Islamabad police foil terror attack planned for Pakistan Day
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ISLAMABAD: Police in the federal capital on Sunday foiled a terrorist attack that aimed to the strike Pakistan Day parade on 23 March, DawnNews reported.
Police sources said that two suspected terrorists were arrested during recent raids and confessed to planning an attack.
They said the men were arrested from Ghouri Town in connection with the attack on the Qasar-e-Sakina Imambargah which occurred on February 19.
Sources said the arrested men confessed to planning an attack during their interrogation. A large cache of weapons was also seized from their possession.
Earlier in February, it was announced that a joint military parade of Pakistan's armed forces would take place on Pakistan Day after a gap of seven years.
Read also: After 7 year gap, Pakistan Day to see military parade in full glory
The decision to resume the military parade appeared to be a manifestation of the military's show of strength in the wake of the shocking attack on the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar last year, which left 150 people dead, including 132 schoolchildren.
The last military parade took place on March 23, 2008 during the tenure of Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf as a civilian president.
Recently it was revealed that 41 seminaries were to remain closed in Islamabad during the March 23 military parade for security reasons.
Read: 41 Islamabad seminaries to be shut during military parade
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Mar 01, 2015 06:39pm
Why aren't they killed why arrested
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Mar 01, 2015 06:50pm
there will be many others
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Mar 01, 2015 06:59pm
Great- get to the source and house of the planners and send them where they deserve to go, forever.
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Mar 01, 2015 07:34pm
Good going...
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Mar 01, 2015 07:58pm
@dr vimal we know, Indians will do everything to disrupt
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Mar 01, 2015 08:03pm
@dr vimal "there will be many others". Obviously. RAW has many agents scattered across Islamabad.
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Mar 01, 2015 08:15pm
@rana Why Indians, even Pakistanis can disrupt too, as they have been doing.
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Mar 01, 2015 08:18pm
@dr vimal in your country???
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Mar 01, 2015 08:47pm
@Sunil ......mercenaries working for RAW
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Mar 01, 2015 08:48pm
Good effort. Keep it up
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Mar 01, 2015 09:12pm
Pakistanis should stop obsessing about India. You can't even control polio and want to do military parade.
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Mar 01, 2015 09:33pm
Can Pakistan financially afford such grand events given the fact that the country survives on aids from other well off countries.
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Mar 01, 2015 09:50pm
@Mike Just to put you on ease aid makes 1 percent of Pakistan total GDP
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Mar 01, 2015 10:15pm
Why 41 seminaries ? Rest can carry on brain washing children ??
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Mar 01, 2015 10:17pm
don't advertise such things, or xi will not come
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Mar 01, 2015 10:18pm
@Mike Mind your own business and don't sweat about what Pakistanis do in their country.
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Mar 01, 2015 10:21pm
@Mike Pakistan used to hold such parades even during the 90s when sanctions were in place.
I am sure you don't care about Pakistan, don't just think that way but rather show it by not posting comments on OUR websites. Just completely disassociate yourself from Pakistan. We appreciate your cooperation.
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Mar 01, 2015 10:31pm
@Mike
Military parade is actually to show our resolve against militants, just like we refused to
cancel Wagah border ceremony.
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Mar 01, 2015 10:43pm
@ashok kumar lal. LOL
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Mar 01, 2015 10:46pm
@Mike No we won't . but thanks for the tip anyways.
a wise man said, dont give advise unwanted.
next time give it to some one who considers it worthwhile
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Mar 01, 2015 10:51pm
Good Job. But what was the need to advertise such news?
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Mar 01, 2015 11:00pm
@Mike What is your problem? Did we not just hear that polio has also shown up in India? How many people in India are infected with the HIV?AIDS virus?
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Mar 02, 2015 12:09am
@Truth : That 1% is real money compared to the worthless waste paper that represents rest of the GDP.
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Mar 02, 2015 12:47am
Just a Drama by Police, to show efficiency.
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Mar 02, 2015 01:26am
@Truth if it's only 1%, why doesn't Pakistan merely refuse to accept these alms from the rich and thereby gain some respect?
