Holy shit, last time I saw the death toll was 58.

Can someone ELI5 on the situation in Pakistan and what would the attackers (Taliban? Splinter group from the Taliban) hope to gain from this?

Thank you in advance.

Pakistani Taliban wants part of Pakistan to join Afghanistan. Now that OG Taliban is in power, thanks to Pakistan, little Tali has gotten bolder.

You forgot to mention that the Pakistan government gave support and protection to the Taliban, while the US invaded Afghanistan, to undermine the US Government's influence in Afghanistan. Now they are reaping what they sowed.

Did I not see something about warnings in Pakistan for synagogues and churches? Seems the warning was off the mark.

100 people gone just like that...

This is just fucking depressing.

Savages flexing to ensure the opium flows.

Pakistani Taliban (TTP or Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan) and TLP (Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan), both aim to overthrow the current government and set up an Islamic state of Pakistan like Afghanistan. Both are of the opinion that the current government is not Islamic enough

This is what I call karma.

Pakistan went out of its way to ensure the fall of the democratic government in Afghanistan and install an Islamic government that heavily degraded human rights and almost nullified women's rights. This is karma saying "Hi".

I do sympathise with the dead but it was the result of their own government's doing.

And given the economic shitshow going on, the nationalist party in power in the neighbouring country with a huge boner for revenge against Pakistan (due to their own valid reasons of Pakistan conducting cross-terrorism) and possibly (*wears conspiracy hat*) Western intelligence assistance as revenge, this is gonna get more ugly in my opinion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban

>The TTP's aim is to overthrow the government of Pakistan by waging a terrorist campaign against the Pakistan armed forces and the state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehreek-e-Labbaik_Pakistan

>It demands that Sharia be established as the Islamic fundamental law in Pakistan, through a gradual legal and political process.

And you forget to mention that the US and the CIA instructed Pakistan to find, arm, and train these people when the Soviet-Afghan war was raging. This is literally the conquered of a war in the 70s and 80s coming to bite all parties invoked back in the ass.