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Tuesday 29 March 2016

A day in the park

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Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

  Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015
 
Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

  Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

  Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2016
                        You little stars that live in skies

So runs my dream but what am I?
And with no language but a cry
As it turns it picks up  an accelerated
random  stranger on a train
psychomimetic  reflected in somebody's lost
 glasses
  freako-whacko-future
day in the park
mechanical wailing unheard in dream
kind of 
   momentum


spinning off the rails
out of control exploding
and the kids...


Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

  Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015


Gulshan park is the only entertainment for local kids who can't afford xbox, iPad etc #LahoreBlast: image via Rahman Anwer @rahmananwer, 27 March 2016


This photo was taken shortly before the attack. #LahoreBlast: image via The AnonMessage  @The AnonMessage, 27 March 2016



 
Pakistan blast kills 56, injures hundreds in Lahore: officials #LahoreBlast: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 27 March 2016


 
Pakistan blast kills 56, injures hundreds in Lahore: officials #LahoreBlast: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 27 March 2016


After bombing at Lahore park, Pakistanis ask: "What was the crime of these children?": image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 28 March 2016
 
Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
 
Women try to comfort a mother who lost her son in bomb attack in Lahore, Pakistan: photo by K.M. Chaudary / AP, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan

Eric John, bottom, who survived Sunday's attack, cries during the funeral of his cousin. The death toll from a massive suicide bombing targeting Christians gathered on Easter in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore rose on Monday as the country started observing a three-day mourning period following the attack.: photo by K.M. Chaudary / AP, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan

People mourn over the coffin of a victim a day after a suicide bomb attack at a park, in Lahore, Pakistan. At least 70 people, including women and children, were killed in an attack that targeted a public park in Lahore.: photo by Rahat Dar / EPA, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
Members of a civil society group light candles during a vigil for the victims of Sunday's suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Shakil Adil / Associated Press, 28 March 2016
 
Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan  
Pakistani Christians mourn the death of a blast victim in Lahore. Pakistan's army launched raids and arrested suspects after a Taliban suicide bomber targeting Christians over Easter killed 72 people including many children in a park crowded with families: photo by Arif Ali/AFP, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
The scene of the attack on the day after the blast in Lahore, Pakistan: photo by Rahat Dar / EPA, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
Pakistani Christians mourn a blast victim at a cemetery in Lahore: photo by Arif Ali/AFP, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
People mourn over the coffin of a victim a day after a suicide bomb attack at a park, in Lahore, Pakistan: photo by Rahat Dar / EPA, 29 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
People who were injured in a suicide bomb attack are hospitalized in Lahore, Pakistan: photo by Omer Saleem / EPA, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
Pakistani police officers stand guard at the site of a bomb blast in a park in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday: photo by K.M. Chaudary / AP, 28 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
A woman injured in the bomb blast is comforted by a family member at a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday: photo by K.M. Chaudary / AP, 27 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
A man carries an injured child to a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday: photo by Arif Ali/AFP, 27 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
Pakistani rescuers carry a body from a bomb blast site in Lahore, Pakistan, in an ambulance Sunday: photo by Arif Ali/AFP, 27 March 2016

Suicide bomber attack in Pakistan
Pakistani emergency workers and police officers gather at a bomb blast site in Lahore on Sunday
: photo by Arif Ali/AFP, 27 March 2016

   

 #UPDATE: Pakistan blast kills 65, injures hundreds in Lahore: officials #LahoreBlast: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 28 March 2016


Suicide attack in Pakistan kills 65 at Easter: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 28 March 2016


An injured Pakistani child victim of the Lahore Taliban suicide blast is treated in hospital: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 27 March 2016



UPDATE: Pakistan army crackdown as families bury victims of Easter blast #LahoreBlast: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 28 March 2016


Worst fears come true for Pakistan's Christians in Easter attack #LahoreBlast: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 28 March 2016



Families bury victims of Pakistan Easter attack, after Taliban bomber killed 72 #LahoreBlast
: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 28 March 2016



Families bury victims of Pakistan Easter attack, after Taliban bomber killed 72 #LahoreBlast
: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 28 March 2016


Pakistan hunts militants behind blast that killed 70:: image via Reuters Top News  @Reuters, 28 March 2016


Facebook stumbles again with 'Safety Check' after Lahore blast
: image via Reuters Tech News  @ReutersTech, 28 March 2016


Pakistan to launch paramilitary crackdown after Easter bombing kills 70
: image via Reuters Top News  @Reuters, 28 March 2016


Pope calls Pakistan attack hideous, demands protection for Christians
: image via Reuters India @ReutersIndia, 28 March 2016


 #LahoreBlast
: "Until when will we see our loved ones getting killed in such attacks?": image via Al Jazeera English Verified account @AJEnglish, 27 March 2016


Finest example of humanity---> crowd gathered in the hospital corridors to donate blood #LahoreBlast: image via Nazia Memon @NaziaMemon01 @Reuters, 27 March 2016


UPDATE: Death toll in #LahoreBlast rises to at least 70 Photo: Arif Ali/AFP: image via AJE News Verified account @AJE News, 28 March 2016

  
#LahoreBlast: "Until when will we see our loved ones getting killed in such attacks?": image via AJE News Verified account @AJE News, 28 March 2016


Details of 57 of the #LahoreBlast victims.: image via M H T @HanzalaOfficial, 28 March 2016


Dua for the victims and the injured of #LahoreBlast was also held.: image via PTI Karachi Official @PTI_KHI, 28 March 2016


Lemme just leave this here #LahoreBlast #turkeybombing
: image via Ali de behzad @aliiovo, 28 March 2016

The Crows | by Nauman Khawaja

The Crows. taken at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by Nauman Khawaja, 29 March 2007

File:Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore.jpg

A view of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore, Pakistan
: photo by Adnanrail, 6 December 2009

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree
   
Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

  Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

 Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

 Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

  Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park Lahore | by sqadree

  Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: photo by SAQ, 14 March 2015

5 comments:

TC said...

Robert Palmer: Every Kinda People (Live, 1978)

Curtis Mayfield: Back to the World (1973), Live at Montreux, 1987

Maureen said...

Today's paper reported that at least 29 children died. Children in a park. . . the photo of the crows. . . .

As a headline read the other day: 'Je Suis Sick of This'! For far too many, this day was just another day.

TC said...

Maureen,

Thanks for staying alive and caring. World needs more of you, soon.

I guess it's the target location -- a common urban park enjoyed by Muslims and Christians alike, the modest play structures and toys, all the human familiarity of a day in the park -- that makes this event seem so particularly horrible, so desolating even to think about. The unintelligibility, the inarticulate nature of the strike.

Gulshan Iqbal Park Lahore Blast Death Toll Rises to 72: Dunya News, 28 March 2016

Panjabi MC: Snake Charmer (2012)

billoo said...

Tom, I spent my teenage years living in a place near this park and used to go there very often. I don't think I will ever again.

In the war to win "hearts and minds" I don't think there are many left.

Thanks for the poem.

Keep well,

b.

TC said...

Of course I thought of you the moment the news of this horror broke.

Peace be with you, my friend.