Mujahideen

Sunday, September 21, 2008

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Now that the Delhi Police has “cracked” the bomb blasts, I can make my own confessions. Suspicion is not a fundamental right enshrined in Indian Constitution but it is an unalienable right in a flourishing democracy. Suspicion is the fundamental premise on which the edifice of our intelligentsia stands. Therefore, intelligence agencies cannot be denied [...]

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How Central and UP State Government HELPED terrorists bomb A’bad, Jaipur, and Delhi!

Monday, September 15, 2008

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I had talked of the pusillanimity of the Indian government authorities in dealing with terrorism. Now, there is proof that indeed Indian state governments are ACTUALLY helping the terrorists and helping them remain active due to a consistent appeasement policy! There is now evidence that the UP authorities had clearly obstructed the arrests of three SIMI [...]

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Pakistan condemns Delhi serial blasts

Saturday, September 13, 2008

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Pakistan has condemned the several serial blasts in New Delhi Saturday in which at least 18 people were killed and more than wer 90 injured according to officials. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani while condemning the blasts said that it was a cowardly act by the enemies of humanity. “We share the grief of the [...]

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Ahmedabad serial blasts mastermind arrested

Saturday, August 16, 2008

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AHMEDABAD: Cracking the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts that killed 55 persons, police in Indian state of Gujarat on Saturday arrested its mastermind Mufti Abu Bashir and nine others and said that the network of SIMI was behind the explosions. Bashir was arrested in Lucknow on Saturday, police officials told reporters, adding that he will be [...]

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Blast leaves one injured near Governor House

Monday, June 23, 2008

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QUETTA: A passerby was hurt and windowpanes of nearby buildings shattered after a powerful explosive device planted by unknown saboteurs exploded at TNT Chowk, close to Governor House here Monday, police said. The explosives were planted near PTCL office opposite the Governor House which exploded with a loud bang hurting a passerby slightly. DIG Investigation [...]

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Reaction over Islamabad blast

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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President, PM condemn Islamabad blast ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have strongly condemned a bomb blast in Danish Embassy and termed it as a conspiracy to sabotage law and order situation. President and Prime Minister said that the probe would be immediately launched into incident and to hunt the [...]

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Two suspects of Danish embassy blast arrested

Monday, June 2, 2008

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ISLAMABAD: Two suspected persons responsible for the blast in front of the Danish embassy were arrested and shifted to undisclosed location. Quoting Secretary Interior Syed Kamal Shah a private TV channel reported that two suspected responsible for the blast in front of the Danish embassy in which at least eight persons were killed and several [...]

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Several killed, injured as blast rocks Danish embassy

Monday, June 2, 2008

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ISLAMABAD: A blast in parking area of the Danish embassy located in F-6 II, the most sensitive area of Islamabad, left eight persons killed and twenty-six others injured on Monday. Of the injured, seventeen have been shifted to Polyclinic and nine to PIMS. Seven of them are said to be in critical condition. The blast [...]

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