A blast killed 20 Shiite pilgrims and injured another 25 in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan province Sunday, a senior administration official said.<\/p>\n
Militants targeted three buses of Shiite pilgrims in the Dringarh area with a car bomb, said Tufail Baloch, deputy commissioner of the Mastung district.<\/p>\n
One bus was destroyed in the attack, and the other two were damaged, Baloch said.<\/p>\n
He said buses were carrying Shiite pilgrims from Quetta to Iran. The pilgrims were from Pakistan’s Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces.<\/p>\n
Baloch said authorities found a timed device at the scene that indicates the blast was controlled remotely.
\nIt was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. But in the past, Sunni militant group Lashkar e Jhangvi has targeted buses of Shiite pilgrims.<\/p>\n
Shia Islam is a minority sect in the mainly Sunni Muslim country, and its members face persecution from extremists.<\/p>\n
On November 24, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast that killed seven people, including three children, during a Shiite religious procession.<\/p>\n
Read more here<\/a> of how the Taliban takes responsibility.<\/p>\n Source CNN.com<\/I> A blast killed 20 Shiite pilgrims and injured another 25 in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan province Sunday, a senior administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3259,"featured_media":70655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"sherlenewdhgtpiohowe","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14a6e1bc5615a018ed8299c7b40111e6d93fca210b51c9c595510be5ace02cc2?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"A blast killed 20 Shiite pilgrims and injured another 25 in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan province Sunday, a senior administration","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":109,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"sherlenewdhgtpiohowe","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=3259"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14a6e1bc5615a018ed8299c7b40111e6d93fca210b51c9c595510be5ace02cc2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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