Massive Explosion at Marriott
According to TV reports, a hug explosion at Marriott (F-5) Islamabad is heard and seen. Causing fatalities and injuries.
A second blast in Marriott in an years time.
Its a “High Security” area.
Update 1: 10-15 killed and many injured.
Gas pipeline exploded as well causing more damage.
Gulshan e Jinnah (living flats for federal govt employees) is affected badly as well. Its just at the back of mariott (almost).
According to TV reports, a hug explosion at Marriott (F-5) Islamabad is heard and seen. Causing fatalities and injuries.
Ironically, its a “High Security” area.
Update 2:
The entire front section of the Marriott Hotel has been blown out and wreckage is everywhere.
Reports are that it could be the biggest explosion - terrorist attack - in Pakistan’s history. Among dead, drivers out in parking area and the security guards mostly included (Geo and Aaj tv reports).
Update 3:
Blood needed in hospitals.
Image Courtesy: Aaj TV
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and the condition of outside parked cars is weired.
cars converted into junk
the images at television show that it was not an ordinary blast
again?? :(
it seems so well planned, even the roof is cracked. May Allah save us.
yeah :/
from what I can see on TV now, many floors are on fire. massive fire :/
Video here from the News:
http://vidpk.com/view_video.php?vid=16718
I just feel so helpless. The bomb really isn’t ordinary…I mean, people have not only been affected by the blast, there is also the fire and the suffocation. Allah kher kare.
Thanks tbaweja.
Ameeen monkey … Allah khair karay … things are becoming chaotic day by day :(
This is war against our country, May God bless Pakistan
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Dear Isloittes,
I am from Karachi and feel very sad about this. Just to let you know that this is not just an attach on Islamabad but on our whole nation. We are all together at this very difficult moment. May Allah save us from these heious attacks and we live peacefully. May allah forgive our mistakes and may we are able to find the real solution of so called war against terror.
War it is Indeed.
May Allah keep everyone safe from these bay-deen mullahs, todays carnage was among the innumerable cowardly acts they have done to de-stabilize our beloved Pakistan. Be it explosion in sadr area in Karachi in 1980s, be it explosion of Benezir’s rally in Karachi or of her assassination, these infidels have tried to rob us from the peace and tranquility we use to enjoy in this country.
I think, this is the high time, that all of us the youth of Pakistan start taking stand against these mullahs, or else one day they will eat us all!!!
Remember, zulm sehna bhee gunah hey !!!
stay safe and stay focus Isloittes.
best regards from Karachi.
So when guys going to blame Taliban and Alqaeda? IN past we used to have fun by associating every shit with India.
In my opinion this blast is revenge of the 5 blasts in India’s Capital New Delhi. There were clear report of intelligence that Indian Counslates are directly involved in providing funding to so called TALIBAN fighting against Pakistan Army….
They use our people to fight agaist us!!
What do you think??
WAR ITS INDEED!
I like this realization but, as a nation do we know what we are up against?
Will we again point finger towards America and wash our hands of any wrong doings?
Will the conspiracy theorists again come to the fore and divert the attention from the obvious to the obscure?
Yesterday on ARY they were broadcasting an statement from al-Qaeda No.2 and it was nartrated like this, "Al-qaeda ke Naib Sarbrah Aiman - Al- Zahrawi ne Farmaya he ke Muslims should ……..and the crap went on in the background while in the foreground the crack pot was shown lecturing…"
So this is what media, the lawyers and the so called civil society was used for. They were knowingly / unknowingly doing the bidding for the child molestors like Osama Bin Laden and his Pakistani band of brothers, with the soul objective fo destabilizing the country so that they can fill the void later. Unfortunately, its sad but true they have met with substantial success since their offensive started in 2007, and unless we as a ntion wake up soon, it will be too late.
planner…..all I can say is very funny!
