Pakistan: Taliban Massacres Christians in Easter Suicide Bombing
At least 65 people are confirmed dead, mostly women and children
At least 69 people have died and 300 injured in a suicide bombing targeting Christians during Easter celebration in Pakistan. Most of the victims are women and children.
The attack took place in a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore. A former Taliban splinter group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, has taken responsibility for the attack — confirming the target of the suicide bombing were Christians. In 2014, the splinter group had reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS).
According to eyewitnesses the explosion took place at the entrance of the park — meters away from the children’s swings.
Indian-based NDTV reports:
A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 65 people.
Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, told the Associated Press that a suicide bomber with the faction deliberately targeted the Christian community.
The explosion took place near the children’s rides in Gulshan-e-Iqbal park – which was crowded with Christians celebrating Easter -local police chief Haider Ashraf said. He said the explosion appeared to have been a suicide bombing, but investigations were ongoing.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar’s spokesman told media that “we have carried out this attack to target the Christians who were celebrating Easter. Also this is a message to the Pakistani prime minister that we have arrived in Punjab [Pakistan’s most populous province].”
The attack comes at a time when Islamists are rioting in Pakistan in support of Islamist gunman Mumtaz Qadri, who murdered the governor of Punjab 5 years ago. Qadri was hanged for the murder last month, sparking nationwide protests from the Islamic fanatics.
With a population of just over 2 million, Christians make up around 1.5 percent on Pakistan’s population. The tiny minority has long been a target of terrorist attacks, as well as persecuted by state-sanctioned Sharia and blasphemy laws.
Watch: EuroNews report on Lahore Terror Attack
[Cover Image courtesy Geo TV, YouTube screenshot]
[Author is an Indian Journalist based in Europe]
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State Dept issues statement, omits Christians being specifically targeted, an unfortunate fact that gets in the way of the more important agenda.
http://www.weaselzippers.us/264018-state-dept-issues-statement-on-pakistan-attack-leaves-out-christians-targeted/
‘Coexist’
Tell that to them.
The only way we Christians can ever get along with these people is to either die(by their hand), or kill them.
All.
Period.
Lefties have a universal religion spread by the sword, scalpel, etc.
Richard Fernandez’ Three Conjectures makes it seem inevitable that things will go very, very badly for Muslims in general.
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2003/09/three-conjectures
It’s possible that his conditions won’t have to be met for that to happen. Eventually, horror and anger may break loose, and not from nukes but from this sort of thing.
That “three_conjectures” link produced an error. Perhaps this instead/
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2003/09/three-conjectures-pew-poll-finds-40-of.html
Ed. That’s it. Thanks.
Is this the kind of great Muslim contribution Obama was talking about?
I just heard some idiot on AP radio news report that he’d reviewed a list of the Lahore bombing victims and state they couldn’t have been Christians because they didn’t have Christian sounding names.
WTF does that mean? Did he expect Christians in Pakistan to have names like Betty Martin or Tom Wilson?
Am I missing something?