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पश्चिमोत्तर पाकिस्तान में शुक्रवार को हुए आत्मघाती बम विस्फोट में कम से 32 लोगों की मौत हो गई और 85 घायल हो गए। घायलों में कई की हालत गंभीर है।
विस्फोट अशांत माने जाने वाले पश्चिमोत्तर पाकिस्तान केडेरा इस्माइल खान इलाके में शोबरा होटल के समीप जनाजे की नमाज के दौरान हुआ।
विस्फोट के बाद पूरे इलाके में हिंसा फैल गई है। उग्र लोगों ने कई वाहनों को आग के हवाले कर दिया।
शहर के मुख्य प्रशासक सैयद मोहसिन शाह ने कहा कि शहर में कर्फ्यू लागू कर दिया है और सेना को बुला लिया गया है। उन्होंने लोगों से शांति की अपील की है।
शाह ने कहा कि यह आत्मघाती हमला हो सकता है। उन्होंने कहा कि शहर में दंगे को रोकने के लिए उपद्रवियों को देखते ही गोली मारने का आदेश दे दिया गया है।
जनाजे की नमाज गुरुवार को मारे गए एक स्थानीय धार्मिक नेता शेर जमां के लिए अदा की जा रही थी, जिसमें 1,500 से अधिक लोग हिस्सा ले रहे थे। प्रत्यक्षदर्शियों के अनुसार विस्फोट के तुरंत बाद इलाके के सभी दुकानों को बंद करा दिया गया। इलाके में दहशत का माहौल है।
स्थानीय अस्पताल के एक अधिकारी ने नाम गुप्त रखने की शर्त पर बताया कि 32 शव अस्पताल तक पहुंचे हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि अस्पताल में घायलों का इलाज किया जा रहा है। घायलों में कई हालत गंभीर है।
इस बीच राष्ट्रपति आसिफ अली जरदारी और प्रधानमंत्री यूसुफ रजा गिलानी ने घटना की निंदा की है।
English Translation:
ALL HELL broke lose at a funeral procession of a slain Shiite Muslim leader in northwest Pakistan on Friday, as a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shiite mosque in Dera Ismail Khan killing 30 and injuring over twice the number. The bombing triggered sectarian violence in the area that was later put under curfew.
Dera Ismail Khan, incidentally, has a long and bloody history of sectarian riots between the majority Sunni and minrity Shiite sects that inhabit the town that lies on the edge of the Pakistan lawless tribal region.
French news agency – AFP on its website said nearly thirty people were killed in the attack while another 65 were wounded, it attributed the information to Saadullah Khan a police official posted in Dera Ismail Khan.
Earlier reports quoting official figures had suggested nearly 20 deaths in the macabre bombing.
Police officials in the region confirmed the mayhem wrought on the mourners to have been carried out by a suicide bomber.
Authorities clamped curfew in the region and picketing was heightened as panicked mourners opened discriminate fire as the funeral of Shiite leader Sher Zaman degenerated into a full fledged riot. Friday, a holiday in Islamic Pakistan, is a day when Muslims throng mosques to offer Juma prayers and seek salvation and penance for their sins.
The bloody bombings that left behind a trail of death destruction and mangled remains on Friday comes barely a fortnight after a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in the Dera Ghazi Khan town of Punjab province killed 35 Shiite worshippers on February 5.
This year alone suicide bombings in Pakistan have killed around 90 people and over 1,600 since government forces besieged militants holed up in Islamabad’s infamous Lal Maszid in July 2007.
In Dera Ismail Khan shot bullets and set several transport buses ablaze after the bombing, some media reports suggest traffic was barely moving in the dusty town as protesters burnt tyres and put up roadblocks at various places.
District administration chief Syed Mohsin Shah confirmed that the city has been placed under curfew and the military has been called to help restore law and order.
Zaman, the local Shiite leader being buried on Friday, was assassinated by unidentified motorbike borne attackers in Dera Ismail Khan on Thursday.
Zaman was a prominent member of the town’s Shiite community and was known to organise community gatherings or Majlis, as they are locally called.
Sectarian tempers have been simmering in the town since a bloody explosion at a Sunni mosque on February 3, killed one and wounded 18 others.
The divide between the two sects – the oldest in Islam, dates back nearly 1400 years and streets in several parts of the Muslim world are bloodied every now and then as the Sunni and Shiite factions refuse to come together for fence mending efforts.
