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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (23325)	4/11/2006 7:59:05 PM
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Bomb in Pakistan park kills at least 45 Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:45 PM BST Printer Friendly \| Email Article \| RSS Related Pictures KARACHI (Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a bomb attack on a Sunni Muslim gathering in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Tuesday, officials said. Hospital sources said 45 people were killed and dozens wounded in the blast at Karachi's Mishtar Park during a prayer meeting attended by several thousand Sunni Muslims to celebrate the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad. Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said he knew of 40 dead. "Till now the dead are 40 but we don't know exactly about wounded," he told Reuters. Officials at Karachi's Civil Hospital said they had received 21 bodies, but television channels reported another hospital in the southern Pakistani city had received more. Television pictures showed dead bodies lying on the ground and wounded being taken to hospitals in vans after the explosion. "What we know at this point is that there was a blast ... and that there are some injured who are being taken to the hospitals," Jehangir Mirza, police inspector general for Sindh province, told Reuters. "I cannot tell the number of those injured at the moment." There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but sectarian violence between Sunni and minority Shi'ite Muslims has plagued Pakistan, and Karachi in particular, for the past two decades. Hundreds of people have been killed in religious violence. In February, at least 40 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite procession in the town of Hangu in the country's North West Frontier Province.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (23325)	4/11/2006 8:00:00 PM
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Bomb in Pakistan park kills at least 45 (so where are the moderate voices of Islam?) Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:45 PM BST today.reuters.co.uk KARACHI (Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a bomb attack on a Sunni Muslim gathering in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Tuesday, officials said. Hospital sources said 45 people were killed and dozens wounded in the blast at Karachi's Mishtar Park during a prayer meeting attended by several thousand Sunni Muslims to celebrate the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad. Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said he knew of 40 dead. "Till now the dead are 40 but we don't know exactly about wounded," he told Reuters. Officials at Karachi's Civil Hospital said they had received 21 bodies, but television channels reported another hospital in the southern Pakistani city had received more. Television pictures showed dead bodies lying on the ground and wounded being taken to hospitals in vans after the explosion. "What we know at this point is that there was a blast ... and that there are some injured who are being taken to the hospitals," Jehangir Mirza, police inspector general for Sindh province, told Reuters. "I cannot tell the number of those injured at the moment." There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but sectarian violence between Sunni and minority Shi'ite Muslims has plagued Pakistan, and Karachi in particular, for the past two decades. Hundreds of people have been killed in religious violence. In February, at least 40 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite procession in the town of Hangu in the country's North West Frontier Province.