Saturday, September 19, 2009

No Magic Bus

But it sure had the colors!

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan expressed “grief and anguish over the loss of precious lives’’ in the crash.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan expressed “grief and anguish over the loss of precious lives’’ in the crash. (Str/AFP/Getty Images)

A sad and tragic accident and post
.

"Bus plunges off road in Kashmir; 25 dead" by Associated Press | September 18, 2009

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A speeding bus whose driver apparently was eager to break his daylong Ramadan fast spun out of control yesterday and plunged off a mountainous road in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, killing 25 people and injuring 30 others, police said....

The horror and terror they must have felt.


--more--"

Latest related: Slumdogging It in India (third item down)

Update:

Just wondering why the Boston Globe doesn't share this information:


"
Pakistani Kashmiri militants now fighting NATO forces

The reported death of the ameer of the Azad Kashmir chapter of the Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI) Commander Ilyas Kashmiri in a US drone attack has confirmed that the trouble-stricken Waziristan region has become the new battlefield for the Kashmiri militant groups which are increasingly joining forces with the pro-Taliban elements to fight out the NATO troops from Afghanistan.

Related:
AmeriKan MSM Applauding Mass Murder in Pakistan