Deadly Blasts Rip Through Pakistani City

Five Explosions Kill At Least 25 People In Karachi

(CBS/ AP)  A string of explosions wounded at least 25 people Monday in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said.

The five blasts came within about an hour the day after a deadly suicide bombing in the capital, Islamabad, killed 18 people, most of them police officers.

Residential and commercial areas were struck in Karachi. It was unclear if any security officials were among the wounded.

A senior Pakistani government official told CBS News on condition of anonymity that the blasts appeared to be a determined attempt to damage Pakistan’s business confidence. "Everyone knows, Karachi is Pakistan’s business capital. It is therefore possible that whoever wants to destabilize our country, is doing so by causing this damage to Karachi," he said.

Babar Khattak, the Sindh province police chief, said at least two of the blasts involved "low-intensity explosive material." Karachi police chief Wasim Ahmad said five blasts occurred.

Television footage showed ambulances rushing people through crowded streets to hospitals, and wounded lying in hospital beds with bloody bandages.

Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub is a teeming port city where militant and political violence commonly breaks out.

In October, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto narrowly escaped a suicide attack that struck a rally of thousands of supporters welcoming her home from exile. More than 140 people were killed in that attack. Bhutto was slain in a separate attack in December in Rawalpindi.

[feelfree4u]

Re: "Maybe now Pakistan will take a stance..."

A wide-stance?

[feelfree4u]

Re: "Maybe now Pakistan will take a stance..."

A wide-stance?

[yongamerica]

al Qaeda and the Taliban are living up its promise to Pakistan that it will terrorize the entire country in retribution for Pakistan helping the US.

Maybe now Pakistan will take a stance and finally win it''s western lands and turn the population there into positively contributing citizens instead of potential human bombs.

[factsearcher]

If it looks like a jihad terrorist
If it talks like a jihad terrorist
If it refute the obvious
If it blames the US for every single thing happening in the ME (together with Israel of course!)
THen IT IS A JIHAD TERRORIST WITH AN AGENDA
Nothing else to discuss

[feelfree4u]

Related-

"Afghanistan''s interior ministry has accused a "foreign intelligence agency" of being behind today''s deadly suicide bombing that ripped apart the country''s Indian embassy in Kabul, killing 41 people."

"A further 141 were injured when the bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into two diplomatic vehicles entering the embassy and the blast also devastated nearby shops and buildings."

"The interior ministry believes this attack was carried out in coordination and consultation with an active intelligence service in the region," the ministry said in a statement."

"Afghanistan has previously accused Pakistani agents of being behind a number of attacks on its soil," according to a London Guardian report, referring to the notorious Pakistani ISI intelligence agency."

[feelfree4u]

Re: "the rest of us will place blame squarely where it belongs."

al-ISI''duh??

[notblue]

FeelFree4u, your lame, daily attempts, to deflect or midigate blame from your militant brothers is obvious, if it helps you rationalize away the savagery committed by your brothers in Jihad then go for it, the rest of us will place blame squarely where it belongs.

[feelfree4u]

Re: "just another day in the life of savage barbarians!"

Al-Mossad''da??

[notblue]

Looks like Muslim extremism YET AGAIN, just another day in the life of savage barbarians! Has all the hallmarks!

[feelfree4u]

Looks like al-CIA''duh once again.

It has all the hallmarks.