CM Sindh confirmed that backpacks were found containing evidence that will help security forces identify terrorists. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has said that the Karachi airport attack took place due to the failure of the Airport Security Force (ASF), Express News reported on Wednesday.
He said that this is not the first time Karachi airport has been attacked. Further, the chief minister confirmed that backpacks were found containing evidence that will help security forces identify terrorists.
Earlier today, a case was registered against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid and other members for Sunday's attack on Jinnah International Airport, Karachi.
An FIR was registered at the Airport police station on the complaint of the Airport Security Force.
Sections of murder, attempted murder, Anti-Terrorism Act, Explosives Act and damage to public property were included in the FIR.
The TTP had claimed responsibility for the overnight siege of the airport in which at least 37 people, including 10 terrorists, were killed.
According to reports, 12 ASF personnel, one each of the police, Rangers and Shaheen Air International are among the deceased. The dead also include seven people who were trapped in a cold storage and were not rescued in time. Twenty-six others were also injured in the brazen assault.
Body found
The body of the missing Airport Security Force sub inspector was recovered on Wednesday. The officer was identified as Jaman Khan.
He was reportedly trapped in a room when the attack began and was not rescued during the clean-up operation.
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What stopped Sinned government to help rescue the people trapped inside cold storage on time ?
@Zaliman:
Gen. Musharraf did the same thing in Balochistan. Instead of appreciating he is facing court cases. Gen Raheel learnt the lesson, he will not do it until properly asked by the govt and he will keep this as a proof.
Police don't register FIR when there is possiblilty that accused can be caught. But in these cases they register FIR bravely.
You blame me....I'll blame you.....the people are stupid and they will swallow anything........come over later in the evening and we'll have a night-cap.
Blamed ASF for Karachi attack?I thought ASF personnel fought and laid down their lives to protect the airport.Can he explain how ASF was responsible?
@Victorious Pakistan: You know Airport come under provincial or federal authority? A hint Chairman CAA is appointed by whom?? CM or PM?
Instead of blame game, I wish Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah just hush up and don't say a thing because he does not have any room to blame any one. This is the same person who along with his lackeys was dining on a lavish lunch while visiting an area in Sindh where local people were dying of hunger and lack of medical facilities. He is so pathetic.
Qaim Ali Shah sb, What an Incompetent CM you are? The whole nation become mockery in the international media due to this horrible event and you are playing blame game rather encouraging ASF which contained terrorist in two areas only till the arrival of Army and Rangers, otherwise the damage could be un-imaginable.
If a Chief Minister of a province does not have any authority or controls over an airport in a major metro city, then we should only look towards Almighty Allah for any help as you will not get any help or assistance from the local administration. CM Sindh should resign or should be fired from this job as he does not deserve to rule this province. If they can't manage Karachi, then Karachi should be made a separate province with a Governor and Chief Executive. People of Karachi should come out in protest and demand separate province. Enough of this status quo politics.
finally someone speaking the truth.
This is a proof of how utterly incompetent and failed the PPP and PML-N governments are.
why not ask supereme court to take suo moto notice of this.
@Abid P. Khan: Oh you mean PML(N)? Yes they are so soft on their TTP brothers. If it were not the army who began strikes against them, the government would still be pushing for negotiations with TTP.
@Abid P. Khan: Your ignorance knows no limits :)
There is a need for the PM to come on TV ... declare the state of war and put the entire leadership of terrorists including Shahidullah Shahid on most wanted list.
The ASF fought valiantly to repel the attackers and paid with their lives trying to keep the terrorists from getting to the high octane fuel depots, the planes, or the main terminal of the Jinnah airport as they waited for the army to arrive. Qaim Ali Shah has some gall putting the blame on ASF when his own government has no clue what's going on in the provincial capital. Typical PPP midset of shifting blame and dodging reposibility, like they did in the case of the Thar famine. QAS should be ashamed of himself and offering to resign, not showing his "dhitaai".
