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| Pakistan bomb: Eight dead in Qadri 'revenge' attack | Pakistan bomb: Eight dead in Qadri 'revenge' attack |
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| At least eight people have been killed in a Pakistan bombing which militants say was in revenge for the execution of a policeman turned assassin. | At least eight people have been killed in a Pakistan bombing which militants say was in revenge for the execution of a policeman turned assassin. |
| The apparent suicide attack, at the entrance to a court in the north-western town of Shabqadar, wounded 27 people, police told local media. | The apparent suicide attack, at the entrance to a court in the north-western town of Shabqadar, wounded 27 people, police told local media. |
| Militants said it was to avenge the hanging last week of Mumtaz Qadri, who was seen by many as a religious hero. | Militants said it was to avenge the hanging last week of Mumtaz Qadri, who was seen by many as a religious hero. |
| Qadri killed the governor of Punjab in 2011 for opposing blasphemy laws. | Qadri killed the governor of Punjab in 2011 for opposing blasphemy laws. |
| Shabqadar is located on the border of the tribal district of Mohmand, which remains volatile years after the military said it had been cleared of militants. | Shabqadar is located on the border of the tribal district of Mohmand, which remains volatile years after the military said it had been cleared of militants. |
| "The court and judges were our target as their practices are un-Islamic," a spokesperson for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), told Pakistan's Express Tribune. | |
| Why did Pakistan keep hard-line mourners off air? | |
| How Punjab governor's killer became a hero | How Punjab governor's killer became a hero |
| Analysis: M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad | |
| The attack in Shabqadar is the first response by Taliban militants to last week's execution of Mumtaz Qadri, a former police guard who had shot dead a provincial governor for alleged blasphemy. It took place in the same region where a similar attack on a university campus in January left more than 20 people dead. | |
| This region in north-western Pakistan is located on the border with Pakistan's semi-autonomous Mohmand tribal district, which adjoins the Afghan province of Kunar. | |
| In the past, the area has been home to the so-called Mohmand Taliban, a regional ally of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP). But most of its sanctuaries were eliminated by the military in a series of operations during 2011-12. | |
| However, the Mohmand Taliban slipped into neighbouring Kunar, from where they have continued to be able to launch attacks inside Pakistan. | |
| Pakistani officials have been raising the issue with the Afghan authorities, but many analysts suggest Kabul doesn't have the resources to establish its authority in the remote mountainous region. |