Pakistan vegetable market bomb kills 20 and injures 40

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

At least 20 people have been killed and 40 wounded after a bomb exploded at a vegetable market in northwest Pakistan.

The blast happened in the city of Parachinar, a mainly Shia Muslim area on the Afghan border.

The market was full of shoppers when the device exploded. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise.

A faction of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) said it was behind the blast, adding its goal was "to avenge the killing of our associates".


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38703375

[duhneece]

1. Avenge, revenge...it's not sustainable and when will we humans recognize that?

Plus I hate that 20 killed is so 'boring' (or what?) that no one has commented on this post. Thank you, muriel..., for sharing this.

[ck4829]

2. +1, I find these disparities interesting

Good to see someone else notices it.

[leftynyc]

5. Amen

May the victims rest in peace.

[christx30]

6. I don't think it's "boring".

But, let's face it... The Taliban have been bad guys pretty much since it's inception. So bad guys are going to continue to do bad things forever, unless someone stops them. And Pakistan doesn't seem to want to stop them. Pakistan is way too good of friends with the Taliban for any real change to happen. So they are just going to have to put up with these murders, because they aren't willing to do anything about it.

[ck4829]

8. One of the almost murder victims of the Pakistan Taliban was Malala Yousafzai

I don't remember when she said she was putting up with them.

[ck4829]

3. Such great people the Taliban, I wonder if Dana Rohrabacher still considers them allies

[AuntPatsy]

4. I cannot imagine constantly living in fear, i have no faith that humanity is a good thing

[duhneece]

7. I try to find that 'other way of looking at things...a big-perspective way'

And remember the book that took me so long to read, "Better Angels of Our Nature, How Violence Has Decreased' (or something like that) by Stephen Pinker. He's no wild-eyed, rosey glass optimist, but this book ends up making him sound like one; the book was a good antidote to 'Shock Doctrine' by Naomi Klein...so I always suggest my peeps read both, but in that order.