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		</div><p>The death toll from twin blasts in Parachinar has climbed to 67, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks in Pakistan to 85.</p>
<p>Several other victims are in a critical condition, officials said.</p>
<p>Shahid Khan, a government official in Parachinar, confirmed the toll, saying residents who had been preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan and Eid feast were now in mourning.</p>
<p>He said during the day another 12 critically wounded people died at different hospitals.</p>
<p>Lashkar e Jhangvi, a Sunni extremist group, claimed the twin bombings on Friday at a crowded market in the Shiite-dominated town, linking them to sectarian fighting in Syria.</p>
<p>Dr Sabir Hussain, an official at a government-run hospital in Parachinar, said it had received 261 victims of the twin blasts, with 62 listed as in critical condition.</p>
<p>Another 14 people were killed Friday in a suicide car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in the southwestern city of Quetta, police spokesman Shahzada Farhat said.</p>
<p>That attack was claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction and the Islamic State group.</p>
<p>Gunmen in the port city of Karachi attacked police officers at a roadside restaurant, killing four of them before fleeing, senior police officer Asif Ahmed said.</p>
<p>Major General Asif Ghafoor, a military spokesman, linked the attacks to alleged militant sanctuaries in neighbouring Afghanistan and promised greater border security.</p>
<p>The two countries often accuse each other of turning a blind eye to militants.</p>
<p>Security forces raided a militant hideout in the northwestern city of Peshawar before dawn on Saturday, triggering a shootout in which three Pakistani Taliban were killed and two police officers and a soldier were wounded, senior police official Sajjad Khan said.</p>
<p>He said the militants were making bombs that likely would have been used to target holiday festivities.</p>
<p>Mr Khan said the identity of the dead militants was not immediately known.</p>
<p>But intelligence officials said one of the men has been identified as a wanted militant commander linked to IS.</p>
<p>Pakistan&#8217;s prime minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the attacks, which came just days before Eid-al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.</p>
<p>Parachinar, a majority Shiite town, has been targeted by Sunni militants group several times in recent years, leaving dozens dead.</p>
<p>In March, a car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque in Parachinar, killing 24 people, mostly Shiites.</p>
<p>In January, a bomb ripped through the crowded market of Parachinar, killing 22 people and wounded over 100.</p>
<p>In December 2015, the same market was targeted by a suicide bomber, killing 22.<br />
Friday&#8217;s car bombing in Quetta could be heard across the city, and shattered the windows of nearby buildings, said police spokesman Shahzada Farhat.</p>
<p>TV footage showed several badly damaged cars and a road littered with broken glass.<br />
Hours after the attack, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility.</p>
<p>Later Friday, the IS group said in a competing claim that it was behind the attack, adding that one of its followers targeted the police post in Quetta, detonating his suicide belt there.</p>
<p>It also released a photograph of the alleged attacker, identified as Abu Othman al-Khorasani.</p>
<p>Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, which has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency by Baluch nationalists and separatists, who want a bigger share of the region&#8217;s resources or outright independence. Islamic militants have also carried out several attacks in the province.</p>
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