Sunday Times 2
60 die in Pakistan mosque attack
View(s):SHIKARPUR, Pakistan, Jan 31, (AFP) – A powerful bomb tore through a busy Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan on Friday, killing more than 60 people in the country’s deadliest sectarian attack in nearly two years.
The blast hit the mosque in Shikarpur in Sindh province, around 470 kilometres (300 miles) north of Karachi, as hundreds of worshippers attended Friday prayers.
Pakistan has suffered a rising tide of sectarian violence in recent years, most of it perpetrated by hardline Sunni Muslim groups against minority Shiite Muslims, who make up around one in five of the population.