Now terrorists are targeting refugees: 12 killed as car bomb rips through Pakistani camp
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 21, 2013 17:52Twelve people were killed when a car packed with explosives blew up inside a refugee camp in northwestern Pakistan.
At least another 20 people were injured when the device exploded as hundreds queued for food today at Jalozai camp on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The camp mainly hosts Pakistanis who have been displaced by fighting between the army and the Taliban on the border with Afghanistan.
Many of the camp’s residents get rations from the United Nations’ World Food Program.
The Taliban has been waging a bloody insurgency against the government in an attempt to establish an Islamic state and end Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States in fighting militancy.
The militant group withdrew an offer of holding peace talks with the Pakistani government this week, saying officials did not seem serious about sitting down at the negotiation table despite comments to the contrary.
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