Khanzada was apparently murdered in retaliation for the killing of two jihad leaders last month. “And We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution. But whoever gives charity, it is an expiation for him….” (Qur’an 5:45) But those who don’t choose that expiation can take revenge without believing themselves to be transgressing. And so the cycle of revenge and retaliation continues endlessly.
“Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada killed in Attock suicide blast,” Express Tribune, August 16, 2015:
Punjab Home Minister Col (retd) Shuja Khanzada was killed along with 16 others in a suicide blast at his political office in Shadi Khan near Attock on Sunday.
“Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was killed in the suicide blast,” confirmed Adviser to Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif Dr Saeed Elahi.
Khanzada, 71, had been holding a meeting with local people. He was trapped with several others under the rubble after the blast brought down the roof of the house.
“There were two suicide bombers, one stood outside the boundary wall and the second one went inside and stood in front of the minister,” IG Punjab Mushtaq Sukhera told reporters.
“The blast by the bomber standing outside ripped the wall which caused the roof to fall flat on the minister and people gathered there,” he said.
Sukhera added police were investigating whether the attacker inside the building detonated a bomb.
Rescuers move the body of a victim from the site of a blast at Shadi Khan village. PHOTO: AFP
Read: Khanzada attack in retaliation of LeJ chief’s killing: sources
The death toll rose to 14, including the minister and two police officials, with 23 others injured, the IG Punjab said.
Four of the injured were shifted to DHQ Hospital Rawalpindi but three of them later succumbed to their wounds raising the death toll to 17. Khanzada’s driver of home minister, Ghareeb Nawaz, was also among the dead.
Twenty-two people had been taken to hospital, he said, adding the body of the suicide bomber was also found.
Khanzada’s body was recovered from under the rubble and was transferred to Rawalpindi via helicopter for postmortem.
“There were between 20 and 30 people present when the blast took place,” district information officer Shahzad Niaz told Reuters. “The roof collapsed.”…
mortimer says
‘Moderate’ Muslims are considered apostates by the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS…among other Islamic terror groups.
This is another example of the civil war within Islam. The madrasah system in Pakistan caused this civil war.
Pakistan is home to dozens of fanatical Muslim groups that are completely intolerant of any other group. They are all theocratic fascists.
Huck Folder says
theofascisti?
Matthieu Baudin says
Condolences to family and friends of Shuja Khanzada. Mr Khanzada is one of many people in public life who have lost their lives for doing their job in the face of a relentless violent jihad around the world.
mortimer says
Anyone who speaks about Islamic terrorism is on the front line of the battle. The Islamic terrorists are in every population. Islam must be fought ideologically, but governments don’t get that.
Islam must be deconstructed and Muslims deprogrammed.
sidney penny says
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n19/tariq-ali/pakistan-at-sixty
Tariq Ali
“Many of those who denounced me as a traitor and a renegade are now asking the same question. It’s too late for regrets, I tell them. The country is here to stay. And it’s not religion or the mystical ‘ideology of Pakistan’ that guarantees its survival, but its nuclear capacity and Washington.”
Also author of
http://www.amazon.com/Can-Pakistan-Survive-tariq-Ali/dp/0805271953
Can Pakistan Survive Paperback – December 31, 1998
“Several years after the split with Bangladesh in 1971 I wrote a book called Can Pakistan Survive? for Penguin. It was publicly denounced and banned by the dictator of the day, General Zia-ul-Haq, but pirated in many editions.”
Pakistan’ s survival, is guaranteed by its nuclear capacity and Washington!!!!
mortimer says
A brilliant simplification, but clearly correct. Apart from the military control of the country, Pakistan has no focus of loyalty.
mortimer says
Islam is a Death Cult.
How long will Pakistanis continue to be tricked by the mullahs? How much more must Pakistanis suffer until they lose faith in this lethal, perverted deception called ‘Islam’.
Walter Sieruk says
Such murderous jihad bombings which may also be called suicide/homicide jihad attacks are the results of men strongly believing in the far-fetched and nonsensical Islamic doctrine from the Koran, 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for male Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam as a “martyr.” This bizarre and strange Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled place with virgins has inspired and will continue to inspire much murder and mayhem. In other words this weird, odd and outlandish Islamic doctrine has cause and will continue to cause a lot of murderous chaos. Thus the French philosopher, Voltaire, did have a good point when he wrote “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”