10/40 Window Emergency Prayer Alert-Pakistan- Terrorists suicide bombings kill more than 20 people, deepening nation’s security crisis
Urgent prayer is needed for Pakistan after massive suicide bombs ripped through a seven-story police headquarters in Lahore on Tuesday, March 11, 2008, killing more than 20 people and wounding more than 200, deepening the security crisis facing Pakistan’s incoming civilian government. The bombings come amid a spate of violence that authorities are blaming on Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militants, spreading beyond their strongholds along the Afghan border, the Associated Press reported. >>Click here to view the entire article online. Emergency Prayer Alert-Pakistan Terrorists suicide bombings kill more than 20 people, deepening nation’s security crisisWIN PRAYER ALERT
Urgent prayer is needed for Pakistan after a suicide bomber blew up a seven-story police headquarters in Lahore on Tuesday, March 11, 2008, killing more than 20 people and injuring more than 200 in one of the boldest attacks yet by suspected Islamic militants against a Pakistani government installation. A second, apparently synchronized blast moments later in a residential district of the city, killed three people, two of them reported to be children, The Los Angeles Times reported. The dual attacks underscored the deteriorating security situation faced by the new government now being formed in the wake of February 18, 2008 parliamentary elections that swept opposition parties to power, the newspaper observed. The explosions also marked the third time in two months that attackers hit government or military targets in Lahore, the country’s cultural capital which until recently had escaped the wave of attacks elsewhere in the country, the Times reported. The bombings come amid a spate of violence that authorities are blaming on Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militants, spreading beyond their strongholds along the Afghan border, the Associated Press (AP) reported. There have been at least seven suicide attacks in the weeks since the elections, which were won by the opposition parties of the late Benazir Bhutto and fellow former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. President Pervez Musharraf condemned the most recent bombings as “savage act” and said the “acts of terrorism cannot deter government’s resolve to fight the scourge with full force,” state media reported. Musharraf has summoned the new parliament to meet on March 17, 2008, setting up a showdown with his rivals that could potentially further destabilize the nuclear-armed nation, Agency France Presse reported. Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto’s widower and political successor, and Sharif have agreed to form a coalition government that is expected to take on Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, but they must also grapple with the tide of violence engulfing the country, the Pakistan Christian Post reported. “Terrorists are trying to put pressure on the government-in-making. But I am sure the government-in-making will also have the same resolve to deal with terrorism,” interior ministry spokesman Javed Cheema told the Post. Pray for:
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