The bottom line is, all these dastardly acts are being done by Pakistani’s / so called Muslims and nobody else. Nobody can use you if you dont want to. Taliban is a pure Pakistani creation taken over by Al-Qaeda and thats it….whats so complicated in that. Furthermore, they have strong propaganda lobbies on the internet/media complimented by resources contributed by Jamaat-e-Islami and to some extent PTI. They hold quite a sway when it comes to marshalling public opinion.
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Is it really done by Taliban? (no confirmation by TTP yet) or is India involved in this? Or are there factors more diverse and more frightening than what holds the eye? We may know about this in days to come but one is thing is for sure. There was huge security lapse and Rahman Malik and Kamal Shah should be held accountable for that.
BTW, anybody saw the "Live" speech of Zardari after the blast? Shahid Masood should be sacked too.
Kashif, What security lapse? A suicidal maniac brings a truck full of explosives, and explodes it on the gate, the impact shatters gas lines inside and there is a huge fire and people are killed. What diverse / obscure angle you are looking for? What diverse angles were involed in the recent and not so recent terrorist acts?
The problem is, if we will not call terrorists- Terrorists and instead choose such nice words as askariat pasand or shiddat pasand or mujahideen or hurriyat pasand and as long as the Terroists have the luxury of knowing that their acts achieved the desired objectives….we will see more of these crimes against humanity.
Its now high time we make it absolutely clear to the Northern Tribes that though they are our brothers, but the full shit Arab crack pots that have taken refuge amongst them must be brought to justice.
Unless the whole Pakistani nation is not united on this issue, and there is continued sympathy for school burners and suicidals, there will be no change in the status quo.
@ adnan siddiqui
you doubt about taliban and al qaeda involvement in this blast and previous blasts or you are favoring them???
I wish i could really do something to help the victims but i dont even live in Pakistan. Allah reham keray hum per aur hum ko apni hifz-o-amaan main rakhay. Ameen. My heartfelt condolences are with the victims.
@kaami: The truck was not just popped in front of the hotel gate. If one can drive around the capital, and that too in an area where President House, Prime Minister House, Parliament Building are located, with 400-1000 KGs of explosives, then we should send all security people to their homes and better handover the country to Talibans.
The gut reaction of all officials, that media interviewed, was like Thank God VIPS are safe. Damn them. They don’t take these deaths seriously.
RAW+AFGHANISTAN = BLASTS,
RAW: what ever we do in Pakistan, the Pakistan Government will blame Talibans.
Afghanistan: what ever we do we will Blame Pakistan Talibans.
Pakistan: we are stuck cant blame any one, but its easy to crack down over own people, because we cant take stand against RAW or Afghanistan.
Dont forget that few days back in Delhi India six blasts took off and Idia as every time they blame Pakistan.
So lets Calm Down and collect overselves at this critical moment, May Allah forgive us and show us the right track for Peace, Amin.
Peace
About 2000 kg huh !! RDX where it came from ?
Who and where it was collected ?
Where is our ISI and other secret services ?
This Blast is Pakistan 9/11, should we find the country to crack down ?
Breaking news…
Blasts in Sawat, Electric Station Blown-up, no electric in whole sawat…
What Next ????
Rahman Malik should give resignation now ….
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@kammi
You think its funny but think about the families whos members are lost in this blast.
1000 Kg of explosives is not so much easy to buy and transfer it to capital where security is at high level. I am damn sure that RAW and Indian govt is behind this blast. U remember in July blast in Indian Embassy in Afghanistan and the next day Karachi was hit with serial blasts.
Your kind of people actually very much under propeganda of indian media and dont want to hear the single word against India… and just say that this blame is the result of so called Islamic Political Parties…
This is unfare just read out the past magzanies of "Nida-e-Millat" weekly magazine of Nawai Waqt Group, and you will know certainly that what is behind the blasts….
and one another thing…
this is not only blast, there is a lot of home work behind this blast…
which can not be done without help of any foreign agency.
There is 1 truck, more than 1000 Kg. of explosives, transportation of this explosive to Capital Islamabd, then preparing the truck for blast, and finally proceeds it to the high alert zone there must be some people involved from our side "sO cALLED mUSLIMS" who helped in this blast, without their aid this blast is not an easy task….
