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    Lahore Suicide Bombing Signals Emergence of a New Militant Organisation

    Iqbal Singh Sevea

    13 May 2019

    Ten people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide attack outside a Sufi shrine in Lahore on 8 May 2019. If the Hizbul Ahrar’s claim to have carried out the attack is true, we have to look beyond mere religious motivations at the wider political and symbolic significance of the attack.