Skip to content

Who Bombed Pakistan’s Christians?

October 6, 2013 | Asia
October 6, 2013
AsiaPakistan

ICC Note:
On September 22, at least 85 Christians were killed in a twin suicide bombing attack at All Saints Church in Peshawar, a city located in northwestern Pakistan. A group named Jundullah has claimed responsibility for the attack. This attack has many wondering who is Jundullah? Why do they attack Christians? 
10/6/2013 Pakistan (Global Post) – A Christian church, a crowded market, a bus full of government employees — these are some of the latest targets in Pakistan’s increasingly violent domestic war, which pits diverse militant groups against a government that seems powerless to rein them in.
On Thursday, militants attacked a rival group in northwest Pakistan, killing more than a dozen people.
Most of the assaults are attributed to “the Taliban,” although that term covers a multitude of sins in the Afghan-Pakistan corridor.
A militant group calling itself Jundullah, meaning Soldiers of God, claimed responsibility for the attack on the Christian church in Peshawar on Sept. 22, which killed at least 85. Jundullah says the bombing was payback for Muslims killed in the US drone war — a continuing source of anger in Pakistan.
Jundullah is thought to be one of dozens of splinter groups under the umbrella of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, the organization generally known as the Pakistani Taliban.
But TTP disavowed Jundullah, saying that the alleged bombers had no links to the Taliban.
TTP has also distanced itself from the market attack on Monday, which killed at least 42 and injured more than 100.
Given the current state of militancy in Pakistan, which has seen a proliferation of myriad groups with similar names and overlapping goals, it may be all but impossible to tell, with any degree of certainty, whether Jundullah is part of the Taliban network.

[Full Story]

To read more news stories, visit the ICC Newsroom
For interviews, please email press@persecution.org

Help raise $500,000 to meet the urgent needs of Christians in Syria!

Give Today
Back To Top
Search