Pakistanis Big Loser in War on Terror

"We should forget for a while who is the killer and see who is being killed," Irfan Siddiqui, an Islamabad-based senior political analyst, told IslamOline.net.

"In Islamabad, it was an ordinary Pakistani, a waiter, security guard, or a laborer," he explained.

"And in the tribal areas, its poor, downtrodden and uneducated Pakistanis with no proper health and education facilities or even potable water."

A suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with more than half a ton of explosives into the security gates of Islamabad's luxury Marriott hotel on Saturday, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 260 in a massive fireball.

The huge explosion set the entire building on fire for well over eight hours.

Two Americans, the Czech ambassador and a Vietnamese woman were among those killed in the blast. A Danish intelligence agent was still missing.

But once again Pakistanis bore the brunt of the attack with the rest of the identified dead being Pakistanis.

An unknown group calling itself "Fedayeen of Islam" claimed responsibility for the bombing but there was no way of substantiating the claim.

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