{"id":58850,"date":"2023-09-30T02:39:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/29\/twin-suicide-attacks-underline-the-depth-of-pakistans-crisis"},"modified":"2023-09-30T02:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:39:20","slug":"twin-suicide-attacks-underline-the-depth-of-pakistans-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58850","title":{"rendered":"Twin suicide attacks underline the depth of Pakistan\u2019s crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Escalating violence comes at a time when the economy is in tatters and the caretaker government powerless<\/p>\n<p>The scenes of horror pictured on Friday have become all too familiar in Pakistan. This time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/29\/bomb-attack-near-pakistan-mosque\">it was a twin attack<\/a>. A procession to mark the birthday of the prophet Muhammad and a police station were both targeted by suicide bombers, killing almost 60 people and injuring hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p>No one has yet claimed responsibility, but suspicion among officials and analysts was directed towards Islamic State \u2013 Khorasan (IS-K), which has recently regrouped and revived its militant activities in Pakistan to devastating effect, and with little sign of being contained. Alongside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/31\/terrorists-north-west-pakistan-deadly-taliban-resurgence\">recent resurgence of its rival<\/a>, the Pakistan Taliban, which has been behind dozens of deadly attacks over the past few months, the country\u2019s security situation continues to deteriorate to its worst in years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/29\/twin-suicide-attacks-underline-the-depth-of-pakistans-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escalating violence comes at a time when the economy is in tatters and the caretaker government powerlessThe scenes of horror pictured on Friday have become all too familiar in Pakistan. This time it was a twin attack. A procession to mark the birthday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[471,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-state","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58851,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58850\/revisions\/58851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}