Bombing at Pakistan seminary kills 14

Updated: 09:13, Friday June 8, 2012

A bomb attached to a bicycle has exploded outside a seminary in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 14 people.
More than 40 people were wounded in the attack in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, senior police officer Hamid Shakil said.
Most among the dead and wounded were students at the Sunni Muslim seminary, he said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, and the motive for the bombing was unclear.
At the time the bomb went off on Thursday, hundreds of students, teachers and parents were in the Jamia Islamia Maftah-ul-Uloom seminary, attending a ceremony to award certificates to students who had completed their basic religious education, said another police officer, Anwer Kakar.
Baluchistan borders Afghanistan to the west and is believed to be a refuge for Taliban and Pakistani militants.
It has also witnessed a decades-long insurgency by renegade tribal elders and nationalists who demand greater autonomy and a larger share of the province's resources such as natural gas and oil extracted from there.
Also, there have been scores of sectarian attacks blamed on Sunni militants with links to the Afghan Taliban who target Shi'ite Muslims. Many Sunni extremists do not consider Shi'ites to be true Muslims.