Saturday, March 12, 2011

Pakistan keeps crumbling

At least 37 people were killed and 52 injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body during funeral prayers at Adezai village on the outskirts of Peshawar on Wednesday, police and hospital sources said.

Locals said that the attack came in the Sheikh Neka Baba graveyard two kilometres north of Adezai, as locals were offering funeral prayers for a woman related to the head of an anti-Taliban lashkar, or militia.

Medics at Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) said that 36 dead and 52 injured had been brought to the facility and 10 of the wounded were in serious condition. Sources later said that the death toll had risen to 37.

Peshawar police chief Liaqat Ali Khan told reporters at the scene that it was a suicide attack targeting the militia. He said that militants had been attacking these villages with conventional forces before. Now, after the militia had managed to beat them away, they were sending suicide bombers.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/129976/blast-in-adezai-near-peshawar/

Pakistan has nuclear weapons.

In fact, it is believed to have one of the the world's half dozen largest nuclear arsenals.

Who gets access to their bombs when the current government falls to Islamic fundamentalist radicals?

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