Anarchy at its best, state at its worst

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren’t even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.â€"A.B. Yehoshua.

At about 7:45pm (PST) a bomb blast rocked Islamabad this evening (July 6, 2008). About forty minutes earlier a motorcyclist jumped a signal and when Haroon, the police warden on duty, tried to stop him, the boy hit him and sped away. A back up squad tried to stop the motorcyclist but he swung away, leaving only Haroon to bleed with a head injury that sent him into a seizure.