The attack took place on the outskirts of Lahore, said Malik Ahmad Khan, the provincial government front man. A local police official, Mohammad Afzal, said that 15 other people were maimed in the blast, which damaged nearby shops.
Mohammad Khurasani, a front man for the Pak Taliban, grabbed credit for the attack, saying the group sought to target Pakistain's "impure army," which he called a "slave of America." The bad boy group's chief, 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...
, who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, ordered the attack, the front man said.
Elsewhere in Pakistain, two gunnies shot and killed a former Mighty Pak Army colonel in southern city of 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...
, said police official Rao Rafiq. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, a Pak group linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, grabbed credit in a text message sent to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named news hound.