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Bomb Blast Targeting Christians in Lahore Pakistan Kills 56

Sunday, March 27th, 2016

Another day, another Jihad suicide bombing:

An explosion ripped through a crowded Pakistan park where Christians were celebrating Easter on Sunday, killing at least 56 people, officials told AFP.

About 150 people were injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the parking area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in the eastern city of Lahore, officials told Reuters.

The explosion reportedly occurred just outside the exit gate and near rides for children.

A police superintendent told Reuters most of the dead were women and children.

The Pakistani ISI has supported jihad as an instrument of state policy since at least the creation of the Taliban. It’s tempting to call the increasing number of in-country jihad attacks as blow-back, except I’m not entirely sure how much (if any) the ISI and their deep state allies really care about the deaths of Pakistani Christians…