Thats sad…
Welcome to Zardari ERA
The tactics and technology being used by these terrorists is clearly evident that some very powerful organization is behind them. The whole nation knows the financial, technical and mental capacities of our brothers in tribal areas; they simply can not do what we have seen in this blast and blasts in the recent past.
The so called "Taliban" movement is being projected by international media labeling them as "Islamic hardliners", "Islamic terrorists" etc. but we know the actual situation. If you have visited any of the madrasas, most of the students there don’t even have the courage to speak and yet they are tagged as militants. A few of these "Talibans" when arrested by authorities revealed that they have never been to any madrasas and they are being paid wages by some "unknown" persons; Also, none of their leaders are actually Maulvi or Mullah. Of course, the frontline terrorists are, unfortunately, nationals; but who is providing technological and material support? who is very cleverly brainwashing innocent young boys to be used as human bombs? where is the supply line of massive detonators and explosives? The answers to these questions are very obvious; if someone see with open eyes………………..
God bless Pakistan
@kaami: you seem to be the only voice of reason amidst all of this. I’d echo your call for us to accept that these terrorists are a product of our society. They haven’t landed from Mars. We are basically reaping what we sowed 30 years ago under Zia/ISI/CIA/Saudi led mujahideen movement funded by drug money.
I find it particularly disturbing that all people can do on these forums is pray to God to save us. Well if that’s not going to happen unless we own up to our mistakes and start calling (and outlawing) terrorist a terrorist.
We as a nation have to stop sitting on the fence when it comes to choosing between secularism and religious extremism. As for me, I would vote for immediate call to
-outlaw all religious parties from political landscape
-Shut down all madrassas which don’t offer both Islamic and science/social studies
to develop the FATA and NWFP regions I’m terms of education, health, roads, information paccess etc.
–move towards a future separation between state (law) and religion.
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@Planner, @Wkhang and others. Transporting 1000kg or 2000kg is not difficult to arrange for these folks. They have plenty to play with. As for security breach - No security is fool proof, especially if you have friends and sympathizers, plus Osama’s billions in your pocket. Remember, they managed to explode a bomb inside a top secret commando base and the attempts on the life of Mush were also planned with military precision. So who are they? Yes I agree they cannot be the simple tribal’s planning & executing such acts, they are merely being used as cannon fodder in search of paradise. Its obvious that there are military minds involved. Let me remind you;
After the first gulf war and fall of communism Al-Qaeda was joined by highly trained, motivated and sophisticated Lebanese and Arab terrorists, some of them have had multiple plastic surgeries and have no record. This gave this organization the level of sophistication that Osama was not capable of. However, he always had his billions + the money extorted from rich Arab billionaires. Also, after 9/11 U-turn by Pakistan a lot of Pakistani motivated ISI and military personnel who were filtered from the system found a way to contribute towards the cause, and quite a few ex-majors and officers have been found involved in recent terrorist activities.
So they have the money, they have the expertise, and they have the motivation. The question is what choices do we have? We can either accept their philosophy or fight it. There is no third option, so choose?
To add to the above they have plenty of local support on both ideological and political front with substantial infiltration in the media:
For me the chain goes like this…. Osama Bin Laden, Al Zawahiri, Baitullah Mahsood, Fazlullah, General Hameed Gul, Qazi Hussain Ahmed and the chota bhanda Imran Khan.
You can disagree but thats my take on it.
@planner I didn’t meant "funny" in the literal sense, I guess it was rather misplaced sarcasm. On the contrary the feeling that I am carrying since yesterday is nothing but ANGER!
kaami,
and you are a Altaf-Hussain bhand?
@qaimkhani I don’t need to be anybody’s bhand….I was solidly behind Musharrraf despite his legal misadventures but now he is out of the picture and sadly we have what we have. Anyway, this is not about any Author I subscribe too. The only distinction that I make now is who are the ones that our turning the youth of this country into explosive devices?, who are the ones that tend to justify senseless terrorists acts? and who are the ones that are partners in crime? Anyone who chooses to fight and resist these child molesters is my friend.
