33 dead, nearly 100 injured in twin bomb blasts in Lahore market.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but cultural hub Lahore has frequently been targeted by Taliban militants waging a two-and-a-half year insurgency that has killed more than 2,600 people in Pakistan.
City hospitals are facing shortages of blood and have called for donors. “The hospitals also faced difficulties in treating the people suffering from burns as most of the hospitals had no such facilities.”
Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif issued a condemnation of the “murderers” but politicly failed to mention the Taliban by name, since it is comforting to blame others instead.
