“It’s difficult to understand the lack of preparedness and the ineffective initial response to a disaster that had been predicted for years and for which specific, dire warning had been given for days.”
… Susan Collins
Security from terrorists’ attacks is a formidable challenge for any entity these days and hotels are no exception to [...]
Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is in the grip of bomb blasts and terrorism. The loss of life is extremely sad, and any amount of condemnation of these attacks is insufficient, yet any condemnation now seems to be useless and without any efficacy.
We have to see and act beyond condemnations now. The point of ponder [...]
On September 15 and 16, I stayed at Marriot Islamabad. On September 17, came to Makkah to perform Umrah. While in Madinah Munawwara, I heard with deep shock and anguish that there was huge blast at Marriot Islamabad and the resultant loss of innocent lives, maiming of hundreds. The deep sense of grief engulfed me.
The [...]
When the frightening attack was carried out at the Marriott Hotel Islamabad, the whole nation became numb and then a wave of anger swept through the country, and everybody asked for immediate action and a unified strategy and something to be done on the war footings.
What we got was a smelling spectacle of incompetency and [...]
The pattern of the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing in Islamabad suggests the possible involvement of the Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI), led by Qari Saifullah Akhtar, and not the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), headed by Baitullah Mehsud, which was held responsible for most recent suicide bombings across Pakistan.
According to intelligence circles in Islamabad, which are probing the [...]
When it comes to reply to a foreign statement or a statement based on any event with in and for Pakistan, our relevant elected / chosen representatives do not come on the scene to tell the nation. Frequently un-relevant persons come on media and give policy statement.
For example, US force crossed our western border to [...]
When the barbaric attack happened on the Marriott Hotel Islamabad, the rulers of this poor country were having a lavish ball in the President House, where the whole of leadership was enjoying the expensive meal in thousands of lights with no worries in the world. They were supposed to be in Marriott Hotel at that [...]
While Marriot at Islamabad was engulfed in flames; I was sitting thousands of miles away from my home land– Pakistan and watching this horrific scenes on TV. Saddened and bemused; I remembered an old man, who belonged to an aristocrat German family. Prior to World War II, he owned a number of industries and estates.
It [...]
