... by adherents of the religion of peace:
Militants have attacked the office of a Western aid agency in north-western Pakistan, killing six people, police and the agency have said.
The victims, including two women, were all Pakistani nationals working for World Vision in Mansehra district.
The Christian group said it would suspend all operations in the country.
No group has admitted carrying out the attack but Islamist militants and specifically the Taliban will be suspected, a BBC correspondent says.
Earlier in the week, following a bombing in Lahore, the Taliban said they would carry out more attacks across the country as long as US air strikes and Pakistani army operations against them continued in the tribal areas, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says.
World Vision said in a statement that it had not received any threatening letters ahead of the attack.
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Gunmen burst into the building in the village of Oghi, some 80km (50 miles) north of Islamabad, early on Wednesday morning.
"About 10 men came, they were all wearing masks. They kicked the doors down, took everyone out of their offices, put them in one place and started shooting," an office administrator told the AFP news agency.
He added that a bomb had been thrown as the gunmen left the building after the attack, leaving a large crater by the door.
According to a local police officer quoted by the Associated Press, the bomb was a detonated by remote control after the attackers had left the building.
"They left a locally made pressure-cooker bomb that exploded soon after the attackers fled the scene, killing NGO people first by gunfire and then with the blast," said Liaquat Shah.
World Vision confirmed that seven members of staff had been injured during the attack.
"We are deeply sorry we've lost staff members, who were locals, who were deeply committed to improving lives in Pakistan," World Vision's spokesman James East told the Associated Press news agency.Attacks on aid workers and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are not uncommon in Pakistan.
That last statement ought to be amended somewhat... here... let me help:
Attacks on aid workers, other non-governmental organisations (NGOs), elderly men, and innocent women and children, by members of the adherents of the religion of peace, are not uncommon.
Reads a little more truthfully now doesn't it?
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