Dastardly Daesh Behind Pakistan Terrorist Blast

By: Kayhan Int’l

Terrorists are devils in human form. They have neither any ideology nor religion, although they falsely claim to possess both. They love to shed the blood of the innocent and are unconcerned whether their victims are women, children, and the elderly.

The other day a political gathering in the Pakistani city of Bajaur was rocked by a bomb blast that caused the death of 54 people (including five children) and various degrees of injury – some critical – to around 200 persons.

As a shocked nation was engulfed in grief (a day after commemoration of the anniversary of history’s most heartrending tragedy at Karbala in 61 AH), and as messages of sympathy poured in for the bereaved families from all over the world, the macabrely murderous terrorist outfit that masquerades as ‘Islamic State’ (Daesh) claimed responsibility for targeting the convention of Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI).

The Americans and the Zionists are the joint creators of Daesh which emerged in Syria a decade ago and spread to Iraq in a bid to establish ‘Greater Israel’ right up to the headwaters of the Persian Gulf through mass massacres of both Christians and Muslims (Sunnis and Shias included).

Thanks to the foresight of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the brilliant military strategy, coupled with deft diplomacy of General Qasim Soleimani in cooperation with the people of Syria and Iraq, Daesh was decisively defeated.

A frustrated Washington which cowardly assassinated General Soleimani and his combatant Iraqi colleague, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, started airlifting Daesh terrorists to Afghanistan from where it has now infiltrated Pakistan.

This is the first instance of the JUI (Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman Branch) being targeted by Daesh, although the party has been attacked in the past by other terrorist outfits because of its opposition to terrorism.

Sunday’s blast was the deadliest attack on a political party since 2018 although earlier this year in January a mosque bombing in Peshawar claimed by a splinter group of the Tahreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) martyred more than 100 people.

The scene in Bajaur, near the Afghan border, was ghastly with human flesh, limbs, and body parts scattered throughout the area, alongside lifeless bodies.

Iran and President Hojjat al-Islam Seyyed Ibrahim Raisi have denounced the terrorist attack, and urged the Pakistani government to take necessary measures to clamp down on terrorism, including along the borders with the Islamic Republic.

Tehran as the prime target of US-Israeli terrorism, has the experience in weeding out terrorists, and is willing to cooperate with Islamabad in this regard in the interests of Islamic principles and humanitarian values.