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Pakistani Taliban Target Shia Mosque On Eid Day
[NEWSWEEKPAKISTAN] A jacket wallah injured four coppers, one critically, outside a Shia mosque in southern Pakistain in an attack claimed by the Pak Taliban as the country marked the beginning of the religious festival Eid al-Azha on Tuesday.

The incident occurred in Shikarpur in Sindh province, the same district where at least 61 were killed in a suicide kaboom on another Shia mosque in 2015.

Officials said two suicide bombers tried to enter the Khanpur Imambargah
...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are...
but were intercepted by police. "Four of our men are injured of whom one is critical," said Umar Tufail, a senior local police officer. He added doctors were also trying to save the life of the other suspected bomber, who was injured when the first one went kaboom! but failed to detonate himself.

"The attackers came as the worshippers were gathering to offer Eid prayers. Police were able to stop him at the gate outside the mosque," A. D. Khawaja, chief of police for Sindh province said.

Worshippers overpowered the second would-be suicide bomber as the police were reeling from their injuries, he added.

A faction of the Pak Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, grabbed credit for the attack in a statement sent to media. Spokesman for the group Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
said it was a part of an operation that would be spread to every area of the country.
Posted by: Fred 2016-09-16
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