Pakistan's Civil War Is Reaching It's Heartland

Pakistani security officials examine a police vehicle at the site of car bombing in Badaber, near Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, March 7, 2009. (AP / Mohammad Iqbal)

Lahore Attack Heralds Spread Of Taliban-Trained Groups To Pakistani Heartlands -- The Telegraph

A new strain of Taliban-trained militants tasked with destabilising vaste new swathes of Pakistan may have carried out last week's terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, Western diplomats believe.

As the manhunt continued for the gunmen behind Tuesday's assault in the Punjab city of Lahore, fears grew that it may have been the work of extremists planning to extend their reach from remote tribal areas into the heart of Pakistan's cities.

Only last week, a report by detectives in the southern city of Karachi revealed that senior Taliban figures were stockpiling huge caches of arms in safe houses in slum neighbourhoods. A well-planned uprising could easily throw the city into chaos and spread panic throughout the country.

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My Comment: What has always been isolated to its frontier has now reached its major cities. Pakistan's civil war is now at its front steps.