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Saturday, 05 December 2009 19:37

In a highly tragic incident 40 innocent people including 17 children, 10 civilian, 9 Army personnel embraced shahadat when terrorists attacked a mosque in Parade Lane, Rawalpindi, Saddar on 4th Dec, 2009. Reportedly 4 terrorists approached a mosque inside officers residential colony in Parade Lane, Rawalpindi Saddar and hurled grenades on Namazies followed by indiscriminate firing and suicide blasts. Two suicide bombers entered the Mosque and blew themselves killing 40 Namazies who were offering Jumma prayers. Security forces personnel in the area responded immediately and two other terrorists were killed in exchange of fire. Amongst the shaheeds were Maj. Gen. Ovais Mustafa's father and Masood Aslam's son, Hashim. Hashim's funeral took place at the Army Graveyard in Rawalpindi today (05-Dec-09) whilst Ovais Mustafa's fathers funeral will be held at 2:30 pm on Sunday at the Army Graveyard in Rawalpindi.

75 personnel are said to be injured in the same incident. Some of the names of those who embraced shahadat are as under

1. Major General Bilal Omar Khan
2. Brigadier Abdul Rauf
3. Lieutenant Colonel Fakhar
4. Lieutenant Colonel Manzoor Saeed
5. Major Zahid
6. Major (Retd) Shoaib
7. Naik Masood
8. Sepoy Abdul Qayyum
9. Sepoy Sarwar
10. Bilal Riaz S/O Major General Nasim Riaz
11. Ali Hassan S/O Colonel Shabbir
12. Hassan S/O Colonel Shukhran
13. Sadaul Hassan S/O Lieutenant Colonel Fakhar
14. Zamin S/O Engineer Akmal Hussain
15. Qaisar Khan S/O Syed Akbar
16. Adil Rauf S/O Abdul Raud
17. Muhammad Khan S/O Sultan Bakhsh
18. Fazal Khan S/O Madad Khan
19. Hashim S/O Masood Aslam
20. S/O Brigadier ® Sadiq
21. S/O Brigadier Mumtaz
22. S/O Colonel Qaiser
23. S/O Colonel Kaleem Zubair
24. S/O Lieutenant Colonel Shoaib
25. S/O Major Saleem
26. S/O Major Ahsan
27. Deputy Director NLC Taskeen
28. F/O Major General Ovais Mustafa
29. F/O Colonel Kaleem Zubair
30. F/O Lieutenant Colonel Farooq Awan
31. Civilian Khalid Javed
32. Civilian Ghulam Mujtaba
33. Civilian Javed S/O Ghani Khan
34. Civilian Muhammad Fiaz
35. Civilian Asad

We pray that Allah gives the Shaheeds His choicest place in Heavens and gives the families and friends the courage to bear this great loss.