Photos: Assaults on two mosques in Pakistan
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier takes a position near a mosque in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu neighborhood after the building was stormed by suspected militants. Attacks on two mosques of the minority sect known as the Ahmadis killed at least 52 people. (K.M. Chuadary / Associated Press)
Pakistani police and rescuers gather outside one of two Lahore mosques stormed by gunmen during Friday prayers. With at least 52 killed, it was the deadliest such attack in Pakistan’s second-biggest city, which has been increasingly hit by Taliban- and Al Qaeda-linked violence. (Arif Ali / AFP/Getty Images)
Volunteers in the Garhi Shahu neighborhood carry a Pakistani injured in a one of two attacks on mosques in Lahore. Scores of people were killed in the assaults, which targeted the Ahmadis, a minority sect. (K.M. Chuadary / Associated Press)
People look at motorbikes damaged during an attack on a mosque in the Model Town neighborhood of Lahore, one of two near-simultaneous assaults in Pakistan’s second-largest city. Officials said that militants were able to easily get inside the mosques, where they sprayed gunfire and threw grenades at terrified worshippers. (K.M. Chuadary / Associated Press)
Pakistani police celebrate after retaking a mosque in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu neighborhood that had been attacked by gunmen, killing at least 52 people. (Nadeem Ijaz / Getty Images)
As crowds watch, Pakistani police load a victim into an ambulance after gunmen attacked a mosque in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu neighborhood. It was one of two assaults on mosques used by a minority sect, the Ahmadis. The group has been heavily discriminated against in Pakistan, and its members are legally barred from calling themselves Muslims. (Nadeem Ijaz / Getty Images)