Bloody attack on Sufi shrine Pakistan

sehwan - In a bomb attack on a shrine of Sufism in Pakistan Thursday least fifty deaths. Pakistani media reported that it had committed a suicide attack by a perpetrator before he blew himself up, threw a grenade at people. There were many people gathered for a ritual.

The attack was in Sehwan in the south of the country, about 180 kilometers northeast of Karachi. The target was the Lal Shahbaz Qalander shrine of the mystic and liberal movement in Islam called Sufism. Sufism is anathema to Sunni extremists who carry out attacks in Pakistan on Shiites and Christians. The attack in Sehwan was claimed by the Islamic State extremists.