At least six killed in Karachi mosque attack

[maddezmom]

By Faisal Aziz
KARACHI (Reuters) - Six people, including three assailants, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Monday at a minority Shi'ite Muslim mosque in southern Pakistan, the latest religious violence to rock the country, officials said.

At least 18 other people were wounded, four seriously, in the attack at the Mandinatul Ilm mosque in a middle-class area of the port city of Karachi, hospital officials said.

It was the latest incident of religious violence to hit a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terrorism. It came after a suicide bombing at a Muslim festival in the capital Islamabad on Friday killed at least 19 people, mostly Shi'ite Muslims.

Provincial spokesman Salahuddin Haider said three of the dead were assailants and one was a policeman, while hospital officials said two worshippers died in hospital.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. and to think

one of the lines of one of my daily prayers reads:

Raise us above the distinctions and differences which divide us."
(Khatum-Haz. Pir-o'Murshid Inayat Khan)