Pakistan: A Semi-Successful Suicide Attack

The May 27 suicide attack in Lahore, Pakistan, has killed at least 25 people and wounded some 250. The real target of the blast, which destroyed a building housing police and emergency first responders, appears to have been the nearby provincial headquarters building of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. Had the attackers succeeded in closing the standoff distance between themselves and the building, the attack would naturally have caused far more damage to the ISI.