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| Lahore twin Church attacks suspects arrested: Punjab home minister |
| 2015-08-05 |
| [DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Home Minister Shuja Khanzada on Tuesday said police had jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! five men suspected of involvement in the twin Taliban suicide kabooms that targeted two Lahore churches in March. Seventeen people died as a result of the suicide kabooms in the Youhanabad district of Lahore, with more than 70 maimed. The bombings occurred during prayers at two churches located around half a kilometre apart in the city's Youhanabad neighbourhood, which is home to more than 100,000 Christians, officials said. Two men were later lynched by an angry mob who suspected they were bad boys. Read: 15 killed in Taliban attack on Lahore churches. The attack also sparked two days of rioting by thousands of Christians who clashed with police, blocked roads and forced a partial shutdown of the city's public bus system. "Police have arrested five suspects who were involved in Youhanabad attacks, a kaboom in Model Town area and another attack in Qila Gujjar Singh area of Lahore," Shuja Khanzada, home minister of Punjab, told news hounds. "They belonged to the splinter group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), Shehryar Mehsud group and had been coordinating attacks inside Pakistain from Afghanistan," Khanzada said. "They planned these attacks in Afghanistan and then came to Lahore. They were provided boom jackets and other materials here in Lahore for the attack." Khanzada added that the "They have also confessed planning some more attacks in Lahore and 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 future," he said. Christians, who make up around two percent of Pakistain's mostly Moslem population of 180 million, have been increasingly targeted in recent years, often over allegations of profanity regarding the Koran or the Prophet (PTUI!). Lahore's attacks were the worst on the community since a devastating double suicide-bombing in the northwestern city of 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. in September 2013 killed 82 people. |
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