Pakistan has been edgy since last week’s suicide truck-bombing of the Islamabad Marriott hotel in which 53 people were killed and over 250 wounded. This was the last Friday before Eid and authorities feared fresh suicide attacks as militants are thought to believe that they will gain passage to paradise if they are killed in jihad on the holy day. Security experts say the new violence only shows that Islamist terror groups are getting desperate due to the increased attacks on them on the Afghan-Pakistan border and were stepping up attacks in the hinterland to increase the spread of the conflict.
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