Posted on 03/19/2005 4:27:49 PM PST by nuconvert
27 Killed in Pakistan Bombing
March 19, 2005
QUETTA, Pakistan — A bomb exploded Saturday as minority Shiite Muslims congregated at a shrine in a remote town in southwestern Pakistan (search), killing at least 27 people and wounding 18, police said.
Thousands of worshippers were at the shrine of a Shiite saint near the town of Naseerabad, about 210 miles south of Quetta (search) in restive Baluchistan province, when the bomb went off outside, said Mubarak Ali, a local police official.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility and no indication the attack was linked to clashes between renegade tribesmen and government forces at a town elsewhere in southwestern Baluchistan (search) that left at least 30 people dead this week.
"It was a powerful bomb. There was blood and body parts everywhere," Mehrab Khan, another police official, told The Associated Press.
"Right now people are angry. They are wailing and crying. Some of them have blocked roads in the town and we are trying to control the situation."
Dr. Badur at the Civil Hospital said that 27 people were killed and 18 injured, nine critically. All the victims were men. Ali gave the same toll.
Pakistan has a history of sectarian violence, mostly blamed on rival majority Sunni and minority Shiite extremist groups. About 80 percent of Pakistan's 150 million people are Sunnis and 17 percent are Shiites.
Most of the Muslims live together peacefully, but small groups of militants on both sides stage attacks.
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Baluchistan, pong
Hmmmm......could be anyone.
I bet it was Sunni Muslims who planted the bomb. The only "Christian" terrorists I know of who plant bombs are the IRA.
I agree, Sunni extremists of a nasty type. They have a special edition of them in Pakistan, who keep staging these mosque/shrine attacks. There have been attacks on the Shia mosques in Iraq as well. All up, several thousand Shias must have been killed in sectarian attacks over the last 2 years.
And just how is giving the Arabs of Kosovo and Israel their own States going to bring peace again? Not sure the politicians are working with a full deck here. I think taking States away from Islamics would be far more effective. It certainly worked with Germany and Japan in World War II.
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