• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Pakistan: Islamic jihad bombers murder Punjab Home Minister, 16 others

Aug 16, 2015 8:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Shuja KhanzadaKhanzada 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.”…

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Pakistan, suicide bombing Tagged With: Shuja Khanzada


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. mortimer says

    Aug 16, 2015 at 11:37 pm

    ‘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

      Aug 27, 2015 at 3:07 am

      theofascisti?

  2. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 17, 2015 at 9:09 am

    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

      Aug 17, 2015 at 10:23 am

      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.

  3. sidney penny says

    Aug 17, 2015 at 9:17 am

    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

      Aug 17, 2015 at 11:07 am

      A brilliant simplification, but clearly correct. Apart from the military control of the country, Pakistan has no focus of loyalty.

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 17, 2015 at 11:02 am

    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’.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 17, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    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.”

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Crusades Were Right on Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
  • curious george on Israel At A Crossroads?
  • Crusades Were Right on Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
  • William Garrison on The Fantasy Islam of Rice University’s Craig Considine (Part 3)
  • Vladimir on Islamic Republic of Iran: Turkey’s Erdogan champions Islam only as a tool to further his own interests

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.