Terror at Friday prayers: witnesses describe blast rocking Islamabad mosque

Muhammad Kazim, 52, told AFP he arrived at the Imam Bargah Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra mosque shortly after 1:00 pm (0800 GMT) on Friday and took up a place around seven or eight rows from the Imam. "During the first bow of the Namaz (prayer ritual), we heard gunfire," he told AFP outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital, where many of the wounded were brought for treatment. "And while we were still in the bowing position, an explosion occurred," he said. Kazim -- from Gilgit-Baltistan...