Pakistan political rally bombing kills 44, wounds 200

Fallout from Joe Biden’s disasterous withdrawal of Afghanistan continues as at least fourty-four people were killed and about two hundred injured after a powerful bomb exploded sending shrapnel ripping through supporters of a hard-line cleric. “There was dust and smoke around and I was under some injured people from where I could hardly stand up, only to see chaos and some scattered limbs,” said Adam Khan, 45, who was hit by shards of metal in his hands and legs. The explosion occured in Khar, the capital of Bajur district, while political leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party was speaking to a workers’ convention.

The area is a stronghold of the Pakistani branch of the Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a militant group that is a close ally of the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The TTP has been driven out of the area in recent years by the Pakistani military. Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and President Arif Alvi condemned the attack.

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