Pakistan suicide bombing sparks emergency
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:07.1 | We are recording this at 13 hours GMT on Monday, the 31st of July. |
| 0:11.9 | A day after a suicide bombing on a rally in Northeast Pakistan, |
| 0:15.3 | we ask who might have carried it out? |
| 0:17.8 | Our defence correspondent goes on patrol with Ukrainian snipers near Bachmout. |
| 0:23.0 | And we hear from a member of China's We Get Community, |
| 0:25.7 | who says he was pressured into being a spy for the communist authorities. |
| 0:31.0 | Also, in the podcast, he considers himself a real boxer |
| 0:35.0 | and is himself very disdainful of fights like this against YouTubers. |
| 0:40.0 | Why professional fighter Tommy Fury is taking on another social media star? |
| 0:50.0 | The suicide bombing at a political rally in Northwest Pakistan on Sunday |
| 0:54.0 | was just the latest in a series of attacks in the former tribal lands |
| 0:58.0 | bordering Afghanistan. |
| 1:00.0 | Analysts say militants there have become increasingly bold |
| 1:04.0 | since the Afghan Taliban regained power in Kabul two years ago. |
| 1:08.0 | However, the Pakistani Taliban have tended to target security forces |
| 1:13.0 | and not political events like Sunday's rally, |
| 1:16.0 | which was held by an Islamist party in the governing coalition. |
| 1:19.0 | Officials are blaming local fighters linked to IS, |
| 1:23.0 | who have attacked the party before. |
| 1:25.0 | Shandana Ghulza Khan is an opposition politician in Kaiba Pakhtunkwa province. |
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