Ehsanullah Ehsan

A large bomb blast ripped through a protest rally in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding nearly 60 in an attack claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction.

A suicide attack carried out in a park in Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore on Sunday evening claimed the lives of at least seventy people and left 300 other injured.

A Taliban breakaway group, which has carried out several attacks on civilians and security forces in the past months, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

A suicide bomber attacked a government office in northwestern Pakistan on Dec. 29, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 70, officials said.