Karachi suicide blast kills 8 including child

KARACHI: A powerful blast ripped through the residence of SSP CID police Chaudhry Aslam located in Darakhshan area of Defence Locality of the city early in the morning, TrendPK reported Monday.

At least eight people have martyred including a child and a woman in the blast and some injured, sources said.

The attack, carried out by a suicide bomber, destroyed a large part of the house of the police official, police Chief Saud Mirza told Reuters.

Aslam survived, but some of his guards were wounded and members of his family were trapped under rubble.

Injured people have been shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College (JPMC). According to sources, the officer is safe while his family members received some minor injuries. Also, the houses located nearby were partially damaged.

Police said the explosion was so powerful that many cars parked outside SSP’s residence flew into air, windowpanes of nearby houses were smashed and the boundary walls of the house collapsed.

Rescue teams including ambulances and fire tenders arrived at the crime scene and rescue operation is underway.

Chaudhy Aslam, talking to TrendPK’s correspondent, said that he is safe and sound adding that he had life threats from defunct outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on being an integral part of police investigations against incidents of terrorism. (Last updated at 850) TrendPK/ AGENCIES

Pakistan to extradite Bali bomb suspect this month

A top anti-terrorism official says Pakistan will extradite a key suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people to Indonesia by the end of the month.

Indonesian national Umar Patek had a $1 million bounty on his head when he was captured in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in January 25, four months before Osama bin Laden was killed there in a US commando attack.

The 41-year-old Patek allegedly built the bombs used in the suicide attacks on Bali nightclubs packed with foreign tourists. Many of the victims were Australians.

Anti-Terrorism Agency chief Ansyaad Mbai told the media on Wednesday that Patek would be returned to Indonesia before Aug. 30 to stand trial.

Kohat suicide attack’s death toll climbs to 19

KOHAT: The death toll of Kohat suicide attack has climbed to 19 while scores of others seriously injured of today’s (Wednesday) deadly attack are still in critical condition.

Early today, the terrorists launched a suicide attack on Teerah Bazar bus stand in Kohat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

According to police, the terrorists used 10 kilograms of explosives in the suicide attack while the District Head Quarter Hospital sources informed that initially 15 people were killed and more than 20 sustained injuries, out of which, many were very serious.

One by one many seriously injured people continued to succumb. According to the latest details, the death toll has mounted to 19 and it is feared that it can climb further as many others are still in critical condition.

After the blast, the security forces and Kohat police closed Teerah

Three killed in Bannu Blast near Meelad Park

BANNU, News Trends: At least three policemen were killed in suicide attack over a police van in Bannu.

A suicide bomber blew up his explosives near Meelad Park in Bannu on Tuesday killing three policemen in a police van and injuring several others.

The injured have been shifted to district headquarter hospital Bannu, where some injured were said to be in precarious condition.

Police have cordoned off the area and launched search operation.

The investigators have found head and legs of the suicide bomber.

52 martyred in Dara Adamkhel mosque blast

Staff Report

DARA ADAM KHEL: At least 52 people including children martyred as a suicide bomber blew himself inside a mosque during Friday prayers.

More than 100 others wounded in the powerful explosion in which, according to the bomb disposable squad, 10 to 15 kilogram explosives were used.

Eyewitnesses told Trend Pk that the bomber entered the mosque at 2:15pm when the people were busy in their prayers. The District Coordination Officer (DCO) Kohat said that the mosque completely damaged in the blast. Several people buried under the debris.

The law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area soon after the suicide attack.

Several bodies and injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain while talking to the media person outside the Lady Reading Hospital said that

Suicide attack on Darra Adam Khel mosque kills 30

Staff Report

KOHAT: At least 30 people were killed and scores of others wounded after a suicide bomber ripped through a crowded mosque in Darra Adam Khel on Friday.

The blast took place at a time when people were offering Friday prayers.

Confirming the suicide attack, Kohat’s commissioner said roof of the mosque has collapsed, leaving dozens of people stranded under the rubble.

The commissioner said that rescue efforts are under way to rescue the stranded people.

According to reports, a large number of people were present in the mosque at the time of the blast.

Law enforcement agencies reached the scene and cordoned off the area.

