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Pakistan Terrorist Attack: A major terrorist attack has taken place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 38 people have died in this attack. This attack took place on a passenger van in Down Kurram area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Dozens of people, including a police officer and women, have also been injured in the attack. According to the information, terrorists have opened fire on passenger vehicles carrying Shia Muslim citizens in the troubled province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwestern Pakistan. This is the deadliest attack of this kind in recent years in the region.
The death toll may increase
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhary said that on Thursday, gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area of northwestern Pakistan. Chaudhary said that a woman and a child were also among those killed in this attack in Kurram tribal district. He said, “This is a big tragedy and the death toll is likely to increase.”
Tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims
Tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims have existed for decades over land disputes in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident. “There were two convoys of passenger vehicles, one carrying passengers from Peshawar to Parachinar and the other from Parachinar to Peshawar, when the armed men opened fire on them,” Chaudhry said, adding that his relatives were travelling from Peshawar in the convoy.
President Zardari condemns
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the incident and offered his condolences to the bereaved families of the deceased. The PPP said in a post on Twitter that attacking innocent passengers was a cowardly and inhuman act. The party said that those responsible for this incident should be punished
