Pakistani police commandos take position outside the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), a criminal police building after gunmen attacked in Lahore on October 15, 2009. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
Yesterday Pakistan suffered a series of coordinated attacks against police and military compounds which killed 40 people in the country's second-largest city, Lahore. More violence hit the nation this morning when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a mosque next to a police station in the northwest city of Peshawar, killing at least seven people. Over the past two weeks, coordinated attacks have killed more than 150 people across the country. The violence seems intended to force the government to abandon a planned offensive into militants' stronghold along the Afghan border.
How are the residents of Pakistan reacting to the dramatic uptick in violence? We are joined by Issam Ahmed, reporter for the Christian Science Monitor in Islamabad, Pakistan; and Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of the book of stories “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
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Yep, the US is hard at work doing what it does best: creating chaos and mayhem. And the best is yet to come!
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