Waqt muqarar tha.
bhai , aap jo bhi khelen ik aur Nawaz ne qasm khai hui hai ke mazakarat" nai chadne" . bhai , apne apne gharon me chup kar baith jayo aur in badshahon ko kia farq partha hai . jio jandal se mil kar aur choopo .This old dude should be told about ASF sacrifices and bravery. With their limited resources they fought like tigers and confined terrorists to one corner. Backup arrived after 45 minutes and this was enough time for well trained terrorists to destroy whole airport and all aircrafts. Shame on these cowards who blame our bravest.
Why don't you politicians just go and DIE.
The Blame Game ! What is Qaim Ali Shah Responsibility? Even in Thar incident the Sindh Govt was Blaming others ................. Please take ownership and show Humanity because peoples are dying outside some because of these attacks , some killing themselves for not having resources of earning and power of buying eatables, some dying because they cannot survive in this corrupt system.
Where are we peoples standing?
Typical of QAS. By blaming ASF, he has absolved his useless provincial government of all responsibility in pre-empting this sort of terrorist outrage. Why isn't there gun control in Karachi or to a larger extent Sindh ? Why aren't there more police ?
Good job, QAS. Blame everyone but yourself. Its easy to blame ASF as its a federal force. I wonder why people vote this moronic provincial leader into power every time there is an election. Name one thing that he has done for people of Sindh, apart from announcing cheques for relatives of deceased or the injured.
Chaudhry Nisar said yesterday "The Interior Ministry had issued six security alerts to the provincial government of Sindh since November out of which two were for Karachi. The gate from which the attack was launched had been declared a security risk in March." Mr Qaim Ali Shah, what did the Sindh Government do to listen to these warnings?
He should be sacked for negligence and charged.
Wadera Corruption Party can not be blamed for anything, they are doing what they are supposed to do and that is to loot this country
ASF responsible means you are responsible Mr. CM. Shame on you.
Easy for you to say CM, what was your role in all of this? It's so sad the rescue teams couldn't rescue the trapped civilians in time. Dying of hypothermia is a terrible terrible way to die.
@ishrat salim: Unless we infiltrate their units / group ( although we have advantage of language & looks etc; ), we will never be able to break their backbone. How you can infiltrate when 98% population have same mindset.?
he should resign instead blaming others who lost there lives for this country....
Qaim Ali shah, you should be blamed every time you open your mouth...
Security agencies had the capability to stop this attack on airport if they had been looking for real terrorists but instead, they were busy terrorising MQM on the direction of federal government. The priorities of the government are not right. They are too busy settling their old scores.
@ishrat salim: I completely agree with you, the fundamental problem faced by our nation is the corruption at every level! Corrupt ASF, corrupt army, corrupt politicians,corrupt bureaucracy, corrupt business practices, corrupt morals and the list goes on. Unless this is sorted out nothing, you will keep on seeing such problems.
The press corps.need to be near him during lunch He normally has Malai Boti, Chicken Tikka, Fried Fish, Koftas and Roti. for lunch.
F.I.R.should be registered against Qaim Ali Shah,D.G.Rangers.and ex-police chief of karachi ...for failure of KARACHI OPERATION
@bajwa: Bajwaji you are right this is nothing more than kagzi karvai and the police may be in Pakistan often do such things,will they be able to catch the man against whom the FIR has been lodged he may be sitting in some safe place. The common man suffers the leaders are having fool proof security aur bakian da Allah beli, sat shri Akal.
@Zaliman:
Sounds great -- but the Pak Army has had 12 years to confront these terrorist so don't hold your breath waiting for them to finally fix this problem.
