[VOA News] A bomb destroyed a Shi'ite Moslem religious center in northwestern Pakistain Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others.Police in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
said a small group of snuffies first opened fire on the mosque and religious seminary as worshippers gathered for Friday prayers. Officials said a jacket wallah then went inside.
Syed Muntizer Hussain witnessed the attack:
"We heard gunfire coming out from outside the mosque and we ran towards the exit. I saw a boy wearing black clothes, who had a beard and was around five feet tall, approaching the mosque interior and firing with the pistol in his hand. As he reached the inside of the mosque he went
kaboom!."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but radical Sunni Moslems who consider Shi'ites to be heretics have stepped up attacks against the minority Shi'ites in recent years.
Also Friday, gunnies in the southern city of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
ambushed and killed a politician and his son as the two made their way home from Friday prayers.
Sajid Qureshi was a politician for the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM), the most powerful party in Karachi.
Fellow MQM politicians Jamal Ahmed demanded quick justice.
"Bearing the loss of a son, husband and father is painful as there is no replacement of them. We demand the authorities to arrest the culprits within 24 hours, try them and convict them in two days, and punish them in public."