Crackdown in Pakistan
The military is targeting militants after a suicide bombing at a Sufi shrine.
by Yasmeen Serhan
Feb 17, 2017
3 minutes
Just hours after a deadly blast killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 150 others at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan Thursday, the country’s military issued a series of tweets vowing “no more restraint for anyone.”
Recent Ts acts are being exec on directions from hostile powers and from sanctuaries in Afghanistan. We shall defend and respond.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 16, 2017
On Friday, about Major General Asif Ghafoor, Pakistan’s military spokesman.
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