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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 22 people were killed and 50 wounded when a bomb tore through a marketplace in a Shiite town in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.

Hours later, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned Sunni extremist group, claimed responsibility for the attack in Parachinar, the capital of the Kurram tribal region, which is on the border with Afghanistan.

“It is revenge for the crime of taking sides with Iran and Bashar al-Assad,” an unidentified spokesman for the group said in a message to local news media outlets, referring to the president of Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war. “We warn Shiite parents that unless they stop their children from participating in the war, they should be prepared for more attacks.”

Hundreds of Pakistani Shiites are said to have been recruited by Iran in recent years to defend Mr. Assad’s government. They are part of a fighting unit known as the Zeinabiyoun, according to a report by Reuters.

On Sunday, a large number of shoppers had thronged the Eidgah bazaar in Parachinar, where used winter clothing was being sold cheaply. The powerful explosion, apparently set off by a remote-controlled device, could be heard over a wide area and caused panic among the throngs of people, leading to a stampede.

Security officials quickly reached the market and cordoned it off.

The wounded were ferried to nearby hospitals, but many in critical condition were airlifted to the city of Kohat, about 90 miles away, rescue workers said.

Parachinar has a history of sectarian violence, and Shiites, mostly belonging to the Turi tribe, have been repeatedly targeted by Sunni extremists and Taliban militants. The Kurram tribal region, where Sunni and Shiite Muslims are almost equally divided, also borders the North Waziristan tribal region, which has been the scene of a military offensive by the Pakistani military since last year.

The military has claimed success in uprooting the Taliban network in North Waziristan and much of Pakistan, but attacks on the Shiite population and other religious minorities, like Christians and Ahmadis, have continued.

“As a bastion of anti-Taliban resistance, Parachinar has been a target of terrorist attacks for years,” said Afrasiab Khattak, a former senator and a member of the Awami National Party.

The town and its Shiite population have also proved to be a strategic barricade to the ambitions of the Taliban, and specifically the Haqqani network, one of the most effective and violent factions of the Taliban.

American officials say that Haqqanis have been responsible for several of the most daring attacks inside Afghanistan in recent years, and accuse the Pakistani authorities of not making wholehearted efforts to stamp them out. Pakistani officials deny those assertions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/world/asia/sunni-militants-claim-deadly-attack-at-market-in-pakistan.html?ref=world&_r=0

Muslim bombing over there, Muslim bombing over here, Muslim bombing everywhere. Is there anything else that's new?

Dumb asses always blowing each other and themselves up.. No wonder Trump wants to ban em all..

Seems like they have killed all the Hindus and Christians in Pakistan, and therefore they are now turning their attention towards the Shiites. Once the Shiites are also exterminated, then the Sunnis will start fighting each other. It is quite scary that quite a lot of the "refugees" who are immigrating towards the European Union are from Pakistan.

Trump may be our best choice now.

prime minister of Pakistan is a lapdog of Saudis and he has deep relations with generally all terrorist groups but especially this terrorist organization called Lashkar e Jhangvi. He gets a key support from them in Elections.

Saudi Arabia provide jobs for millions of Pakistani citizens. Without this, there will be riots and unrest in Pakistan. So the Pakistani Prime Minister is having few choices. If the Saudi sheikhs ask him to drop his pants and bend over, he will happily do that. Else the Saudis will kick him out of office and will get some other puppet to replace him.

They say that these Muslim "extremists" are just a few bad apples, with the death and destruction worldwide, I can't help but believe there is something wrong with the entire orchard.

A lot of bad apples. There is something in their religion that makes them suicidal, no doubt about it  :)

Well, a secular and liberal state is nearly impossible there. So, I'd say that Pakistan needs to start a gradual implementation of the Islamic Socialism, before trying to reclaim its sovereignty... Or continue their way of Saudis satellite.

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Many Muslims are a suicidal bunch.

Today, Pakistan is in the state of war, war against terror, war against to save his boundries, war to save Pakistans future and comping generations, today is the first anniversry of incident of 16-12-2014, when millitants killed 134 innocent kids in Army Public shcool, what do you thin, why they killed childern, mostly the son of Army man between them, becuase of said war agaisnt terror. So please do not demoralzed us, today we are already so upset, you may search on google what the militants do with our children same date last year.
Pakistan is the only country who involved in this war from last 10 years. Pakistan also take part war against millitants, from the platform of United Nations. So pleae respect us, ATLEAST TODAY.
http://cache.pakistantoday.com.pk/article-urn-publicid-ap.org-c1cde8218d2b44f89223e55c16dfcb97-6UszD1jpW-HSK1-418_634x4171.jpg

Talibans, Isis, sunny,tribes close to border with Afganistan, Al Quaida...now they will start killing each other. Simply that's only what they want and know, to kill. But they all live expecting when will go to Allah, so this is not surprising at all

yes, you are right.. we are really sick and tired of this topic..

Pakistan,Afganistan,Sudan..you can only hear about killing people and attacks of terrorist there..if continue in this way they'll kill all people there and what then?