kaboom!at a religious centre 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.
, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.
Eyewitnesses said the bomb went
kaboom!at Tablighi Markaz on Pajaggi Road run by the Tableeghi Jamaat, just before Maghrib prayers. Around a thousand people were gathered at the seminary for a Shab-e-Juma (Thursday) congregation when the bomb destroyed the centre, according to reports.
Provincial Health Minister Shaukat Yousufzai confirmed the number of casualties. "Eight people have died and 67 maimed," he said.
Shafqat Malik, a bigwig of the bomb disposal squad, said the bomb was planted inside a canister of ghee (cooking oil). "Around five kilograms of kaboom was used in the blast, which exploded through a timed device," he said.
An intelligence official, however, said the bomb had been brought in a sleeping-bag, and was "meant to be planted somewhere else but went
kaboom!."
Two more bombs diffused at blast site
Meanwhile,
...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart...
two more bombs in suspicious bags in Peshawar's Tablighi Centre were defused by the bomb disposal squad by applying water charge.
The suspected explosives were placed on the second floor of the mosque where an earlier kaboom had left eight people dead and 67 others injured.
AIG Shafqat Malik told that the bombs weighed at least five kilograms each and were placed in vegetable oil tins fitted with time devices.
Bomb defused in Nowshera
Meanwhile,
...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
bomb disposal experts defused a bomb planted outside a Tablighi Markaz mosque in Nowshera, around the same time the bomb went
kaboom!in the Peshawar.
According to officials of the bomb disposal squad, a bomb weighing five kilograms was planted outside the main gate of the mosque.
Police front man Turk Ali Shah said bomb was similarly planted in a canister of ghee.
The bomb was defused just before Maghrib prayers, around same time the Peshawar bomb went
kaboom!. A Shab-e-Juma congregation was also scheduled to take place at the Nowshera religious centre.
This is not the first time that a religious centre of the Tableeghi Jamaat has been targeted.
In January 2012, at least 22 people were killed in a blast at a Tableeghi centre in the once turbans' infested district of Swat.
TTP distances itself from the attack
The Pak Taliban, whose new leader Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
called for an end to attacks on civilians at the end of last year, sought to distance itself from the attack.
Fazlullah has vowed to attack only government and security officials.
"The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) strongly deny such inhuman activities," Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban front man, told Rooters by telephone from