LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan 20, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - At least two people were killed 
and 22 wounded on Thursday by a bomb blast in a busy shopping district of the 
Pakistani megacity of Lahore, police and officials said. 

   "Initial investigations show that it was a time-controlled device on a 
motorbike which was the cause of the blast," Rana Arif, spokesman for Lahore 
police, told AFP. 

   Hospital sources and police said two people were killed -- including a 
child -- and 22 injured in the blast, which happened in old Lahore's busy 
Anarkali shopping district. 

   There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but there have been a 
series of blasts and attacks against police since December, when a truce 
between the government and Pakistan's Taliban lapsed. 

   Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- a home-grown movement that shares 
common roots with the Afghan Taliban -- has claimed responsibility for most 
of those incidents.