What is especially depressing is how, given the now well-established patterns, Pakistan has been unable to provide security to it increasingly imperiled religious minorities.
Source/Credit: The Independent | Blog - UK
By Omar Waraich | July 30, 2013
Last Friday, hundreds of shoppers were gathered in Parachinar’s main bazaar. In this main town of Pakistan’s Kurram tribal agency, located along the Afghan border, the local residents were buying food items for the looming evening Ramadan meal, when death and carnage visited them again. Within the space of four minutes, two separate bombs exploded, killing 57 people and wounding three times as many.
The first explosion, local officials told reporters, came from a bomb planted in a motorcycle. This is a much-favored method of Pakistan’s many terrorist groups who use the small and light vehicles to pierce large crowds mostly unhindered. Then, four minutes later, a second bomb exploded some 400 yards away. Eyewitnesses said they saw the marketplace’s handcarts fly into the air. Pieces of flesh lay around in small pools of blood. Efforts were made to rush the victims to emergency care, but, within a small amount of time, Parachinar’s main hospital was unable to cope.
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