Pakistan launched a nationwide security crackdown Friday, officials said, after a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine, killing at least 70 people including 20 children and wounding hundreds. The Islamic State group (IS) claimed the attack, which came after a series of bloody extremist assaults this week, in the town of Sehwan in Sindh … Read more
A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 50 people, reports say. The bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in the town of Sehwan, in Sindh province, police said. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the attack, which has been … Read more
A suicide attack Thursday at Pakistan’s Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the southern city of Shewan in Sindh province killed at least 30 people and injured about 100 others, Sikander Mandhero, the provincial health minister, told CNN. Developing story – more to come Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in Ghana. … Read more