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India-Pakistan
Protests condemn Pakistan Shiite mosque blast
2009-02-07
Mobs sacked property and protesters called for revenge in central Pakistan on Friday after a bomb killed 33 people near a mosque in one of the country's deadliest anti-Shiite attacks, as Pakistani forces killed at least 52 militants in a crackdown of Taliban fighters.

Police said 33 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suspected suicide bomb ripped through a crowd near a Shiite mosque in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan in the central Punjab province late Thursday.

The attack was the deadliest bombing since October in Pakistan, where extremists opposed to the government's support for the U.S.-led "war on terror" have killed more than 1,500 people in just over a year and a half.

One person was killed and eight injured Friday during protests in the town of Uch Sharif, 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of Dera Ghazi Khan, police said.
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