Meanwhile, the injured are being shifted to different hospitals, where emergency has been declared. Trend Pk

Gun and bomb attacks kill two policemen in Swabi

Staff Report

SWABI: Two policemen were killed and 13 injured in a suicide bomb outside Police Lines, Swabi on Friday, police said.

The suspected bomber and his accomplice were also killed in the blast.

According to reports, the bomber unsuccessfully tried to enter Police Lines and blew himself up, killing two security personnel and injuring scores of others, including passers-by.

The blast also damaged a nearby building and car.

Police reached the scene and cordoned off the area.

Swabi’s DPO Siraj ul Haq told Trend Pk that militants first opened fire before carrying out the suicide attack.

He said that ten policemen and three passers-by were seriously injured in the attack.

Speaking to journalists, DIG Mardan Abdullah Khan claimed that the suicide bomber and his accomplice were killed. Trend Pk

Mahesh Bhatt’s son to be launched in Jism 2?

Mahesh Bhatt’s shy son Rahul Bhatt is shy no more. Lately he has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. If all had gone well, Mahesh Bhatt would’ve launched his boy in Suicide Bomber which the former Bhatt protégé Anurag Basu promised to direct as Rahul’s launch pad.

A promise that the Bhatts are still waiting for Basu to fulfil. But now, the impatient Bhatt scion seems to have lost the will to wait. His decision to go into the Bigg Boss house at this stage of his life has apparently caused Mahesh great concern.

Mahesh was planning to finally launch Sunny-boy in the sequel to Jism. But Rahul is now on a rebellious trip. He turned down his dad’s offer for a belated launch in Jism 2 instead of Suicide Bomber and chose to go into Bigg Boss which many of well-wishers of the Bhatts feel is more suicidal than the Suicide Bomber.

Now we suddenly hear Rahul making abrasive remarks like, “Mahesh Bhatt and Headley are the two monkeys on my back” and… “Shweta Tiwari is line-maroing on me (inside Bigg Boss House).And I don’t like it.”

Mahesh Bhatt stands by his son’s comment. “Rahul is being brutally honest. He has the guts to see and say things as they are.”

Mahesh admits Rahul is up for Jism 2. “But Rahul has made his choice. He has chosen Bigg Boss.”

The concerned but non-interfering father still feels Suicide Bomber would be the best launch for Rahul. “Our doors are open for Anurag Basu to come and pick up the threads from where he left off. But now Suicide Bomber will have a global perspective. Three years ago, Rahul said no to Kalyug when I offered it to him. Now he has opted for Bigg Boss instead of Jism 2. When I asked him why he said, ‘Let me stand or fall on my own feet.’ He didn’t want to put his life on hold for a film launch.’

Then Mahesh drops his bomb. “Get this straight. It is not in human power to make a bud blossom. A touch of life makes the flower bloom and spread its wings. Sometimes it’s best to let a flower go wild. Life is the best gardener.”

Hidden in the rhetoric’s is a message for Rahul’s son.

Come back from Bigg Boss. And Jism 2 is waiting

Karachi: CID Police arrests child trained for suicide attack

CID Police in Karachi have arrested two terrorists from the area of Sohrab Goth Karachi along with a young boy who was being prepared for a suicide attack, Dunya News reported on Tuesday.
Of those arrested, Muhammad Islam has said that he was prepared for the suicide attack by people named as Zahir Shah and Rauf. The child also said that he was threatened to be slaughtered in case of leaking the secret of suicide attack to anyone. He added that he was a student of grade 9 and he was told that suicide attack would take him to Jannaah. The child said that those who trained and prepared him used to meet him in different mosques and madrassaahs.

SAMAA finds CNIC of attacker of Ghazi’s shrine

Staff Report

KARACHI: SAMAA found on Wednesday the Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) of the suicide attacker of Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine.

According to CID officials, the suicide attacker, Badshah Khan, son of Mohammad Shafi hailed from Ladha, South Waziristan. Badshah’s CNIC shows his date of birth as August 1, 1991 with no identity mark. There is no signature, but a thumb impression.

Police found attack links to Waziristan and a CID investigation team had gone to South Waziristan.

Sources also disclosed that law enforcement agencies are in search of the identity of the other bomber and mastermind behind the attacks. SAMAA

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