Pakistan: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi warns of new attacks

"There is a high threat from terrorism and sectarian violence throughout the country. Events across the country show that terrorist attacks are continuing. Statements issued by militant groups have threatened more attacks in the coming weeks." [FCO Advisory]

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff |
Source & Credit: United Press International
By UPI | June 3, 2010

LAHORE, Pakistan, June 3 (UPI) -- Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi sent death threats to a hospital in Sindh province days after attacks in Lahore, hospital officials said.

The Pakistani Taliban was blamed for attacks on the Ahmadiyya religious minority in recent days. Two separate attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques and a hospital in Lahore killed around 100 people.

Officials at a hospital in Sindh province said they received death threats in a letter from LeJ accusing the hospital of religious discrimination, the Pakistani Daily Times reports.


"The countdown starts," the letter read. "We will soon blow you up in a suicide attack."

The escalation of violence prompted the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to expand its travel warning in Pakistan to include Lahore.

The FCO said their staff in the area is restricted from all but essential travel in the area.

"There is a high threat from terrorism and sectarian violence throughout the country. Events across the country show that terrorist attacks are continuing," the FCO advisory read. "Statements issued by militant groups have threatened more attacks in the coming weeks."

Human Rights Watch also called on Pakistani officials to clamp down on violence against the Ahmadiyya community carried out by area militants.

Ahmadiyya is a branch of Islam founded in the 19th century.

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