Blast leaves seven injured in Rawalpindi

[Kailash Kumar]

Blast leaves seven injured in Rawalpindi

Mohammad Asghar

March 13, 2020

The sound of the explosion was heard miles away, spreading fear among shopkeepers and shoppers alike.

RAWALPINDI: Seven people were injured, one of them critically, when an explosive device was detonated in the busy Saddar Bazaar at about 10.30pm here on Thursday.

Initial reports suggested the device containing low-intensity explosives had been placed under a motorcycle parked outside a shop in Chhota Bazaar, Saddar.

The sound of the explosion was heard miles away, spreading fear among shopkeepers and shoppers alike. CCTV footage showed the blast set off a blaze.

However, luckily a majority of the shops in the bazaar were closed at the time of the incident; otherwise the number of victims would have been greater.

Ball bearings were recovered from the scene and there was a small crater at the place where the device had been placed.

Those who were injured in the incident included Naseem Ashraf, 50, Ashraf Haq, 70, Muhammad Atif, 18, Muhammad Sajjad, 21, Naveed Hussain, 17, and Mudabbir, 32.

City Police Officer Muhammad Ahsan Younas said: “It was a cracker explosion in which pellets were used. The device was placed under a motorcycle parked outside a shop.”

https://www.dawn.com/news/1540496/blast-leaves-seven-injured-in-rawalpindi

 

[R Wing]

Thank God there was no loss of life. May the injured recover soon.

 

[FuturePAF]

Saddar Bazaar ...... Ball bearings were recovered from the scene and there was a small crater at the place where the device had been placed.

This could the Afghan Intelligence Agency back to their old ways. Similar to what happened towards the end of the Soviet War.

• 1987 Karachi car bombing

75 people were killed and more than 300 injured in two car bomb explosions and two other small bombs in Karachi's Saddar market. President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq alluded to Afghan agents behind the bombings and sought international support to fight terror. He also told that the bombing were aimed for Pakistan to change its Afghan policy vis-à-vis Soviet intervention.[2][3] Later, on September 19, 1987, Interior Minister Raja Nadir Pervez told that 60 Afghans were arrested from North Western Frontier Province in connection with the bombings and they were sent by Afghan secret police for subversive activities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_incidents_in_Pakistan_in_1987

1995 Peshawar bombing: At least 25 people were killed and 100 wounded by a car bomb at 6:30pm in Peshawar's Saddar Street market. The bomb was a timing device, using 55 pounds of explosives. Wadood & Sons department store & 8 cars were also set ablaze by the explosion.[3] Provincial governor Khurshid Ali Khan's daughter and two grandchildren were among those killed in the incident. Officials suspected Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani's supporters were behind the carnage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_incidents_in_Pakistan_in_1995

 

[313ghazi]

PTM leaders are in Afghanistan, terrorism starts in Pakistan. I never expected Imran Khan to be such a lame duck.

 

[American Pakistani]

Shame on govt. Shame on courts. Shame for letting terrorists like dawar Ali wazir afrasaib do their r nach in Afghanista .

 

[khansaheeb]

Most likely RAW/MOSSAD sponsored.

 

[Genghis khan1]

Pakistan needs to start installing hidden cameras on light and telephone poles for 24/7 surveillance. US, UK and China all are doing 24/7 recordings of high risk public places or locations.

 

[RescueRanger]

Noticed how these blasts started just prior to PSL?

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Noticed how these blasts started just prior to PSL?

indeed its all planned and there is no limit to how low or desecrate the enemy will go.
once the general public changes its behavior and mentality then these terrorists will have no place to find refuge.
sadly the TTP political wings are able to conduct rallies and challenge and bully the state with different names, Lal Masjd mullah is back and has a cult following. and the followers are our own people our own community members.

then there are so called Left wing secular they confuse freedom of expression and defiance with going as far as giving foreign hostile forces a helping hand to make a point.

Thank God there was no loss of life. May the injured recover soon.

I hope we dont have people in ISI who still consider the residents of Red Mosque as an asset.
that place is living breathing monster that encourages terrorists that have shed the blood of tens of thousands of Pakistanis.

 

[R Wing]

indeed its all planned and there is no limit to how low or desecrate the enemy will go.
once the general public changes its behavior and mentality then these terrorists will have no place to find refuge.
sadly the TTP political wings are able to conduct rallies and challenge and bully the state with different names, Lal Masjd mullah is back and has a cult following. and the followers are our own people our own community members.

then there are so called Left wing secular they confuse freedom of expression and defiance with going as far as giving foreign hostile forces a helping hand to make a point.


I hope we dont have people in ISI who still consider the residents of Red Mosque as an asset.
that place is living breathing monster that encourages terrorists that have shed the blood of tens of thousands of Pakistanis.

Nobody in the ISI can do anything if the COAS decides something about Lal Masjid's fate. The order will be carried out.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Nobody in the ISI can do anything if the COAS decides something about Lal Masjid's fate. The order will be carried out.

I sometime wish that this mosque the associated madrassah its leaders and its sstudents were in Saudi Arabia

then the Saudis would've dealt with them as they have with every miscreant

 

[StormBreaker]

These BLOODY F SCUMS

 

[R Wing]

I sometime wish that this mosque the associated madrassah its leaders and its sstudents were in Saudi Arabia

then the Saudis would've dealt with them as they have with every miscreant

Yet they've provided the foundations of the ideology upon which these miscreants are willing to kill innocents. Grey zone.

 

[StormBreaker]

I sometime wish that this mosque the associated madrassah its leaders and its sstudents were in Saudi Arabia

then the Saudis would've dealt with them as they have with every miscreant

Yet they've provided the foundations of the ideology upon which these miscreants are willing to kill innocents. Grey zone.

Apart from these people, as they are already in the “Exploited” list, the poor and the extremists (religion/political party), they are as well in the list of possibly exploitable for heinous acts. What say @jaibi ? These people lag behind in common sense and free approach and this is what makes them possibly dangerous, easy to be exploited under wrong hands...

 

[R Wing]

Apart from these people, as they are already in the “Exploited” list, the poor and the extremists (religion/political party), they are as well in the list of possibly exploitable for heinous acts. What say @jaibi ? These people lag behind in common sense and free approach and this is what makes them possibly dangerous, easy to be exploited under wrong hands...

Even Gens and leading Senators are easily exploited here.

Common sense and jihalat is unfortunately not restricted to socio-economic class in our country. Greed is a common factor.