Pakistan Taliban suicide bomb kills 13 in Lahore

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Source: AFP

Pakistan Taliban suicide bomb kills 13 in Lahore
by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson 1 hr 16 mins ago

LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) – A suicide car bomber devastated offices used to interrogate suspected militants in Lahore on Monday, killing up to 13 people in the latest attack on Pakistan's cultural capital.

Pakistan's Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the attack after the bomber tried to ram a car packed with up to 600 kilograms (1,300 pounds) of explosives into the investigations unit in the country's second largest city.

There were scenes of panic as volunteers and rescue workers dug with bare hands under the collapsed two-storey building and a severely damaged Muslim seminary, searching for survivors with the number of wounded at 65.

The blast underscored the rampant insecurity in nuclear-armed Pakistan, an ally in the US-led war on Al-Qaeda and eight-year conflict against the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan despite a recent lull in violence.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100308/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrest

[Xenotime]

1. If they US would just pull out..all of this would stop.

[Robb]

2. I trust you are being sarcastic.

[proteus_lives]

3. You're not serious, are you?

[cosmicone]

4. This would stop when Pakistan is balkanized and

its pieces' expansionist ego becomes non-existent. It will inure to the benefit of the people of the former Pakistan.

[Flaneur]

5. Ooh, talk about your targeted bombing!

Blowing up ISI's torture chambers.