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Scores dead in Pakistan sectarian attack
The governor of Pakistan's Balochistan province has accused intelligence and law enforcement agencies of being unable to keep the peace after a bomb blast in Quetta killed at least 81.
The bomb went off in a market area housing grocery stores, vegetable shops, language schools and a computer centre.
A bomb in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least 84 people and left more than 200 others injured, rights activists and officials say.
The death toll rose on Sunday, after more bodies were pulled overnight from the rubble left in the wake of the explosion, officials said.
Nawab Zulfikar Magsi, given greater powers after a similar attack in January, told Geo News that agents were either "too scared or too clueless".
Saturday's attack on Shia Muslims was carried out by a Sunni militant group.
A strike has been called in Quetta for Sunday in memory of the dead.
President Asif Ali Zardari has spoken to Magsi by telephone and called for concerted efforts to protect members of the Shia group that was targeted - the Hazara.
Magsi was made provincial chief executive in January after another attack on the Hazaras killed 92 people and the government of Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani was sacked.
The frontier corps has been given powers to maintain law and order and Mr Magsi can call in more armed forces.
After Saturday's attack, Magsi told Geo News that intelligence agents were "either too scared to go after the terror-mongers or too clueless to even know who they are dealing with".
He said he had given security forces a "free hand" to take action against extremist groups, but that this had clearly failed.
He said: "It's their job to pre-empt such attacks. That's what they are paid for."
He also told Dawn News: "There is chaos everywhere and the state does not seem to be effective."
Magsi announced compensation of 100,000 rupees ($1,000) for the families of each fatal victim.
Hazara Town, one of two Hazara enclaves in Quetta, is considered to be less economically affluent than Alamdar Road, "poor families suffered", Changezi told Al Jazeera.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the armed pro-Sunni sectarian group, claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack.
The group also carried the January 10 twin bombings that killed more than 90 and led to a 76-hour sit-in demanding protection from the targeted killings. It has been banned since 2001.
