| Rawalpindi Blast: 8 killed including Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Baig | |
| Updated at: 1800 PST, Monday, February 25, 2008 | |
| RAWALPINDI (Mazhar Tufail): Lt. General, Dr. Mushtaq Baig was martyred while his guard and driver were killed on the spot in a suicide bomb attack at busy Mall Road in garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday.The Interior Ministry has confirmed deaths of four persons in the explosion executed at around 2:45 PM near NADRA office.
The suicide bomber was on foot, who blew himself up by the car of Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Baig which was stationary before a red signal, said the Interior Ministry officials . The suicide bomber, aged around 15 to 18 years, had a fair complexion. According to the Interior Ministry, the attack killed eight persons including Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Baig, his gunman, driver, a female civilian and the suicide bomber while eight others injured. Security personnel cordoned off the area immediately after the explosion and began the rescue work. The vehicles of Rescue 112, Pak Army, police and fire brigade rushed to the site of the incident and ferried the injured and dead to the hospitals. Six injued were shifted to CMH hospital. Severe traffic jams were witnessed on various arteries in the city following the explosion. Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Baig belonged to Lehr Sultanpur village, district Chakwal. His bereaved family members include his widow, three sons and a daughter. He was also the principal of an Army Medical College. I pray for their lives in the hereafter… |
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I am a Pakistani living in Canada.
Having moved here 10 years ago, I was pleasently surprised to see that how open and accepting a society Canada is, barely any racism and mostly egalitarian for all.
Now when I tell people I am from Pakistan, I can tell exactly what they are thinking without actually saying the words.
I am very proud of my heritage, of being a Pakistani and a muslim. Yet, I wish things were different.
The west has all the qualities that a muslim nation should have had; and that is why they are where they are.
I wonder when we will stop back stabbing each other, blowing each other up and stop spreading hate in each others hearts.
There should be national campaign, not covering economics or education or better living….simply a camapign to make people value life. It is said this life is not a rehersal, we get it once.
Sadly,
Murtaza