Suicide bomber kills at least 28 in Pakistan »
Posted By tehranchik 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsMany analysts believe Pakistan's Taliban movement is fomenting sectarian violence as a means of sowing chaos and further destabilizing Pakistan's shaky central government.
Dera Ismail Khan, the site of Friday's attack, is close to the border of the South Waziristan tribal agency, where both Al Qaeda and the Taliban have well-established footholds.
Targeting funerals is in keeping with a grim tactic that has taken hold here in recent months. Memorial services are one of the few occasions on which people are still willing to gather in large numbers in public, and they provide attackers another opportunity to kill and injure those affiliated with the initial victim.
More than 1,000 people turned out to pay respects to Shiite leader Sher Zaman, who had been shot to death by unknown assailants a day earlier. Mourners were massed together, walking slowly toward the graveyard, when the bomber struck.
Hours later, pools of blood and heaps of shredded clothing could still be seen in the street.
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