@ everyone
All this is an American conspiracy! :P
@kami( aka. @balma,@sceptic ,@ammar etc etc) : ur filth truly comes out from mouth after any such incident.
Truly these are not taliban but indian RAW. Mush has opened the ways for RAW, MOSAD to get into pakistan by allowing them to infilterate into pakistan via Afghanistan.
Mulla Umar has said that he has no affiliation with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan so they are indeed local RAW persons or persons playng in hands of outside agencies.
Anyways, this is was just a clarification for some one who wants to understand wats the reality.
Now, coming to this bomb blast, i really liked that. Now they will come to know how it feels when inncocents gets killed. This is the only way to bring our dead nation alive. Have some missile attacks on karachi, islamabad and lahore, like it being done in tribal areas. Then the ordinary citizens will start protesting against current policies.
CAn Some one kill our whole high command including all those qadyani and shia officers who are not sincere to the country?
Bloody revolution is needed badly else pppl like @kaami will kep spreading filth every where.
May @kaami die with his whole family in such an incident. (ameen)
we really dont need such persons in our country so called intellectuals who are now asking questions that "will america attack pakistan?" instead of telling the nation to stand up against the enemy.
Kami at one side hate conspiracy theory while he himself is the product of one.
ansar abbasi says that PPP politicians found American Maries at Marriot
"May @kaami die with his whole family in such an incident. (ameen)"
It says it all, when it comes to mullahs such as the "unknowing". They curse, they blame and they play with the lives of the innocent. Unknowing is the only one who is unashamedly supporting the killing of innocent lives by the Islamic terrorists but asking for more attack at the other civil centres of the country. So much for patriotism. The mullahs are truly loyal to their fanaticism and ignorance. Which religion or human value can teach such a disgusted message?
Not content at that, “unknowing” goes on to ask for the killings of non-mainstream Muslims – it is nothing but religious self-righteousness at its worst. Without realizing the repulsiveness of his hateful messages, he willing passes on the responsibility of terrorism in Pakistan to India, Israeli and others. It is mullahs like him who incite violence; they pollute minds and “bodies” of the madrassa youth who are then used to unleash bombs and blasts on Pakistanis.
The enemy is within; it can be seen at this forum, in media which conveniently shuts its eyes to religion-inspired violence and within the society who readily suffers from terrorism for the sake of defending their religion that has already been hijacked by killers, and because of plain fatalism.
Kaami, thanks for continuing to be a voice of logic in the cacophony of hate and ignorance.
ay jo wi kerwa riya aye, amreeeka ei kerwa riya ae!!!!!
@kaami, i discovered another chain,,,
Neocons -> Bush administartion -> Haqani -> Zardari -> Rehman Malik -> @Kaami
lolz @ you
@Kami
Go down with Musharaf!
Another aspect of this blast:
http://jang.net/jm/9-21-2008/pic.asp?picname=3413.gif
Americans were present there at the time of blast may be our agencies are behind this to warn America against there attacks on our borders!!
What do u think about this aspect??
@Planner, Wkhang & Kaami, one thing is for sure that this is done by people from Al Qaeda or their offshoots. Haven’t someone notice the pattern, ramming a truck load right into a building.
In case if you have forgotten, same technique was used for US embassy in Yemen, US embassy in Karachi, World Trade Centre (NY), Indian Embassy Kabul and now in Marriot Islamabad. Is it still hard to imagine who is behind all these attacks, which have killed hundreds of people.
All I want to say is that we should stop favoring / supporting Talibaan and other similar outfits, since the things they do in the name of religion are not at all Islamic. Please stop giving your zakat and sadqaat to the mosques and madrissas who support these outfits. We have to kill their financial life line, they will disintegrate themselves.
