[Al Ahram] A bomb kaboom outside a Shiite mosque in north Pakistain Tuesday killed at least three people and maimed 14 others in the latest sectarian attack to hit the nation, officials said.The blast took place in the Gracy Lines neighbourhood of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, which neighbours the capital Islamabad, as worshippers prayed inside the mosque, senior police official Akhtar Laleka said.
Yesterday they were saying how they'd clamped down security in Pindi. I guess somebody didn't get the memo.
Hospital officials said at least three people were killed and 14 others were maimed.
"We have three bodies and 14 maimed people at our hospital," Asif Qadir Mir, chief of the local government hospital, told AFP.
There has been a rise in sectarian violence in Pakistain after several deadly festivities between Sunni and Shiite Moslem groups near Islamabad in November.
Allama Nasir Abbas from Islam's minority branch was killed late Sunday in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, after addressing a religious gathering.
On November 19, gunnies killed a senior Shiite university director along with his driver in Lahore, while another Shiite leader and his guard were killed in 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...
in early December.
Three days later, Shamsur Rehman Muawiya, chief of the Sunni bully boy organization Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jammat for Punjab province, was killed in Lahore.
Pakistain is rife with sectarian festivities, with Sunni Death Eater groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban often attacking gatherings by Shiites, who constitute some 20 percent of the country's population.