At least 22 dead in Parachinar clothes market blast
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PARACHINAR: At least 22 people were killed and dozens others wounded on Sunday in a blast at a used clothes market in Kurram Agency's Parachinar area.
Hospital sources told DawnNews that 55 people were injured as a result of the blast out of which more than 15 victims are in critical condition.
LeJ claims responsibility
A sectarian outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) 'international' wing, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Aalmi (LeJ World) claimed responsibility for the blast.
The organisation's spokesman Ali Abu Sufyan, in an email, claimed that his organisation is behind the blast, warning the people of Parachinar to stop sending their children to take part in the Syrian war.
The market was bustling with people who were out shopping for clothes. As winter season arrives locals throng lunda (used clothes markets) bazaars to buy used and second-hand clothes.
A Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) official told DawnNews that, "It was a timed device bomb. Around 30 to 35 kilograms of explosives were used in the blast."
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi told DawnNews that 18 people had died and 27 others were wounded in the blast. He said that instructions have been passes to shift the 18 victims, who were in critical condition, to Peshawarfor better treatment.
Sardar Mehtab Abbasi further said that he had also ordered for compensation to be paid to the victims within the next two days.
Security forces cordoned off the area as a probe into the blast went under. Security sources said that two suspects have been taken into custody from the blast site.
Earlier, rescue and emergency teams rushed to the blast site and shifted the dead and wounded to District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) Parachinar.
An emergency has been imposed at DHQ Parachinar.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif issued condemnation messages against the blast.
Kurram is one of the most sensitive tribal areas as it borders three Afghan provinces and at one point was one of the key routes for militant movement across the border. It has witnessed scores of such attacks and kidnappings for ransom incidents in the past several years.
The agency is adjacent to North Waziristan where Operation Zarb-i-Azb is in progress against the Tehreek-i-Taliban and other insurgent groups. The military had also launched an offensive against militants in 2011.
Parachinar is the administrative headquarters of the agency near the Afghan border.
It is small garrison town developed by the British Army in the foothill of Spin Ghar (White Mountain) in mid-1895. The town total population is about 40,000 comprising people of different tribes, races and faiths.
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Dec 13, 2015 12:53pm
To end terrorism you have to overcome the mindset
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Dec 13, 2015 01:04pm
May god look after the victims and families and I hope the perpetrators of such criminal acts face the wrath of our curses. Condolences from India!
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Dec 13, 2015 01:14pm
What is wrong with these terrorist. Why are they killing innocent people? My Condolences from Indian Muslim.
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Dec 13, 2015 01:21pm
Terrorism will stop when we will deal with all terrorists equally. Stop this Good and Bad theory NOW.
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Dec 13, 2015 01:28pm
@Chughtai good realisation. Hope those in power understand this.
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Dec 13, 2015 01:30pm
So sad to hear. If it has three borders to cross Afghanistan. And at one point was one of the key routes for militant movement across the border. I'm wondering why TTP are still using that route?
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Dec 13, 2015 01:36pm
Security forces need to handover all the check points to local people. Their only aim is to harass the locals, as they controlled all check points on every entry and exit but they fail every time to stop suicide bomber/bomb laden vehicle. Security forces are responsible for negligence/deliberate attempt to create chaos.
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Dec 13, 2015 01:48pm
Stop killing innocent people..Army should deal harshly wih these ruthless terrorists.
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Dec 13, 2015 01:51pm
People of parachinar are facing injustice and oppression by Taliban for so long but Govt of PK seems deaf and blind.
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Dec 13, 2015 02:34pm
@saz Parachinar is not under KPK govt, first clear your facts then comment.
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Dec 13, 2015 02:40pm
Very unfortunate for Parachinar! Being the training ground for the army's special forces group, Parachinar deserves the highest level of security. It should now get top level operation against the perpetrators of the attack which is an open challenge to the wisdom of the special forces.
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Dec 13, 2015 02:45pm
INNA LILLAHEY WA INNA ELAIHEY RAJEON..
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Dec 13, 2015 02:48pm
Sick minds
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Dec 13, 2015 02:59pm
Now is the time to bomb targets in Afghanistan. Afghan intelligence and their Indian counterparts are clearly involved in it.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:05pm
Condolences. a cowardly act.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:12pm
We all know who is behind this, and we are still ready to negotiate.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:25pm
@Red Alert give it a try and you will see what happens. Good luck.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:25pm
@Chughtai your Indian mantra, without any knowledge.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:27pm
This is the last desperate act of the foreign funded terrorists after their hideouts in shawaal area were pounded.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:34pm
@Chughtai This will more increase if we will forget this good and bad policy. You gotta trust your army.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:40pm
Pakistan government has to do more, to stop these bloodshed, specially in crowded places, such as markets.
