Bombings in Karachi - HEAVE HO PLZ LET US KNOW YOU ARE OK

c'mon heavey you're out there and we are PULLING for you

H E A V E H O

Fck it - up to 60 dead now according to some.

Rivers said there was remarkably little security near the motorcade considering the sizable security risk Bhutto presents. Bhutto's return angered some sectors in Pakistan because she was a female head of state who is perceived as being aligned with the United States.

"We remarked on how lax security was around her," Rivers told Blitzer after the explosions. "We got within touching distance of her vehicle. There was no security around, nobody stopping vehicles getting close to [the motorcade]."

It's pretty late over there so he could well be in bed anyway.

LOL

This is pretty fucked up, I just mentioned it to my pakistani coworker, although I have no idea how interested he is. NPR's been covering her negotiations and return to the country for the past few months so I'd imagine I'll be hearing a lot more about it on my drive to work tomorrow...

AP reporting 108 dead.

i honestly hope heavo ho is ok

Speak, Heave.

me too chaki

i was talking to him the other night and didn't get the feeling from him that he'd be close to all the commotion once she landed, but who knows....

Holy shit that article. Too horrible to even imagine.

jeez that photo

the fundies waiting in the wings in Pakistan make the Taliban look middle-of-the road.

Aren't they pretty much the same people?

BBC report at least 125 dead.

I trust, and hope, that Heave Ho is alright.

xpost yeah, not really sure what dally means there.

He's just trolling a thread where people are expressing heartfelt concern for a poster's well-being.

omg watching footage on lou dobbs right now.

awful.

It's germane to the discussion, though. I wasn't aware that there was much of a distinction between Taliban and Pashtun militants. Or if there is. There'll be some blurring, surely, the Taliban aren't an ethnic/tribal grouping, so presumably some of them are Pashtun, or am I wrong?

xp

No I'm not, I was referring to the Jamiat-e Ulema Islam party, which supports the Taliban but is also even more right-wing. Things are going to get very even worse there in the coming months.

They also enjoy a lot more popular support than the Taliban ever did.

I know The Heave Ho has been going through some problems, what with being sent to the sin bin during 1p3 ROCKTOBER but I hope he hasn't resorted to suicide bombing to protest the actions of other authority figures (with whom I disagree with)!!

man this is depressing

guys, as many as 20 million people live in karachi

But only *one* Heave Ho!!

12.3 million

also, london

also, Heave Ho seems pretty nonpolotical to me (see the answers on Ask Heave Ho ). that could be a good thing

i was not aware that heave ho lived in karachi.

The (unprintable) pictures are pretty awful.

there is some conjecture that he spends time in toronto, but yeah, karachi

jeez gabbneb

he's posted some interesting karachi pictures here
Karachi picture thread for Heave Ho

i hope heave ho checks in soon.

He's probably too tied up in checking after his own Karachi peeps to log in.

not the place for this till HH checks in but dally is showboating.

stfu gabbneb

oh fuck i did not need to see that pic attached to the initial article

My thoughts are with Heave Ho & all those in Karachi.

Check-in soon, HH.

be safe, hh. we <3 you.

is also even more right-wing

this is horseshit. there are certainly theological differences, but it makes no sense to distinguish between the two based on how far to the right they are.

124 dead, 320 injured.

(Use of the right/left notion is part of what you're already objecting to, right, Horseshoe?)

I'm ok - Thanks for your concern!

:):):)

:D:DDDD:D

phew~~~

yay!

:D

Glad to hear it.

thanx hh

glad to hear it, HH.

hope your friends and family are as well.

so glad, hope no one you know is hurt.

and sorry such an awful thing happened in your city.

good to hear the HH is OK

also: Ask Heave Ho
TOO SOON

keep your head up HH

(Use of the right/left notion is part of what you're already objecting to, right, Horseshoe?)

actually, I was confused about dally's terms (as was no doubt intended). there's basically no ideological difference between JUI and the Taliban as it ruled in Afghanistan, as Noodle Vague said above. they both originate in the same interpretation of Islam. and characterizing them as right-wing seems sort of inadequate, yeah.

Hey, thanks for caring. I'm/we're okay. Yesterday was a very busy day. When my girlfriend walked in the door at 4:30 I gave her the biggest hug and we spent most of the night calling everyone to make sure they were ok or to tell them we were ok and we got very drunk. It didn't seem right to be drinking, but it sure was better than watching the damn buildings falling down on endless repeat all night.
She had to walk over the 59th street bridge with a crowd of people. Totally bizarre. She was exhausted.

Does Bush seem angry to you? He seems confused to me. This isn't the reaction I was hoping for.

-- Nude Spock, Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:00 PM (6 years ago)

gershy do you ever have anything to say outside of your own cut-up metalanguage or are you just like that guy Dada from a couple years ago who could only communicate in google image search results

Dada thread revives in 3... 2...

Heave Ho knows I care

you know it's really nothing against whoever gershy is but I just think I am biased towards posters I can at least imagine having a straighforward conversation with on a topic

i used to be a fairly "straight" poster, people still called me asshole all the time so I stopped taking any of this seriously and just tried to amuse myself..... sorry if it bugs ya

it's the internet

of course it bugs me

anyway best wishes to heave ho

he has done some great things on HTML playground

yeah, this thread isn't about me
keep on keepin' on, Heave

glad you're ok hh

this thread is sorta embarrassing - I didn't even know of the bombing till I checked the internet - gabbneb OTM upthread

gabbneb OTM upthread

ban fake heave ho!

does news travel slow in karachi?

i was asleep

noodles otm, then

gotta make that distinction, always

HH you should also do paula prentiss

Guys, Heave Ho works for Benazir Bhutto's security detail. Also he's gay. And black.

Glad you're okay HH

Bhutto reported dead

Let's hope he dies in this one!

BBC News now reporting Bhutto has been killed, though also saying that's just one report and that other reports have her injured but alive.

...by a member of her own security detail, apparently.

Heave Ho?

this thread is sorta embarrassing