Terrorists attack Mosque in Pakistan over 90 Dead

[Ehsan]

This happened a week ago and the terrorist stormed our sects mosque , a few of my friends were there but managed to escape while my friend father died and one my friends uncle died just a bit of background history there are over 73 sects of islam but our community is not considered muslim by all other 72 sects and we are under Pakistan state law considered as non muslim and even the local Govt and extremists support and legalize violence against our ahmadiyya muslim community.

And after all this attack terrorists from the same group attacked the hospital where the injured from the mosque attacks were being treated !

Armed militants swarmed around two mosques of a minority Islamic sect in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, raking worshippers with gunfire, taking hostages and killing at least 90 people.

A spokesman for a group describing itself as the Punjabi Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, during which gunmen lobbed grenades into crowds and opened fire from a minaret.

It was the bloodiest ever militant assault on the Ahmedi sect, highlighting how the fusion of Taliban and sectarian militant groups in Pakistan poses a deadly threat to besieged minorities.

Considered heretics by many Pakistanis because they revere a nineteenth century religious figure, Ahmedis have suffered decades of state-sponsored discrimination.

Today's assault started during weekly prayers when two teams of militants carrying ammunition-laden rucksacks stormed the mosques in Model Town and Garhi Shah, densely populated areas in Pakistan's cultural capital, Lahore.

In Model Town, worshippers barricaded themselves into a section of the mosque as militants opened fire and tossed grenades through the windows. The devices seemed to have slow fuses and some were thrown back out.

The attack ended after a short gunfight with police. At least 25 people were killed, including one attacker. Another, a 16-year-old boy, was captured, while a third managed to escape, firing at television reporters as he fled.

"He was young, clean-shaven. He sprayed bullets at our van while fleeing the scene," said Rabia Mehmood of Express Television.

There was greater bloodshed at Garhi Shuha, where one gunman mounted his assault from the balcony of a minaret. Others took hostages in the courtyard below, starting a four-hour siege that ended with three militants blowing up their explosives vests, killing dozens of people and wounding many more.

By late afternoon the Lahore deputy commissioner counted 70 dead and 80 injured, but the toll continued to rise during the evening. Among the victims was the local head of the Ahmedi community and a retired army general.

Punjab province's chief minister, Shahbaz Sharif, appealed for calm. "Our security forces will fight this menace till the end," he said. "Attacks on places of worship is barbarianism."

Last week the country's top television presenter Hamid Mir sparked outrage when he appeared to make derogatory comments about Ahmedis in a tape leaked to the media. Mir says the tape was fabricated; his critics have challenged him to take the case to court.

Pakistani prejudice against Ahmedis dates back to the early 1950s, when Lahore was rocked by violent riots targeting the sect. They are like other Muslims in most respects but believe that a 19th century Punjab cleric, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, was a messenger from God. Orthodox Muslims insist that Muhammad was the final prophet.

In the 1970s the government declared Ahmedis a non-Muslim minority and banned their public demonstrations of faith, such as the call to prayer. Ahmedis may not describe themselves as Muslims, while calling their place of worship a "mosque" carries a six-month prison sentence, although many television reporters seemed to forget this today.

As police and army installations are increasingly well guarded, the Taliban is turning to soft sectarian targets to assert its authority. Last month Shias queuing to receive food in Hangu district were targeted by a suicide bomber; last year saw a bloody assault on a Shia mosque in Chakwal.

Many fugitive extremists from Punjab are thought to be hiding in the Taliban stronghold of Waziristan in the tribal belt, where American drone attacks continue to pound suspected extremist hideouts.

Today a suspected CIA missile killed 11 people in South Waziristan, security officials said. The identities of the dead were not clear.

• This article was amended on 2 June 2010 to clarify the Ahmedis' status in the realm of Muslim belief, and towards Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, whose spelling has also been corrected.

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Sorry to hear that..

The way I know you I thought you are going to blame India for that - Glad to see you realized it is not India that killed your community.

Self experience is the costly experience.. I am sorry you learned the hard way.

The only way I see you guys is to leave Pakistan and find some place to live.

[Ehsan]

i don't really blame India for everything happens in Pakistan our community comes originally from India but most of us migrated to Pakistan after the creation of Pakistan but sad to see how it turned out !

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As long as Pakistan support terrorists in any form they will create trouble to every one inducing themselves.
There is no good and bad terrorists, if they are trained by Pak Military and if they think they can control them.

They can only control them few days or months may be few years they are bound to get out of control.

Hope Pakistan as a nation will realize, it is not good to support terror in any from.

The way I see Indian's don't hate Pakistan, but the sad part is it is not the other way around.

What happened in Bombay is well known - I am not saying all are involved but definitely, Pak military trained and helped them execute Blood shead.

We are sorry for what happened to your community. Hope the ruling people of Pakistan will include you and not just terminate all of you.

[Banned: dn-101]

Europe went thru similar madness in the Middle Ages. The search for the true religion failed.
Amen

[Donald Aquilano]

Maybe you should stop your jihad against Israel and concentrate on the real enemy.....radical Islam. That would be common sense but I'm pretty sure you don't have it.

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Maybe you should stop your jihad against Israel and concentrate on the real enemy.....radical Islam. That would be common sense but I'm pretty sure you don't have it.

BD: You have the guts to say what you said - I am sure Ehsan would wake up now.

He just need to go back and read his own posts in this section and realize he was wrong.
I was banned for saying out Loud his views were wrong.

[Ehsan]

I never said Muslims dont do wrong things but the fact is on one hand we have so called muslims taking up extremist views and mixing them with Islam while on the other hand we have same thing happening with the israel some extremists taking the idea of israel to new lengths even sensible jews dont support what israel does ! the same way i condemn people committing terrorist attacks in Pakistan and all over the world i also condemn israel for human rights breaches and killing of innocent civilians in Palestine !

if taliban and alqaeda are wrong doesn't make israel right !

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I am not familiar with that part of the world - I know little bit about India and Pakistan.

Did you ever see Israel Killing 90 people praying for Alla?

I am not saying they are right - What is going on in Pakistan is worse then what is going on in other parts of the world together.
One should try to correct the family first.

I just pity Pakistan and wish and hope they run their country well and treat their citizens and rest of the world as human.
The education system has to change. Teaching heat to school kids should stop.