Pakistan is not a state. Its Fort of JehaaDi Islam run by Paki JehaaDi Army.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Pakistan Sufi shrine suicide attack kills 41
> [image: Pakistani blast victims wait for help in an ambulance outside a
> hospital in Multan on April 3, 2011]
> Dozens of injured devotees were rushed to hospital after the attack
> <#story_continues_1> *Related Stories*
>
> - Deadly bomb at Punjab Sufi shrine </news/world-south-asia-11617164>
> - Deadly blasts hit Pakistan shrine </news/10483453>
>
> Suicide attackers have killed at least 41 people and wounded many more at a
> shrine in Pakistan, police say.The explosions struck near the Sakhi Sarwar
> shrine in Punjab, as Sufi Muslim devotees gathered for an annual three-day
> festival.Sufis, a minority Muslim group who follow mystical beliefs, are
> regarded as heretical by hardliners.
>
> A Taliban fighter told reporters his group carried out the attack, the third
> on Sufi shrines in a year.Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters news agency the
> attack was in revenge for a government offensive against militants in
> Pakistan's north-west.
>
> Sunday's blasts hit near a shrine to Sufi saint Sakhi Sarwar in Dera Ghazi
> Khan district, and devotees were reportedly among the dead and wounded."We
> have recovered 41 bodies so far," police officer Zahid Hussain Shah told AFP
> news agency.
> Continue reading the main story <#story_continues_2> MAJOR ATTACKS
>
> - *July 2010: *42 killed in suicide attack on Lahore Sufi shrine
> - *May 2010: *93 people killed in attacks on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore
>
> - *Jan 2010: *A bomb at a volleyball match kills about 100
> - *Oct 2009: *At least 120 die in car bomb attack on packed market in
> Peshawar
>
> He said both explosions had been caused by suicide attackers, adding: "They
> came on foot and blew themselves up when police on duty stopped
> them."Another police officer told reporters that a third attacker had been
> caught before he could detonate his explosives
>
> Eyewitness Faisal Iqbal told Reuters he had been standing yards away from
> one of the explosions."People started running outside the shrine. Women and
> children were crying and screaming. It was like hell," he said.Thousands of
> people had been marking the annual festival of Urs at the time of the
> blasts.
>
> Sufism has been widely practised in Pakistan for hundreds of years -
> analysts saying it has a much bigger following than the hard-line Taliban
> version of Islam.Devotees perform singing and dancing and pray to saints who
> are honoured with numerous shrines.Their beliefs are considered un-Islamic
> by hardliners, who have targeted their shrines several times.
>
> Last October, a suicide bombing at a shrine in Punjab province left six
> people dead.And earlier in the year a suicide attack on a Lahore shrine
> killed at least 42 people, making it the most deadly such attack on
> record.For decades, the government has also sought to suppress Sufism, and
> has put it under strict control.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12951923
>
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