Suicide Bombing Kills 35 In Pakistan

Dozens Wounded After Attack At Funeral In Region Teeming With Taliban Militants

(AP)  A suicide bomber attacked the funeral for a slain police officer in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley on Friday, killing at least 35 people and injuring 62 others, police said.

The attack occurred in a government high school in Mingora town while funeral prayers were being held for Javed Iqbal, a senior police officer who was killed in a roadside bombing earlier in the day, said Deputy Inspector General of Police Syed Akhtar Ali Shah.

He told The Associated Press by telephone that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber and that the injured had been moved to a hospital.

Mingora, in Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan, is 105 miles from Peshawar, a town at the border with Afghanistan.

President Pervez Musharraf sent thousands of troops to the scenic Swat Valley earlier this year to quell an uprising led by a pro-Taliban cleric. The army claims it has dispersed thousands of his militant followers, but attacks persist. Last week, a roadside bomb hit a wedding party, killing 12 people.

On Friday morning, Iqbal, the deputy police chief of Lakki Marwat district, and his driver were killed by a roadside bomb while they were driving through the district. It was night by the time his body was brought to his hometown of Mingora for his funeral.

"Because it was dark, the suicide bomber was able to mingle among the people easily," said Shahbuddin, an assistant inspector of police who was at the funeral on security duty.

He told the AP that the explosion occurred just as the pall bearers lifted the coffin to carry it toward the grave.

About 800 people were at the funeral, including civilians and police officials, said Shahbuddin, who uses one name.

"As the coffin was lifted I moved toward the gate but suddenly a big explosion took place, which dashed me against the gate. ... It was hell. Everybody was crying for help," said Shahbuddin, who was slightly injured.

He said he later went to the hospital where the injured were taken.

"I have seen 35 dead and over 60 injured in the hospital and am now completing the paperwork," he said.

Dr. Fazal Wahab, who was treating the injured, said the hospital was overwhelmed by the high casualties.

"We have treated a large number of injured, some in very critical condition," he told the AP.

Among the dead was Iqbal's son, Ghazan, the ARY OneWorld private television network reported. It put the death toll at 37 but this could not be confirmed.

District chief Arshad Majeed, who was at the hospital, said authorities were making an emergency appeal for blood donations. He could not immediately give a tally of the dead and wounded.

"We need blood for the injured people," he said, before hanging up.

Taliban militants have stepped up attacks and taken control of tracts of northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan in the past several years.

Before militants took root last summer, Swat attracted tourists because of its fine mountain scenery.

[ajmarine1]

Posted by liferocks3 at 08:09 PM : Feb 29, 2008


I agree, but good luck getting the rest of the country, the USA, to go along with it. Now a days, everyone wants to "talk" to people......the only trouble is, some people just don''t want to listen.

[liferocks3]

not exactly war, something should have done earlier when pak was making nukes, now something concrete needs to be done to take care ot them

[ajmarine1]

I think Bush administration is waiting for radicals to get thier hands on *** nukes. Pakistan looks like worlds dangerous country right now, they have Al Quaida, WMD everything right there.

Posted by liferocks3 at 07:47 PM : Feb 29, 2008


So, you are for declaring war on Pakistan?

[beehive21-2009]

religion,is working to kill,nothing new folks.they sure love killing in the name of fairy tales.The taliban is evil and they enjoy it, killing,keeping women as lowlife makes you wonder if they were not hatched.

[liferocks3]

I think Bush administration is waiting for radicals to get thier hands on *** nukes. Pakistan looks like worlds dangerous country right now, they have Al Quaida, WMD everything right there.

[red164]

Posted by singinrick at 03:10 PM : Feb 29, 2008

Update: Mormons and the Illuminati (TOZ - The ''Other'' Zionists)


To capture and manipulate the souls of men, the satanic agents have actually bought and sold Christian pretenders-religious puppets-whom they have installed as leaders of scores of ministries, mega-churches, seminaries, Bible colleges and other religious organizations and institutions.

The Illuminati overseers have raised up and trained their loyal religious disciples to pretend to be Christians and even to feign an intense love of Christ. These false ministers and lying prophets are con artists persuasively speaking to audiences in what appears to be sincere and biblical lingo, all the better to deceive, if it were possible, even the very elect (Matthew 24:24). While they come as angels of light and ministers of righteousness, inside, these deceitful servants of evil are ravenous wolves.


http://www.911researchers.com/node/1106

Ed Ward, MD

http://www.powerofprophecy.com/012005/illuminati_builds_tower_of_infamy.htm

[ajmarine1]

As a Senate candidate in 2004, Mr. Obama said he would support military action against Iran if diplomacy fails to rein in the mullahs'''' nuclear program.

"In light of the fact that we''''re now in Iraq, with all the problems in terms of perceptions about America that have been created, us launching some missile strikes into Iran is not the optimal position for us to be in," he told the Chicago Tribune. "On the other hand, having a radical Muslim theocracy in possession of nuclear weapons is worse. So I guess my instinct would be to err on not having those weapons in the possession of the ruling clerics of Iran. ... I hope it doesn''''t get to that point."

Mr. Obama also told the Tribune he would back American military action to secure Pakistan''''s nuclear arsenal if President Musharraf is overthrown by radicals.

[jwind11]

Spoke just like a Bush supporter. At least he achieved his goal of selling America out to the wealthiest Americans and the companies they run. At least he can say he did SOMETHING.

Posted by hungry1968 at 05:24 PM : Feb 29, 2008

you chose your lot in life not Bush. Look in mirror for blame for your troubles.

[hungry1968]

accomplishments,,, we don''t need no accomplishments

Posted by terrorislama at 04:16 PM : Feb 29, 2008




Spoke just like a Bush supporter. At least he achieved his goal of selling America out to the wealthiest Americans and the companies they run. At least he can say he did SOMETHING.

[notblue]

Prinzo, I do not "worship at Bush''s shrine" I don''t even like or agree with Bush, but terrorists likeyourself I hate. Unlike you I do not justify and and attempt to midigate savage acts as in this article like you do on a daily basis. Your evil and the evil you support is unprecedented in the history of modern civilization and for you this realization and subsequent repurcussions of your evil agenda may not be immediate but will be well deserved in the end.