His accomplices brought carnage to a Sufi shrine, but the 14-year-old suicide bomber who was captured after his explosives failed to detonate was unrepentant.
“Let me go, I want to be a martyr,” he said as he was being led away, according to police officer Khalid Mahmood. “I want to send all you policemen to hell!”…
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The shrine was targeted because Islamist extremists regard the veneration of Sufi saints — a much loved and widespread practice in Pakistan — as un-Islamic.
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