Shahid Khan, a local government official, said the toll could rise as many of the victims remained at death's door on Saturday.
More than 200 people were maimed in the rush-hour attacks on Parachinar's Toori Bazar, he told local media.
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 Sunni gang, claimed the bombings in the predominantly Shia Moslem town.
Earlier on Friday, a suicide kaboom at a police checkpoint in Quetta, in 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, killed at least 14 people, at least 10 of whom were coppers, the AFP news agency said.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistain Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, grabbed credit for the attack.
In yet another incident on Friday, gunnies in the port 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...
, in Sindh province, attacked coppers at a roadside restaurant and killed four of them before fleeing, Asif Ahmed, a police brass hat, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency.
Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, Pakistain's prime minister, ordered security to be tightened across the country after the attacks.
"Terrorists are attacking soft targets and no Moslem can ever imagine to commit such horrific act," he said in a statement.
"Such acts of terrorism will be dealt with the full power of the state."
Zoha Waseem, a researcher at King's College in London, criticised what she called Pakistain's "ad hoc" and "reactionary response to terrorism", saying it only served to increase the appeal of gangs.
Government policy of granting sweeping powers to security forces and increasing surveillance "severely impinge on civil rights," she told Al Jazeera.
"They are not preventive. They breed and exacerbate existing grievances in Pakistain", she said, adding that such measures meant gangs "will always find a pool of recruits, because they [public] are targeted by the state".