Fatal car bombing in Pakistan
Abedaslam Ayesh

LAHORE, Pakistan — Suicide attackers spraying gunfire rammed a carload
of explosives into a building housing an ambulance service here on
Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, almost 300 people were injured in
the attack. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the attack may have
been in reprisal for the Pakistani Army’s campaign against Taliban
militants in the northwestern Swat Valley. The dead included 14
policemen and a colonel belonging to the intelligence agency, according
to an intelligence official speaking on condition of anonymity because
he was not authorized to speak to the news media.
It was the third attack in three months in or near Lahore, which is the
capital and cultural hub of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous and
affluent province. Earlier attacks provoked official fears that Taliban
insurgents had teamed up with local militants, including
Lashkar-e-taiba, suspected of conducting the attacks in Mumbai, India,
in November that killed at least 163 people. The United States has been
pressing Pakistan to move against the militants to undermine their
support for the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. Gen. David H.
petracus, head of the Central Command, was in Islamabad to meet
Pakistani leaders when the attack happened, Reuters reported.
I believe Pakistan has to create a plan to to contain and gradually
eradicate all terrorist groups within Pakistan that had migrated from
Afghanistan and that had already been present in Pakistan.