Bombing and firearms attacks in Pakistan targeting houses of worship for a persecuted religious minority killed at least 70 people Friday, a senior government official said. The strikes took place at two mosques in Lahore belonging to the Ahmadi religious group, police and rescue officials said. At the Baitul Noor place of worship in the Model Town region, two attackers on motorbikes fired at the entrance of the building and tossed hand grenades, a rescue official told CNN. Police said one of the attackers is critically injured. The other, clad in a suicide jacket, was detained. At a mosque in the Garhi Shahu neighborhood, one witness there told CNN he saw two attackers armed with AK-47s and another witness said he saw at least four gunmen. Sajjad Bhutta, the senior official, said the heads of three suicide bombers were discovered there. Bhutta said at least 78 people were injured in the violence. Ahmadis regard themselves as Muslim. But the government says they aren't and many Muslim extremists have targeted them. Sunni and Shia Muslims do not regard followers of the religion as Muslims because they do not regard Mohammed as the last prophet sent by God.
It is time to put a stop to the billions the West gives to Pakistan each year. The West should support India - the only real democracy and stabilizing force in the region that everybody knows without doubt is 100% anti-terror. Indians are the biggest victims of Pakistan's most well-known export: Terror. Trusting Pakistan to fight terror is like trusting Nazis to fight racism. We need to fight the Taliban, but the forces to do that should be an international army contributed by countries that are unremittingly anti-terror. Pakistan is a failed state. The international community has no choice but to contain and clean up the mess.
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