A shrine to the Pashto poet Abdur Rehman Baba, damaged in a bombing on Thursday, outside Peshawar in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province. Mohammad Sajjad/Associated PressFrom The New York Times:
The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reports that on Thursday, “the mausoleum of renowned Pashto mystic poet Abdur Rehman Baba was bombed by unidentified miscreants,” outside Peshawar, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province. Dawn calls the bombing of the shrine to “a 17th century poet, revered for his message of love and peace” part of an “attack on Sufism.”
As the BBC notes, suspicion has turned to the Taliban, “who represent a more purist form of Islam and are opposed to Sufism, preventing people from visiting shrines of Sufi saints in areas they control.” The BBC also says that “No casualties are reported but the poet Rahman Baba’s grave has been destroyed and the shrine building badly damaged.”
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My Comment: The Taliban surge is coming .... I just hope that Allied and Afghan forces are ready for the fight.
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