At least 43 people were wounded in the morning bombing in Parachinar, capital of the Kurram tribal region, which borders Afghanistan. “I was in my shop when a deafening blast shook the market,” a Parachinar resident, Hussain Ali Tori, said by telephone. But there had been none since December 2015, when another market bombing killed 23 people. The blast was the first terrorist attack of 2017 in Pakistan, which has been racked by Taliban violence in recent years. Much of the militant violence last year was concentrated in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.

Source: New York Times January 21, 2017 17:18 UTC