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Female suicide bomber responsible for Quetta attack
QUETTA: Intelligence officials revealed today that a female suicide bomber carried out the first attack on a bus carrying students of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University earlier on Saturday.
At least 25 people, including the deputy commissioner of Quetta, 14 students of a women’s university and four nurses were killed on Saturday when a bomb tore through a bus, followed by a suicide attack and a gun-battle in the Bolan Medical College hospital, where the injured students were taken for treatment.
Banned outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts.
An intelligence official, who requested not to be named, told Dawn.com that a female suicide bomber managed to sneak into the university bus. "When all the students gathered inside the bus, she blew herself up", he said.
Officials said they had no information about the identity of the female suicide bomber.
Moreover, intelligence officials said after the female bomber blew up herself in the bus, a second male bomber followed suit and struck inside the crowded Bolan Medical Complex Hospital to wreak maximum damage.
According to the intelligence personnel, the male suicide bomber was waiting inside BMC Hospital ward for the arrival of high level officials, including the Chief Secretary, and blew up himself when they reached.
Quetta Police Chief Mir Zubair Mehmood also told Dawn.com that the Deputy Commissioner of Quetta Abdul Mansoor Kakar was killed as result of firing outside the hospital.
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She must have carried stuff handed to her by someone else///
CSI is non-existent in an anarchists country like Pakistan. What is the ratio of cases solved vs cold cases by police? Is this a legit question to ask to whoever in in-charge? Interior minister, please stand-up!!!
We do not believe what the, so called, intelligence agencies say. They are the kings but we no longer accept their myth. May Allah help those who lost their lives and give these agencies a test of hell.
i dont think so a women suicide attacker was there.
Is there a problem for not using the gate like explosive scanners at the bus stops, hospitals or other major people gathering places, as the ones used at the airport security check up? Are they expensive, even more expensive than a human life?
Exactly what will it take to make Pakistan take an unambiguous stand against terrorists (or thugs and criminals depending on your point of view)?
Despite years of carnage the government appears to be totally clueless about how to control it let alone stop it. It seems to be in a state of deep freeze. Does the government think that the problem would just go away by itself? After the 'mandatory' condemnation from top leaders everything is forgotten till another mayhem ensues.
There is no effort of mass education of people as to what they should or should not do? What simple precautions they can take to avoid such disasters? What tell-tale signs they should look for? If the state cannot committ financial resources in this area then at least it can launch public education programmes to sensure their own safety. Should there not be public education programmes to wean 'suicide bombers' off their path of death and destruction.
Should the government not provide simple scanners for all public places and ensure there are trained staff to use them.
It is the paramount responsibility of the government to provide security and protection to its citizens. Successive governments seem to be failing badly in discharging this primary duty.
Pakistan has had enough of this so called jihad in the name of ISLAM. How can anyone justify such atrocious acts.
We are sick and tired of this double game being played by our Govt and Military It is high time now!! Govt and Military should get its act together and take decisive action against this militancy just like Indra Gandhi did with Sikh militancy and recently Srilanka with Tamil Tigers.
I think PML (N) is having a soft corner for LJ, so nothing will happen. Let the innocent dye, who cares.
There is very little chance that the including the agencies are unaware of the hideouts of these criminal hounds. Why the govt is helpless or wants to remain helpless is unknown. If the will is there then there is no way the govt cannot apprehend these human thirsty hounds roaming freely & carrying out the killing agenda without hindrance. Example of Tamil tigers decimation is there, when the Sri Lankan decided to finish off the terrorists the target was achieved.
Allah khair karae pakistan pae!!!
There is no hope from pkitan now!!!!!!!!
What is the problem in use a force like what lankan did with LTTE....Just clean them up!!!!!!!!
No mercy for those who did this act!!!!!!!!!!!!
How there father-mother-childeren were feeing of those who died this cruel act !!!!!!!!!!
Just cleaning is only a way to come out of this problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
& Clean with Acid !!!!!!!!!
Pak should learn that the more you radicalized people they are going to hit you one day, be Human plz!!!!!!!!!!!!Stop Killing!!!!!!!!
What kind of nation and society is Pakistan heading for ? In 65 years of independence how far has the country deviated from the dreams of the founding father ? Positive modern education to masses is the key to over come this medieval mind set of selected few.
