Image via WikipediaDeath in Lahore: Bombing the Light of God: "A sinister and deadly new twist in Pakistan’s dreadful saga of terrorist atrocities
On the night of July 1st, when the throng of worshippers in the shrine of Lahore's patron saint, Ali Hajvery Data Ganj Bakhsh, was at its peak, two suicide-bombers blew themselves up. The attack, at the heart of a 1,000-year-old centre of Sufi Islam in Pakistan, killed at least 42 people and injured another 175.
'The terrorists have done the unthinkable,' said a grieving woman at the site of the bombing. Not so long ago many Pakistanis believed the Taliban and al-Qaeda were just innocent Islamists battling the evil Americans. The country is paying a heavy price for their refusal to face up to their true nature. ...
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