Pakistan bombings reach 'unprecedented' level
... On Thursday, a suicide bomber killed at least 23 people and injured more than 58 others outside a court in Lahore, police said.
The attack brought to 20 the number of suicide attacks in Pakistan in the last three months, including a failed attack on Bhutto's life in October. The bombings have killed close to 400 people and wounded nearly 1,000 others in the last three months, according to government officials.
Pro-Taliban militants with ties to al Qaeda are carrying out the attacks, according to analysts and government officials.
CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen says the number of suicide bombings in Pakistan has "reached unprecedented levels in the past year." Previously, Bergen says, such attacks were rare.[...]
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