@tzaidi
If you got this impression that we are supporting such outfits then I got this impression that your supporting America, India and their agencies…
There financial lines are not wih Zakat and Sadaqat there financial line is from your Boss India.. I will later send reports link clearly claiming that India’s direct involvment in our Northern Areas Wana Waziristan..
No doubt they are using the people who represents Islamic Ideology but they have no contact with Islam or Humainity..
Just concentrate on this point who are using them and why…?? Before 9/11 there was no such atmosphere.. We become the part of War Against Terrorism and still providing support to America.. they cant go to America so they are hiting us as we are with America …
And India is using them to fight against our Army and people
There is immense need of change of foreign policy regarding Afghanistan..
Planner – Another conspiracy. Sir, the US Marines have been attached to the American missions in Pakistan since the American Embassy in Islamabad was burnt by gullible believers in another conspiracy theory in 1979. When off duty, they do pop into 5-star hotels like many others working at various diplomatic missions. The marines become conspicuous when a US dignitary is visiting Pakistan as they guard them. Pakistani agencies destroying one of the biggest 5-star hotels in country worth millions of dollars, killing dozens of innocents etc, just to scare off American? Very far fetch indeed. A respectable conspiracy theory should have an iota of reality to it.
Planer - You really let your imagination run wild in hatching a theory after another. No time for ‘planning’, I guess.
And the Taliban, the so-called champions of Islam and Muslims worldover, are so naïve and trusting that they have no compunctions in being “used” by Indians. They won’t listen to Pakistanis but are happy to throw their fate with Indians to terrorize Muslim Pakistanis. Another laughable conspiracy theory only meant to muddy the waters in favour of the Islamic terrorists by a Taliban-apologist.
Sceptic = ceptic tank
your tank is full and now over flowing……
Thats all I have to say regarding ur above comment.
just read out the latest interview:
http://nidaimillat.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/2008/18-sep/nmreport.php
@ sceptic,
Agreed with you !!
Planner - May I thank you for confirming your mindset and bringing to light a ’source’ of your intellect. Keep reading intellectually-challenging, oops, intellectually-stimulating Nida-e-Millat to think of your next conspiracy theory.
@sceptic, what’s wrong wid the link planner sent, do you know a thing about people like Hameed Nizami and Majid Nizami,
poeple like you really give a damn appreciating enlightenment/liberalism of people like Musharraf and Alatafa, but they get blind when someone talk about real influential personalities.
@planner, this argue will end without any result, such people keep pouring filth all the the time, and when someone hit them hard, they will label him radical islam/muslim.
@kaami - please don’t kill yourself arguing against lunatics who resort to death wishes due to an acute inability to argue anything intellectually. Just goes to show the absolute decay of values.
By the way, I completely appreciate where you are coming from…feel the same anger. It would be great to get in touch. Email me sometime on azkay@live.com if you want to join forces
LOL! as I expected, govt finally blamedALqaeda since it was Alqeda Style. I heard about Mitthan Style, Rajni Kant style but hearing Alqaeda Style is hilarious.
Now govt’s officials will go to home and sleep since they blame someone who could not be captured by Yanks too. Drawing room experts like here would die by keep blaming Alqaeda. hehe
@Adnan Siddiqi
What do u think then Mr. Pro Taliban Adnan Siddiqi ……. is this done by Asif Ali Zardari , Yousuf Raza Gillani , Pervaiz Musharaf … or Someone from the current opposition ….
One who have attacked, would simply be having fun ….. just like you are having fun here …… So should i conclude that u are behind all this ….
Btw where are your rest of f__king friends Doctor and MB …. Killed in the blast …. Ohhhh i guess they were the two one driving the small car and other one the truck ……
@qnoman2K
If Adnan Siddiqi is Pro Taliban then ur Pro India, Pro America….
Adnan you should open pamestry shop… just kidding
qnomans2k, kami, and others:
Just have a chilled glass of Coke so that you calm down and think of other matters, it is not so easy to think.. there are other works for you start chewing bubble gum (specially Ding Dong..)
