Pakistan bombings: The real martyrs, Timeline Pakistan 2009

Timeline Pakistan 2009 Huma Imtiaz's useful compilation

Pakistan bombings: The real martyrs - On December 4th of 2009, a handful of men set foot into a guarded mosque in a residential compund, with grand aspirations of becoming martyrs within the hour. The joke's on them, as they wake up in their sweaty and blistering "paradise". Martyrs are immortal. These men are nameless and will never be remembered. But it's their victims that became the martyrs on December 4th. It's young men like Saad that leave a legacy behind.

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