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Friday, April 1, 2016

Pakistan | This year would end terrorism



2016 began with a hopeful for Pakistan. The Army General Raheel Sharif, announced that this year would end terrorism. That promise, today, is pure illusion. Shortly after his words took place an attack on Bacha Khan University. 25 dead. He was returning a terror that actually had never gone. In this attack was followed by others, such as the suicide assault a court in Shabqadar (14 dead), the explosion on a bus in Peshawar (15 dead) or continuous clashes with positions of the security forces. A demented routine.The attack on a playground in the city of Lahore on Sunday, the biggest event in the country so far this year with 74 dead, is the latest in a list that will not end here. The dead included 29 children who attended Gulshan-e-Iqbal with his parents in what they thought would be a pleasant evening of Easter.A total of 360 injured trying to recover in hospitals in the second largest city in Pakistan while the relatives of the victims have begun to say goodbye to their loved ones Christians and especially Muslims. The first funerals were held in different districts on Monday, the first of three days of official mourning. Lahore lives these days between pain and militarization of the streets.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, visited victims in hospitals in the capital of Punjab. "Avenge every drop of blood of our compatriots", he said in a televised speech in which he stressed his "determination to fight the threat of terrorism until it is uprooted from our society , "a strong condemnation that, despite being logic, Pakistanis are tired of seeing.In 2015 there were 625 terrorist attacks that caused 1,069 deaths, according to the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS). Almost two attacks a day, a reality that the population has taken to the force since it began the escalation of violence in 2007.

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