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Gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan s volatile southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least 43, officials said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year.The pink bus was pockmarked with bullet holes and blood saturated the seats and dripped out of the doors on to the concrete.  As the gunmen climbed on to the bus, one of them shouted,  Kill them all!  Then they started indiscriminately firing at everyone they saw,  a wounded woman told a television channel by phone.Police superintendent Najib Khan said there were six gunmen and that all the passengers were Ismailis, a minority  <a href=https://www.canada-stanley.ca>stanley cup</a> Shi ite Muslim sect. Pakistan is mostly Sunni.Qadir Baluch, a security guard at a nearby building, said he heard the gunshots and saw at least one of the militants wearing a police uniform. The attack riddled the bus with bullet holes, but its wounded driver still could drive it to a nearby hospital, said Mohammad Imran, a guard there. Imran said when he got on the bus later, he saw blo <a href=https://www.stanley-cups.de>stanley cup</a> od still seeping across its seats and floor. Blood stained Imran s own hands and uniform.  I hardly saw any survivor,  he said.Militant group Jundullah, which has attacked Muslim minorities before, claimed responsibility. The group <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.it>stanley cup</a>  has links with the Pakistani Taliban and pledged allegiance to Islamic State in November.  These killed people were Ismaili and we consider them kafir  non-Muslim . We had four attackers. In the coming days we will  Awiy Indo-American scholar headed to India to study Ayurveda
An American jailed for shooting two Pakistanis is shielded by diplomatic immunity, the Pakistani government said on Wednesday, a move that may help end a bruising row between the troubled allies.         HT Image    A local court, however, has to decide the fate of Raymond Davis,  <a href=https://www.salomons.com.es>salomon</a> the US consulate employee who shot and killed two Pakistani men in the city of Lahore last month in what he said was a robbery attempt.     We will present all relevant laws and rules about immunity before the court and will plead that prima facie it is a case of diplomatic immunity. But it is for the court to decide,  a senior Pakistani government official said on condition of anonymity.  The row over the detention of the US national is the latest issue straining ties between two nations that are supposed to be working in concert to stamp out a tenacious Islamist insurgency.  Washington has insisted Davis, whose role at the US consulate in Lahore is unclear, should be released immediately. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama said the United States was working <a href=https://www.nike-dunk.es>nike dunk</a>  with the Pakistani government to secure the release of the US citizen.  Up to now the Pakistani government, fearful of a backlash from Pakistanis al <a href=https://www.nikeairjordan.fr>jordan</a> ready wary of the United States and enraged by the shooting on a crowded street, had said only that the matter should be decided in court.  The United States is expected to present a petition to a Lahore court on Thursday to certify that Davis has diplomatic immunity and should be released.  Pakistan
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