Click to play videoNew Delhi: On Sunday people in Pakistan woke up to the news of a black Saturday, day of the deadliest blast in the country's history.
Scores of dead bodies pilled up as emergency workers ferried the bloodied bodies of the blast victims from the debris of the Marriott Hotel to the ambulances. Many foreigners were among those killed.
Rescue workers found documents that confirmed the victims' foreign
identities.
Czech Ambassador to Pakistan was also confirmed dead.
Pakistani prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said, "According to information, among the 53 people killed, a Czechoslovakian has been identified."
The question of apparent security lapse in high security zone of Islamabad are being raised by the citizens.
Pakistani citizen Wahid Khan said, “I can't understand how a truck full of munitions could be roaming around in Islamabad and nobody caring about it. Everybody knows what happened after that. Where are the police? Where is the intelligence? This ridiculous and is unfair.”
No terror group has claimed responsibility but it is suspected that the al-Qaeda could be behind the attack.
Unconfirmed Pakistani intelligence reports suggests that the real target of the militants were some US marines apparently planning to launch a secret military operation in Pakistan's restive tribal belt.
As Pakistan reels under the shock of the most devastating terror attack in the country, the most pertinent question gazing the Pakistani government in face is the backlash of the stepped up military operations by the US led forces against the militants inside Pakistan's restive Tribal region.
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