Comments on: CHHIPA AMBULANCES at Bomb blast site during the Moharram procession in Karachi, December 28, 2009 http://www.chhipa.net/chhipa-ambulances/ Khatla community, Lets Talk Athay Kathay, Aula Jaola Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: admin http://www.chhipa.net/chhipa-ambulances/comment-page-1/#comment-52 admin Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:59:49 +0000 http://www.chhipa.net/?p=217#comment-52 At least 30 people were killed and about 70 wounded as a suicide bomber blew himself in the middle of a religious procession in Karachi on Monday evening. The procession, which was passing through Karachi’s main city centre area of MA Jinnah Road, comprised thousands of Shia Muslims marching to mark Ashura, a holy day amongst Shias all over the world. Shortly after the bomb blast, hundreds of people took to looting and arson and destroyed over 600 shops on the busy thoroughfare despite the deployment of over 10,000 policemen and para-military personnel. “We did all we could do. You cannot blame the government for any security lapse,” said information minister Qamarzaman Kaira, when asked to give his comments on the incident. This is the first such suicide attack in Karachi in the past several months. The last major incidence of violence in the city took place two years back when a suicide bomber attacked the convoy of Benazir Bhutto as she arrived in Pakistan from several years of self-imposed exil Kamal Siddiqi, Hindustan Times Karachi, December 28, 2009 At least 30 people were killed and about 70 wounded as a suicide bomber blew himself in the middle of a religious procession in Karachi on Monday evening.

The procession, which was passing through Karachi’s main city centre area of MA Jinnah Road, comprised thousands of Shia Muslims marching to mark Ashura, a holy day amongst Shias all over the world.

Shortly after the bomb blast, hundreds of people took to looting and arson and destroyed over 600 shops on the busy thoroughfare despite the deployment of over 10,000 policemen and para-military personnel. “We did all we could do. You cannot blame the government for any security lapse,” said information minister Qamarzaman Kaira, when asked to give his comments on the incident.

This is the first such suicide attack in Karachi in the past several months. The last major incidence of violence in the city took place two years back when a suicide bomber attacked the convoy of Benazir Bhutto as she arrived in Pakistan from several years of self-imposed exil
Kamal Siddiqi, Hindustan Times
Karachi, December 28, 2009

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