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    Hate attacks at worship places in Pakistan: 356 killed in 350 days of 2010

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    By Sarah Akel on 17 December 2010 Uncategorized

    LAHORE: A total of 356 innocent Pakistanis have so far been killed and
    612 more injured in 12 bloody incidents of terrorism in the first 350
    days of 2010, as extremist sectarian and jehadi elements continue to
    target different places of worship across Pakistan, including mosques,
    madrassas, imambargahs, Sufi shrines and Ahmedi places of worship.

    The odious ploy of targeting jam-packed mosques, madrassas,
    imambargahs, Sufi shrines and Ahmedi places of worship at prayer time
    is increasingly being used b fanatics to kill innocent civilians.
    According to the figures compiled by the Pakistai ministry of
    interior, 30 people were killed on average per month in 12 gory
    attacks between January 1 and December 15, 2010, most of which were
    carried out by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), led by Baitullah
    Mehsud. On average, one person has been killed every day and seven
    persons killed every week in attacks on places of worship in the first
    350 days of 2010.

    According to the available data, over 1500 Pakistanis have so far been
    killed, and more than 2000 injured in 65 such incidents since the 9/11
    terrorist attacks in the United States and the subsequent invasion of
    Afghanistan. While the Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa (KP) province has recorded
    the maximum number of such attacks – (21), it is followed by the
    Punjab province (17), the Sindh province (11), the Federally
    Administered Tribal Areas FATA (11), the Balochistan province (4) and
    the Pakistan-administered state of Azad Kashmir (1).

    Most of these attacks were sectarian in nature, and carried out by
    Taliban-linked Sunni-Deobandi groups such as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
    (SSP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Jamaatul
    Furqaan, Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI), and Lashkar-e-Islami, though
    their motivation varies. Most of the victims were Shias, Barelvis and
    Ahmedis, giving clear indications that the founder of the country
    Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Pakistan has become an intolerant nation where
    religious and sectarian minorities continue to live in fear and remain
    vulnerable.

    The first attack of 2010 targeting a mosque was carried out on
    February 18, killing 38 people and wounding 121 others, as a suicide
    bomber exploded himself at the main entrance of a mosque in Akakhel
    area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency of FATA. On May 28, at least 114
    people were killed and 117 others injured, as two separate groups of
    attackers belonging to the TTP attacked two mosques [during Friday
    prayers]of the minority Ahmadi community in the Model Town and Garhi
    Shahu areas of Lahore, the capital of the Punjab province. A total of
    84 people were killed in the Garhi Shahu mosque and another 30 in the
    Model Town mosque.
    In the fourth such incident on July 1, two back-to-back suicide
    bombings killed 51 people and injured 121 inside the crowded shrine of
    Sufi saint Hazrat Data Gunj Bukhsh in Lahore. Two terrorists wearing
    vests packed with explosives blew themselves up at two different
    places on the Darbar premises, frequented by devotees.

    The first attacker blew himself up in basement, while the second
    entered the courtyard before detonating his explosives after an
    interval of two minutes. A week before the attacks, the Taliban had
    reportedly sent a warning letter to the Data Darbar administration
    threatening to attack the shrine, claiming its status was equivalent
    to that of the Somnath Temple in Gujarat, India. In the fifth such
    incident on July 14, three people were killed and five injured after a
    powerful explosion shattered Masjid-e-Ishkhel mosque in Landi Kotal
    tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA. In the sixth attack hardly four days
    later – on July 18 – five people were killed and 22 others wounded as
    a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shia Imambargah in the
    Sargodha district of Punjab.

    In the seventh assault on August 23, 36 people were killed and 43
    others injured, including a former member of the National Assembly, as
    a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in Wana town of South
    Waziristan in FATA. In the eighth such attack almost a month later –
    on September 26 – three people were killed and 11 injured when
    attackers targeted a mosque in a suspected sectarian attack in the
    Bahawalpur district of Punjab. In the ninth attack on October 7, at
    least 17 persons were killed and 72 others sustained injuries when two
    suicide bombers blew themselves up at the shrine of Abdullah Shah
    Ghazi in Karachi, the provincial capital of the Sindh province. The
    tenth assault took place on October 25, when a bomb exploded at the
    eastern gate of Baba Farid Shrine in the Pakpattan district of Punjab,
    killing eight persons and wounding 12 others.

    Continuing their bloody assault on religious places across Pakistan,
    terrorists killed 81 people and injured 100 others, in two separate
    attacks on worship places on November 5, 2010. In the first incident,
    a 16-year-old suicide bomber attacked a Friday congregation at the
    Wali Mohammad Mosque in Darra Adamkhel area of Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa
    province, killing 76 people and wounding 82 others. In the 12th and
    the last incident so far of the year 2010 the same day – November 5 –
    five persons were killed and 17 injured in a grenade attack on a Sunni
    mosque in Sulemankhel area of Badbher near Peshawar, the provincial
    capital of Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa.

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