65 dead and 300+ injured in Pakistan suicide bombing

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan --

A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing that killed 65 people in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that was crowded with Christians, including many children.

Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, told the Associated Press that a suicide bomber with the faction deliberately targeted the Christian community.

The explosion took place near the children's rides in Gulshan-e-Iqbal park local police chief Haider Ashraf said. He said the explosion appeared to have been a suicide bombing, but investigations were ongoing.

The attack killed 65 people and wounded over 300, said Deeba Shahnaz, a spokesman for Lahore rescue administration.

Punjab's chief minister Shahbaz Sharif announced three days of mourning and pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice, said Zaeem Qadri, a spokesman for the provincial government.

The park was manned by police and private security guards, police chief Haider Ashraf said. "We are in a warlike situation and there is always a general threat but no specific threat alert was received for this place," he added.

Schools and businesses in the city will remain closed on Monday, the city's schools association and the Union of Lahore Traders said.

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AUN inta dhimatay. These terrorists are giving Islam a bad name.

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The Pakistani Taliban is the most dumb of all of the terrorist groups in the world. They used to massacre Shias and Sunnis who don't agree with them, and now they started moving onto Christians. Pure evil.

Even Al-Qaeda leaders called their extremism too evil.

This dumb group robbed the Taliban name from the Afghan Taliban who only focus on fighting foreign forces in Afghanistan and the western-backed Afghan government.

People should keep in mind groups like Al-Shabaab, Pakistani Taliban, and Boko Haram are run by states who want to destabilize Somalia, Pakistan, and Northern Nigeria. The objective here is the dissolution of these states.