As if they care two hoot about FIR...".catch me if you can ? " you could not catch 3 -4 people firing & running away near ASF camp...not 1 TTP member caught till today.....& those killed have never been identified through NADRA record....where are we...? we have no system & if we have...is not followed....so what are we talking about eliminating them....NO WAY....they have proved to more hardened warrior, better equipped, better trained, better intel units & have better logistics....period. Unless we infiltrate their units / group ( although we have advantage of language & looks etc; ), we will never be able to break their backbone. We will have to make them weak from within.....we need to change of fighting profile from conventional to guerrilla...we will have to create fear in them when they start loosing people within themselves.....we will have to strengthen & support people in FATA, SWA & NWA & other such areas with money, food & employment so that they are not lured away by TTP outfits....this is only possible if our govt ( Central & Provincial ) change their lifestyle, prioritize security as # 1 & divert money saved to affected areas...only then we may win over them....
ha ha ha...what a joke ! Problem solved! Wow, I'd like to meet the guy who came with this solution...poor joke with Pak citizens.
@lovepk:
Agreed! who is responsible for the loss of lives?
F.I.R. against TTP,then chalan ,then warrant....problem of terrorism solved..great remedy..
Case registered against TTP........with OUR legal system I can just imagine them shaking in their shalwars.
What about case against government because the 7 peoples who died in cold storage it's all government responsibility :@
hey i want t o inform you that tehre is shortage of bullet prof jackets and other basic things in airport ppolice a tation plz make a report on it plz .............
@Abid P. Khan: The name of a political Tehrik, the major political patroniser of Taliban also starts with a “P”, are you proposing the same in their case too?
Are you referring to PTI or the PMLN, as until recently both were racing each other to show loyalty to the TTP, with Ch. Nisar being PMLN's ace sprinter?
@Pakistani: "Pakistan has nothing to do with Taliban..nor Taliban have any association with Pakistan…..Please do not use Pakistan name with taliban….they are only tehreek e taliban…."
The name of a political Tehrik, the major political patroniser of Taliban also starts with a "P", are you proposing the same in their case too?
This is a Sick Joke. Probably the Corrupt Incompetents are only capable of this. They should be dropped from helicopters in Waziristan to pursue the "case" they have registered.
@Pakistani: When you have some psychological problems and visit a psychoanalyst, the basic requirement is the confession "I have a problem!"
Pakistanis like you are not prepared for this confession, that they are suffering from very acute psychological problems!
Why against TTP? Since a vast majority of population believes they were Indians since they had Indian weapons and medicine? (want to hit my head against a wall at the level of ignorance of our masses)
Is our police capable enough to take any action on this FIR? If they are, why they were not able to capture these attackers on that day. Why Army had to be called? It's all just a 'kaghazi karwai'
And do you thing they will surrender with wobbling legs......Lets suppose by chance if they caught....They would definately get "Bail".......
Pakistan has nothing to do with Taliban..nor Taliban have any association with Pakistan.....Please do not use Pakistan name with taliban....they are only tehreek e taliban....
this is pakistan's idea of projecting a soft image!!!
Wow!!! a case registered against them.....next a hawaldar with lathi will call on the TTP spokesman to investigate!!
The Taliban must shaking in their socks out of fear!!!
case against TTP??....they must be smiling somewhere in the caves of North Waziristan....Mr. PM...go get them and kill them....no need to register case
Our beloved Indians made a movie with the name "OMG Oh My God".....in which a man registers a case against God!
Aasalam o Aliakum
I really disappoint with media
Stop using "P" or the name of Pakistan with TT, For the sake of Publicity, you start hitting on Pakistan's reputation, This is very bad We don't accept this , UNderstood
$100bn damage to the economy 60,000 innocent lives lost Polio epidemic Travel restrictions Destruction of infrastructure
We are with you Pak Army - go get them
Dear All,
Since the inception of PML (N) Government they had started Karachi operations. The law enforcement agencies and Rangers were very active for Karachi operations. They harassed some handful citizens and M.Q.M. activities and left the terrorist and banned activities.
Since the very day of PML (N) Government they are not sincere to deal with Karachi situations.
Now water is flowing above their heads but they are sleeping in Islamabad. Awake immediately otherwise you are fake.