The deadliest attack in several years in Pakistan, a suicide bomber detonated at an election rally in Mastung, in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 128 people, and wounding an estimated 300 others.
Among the slain were the candidate for whom the rally was held, Siraj Raisani. Raisani was the head of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and was among the front-runners for the provincial parliament seat from Mastung.
The deadliest single attack in Pakistan since the 2014 school attack in Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban and ISIS both issued statements claiming credit for the attack. Neither group provided evidence for their respective claims.
This is the third attack this week on a target related to the upcoming election. Earlier this week, another attack in Balochistan had killed four, while a third attack was reported against Pakistani Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) in North Waziristan.
Just stop and think,what ever you think you wanted to do or achieve for God sake.
Japanese suiside bombers practice kamikaze and perhaps they had success, but brainwashing children’s or young unemployed desperate adults to kill themselves will not getting you anywhere.
Only bringing disgrace and world communities casually ignoring this inhumane practice,and there is no light end of the tunnel.
Wish this article mentioned what the political views of the candidate killed were vs the bomber
The fruit of Islam.
The commenters so far have not really tried to make sense of any of this. The Taliban and ISIS “issued statements,” but all we get from this including via Reuters is that they claimed credit for the attacks, but that we shouldn’t necessarily believe them. Yet it’s just Pakistan where the media is repressed… “Press freedom in Pakistan is limited by official censorship that restricts critical reporting” according to wikipedia.
Pakistan is a US-allied country, so we don’t get coverage of the dysfunctionality and repression of its government, or the anti-democratic effects of US intervention. Journalists believe reporting on the motivations of terrorists would support terrorism. In reality the straitjacket such experts have put on themselves only makes us ill-informed about what’s really happening, ensuring we have no idea what to do about it. Here’s a safe idea of what to do: stop meddling in the internal affairs of far-off countries.