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Anger over Pakistani university blasts
Two suicide bombers struck the Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, the seventh major attack in a fortnight [Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera]
Published On 20 Oct 2009
20 Oct 2009
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The blasts targeted a women's cafeteria and the law faculty, leaving several people dead [Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera]
Witnesses saw students with blood-soaked clothes being taken away by rescue crews [Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera]
More than 12,000 foreign and local students are enrolled in the university [Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera]
Rehman Malik, the interior minister, condemned the attackers as enemies of Islam and Pakistan [Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera]
But a visit by Malik to the blast site sparked impromptu protests against the Zardari government [Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera]
Pakistan has been rocked by a number of suicide attacks as it conducts an offensive against the Taliban [Zein Basravi, Al Jazeera]