KARACHI: A bomb blast took place in the Defence Housing Authority area of Karachi, leaving eight dead and several others injured. Terrorists targeted the residence of senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Crime Investigation Department (CID) Chaudhry Aslam.
Local Twitterati tweeted their grief and horror over the incident, with most expressing fear that it occurred in an area where schools are located.
Jehan Ara
If there are any elements within the bureaucracy that support the TTP, they need to open their eyes and see what they are supporting.
An attack in K-P, in Balochistan, Punjab, Kashmir or in Sindh is an attack on all of us. The government needs to ensure this cancer is uprooted.
Anyone who does not speak up against the Taliban actually lends credence to each attack. All voices should be raised against their brutalities.
Raza Rumi
In #Pakistan powerful terrorists roam around with explosives in urban areas with no checking. Seems that 'intelligence' systems have collapsed!
Pakistan's Taliban carried out the bombing and have claimed the police official had arrested and killed many of its fighters! I am waiting for denials.
Sana Kazmi
TTP saying they did it. Schools in the blast area will stay on, parents asked to pick up their kids at the regular chutti time. #karachi
Dr Awab Alvi
We used to joke that having the SSP next door could easily be a blessing or a curse –theory proven today @faisalkapadia #Karachi
Khaver Siddiqi
Not a good day to be tweeting about anything else. Thoughts and prayers with familes of victims. #karachi
I'm in Phase 5 and even our windows shuddered. #karachi
AK Chisti
A whopping 10,000 civilians had been killed in #Karachi since 2002 in ethical, political, sectarian blasts by TTP.
More than 3,000 police officers had laid down their lives in #Karachi since 1995.
Salma Jafri
Karachi moms on Facebook talking about how scared they are feeling sending their kids to school :-(
Trying to explain to my 4-year old – who has just woken up – why it’s not safe to go to school. #Karachi
Sabeen Mahmud
The school teacher, who was killed, worked at Washington International School. Always used to reach early. Colleague of my mother's student.
Her son was in Class 3; a lovely, bright, friendly and energetic child.
Beena Sarwar
Blast was more powerful than needed to target just SSP's home: 6-10 feet crater, nearby cars, houses damaged, and massive sound @MadihaSattar
Kidvai
One schoolteacher and her son were killed, seven others dead. Awful.
Sahar Habib Ghazi
Freaking out. My cousin goes to CAS. No one from his family is picking up their phones. How far was the blast site? #karachi #blast
Umair javed
Constant reminder that the blast was in a 'posh' ilaaqa ...
Komal Tauqeer
@beenasarwar Exactly! The situation is appalling. An interrogation house in the middle of a school area? What were they thinking?
Faisal Qureshi
Whenever there is an incidence we have stories to share. But we forget and move on. We don't come together and try to influence policy.
Don't sit and wait for your turn. Speak now while you can or prepare to be silenced in silence. You can't keep running away.
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For the poll above: u think restricting law enforcers,police to their enclaves is really a solution?who r u kidding? A minister,politicians aren't as dangerous as the rest of them?try coming up with a genuine solution .and for ur info: if they can get into ur bases then they can get anywhere they want.
Strategic depth is paying so much dividends.
Of course I condemn this attack. Just like I condemn the American drone strikes that have killed thousands of Pakistanis in the FATA/PATA areas. Women and children, young and old, continue to be blown to bits by the thousands, along with a smattering of the alleged "terrorist", if that. . They are human beings, just like those who live in "posh" urban areas. But do we care the same ?. Do we ?, really care if they are innocent bystanders. Relocate Phase-VIII, DHA to FATA and switch TTP with American Hellfire missile. Still care ?. . Thought so. . We are selfish hypocrites and we are reaping our just rewards. We should have drawn the line, the day the first American drone came and massacred dozens of our citizens. No country allows wholesale murder of it's citizens by foreigners. We did. So now we have opened the gates of Hell for ourselves. . Killing of innocents can never be justified. Not in FATA, PATA and not in DHA.
you can't keep runing away..true FQ
the glorification and promotion of sadistic violence under the banner of jihad must be stopped.teaching our children jeem for jihad,bay for bandook,kaaf say kafir has led to a society filled with intolerant hatemongers who can't stand non-muslims or atheists and agnostics.this justification for violence with religious verses and quotations is the reason these islamic terrorists blow themselves up so easily as they are promised paradise in return.
Sum of all tweets .. it is ok for TTP to kill innocent ppls in FATA and KP but not in urban areas ... specially in posh societies
its ok if we close our eyes on suicide bomb on eid day in quetta but we should open our eyes when it happens in karachi....
SO TTP Thanks for opening our eyes ..
just wait and see,we'll have the jihadi sympathisers defending this attack ,they will justify this attack as they have justified all previous terrorist attacks, their defence of such attacks is that these jihadi terrorists are fighting to bring islamic system in pakistan,they are attacking to establish caliphate system,they are fighting to impose the regressive shariah law system.
i've heard these idiotic justifications for terrorism over the last many years.We should be clear there can be no justification for such terrorism.the sick and deranged obsession of these people with islam has led them to commit such savage and inhuman acts.