Pakistan arrests up to 100 people after terror attack on Sri Lanka cricket team
Pakistani authorities have arrested up to 100 people in a wide-ranging terror clampdown after the Lahore cricket atrocity. The government has also offered a reward of $125,000 as it desperately searches for the 12 masked gunmen who carried out the horrifying attack yesterday.
They’re on it! Oh wait:
None of the attackers are believed to be among those detained.
The bloody incident yesterday carried grim echoes of the Mumbai attack. Video film again captured young men – who arrived on motorised rickshaws – carrying Kalashnikovs and rucksacks packed with grenades. They moved through the streets in pairs and traded shots with police bodyguards before melting away into Lahore’s back streets. Despite a huge manhunt, none of the attackers have been captured or killed. No one has claimed responsibility but the chief suspects will be Islamist militants with links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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“Now reality has hit home and you know that you are in the sub-continent and things that we take for granted, like safety and freedom of doing what you want to do, aren’t so readily available over there.”
Indeed.
(thanks to InfidelsAreCool)