Creep People like you dont want to think from mind.. so go ahead and keep saying TALIBANs are behind this… Paste a sticker behind your car Talibans are responsible for the blasts… Make T-Shirts having quotation "Talibans are responsible for Blasts" and what else….
America is coming to see us and we are busy in blaming Taliban…
Go on Guys!! Very few days left…
and Listen Kami
chain is : Afhanistan>>> Iraq>>> Pakistan (May GOD save us)
but GOD save those who save themselves..
Listen
Indonesia had an Al-Qaeda Problem - They fixed it
Malaysia had an Al-Qaeda Problem - They fixed it
Bangladesh had an Al-Qaeda Problem - They fixed it
Iraq haven Al-Qaeda Problem - They are fighting it
Saudia is fighting it
Yemen is fighting it
Lebanon despite their problems rooted them out.
So why cant we?
Planner its not only America. Our dear friend China is also very upset after the bombings on the eve of olympics, they want action too.
And why do we have to second this crazy jihaad, why cant we educate, setup businesses, export, trade and prosper? Why do we have to be in a constant state of jihaad. What do the Palestinians, Chechens and Kosovan’s care about us, why cant we let them fight their own wars? Ar e we general contractors?
@kaami (a.k.a @sceptic, @kabirdas, @balma etc etc) : you are such a sissy person that u dont havent have courage to face the truth and you keep writting with different nicks. Do sissy feels shame? LoL
No one is agreeing with U here and U are like a "dheet dog", barking and barking . Sounds like Musharraf? LoL. And look who is agreeing with u .. Assface(azface) hahahahaha
Only way to fix the terrorism is to kill fitnah like u really. That will be the end of every thing. I have read ur hatered comments on KMB and you are always trying to start fight between the ppl here.
Jihaad ALLAH nay tum jaison kaay ilaj kay liiay nikala hay. InshALLAH , u wuill get die in suicidal blast (ameen ) . If u want to save ur life, wrap ur business and get out of Our beloved land. We dont need U nor ur
money. Business men are such shameless persons who can sell their mothers for a few bucks. And wat if a business man is an atheist? LoL..
The report of US marines is really strange,.Did they die out? I have heard that Some armed persons immediately reached there from US embassy. Who has given the rights to them to investigate? Lets Kick USA out and crush them in afghanistan by supporting taliban. China and Iran will support Us I am sure.
Why USa is interverning in pakistan? who has given him the right to do so? Usama has been dead since 2003. What US wants from pakistan? I think we shud quit our relations with US. It has alreayd been too much.
But then @kami (filthy) would die due to lack of money as his business would not run properly. Most of PAkistanis wearing 2-piece, live on charity (little income they get from business in US) given from US. And then they say lets kill taliban .. LoL
BTW, I have rephrased that chain
Neocons -> Bush administartion ->All sissies
Hey does anyone know about the fate of Evacuee Trust complex? For how many days/weeks will it be closed for biz? Also what to the future of dozens of IT companies working there and more importantly their employees?
weirdsoul
A very valid concern.
Many companies are already shifting their setups … temporarily at the moment like LMKR, etc. Still many have yet to decide of their fate … and higher ups are of cousre working from home.
So Sad…
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@ Planner: how you ascertained that am calling anyone Talibaan supporters. My dear friend, answer my questions:
1) who are talibans and where their movement was born?
2) what is the nationality demographic of their movement and which nationality got the highest percentage in their movement?
3) where is their power base situated.
Well, in answer of any of the questions mentioned above, you can not name India or USA. So stop ushering every one with same yard stick, this shows your aptitude of knowledge on the subject.
& my advise to you: don’t hate anyone / anything if you don’t have a reason for it!!
@Unknown!! – as your name suggest please stay that way and stop cursing people. This wont do any harm to them but will only help in building negative image of yours.
As far as Talibaans are concerned, I call them bay-deen mullah, since they don’t do a single thing as per Islam , sunnat-e-rasul and shariat. They are power hungry war mongers who have done nothing good for Pakistan.