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This horrible incident took place in the Matni Adezai area near the provincial capital of Peshawar in the restive northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. During a funeral procession for a local leaders of an anti-Taliban militia, reportedly a "boy" in his late teens approached a group of more than 150 people who were about to offer prayers and detonated an explosives-laden vest. 37 people were killed and another 52 wounded some of them critically.
The Taliban claimed responsibility. According to media outlets, Matni, while in the suburbs of Peshawar, has not been cleared of Taliban insurgents. They have apparently warned local residents to not side with the government to "face their wrath". Reuters described the scene by saying that bloodied shoes and caps littered the ground while stunned survivors milled around or bundled the wounded into trucks and away to hospital.
On Tuesday, 25 people were killed and more than 130 wounded when a car-bomb went off at a natural gas filling station in central city of Faisalabad. The Taliban claimed responsibility saying the intended target was an office of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the main intelligence agency
According to the New York Times, an explosives-laden vehicle was parked at a station that provided compressed natural gas for vehicles. The car bomb went off at 10:30 a.m. and left a seven-foot deep by 15-foot wide crater. The blast destroyed the station and several vehicles and damaged nearby buildings in the densely populated neighborhood.
While the blast seems to have missed its intended target, the country’s premier intelligence agency, the police chief of Faisalabad was quoted as saying that it is a message.
The Pakistani Taliban continue to fight to bring down the U.S.-backed government and while the army is reported to have claimed that military offensives over the past three years have weakened the militants, bomb attacks are apparently still common.
Associated Press – Mar 8/2011
Taliban Say Pakistan Spy Agency Was Blast Target
A car bomb blast in the eastern city of Faisalabad in Pakistan has killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 100. The Pakistani Taliban say they triggered the explosion and they were targeting a spy agency office.(March 8)
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