God has chosen Pakistan to become a great nation. As 19th and 20th centuries brought millions of causalities in Europe, Russia and USA these gave birth to a great generation which pulled these nations out of chaos, destruction and bloodshed and put them on path of prosperity, human rights and justice. Pakistan is passing through such times. These coward terrorists organizations like LJ and BLF which have targeted women, that too doctors and nurses have displayed there worth. Let me give them a message. 15 June 2013 is a day from will be marked in history as your total defeat and our total victory. You will soon be wiped out. You have given Pakistani people a great opportunity to unite and raise against you. Note it well that your days are numbered.
when hatred and ignorance are passed on as religious tenets, this is the result. these illiterate fail to see that they have come through women, not man, what a pity!
Woman is weak, inferior, and yet . . .she may kill innocent people, but cannot have education.
I think we should sit down with these suicide bombers and negotiate what it is that they want. I personally blame the alim-e-deen for creating them. Despite all that is going go, Saudi Arabia is still going out of it's way to spread more Wahabism and now that they have Nawaz Shareef puppet, there is no one to stop this behavior (I can't call it a religion). As long as our nation is not ready to recognize the differences of Wahabism brings to Islam, we will never recover from this ailment.
jang reports that bla admitted it has done thiese carnages
It is time Pakistan Army must step in and take over security of Pakistan, carry on house to house search and shoot on sight on every suspected militant and helpers, hosts, sympathizers and financiers of militants and those who stop army in carrying out this security duties. There will be innocents who may be killed but all those who will survive and their future generations will have no threat of bomb attacks because militancy and terrorism will be wiped out in Pakistan.
@Agha Shafi: We're you there ?
@Silawer: Yet another excuse.
Even an unintelligent person with no knowledge of the art of intelligence can put two plus two together after the event. The job of the intelligence is to be aware before the incident and not afterwards.
Why are such violence on their own fellow country men ? What are the teachings behind such destruction ? You need to leave the path of violence. You need to reject such teachings. God commanded " Do not Kill " ...
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Noora League (PMLN) are both involved in this carnage of innocent people in Quetta. LJ will not create any problems in Punjab, that is the deal that was struck between LJ and PMLN.
when one does not hav believe in ALLAH and just do everything for money then such things ocuure. Read news few minutes ago that taliban are demanding security money and in case of non reception their operation wing will come into action.This is an alarming n worrying condition for a country to survive
@Agha Shafi:How don't you think so. Were You There?
It mades me extremely sad to see this attack even beyond the obvious reasons of loss of lives its sad to see this attack as its a attack on the mindset and an attack on female education. So those of us saying that these terrorists are working to avenge their own losses of loved ones what do you have to say now? Im sure these self-declared caretakers of Islam must must be so proud of themselves killing a bunch of defenseless students.
Who created the Taliban? You made your bed, now lie in it.
@ahmad: Sorry, your analysis is flawed. None of the nations that you mentioned had to fight the religious Frankensteins created by themselves, none of those nations fought proxy wars in the name of religion, none of those nations were created in the name of religion. They fought wars for their national interests and not Jihad! And above all, they were NATIONS, not mobs!!! God has not chosen Pakistan to be great but to be an example of what happens when the countries are run by elites who are disconnected from the masses and the masses are given an overdose of religious opium to keep them under control. Let's look at the things in the right perspective.
curse on the people who use women for such an act....
The real issue is that whenever any terrorist is arrested then we dont see the outcome of that. They should be penalised and also revealed their identity. I dont know, why there faces are covered. The Indian involvement is also prossible but government is reluctant to clearly take into confidence the nation. This is time to reveal the identity of the criminal and punished it immediately instead of adopting the policy of lingering which create uncertainty and insecurity in the mind of nation. If the concerned authority found indian involvement then state should protest with India instead of criminal silence.
Hi @ahmad: be realistic please.
@Imran A.: Imran A, you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, infact your study is amazing and outstanding about who is behind all this. Great study and work about KSA,Nawaz Shareef 'and TTP joint venture' keep it up. However I do not agree to have negotiation with these devils.
@Mustafa: I have taken a strong exception to your 'golden' recipe for dealing with the troubled situation in Balochistan. I am shocked at the high regard you still have for the Pakistan army. I am amazed that you have given them a license to enter households and kill on sight any suspected militant. Your complete disregard for innocent lives when you say 'there will be innocents who will be killed...' has left me speechless and unnerved. Your views are as worse, if not more, as the suicide-bombers who killed those girls and so many others. We are not hens living in a chicken coop, sir! We have a right to live, to dream. And since you are so eager to have innocent lives slaughtered, why don't you begin by offering your own? After all, charity begins at home. Please take a lead!