ON MARCH 27, 2016, several Pakistani Christian families gathered at a park in #Lahore to celebrate Easter Sunday when a suicide bomber detonated ten kilograms of explosives and metal ball bearings between two children’s rides. The attack, claimed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, an (1/5) 
offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban, killed seventy-three people, including twenty-nine children. Of these children, the youngest was merely two years old and the oldest was sixteen.
A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, announced that his Islamist militant (2/5)
A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, announced that his Islamist militant (2/5)
group had targeted Christians as a message to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that they had entered Lahore—the prime minister’s hometown.
The terrorists wanted the government to halt military operations against their safe havens in Pakistan’s remote tribal areas bordering (3/5)
The terrorists wanted the government to halt military operations against their safe havens in Pakistan’s remote tribal areas bordering (3/5)
Afghanistan.
The Easter Sunday attack had been preceded a year earlier by twin suicide bombings at churches in Lahore’s Youhanabad area, which killed at least fifteen people and sparked violent protests across the city by the Christian minority. That terrorists chose to (4/5)
The Easter Sunday attack had been preceded a year earlier by twin suicide bombings at churches in Lahore’s Youhanabad area, which killed at least fifteen people and sparked violent protests across the city by the Christian minority. That terrorists chose to (4/5)
target religious minorities, including their children, to caution the government reflected the vulnerability of Pakistan’s already embattled religious minorities. (5/5)
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