Posted on 11/01/2009 10:41:32 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Edited on 11/01/2009 10:47:35 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
An explosion rocked the compound of a four-star hotel just off a main boulevard in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday and there were reports of casualties, police said. "According to initial reports the blast took place in the compound of the hotel. Our teams are there, they are updating us on the details," police officer Mohammed Akhlaq told AFP by telephone.
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I wonder if they have X-ray machines for luggage and metal detectors at the entrances of hotel properties in Pakistan like they do in places like Jordan and Kuwait now?
I could not say.
Thread Bump.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/358043_Blast-near-Army-General-Headquarters-in-Rawalpindi—10-killed
“Blast near Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, 10 killed”
STAFF WRITER 11:46 HRS IST
Rezaul H Laskar
SNIPPET: “Islamabad, Nov 2 (PTI) A powerful blast occurred outside a hotel in a high-security area near the Pakistan Army’s headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi today, killing at least 10 people and injuring several others.
The explosion at around 10.40 am caused considerable damage to the facade of Shalimar Hotel on Mall Road, a short distance from the Army’s General Headquarters.
Police officials said they believed the bomb was planted in a car or motorcycle parked outside the hotel.
Several Army officers’ messes, sensitive military installations and other hotels are located near the building.”
An explosion in Pakistan? Who’da thunk?
“At least 22 killed, 60 injured in Rawalpindi blast”
Submitted 1 hr 11 mins ago
SNIPPET: “The suicide attacker blown up near PC and Shalimar hotels in the Cantt area killing at least 22 persons including women and children.”
Off Thread Topic:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/11/pakistani_army_surro.php
“Pakistani Army surrounds major Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan”
By BILL ROGGIO
November 1, 2009 8:34 PM
SNIPPET: “The Pakistani Army has surrounded two major Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan and is clearing a third.”
“Blast outside hotel ‘apparent’ suicide attack (AFP)”
2 November 2009, 10:53 AM RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -
SNIPPE: ““We believe that it was a suicide attack and our initial investigation also endorses this but we will be able to say something with finality only after our investigation is complete,” police official Babar Pervis said.”
What concerns me about Pakistan are their nukes. A complete Islamic “revolution” would be the most devastating thing to happen.
Prayers for all the victims of this act of terrorism in Pakistan.
BTTT
Thank you for the bump.
God hears ours prayers.
Yes He does.
http://www.karachinews.net/story/560951
“22 dead as blast rocks Rawalpindi”
Karachi News.Net
Monday 2nd November, 2009 (IANS)
SNIPPET: “At least 22 people were killed Monday morning when a massive explosion went off close to a hotel and a bank in this garrison city. The blast occurred barely 500 metres from the Pakistani Army Headquarters that came under Taliban attack less than three weeks back.
Hospital sources said that as many as 22 people were killed while 15 were wounded, some critically, when the blast occurred at 10.40 a.m., Geo TV reported.
Ishtiaq Shah, a police official, said the explosion occurred when government employees and security personnel were withdrawing their salaries from the bank, DPA reported.
He told Samaa television that dozens of people were injured.
The blast rocked Shalimar Hotel behind Pearl Continental Hotel located on Mall Road in the cantonment area of Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to capital Islamabad.
The bomb was reportedly planted in a vehicle.”
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE5A10RF20091102
“Blast in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi kills 24”
Mon Nov 2, 2009 8:15am GMT
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) -
SNIPPET: “The blast came as the Pakistan government announced rewards of up to $5 million (3 million pound) for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and more than a dozen other leaders.
With the army involved in the offensive against Hakimullah and his followers in their South Waziristan strongholds, the militants have retaliated by stepping up a bombing campaign against urban targets across the country.”
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