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Mar 02, 2015 02:29am
@dawn reader Because Pakistan is not Jogoslavia and they have information which can save lives. Is that so hard to understand?
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Mar 02, 2015 02:40am
Even if it is true , do not publish it. You will scare away the guests /Chief Guest.
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Mar 02, 2015 02:51am
The media and the police shouldn't report these incidents..it lets the planners know the police are on to them..unless the cops just made up the story in a bid to scare any attacers that they havnt identified.
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Mar 02, 2015 02:56am
i dont knw here why pakistani comparing with india. india is way ahead then pakistan in all aspects. poor pakistan rather spending money on parade spend it on poor pakistani people.
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Mar 02, 2015 03:10am
They should not have even reached the jail alive.
I'd call that justice.
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Mar 02, 2015 03:19am
@Ekram Why do you want to pull in India?
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Mar 02, 2015 04:05am
Put them through speedy AT courts and if convicted hang them promptly. This is the only language and action these terrorists understand.
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Mar 02, 2015 06:38am
This ain't the first time that prove the elements attacking Imambargahs and military interests are same. Why can't the nation develop one strategy to tackles these Takfiri ideology and go after these proscribe organizations with full force and dismantle them for good, rather then patronizing them for their political gains.
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Mar 02, 2015 06:39am
I will confes to anything if arrested in any Asian countries. Not that i am supporting these guys but just saying
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Mar 02, 2015 06:41am
@Mike - we can tell who isnobsessed wuth whom. Indians never gotten over Pak. Pakistanis have moved on
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Mar 02, 2015 06:43am
@Ekram - and u forgot to mention India biggest enemy, female infinticide which has created male vs female imbalance resulting in rape cases
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Mar 02, 2015 06:47am
A trouble free parade would give the nation great confidence on General Sharif.
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Mar 02, 2015 06:51am
@Mike - if u were reading more about India and not obsessed with Pakistan, u would not be taunting Pakistanis for polio. It is with sadness that a case in gurgaon india was also discovered which i will not blame on India. My sympathies with the child and family. Please stop taunting we all have our priblems. Peace
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Mar 02, 2015 07:28am
President Xi....chief guest?
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Mar 02, 2015 07:31am
@Mike it's india and the West that is obsessed with the "Heart of Asia" plz wake up
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Mar 02, 2015 07:57am
@Mike
Go and troll on Indian e-news websites plzzzz
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Mar 02, 2015 09:13am
why cant they permanently close the seminaries. Threat to the lives of the ordinary citizens is no threat?
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Mar 02, 2015 09:16am
Indian Brothers and sisters, this is our common heritage that is at stake. Let us join to erase fundamentalism from Indian sub-continent. We are children of the same Mother, divided by imported and imposed ideology of the Arabs. We need your unflinching support to revert to our common heritage and good golden years of brotherhood, tolerance and righteous path.
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Mar 02, 2015 09:18am
Pakistanis copies everything Indian..
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Mar 02, 2015 10:10am
@dawn reader To dig out link in and out. Such news must not have published without reaching thier masterminds.
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Mar 02, 2015 10:25am
I think we should call off the parade.
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Mar 02, 2015 11:17am
@Muhammad Farooq What you say seminaris are the problem,if so you are disowning Islam.
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Mar 02, 2015 11:18am
Is the Chinese President coming ? I have not seen any confirmation yet :)
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Mar 02, 2015 12:15pm
Dawn pl Don't scare the Chinese president?
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Mar 02, 2015 01:56pm
@Silent Majority
"@Mike it's india and the West that is obsessed with the "Heart of Asia" plz wake up"
Cancer-ridden Heart of Asia. Thankfully rest of the body parts of Asia are not dependent on this heart for their functioning.
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Mar 02, 2015 02:00pm
@kazim you hit hard him and all indian trolls
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Mar 02, 2015 02:02pm
@Essaki Sir do you have all rich people in India ? or Poor live only in Pakistan ?
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Mar 02, 2015 02:04pm
@Che Ben you mean ghar wapsi ?
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Mar 03, 2015 10:48pm
Just 41? And only for parade day?
If you know these seminaries are creating problems, why not shut them completely?
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