The kabooms, minutes apart, took place at Toori Bazar in the town of Parachinar, capital of
Kurram tribal district...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, during rush hour on Friday afternoon.
"When people rushed to the site ... to rescue the maimed, a second blast took place," Nasrullah Khan told the AFP news agency.
"We fear that the corpse count will increase," Khan said, adding that no further details were available yet.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from the capital, Islamabad, said a state of emergency had been declared in Parachinar.
"The military sent two helicopters from 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.
to ferry the ones that are in need of help," he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The twin attacks followed a bombing earlier in the day outside the office of the police chief in southwestern Quetta, capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, that killed at least 13 people.