 The Interior Ministry said on Friday that 134 incidents of terrorism had taken place in the country during the first five months of the year.
| 134 deaders in 150 days. That's a corpse a day, pretty near... |
Addressing the National Assembly's Question Hour session, Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said that 129 people had been killed and 354 injured in terrorist acts occurring between December 2005 and April 19, 2006. But despite repeated requests by the opposition, Parliamentary Secretary for Interior Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel refused to release details about those arrested in connection with these incidents, declaring that a new question be submitted before he could answer their queries.
| Doesn't want to go into a breakdown of who's doing the killing... |
However, the Interior Ministry revealed that 26 vehicles, 625 shops, eight buildings, seven electric polls and six banks had been either destroyed or damaged by terrorist acts. The Sindh government alone, it said, had intimated losses of more than Rs 15 million due to terrorism-related incidents. |