Bomb explodes at Sufi Sacred Place, 2 Killed

                            

KARACHI, KOMPAS.com - A bomb blast at a Sufi shrine killed at least two people and wounded 10 others in East Pakistan, Monday (25/02/2013), police said.

The bomb exploded at Lakhi Ghulam Shah shrine in the southern district of Shikarpur, about 400 kilometers from Karachi. In this place, the followers gathered to give homage to the Sufi scholars are buried in that place.

"At least two people were killed and another 10 injured after a bomb exploded at Lakhi Ghulam Shah shrine," said a senior police officer told Pervez Chandio AFP.

"We are still investigating the type of bomb that was detonated and the motive for the attack," Chandio said.

tomb, a sacred by the followers of the Sufis, also usually visited by the Shiites. However, the majority of Sunnis also on a pilgrimage to the tomb.

Shiite Muslims, who account for about 20 percent of Pakistan's majority Sunni population. They are often the target of attacks by Sunni hardliners.

On February 16, 2013, a bomb attack in Quetta killed 89 people. Furthermore, as many as 92 people were killed in an attack at a billiard Hazara on January 10. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Pakistani police on Friday caught the leader of a Sunni militant group that claimed responsibility for deadly bomb attacks it.

Malik Ishaq, leader the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), was arrested at his home in the town of Rahim Yar Khan, central Pakistan, and put into the local jail.

Pakistan hit by attacks suicide bombings and shootings that killed more than 5,200 people since the force government stormed a mosque that became a militant hideout in Islamabad in July 2007.

sectarian violence intensified since Sunni militants deepened ties with al-Qaeda and Taliban militants after Pakistan joined the US-led operation to crack down on militancy after the attacks on 11 September 2001 U.S..