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Dec 13, 2015 03:59pm
@A.JABBAR KERALA Say only Indian : heartfelt sorrows and condolences our Pakistani bros and sisters:
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Dec 13, 2015 04:10pm
PPP is trying to remove rangers from Karachi and once it's done result will be the same in Karachi as well.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:11pm
@zak dear ZAK, by wishing problems will not go away. There has to be sincere effort and an honest introspection. Why is the situation in Pakistan come to this? Why is an army operation necessary inside the country? Why so much money has to be spend on security? And after all that, still bomb blasts. Blaming it on nebhours won't change the facts,
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Dec 13, 2015 04:17pm
The armed forces should carry out a ruthless raid on terrorist hideouts and any suspected terrorist caught should be subjected to thorough interrogation so as to "extract" vital information about their network and planning of terror activities.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:22pm
Kab tak chalefa yeh??( for how long will it go???)
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Dec 13, 2015 04:25pm
Please KPK Gov or ISlamabad These people r pakistani also. dont let them dying like this. Help them.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:27pm
@Faisal , yes you are right. Taliban are behind this. Whether Afghanistan Taliban or Pakistani Taliban, it does not matter.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:30pm
I only wonder what the terrorists actually want??
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Dec 13, 2015 04:35pm
Mr @Muhammad Parachinar is part of FATA which comes under federal Govt
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Dec 13, 2015 04:44pm
it's very bad news for today
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Dec 13, 2015 04:45pm
We will have to go inside Afghanistan and get Mullah Fazlullah and his brother Abdullah Abdullah...Inshahallah
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Dec 13, 2015 04:46pm
@KEVIN THOMAS I was about to say so.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:48pm
@Tayyab Raza Hashmi , Simple. They want to terrorize all. To create fear in everybody's mind and to rule.
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Dec 13, 2015 05:00pm
Its been more than 2 years of our military operations Zarb-eAzb in this area. But nothing seems to dent terrorist's capacity to hit at us. Now what?
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Dec 13, 2015 05:07pm
Very Sad. Hope Pak comes out of this very soon.
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Dec 13, 2015 05:11pm
I looks the attack is secterian in nature the hate created by religeous institutions against each other sect is responsible. The government has to come up with a solution for this problem.
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Dec 13, 2015 05:21pm
Contrary to ISPR Director General's statement yesterday, Terrorism is far from over.
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Dec 13, 2015 05:29pm
Those who killed innocent any where in the world in the name Of any religion and freedom struggle should be eliminated from this earth. Thats all
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Dec 13, 2015 05:42pm
it's really sad. It's all by RAW and few of our own people sold on petty amount who are doing this. But they are on the run. Pak Army we are with you. just elimimate them out of our country
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Dec 13, 2015 05:51pm
They were out shopping for winter clothes in clothes market. The sadists want them to die with cold or bombs. What a mentality!
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Dec 13, 2015 05:51pm
@raghu2 we are out due to our brave professional armed forces. These are the last gasp attempts of an already lost cause. Shawaal will be taken soon. The end.
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Dec 13, 2015 05:54pm
@zak "This is the last desperate act of the foreign funded terrorists "
But you say this every time. How many "last" desperate acts could be there?
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Dec 13, 2015 05:57pm
After the blasts, now lets start debate that Islam is a religion of peace and that guys who blasted are not Muslims. After reclaiming religion as victorious, we feel accomplished and relieve ourselves of any necessity to organise, act or do anything to resolve the terrorism menance - and leave this authorities who are indeed the major benefactor of such situations.
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Dec 13, 2015 06:06pm
We are coaching Afghanistan good cricket.( Inzi ) and so many other favours and in return they are hiding Mullah Fazlullah the killer of our beloved children and throwing
bombs at our peaceful people in Bazars...What is this Mr. Ashraf Ghani...???
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Dec 13, 2015 06:09pm
It's way too late already but the government must turn towards Madressahs, the real breeding grounds of terrorism through indoctrination of young minds, and start cleaning up that huge pile of mess. Lal Masjid and Masjid-e Hafsa should be on top of the list but this will happen only when Choudhury Nisar gets some time off from issuing blackmail threats to the Sindh govt.
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Dec 13, 2015 06:10pm
About time to mine the border with Afghanistan. Current Afghan regime is too much infiltrated by Anti-Pakistan elements to hope for any good from them. Time to extended Zarb-e-Azb inside Afghanistan, overtly and covertly and destroy the terror infra set by anti-Pakistan elements there both Afghans and foreign.
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Dec 13, 2015 06:10pm
@Red Alert You are absolutely right. For every action there is equal and opposite reaction
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Dec 13, 2015 06:29pm
now who should we blame? radical muslims? radical taliban?
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Dec 13, 2015 06:37pm
May god bless Iraq Syria and Pakistan
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Dec 13, 2015 06:41pm
This is pathetic unbelievable
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Dec 13, 2015 06:43pm
Unfortunately hangings and extrajudicial killings will never get rid of this nothing will totally eridicate this pestilence but one can decrease the probability of these types of attacks occurring on innocent civilians by registering and monitoring everyone in Pakistan and red flagging those individuals who may pose a threat the technology is there for this and also for all the law enforcing agencies to be linked together for information sharing this could be funded by many countries as this is war on terror targeting is more efficient then randomization we will have to let go of many civil liberties but this is the price to save innocent lives.
