18 February 2017

News Story: Terror violence resurging with wave of suicide attacks in Pakistan

by Liu Tian, Jamil Bhatti

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The terror violence is resurging in Pakistan after a wave of deadly suicide attacks jolted the country this week, especially the deadliest at a shrine in Sindh Province that claimed 88 lives Thursday night.

The week witnessed four black days as seven blasts hit across Pakistan and killed over 110 people and injured nearly 400 others, against the backdrop that a visible drop in such attacks since the country's army launched its nationwide Zarb-e-Azb operation against local and foreign terrorists.

A suicide bomber slip into a shrine in Sehwan and blew himself up Thursday evening when about 500 to 800 Sufi Muslims were performing their religious dancing inside the mosque. The blast, which was one of the most fatal attacks in the South Asian country, killed 88 people and over 343 others were injured.

On Monday, a suicide blast targeted a rally closed to Lahore city assembly and killed 14 people and injured over 60. Other attacks occurred from the country's northwestern tribal area to southwestern city of Quetta.

Muhammad Ashraf, president of the Punjab Peace & Security Committee, told Xinhua Friday that there are multiple factors behind the series of attacks recently.

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