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Parachinar Parachinar ( ps, پاړه چنار; ur, ) is a small Pashtun ( Turi and Bangash tribe) town which is the capital of Kurram District in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Parachinar is situated on a neck of Pakistani territory west ...

, in the

Kurram Valley Kurram District ( ps, کرم ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Kohat Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.The name Kurram comes from the river Kuramá ( ps, کورمه) in Pashto which itself derives from the Sanskrit name Kr ...

of the

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. At least 25 people were killed and 87 injured by the explosion. Parachinar is the administrative headquarters of the Kurram Agency near the Afghan border. The same area has previously seen several blasts in

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, February 2012, September 2012,

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and in December 2015. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Bajwa visited Parachinar and paid a visit to the injured of the bomb blast in Agency Headquarters Hospital. General Bajwa also announced plans to construct an Army Public School (APS) in Parachinar to support education of the local children.

Responsibility

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; ur, ) or "Army of Jhangvi", is a Deobandi Sunni supremacist, terrorist and jihadist militant organisation based in Afghanistan. The organisation operates in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is an offshoot of anti-Shia ...

al-Alami and the

Pakistani Taliban The Pakistani Taliban (), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (Urdu/ ps, , lit=Student Movement of Pakistan, TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani bor ...

splinter Shehryar Mehsud group both separately issued a joint claim of responsibility.

Investigation

Seven suspects were arrested following a search operation after the blast.

Reactions

* - Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi extended his condolences to the Pakistani government, saying that "Terrorism is the most important security problem in the region and the world and has indiscriminately targeted the countries and nations' peace and security, and fighting against it needs synergy in all-out efforts and cooperation of all the regional states and the world community." * - Bahrain strongly condemned the bombing, stating that "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its sincerest condolences and sympathies to the families of the victims and wishes the speedy recovery to those injured by this terrorist act that seeks to terrorize and undermine the safety and security of the country. The Ministry affirms the Kingdom of Bahrain's solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in its struggle against terrorism and reiterates its support for all measures to stabilize the country and ensure its safety." * - Turkish Prime Minister

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, in a message to Pakistani Prime Minister

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...

, said Turkey was saddened by the incident and would continue to work with Pakistan to fight terrorism. * - US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale condemned the attack and expressed sympathy for the victims' families. * - The

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quoted an official source at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs as expressing the Kingdom's condolences to the families of victims and to the government and people of Pakistan, and wishing for a speedy recovery for the injured.

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Marketplace attacks in Asia

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