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Pakistan lamenting its dead in recent NATO strike on border post in NWT, broke off coordination of border intelligence. Pakistan military and police were on high alert for sectarian violence on de Shia holy day of Ashura. Inside Pakistan the Minister of Interior praised all domestic terror groups for the peaceful passing of the day. Not so in the Afghan capital Kabul. A suicide bomber targeted Shia pilgrims at a holy mosque: 60 Afghans die including women and children. Hundreds more were injured. Package delivered by a Pakistan terror group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi . The largest Pakistan newspapers Tribune and Dawn remain silent, not so media in India which also has suffered from Pakistan terror. Yet, the leaders of extreme terror groups walk free due to witnesses murdered lack of evidence.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi claims Kabul suicide attack on Shia pilgrims
(Guardian) – A spokesman for an obscure Pakistani extremist group called Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi claimed responsibility in a phone call to Radio Mashaal – a Pashto language radio station.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi is a small faction based in Pakistan’s tribal area and is considered an even more radical offshoot of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, (LeJ), a murderous anti-Shia group founded in 1996. Both groups act as surrogates for al-Qaida.
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The Taliban was quick to distance itself from Tuesday’s bombing and the Afghan Taliban has generally avoided sectarian violence. The Pakistani Taliban, however, has its roots in anti-Shia violence, and LeJ acted as the training ground for its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud.
LeJ maintained training camps in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime but has not mounted attacks in Afghanistan in recent years. It is believed to have been behind some of the most audacious attacks in Pakistan, including the September 2008 bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad and the armed assault on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March 2009.
The group also claimed responsibility for the massacre of 29 Shia pilgrims on a bus in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province in September, and an attack on an Ashura procession in Karachi in 2009 which killed 30 people.
Until now, the splinter group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi was best known for kidnapping two former Pakistani ISI spies and a British journalist in the tribal area last year.
The two former agents with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, Colonel Imam and Khalid Khawaja, were abducted in North Waziristan along with the British journalist Asad Qureshi, who was making a film for Channel 4.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