पश्चिमोत्तर पाकिस्तान में शुक्रवार को हुए आत्मघाती बम विस्फोट में कम से 32 लोगों की मौत हो गई और 85 घायल हो गए। घायलों में कई की हालत गंभीर है।
विस्फोट अशांत माने जाने वाले पश्चिमोत्तर पाकिस्तान केडेरा इस्माइल खान इलाके में शोबरा होटल के समीप जनाजे की नमाज के दौरान हुआ।
विस्फोट के बाद पूरे इलाके में हिंसा फैल गई है। उग्र लोगों ने कई वाहनों को आग के हवाले कर दिया।
शहर के मुख्य प्रशासक सैयद मोहसिन शाह ने कहा कि शहर में कर्फ्यू लागू कर दिया है और सेना को बुला लिया गया है। उन्होंने लोगों से शांति की अपील की है।
शाह ने कहा कि यह आत्मघाती हमला हो सकता है। उन्होंने कहा कि शहर में दंगे को रोकने के लिए उपद्रवियों को देखते ही गोली मारने का आदेश दे दिया गया है।
जनाजे की नमाज गुरुवार को मारे गए एक स्थानीय धार्मिक नेता शेर जमां के लिए अदा की जा रही थी, जिसमें 1,500 से अधिक लोग हिस्सा ले रहे थे। प्रत्यक्षदर्शियों के अनुसार विस्फोट के तुरंत बाद इलाके के सभी दुकानों को बंद करा दिया गया। इलाके में दहशत का माहौल है।
स्थानीय अस्पताल के एक अधिकारी ने नाम गुप्त रखने की शर्त पर बताया कि 32 शव अस्पताल तक पहुंचे हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि अस्पताल में घायलों का इलाज किया जा रहा है। घायलों में कई हालत गंभीर है।
इस बीच राष्ट्रपति आसिफ अली जरदारी और प्रधानमंत्री यूसुफ रजा गिलानी ने घटना की निंदा की है।
English Translation:
ALL HELL broke lose at a funeral procession of a slain Shiite Muslim leader in northwest Pakistan on Friday, as a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shiite mosque in Dera Ismail Khan killing 30 and injuring over twice the number. The bombing triggered sectarian violence in the area that was later put under curfew.
Dera Ismail Khan, incidentally, has a long and bloody history of sectarian riots between the majority Sunni and minrity Shiite sects that inhabit the town that lies on the edge of the Pakistan lawless tribal region.
French news agency – AFP on its website said nearly thirty people were killed in the attack while another 65 were wounded, it attributed the information to Saadullah Khan a police official posted in Dera Ismail Khan.
Earlier reports quoting official figures had suggested nearly 20 deaths in the macabre bombing.
Police officials in the region confirmed the mayhem wrought on the mourners to have been carried out by a suicide bomber.
Authorities clamped curfew in the region and picketing was heightened as panicked mourners opened discriminate fire as the funeral of Shiite leader Sher Zaman degenerated into a full fledged riot. Friday, a holiday in Islamic Pakistan, is a day when Muslims throng mosques to offer Juma prayers and seek salvation and penance for their sins.
The bloody bombings that left behind a trail of death destruction and mangled remains on Friday comes barely a fortnight after a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in the Dera Ghazi Khan town of Punjab province killed 35 Shiite worshippers on February 5.
This year alone suicide bombings in Pakistan have killed around 90 people and over 1,600 since government forces besieged militants holed up in Islamabad’s infamous Lal Maszid in July 2007.
In Dera Ismail Khan shot bullets and set several transport buses ablaze after the bombing, some media reports suggest traffic was barely moving in the dusty town as protesters burnt tyres and put up roadblocks at various places.
District administration chief Syed Mohsin Shah confirmed that the city has been placed under curfew and the military has been called to help restore law and order.
Zaman, the local Shiite leader being buried on Friday, was assassinated by unidentified motorbike borne attackers in Dera Ismail Khan on Thursday.
Zaman was a prominent member of the town’s Shiite community and was known to organise community gatherings or Majlis, as they are locally called.
Sectarian tempers have been simmering in the town since a bloody explosion at a Sunni mosque on February 3, killed one and wounded 18 others.
The divide between the two sects – the oldest in Islam, dates back nearly 1400 years and streets in several parts of the Muslim world are bloodied every now and then as the Sunni and Shiite factions refuse to come together for fence mending efforts.
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