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Dec 13, 2015 06:47pm
Please praising operation by army these terrorists are still not dead and are killing innocent people. Who would kill poor people buying used clothes for winter????
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Dec 13, 2015 07:08pm
Terrorists have no religion kill them everywhere in the world ...don't know how many innocent will fall prey
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Dec 13, 2015 07:25pm
instead of the army now its up to intelligence agencies to control the remaining filth.
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Dec 13, 2015 07:32pm
It breaks my heart to see innocents killed in the name of religion. Why is it that Muslims are so bent to kill in the name of religon and sectarian hatred?
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Dec 13, 2015 07:42pm
Ambassador Munir Akram should be consulted to end this barbarity.
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Dec 13, 2015 08:04pm
Its high time that we develop programs for the development of these and other neglected areas. Military solution is only a short term solution and hence we must come up with medium to long term programs to economically empower these people. A hungry & hopeless man can be swayed much easily than a man who has hope and stake in the future....
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Dec 13, 2015 09:16pm
Military operation is not enough, shutdown all madrassas as a precaution temporarily, whether good or bad.
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Dec 13, 2015 09:21pm
Sad news and RIP. Such a backward, storage, animal mentality that the mind says only violence is the answer to any and everyone dispute. Higher emphasis on modern education and lower emphasis on religious education is the need here.
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Dec 13, 2015 09:25pm
Just in yesterday's newspaper ISPR gave the good news about the success of the Zarb outcome. Do the the terrorists read newspaper to make their presence felt? This LEJ is Punjab based. Can we have Sindh-style Rangers operation in Punjab.
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Dec 13, 2015 09:32pm
what do these terrorist gain from killing innocent people?? very sad!!
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Dec 13, 2015 09:43pm
It is so hurtful and painful to see so many innocent people loosing their lives. This is not going to end unless people of Pakistan take this in their hands. When people realize tomorrow it can be them or their loved one they will stop sheltering these people. Every incident like this takes the valuable resources from the country and progress falls behind. Please protect your country it is your country.
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Dec 13, 2015 09:44pm
Our prayers are with the victims of this cowardly act. May the departed souls
rest in peace and wish speedy recovery to all those injured.
It appears that all the banned militant organisations are still active.
These "Jamaats " can carry out deadly terrorist attacks whenever and
wherever they want.
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Dec 13, 2015 10:04pm
No place is safe from these monsters. Education and better opportunities are the long term solution to these problems.
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Dec 13, 2015 10:15pm
How long the murder of humanity in the name of Religion go on.The targeted very poor buying second hand clothes has done harm to whom to be given death penalty .Shame on terrorists.
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Dec 13, 2015 10:16pm
Condolences to our Muslim brethren for such distardly act.
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Dec 13, 2015 10:18pm
CCTV's should be installed on war footing to stop this bloodshed.
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Dec 13, 2015 10:51pm
I think it's a pre planned attack by our enemies
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Dec 13, 2015 11:08pm
These people have no mercy and should not expect any mercy from GOD. they are killing innocent people . Curse on them.
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Dec 14, 2015 01:41am
@A.JABBAR KERALA Jabbar bhai, appreciate your consilences, however want to point out and ask if there is a need to specify whether one is an Indian muslim or Indian Hindu. AFAIK, there are only Indians. Not sub-categories.
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Dec 14, 2015 01:52am
all the expectations is on the army chief shoulders to solve this puzzle, hope he gets an extension. Otherwise, like Musharraf has rightly said "these are leaves which will grow back, one must get rid of the entire tree from the root".
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Dec 14, 2015 02:10am
We all should have a good idea of who is really behind it.
The only way to stop these attacks is to destroy the nests and the Nurtures of these Vultures
They continue to kill our kids until we continue live in state of denial.
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Dec 14, 2015 02:20am
So the reason for the blast as per LeJ was to tell the people to stop sending their kids to Syria??
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Dec 14, 2015 02:41am
@Rao .... Every Pakistani is innocent.
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Dec 14, 2015 03:48am
The perpetrators are the same with different names.
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Dec 14, 2015 03:50am
Please stop it
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Dec 14, 2015 03:52am
Shame on these sort of terrorists who r so calls custodians of Islam.
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Dec 14, 2015 04:12am
@ayaz I disagree with you as you are wrong the civilian militia Kurram Militia is the primary security force at tehsil level not army
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Dec 14, 2015 04:47am
@Bilal Khan I was taking about Pakistan govt where PK stands for Pakistan.
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Dec 14, 2015 05:22am
@zak Foreign funded(no proof) or local funded,the Govt.has to take responsibility to eradicate such elements. It may be convenient to blame others but that does not solve the problem. Grow up brother!
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Dec 14, 2015 06:45am
@Masood Ahmad; True these are the enemies of Islam.
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Dec 14, 2015 07:13pm
It is sad news our military should take steps to avoid any further terrorist activity.
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Dec 14, 2015 08:46pm
Are they reinforcing their beliefs by killing poor and innocent civilians? Its a shame that poor people have no savior.
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