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Abid Hussain

Attacks in Pakistan buttressed by region’s ‘militant’ landscape: Analysts

Police officials examine the site of a bombing in the Bajaur district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on July 31, 2023, where at least 54 people were killed and more than 200 others were wounded by a suicide bombing [Abdul Majeed/AFP]

The deadly July suicide bombing at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa highlights a troublesome trend of violence in the region.

The bombing on Sunday targeted those attending a rally for the religious political party Jamiat Uleme-e-Islam-Fazal (JUIF) in the tribal district of Bajaur, some 130km (80 miles) from Peshawar, the provincial capital.

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