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Credit: Reuters/Damir Sagolj By Augustine Anthony ISLAMABAD | Sat Sep 4, 2010 3:22am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to fuel a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for bomb attacks on two Shi'ite rallies that killed nearly 90 people in the cities of Quetta and Lahore in the past three days. The attacks ended a lull after devastating floods which affected 20 million people. Pakistani officials had said before the attacks that any major violence at such a difficult time was likely to cause deep popular resentment against the militants. On Friday, the Taliban also threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon," two days after the Washington added the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to its list of "foreign terrorist organizations." Malik said after taking a beating in their strongholds in the country's northwest in a string of military offensives, al Qaeda-linked militants were adding a religious color to their activities to whip up sectarianism. "Sectarianism that has been there for 62 years (since the creation of Pakistan), they stoked it again," he told reporters in Islamabad. Warning that militants would launch attacks again "wherever there is a vulnerable situation" he said "they are using it as a weapon to terrorize people." Thousands have been killed in sectarian violence by majority Sunni and minority Shi'ite sects in the past two decades. But Shi'ite violence has largely declined in recent years. Malik said the TTP, al Qaeda and the Sunni Muslim Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), one of the most violent anti-Shi'ite groups with roots in the central Punjab province, were all part of the same organization. "Lashkar-e-Jhanvi, al Qaeda, TTP; they are one," he said. "And the TTP are there whenever there is suicide bombing." SEVEN KILLED IN DRONE STRIKE Aside from its battles against Pakistani militants, Pakistan is under U.S. pressure to tackle Afghan Taliban fighters who cross the border from Pakistan's lawless tribal areas to attack U.S.-led NATO troops. The United States has stepped up missile strikes by pilotless drone aircraft against militant targets in Pakistani tribal areas since the start of 2010. Two such strikes killed 7 militants, including two foreigners, on Friday in the North Waziristan tribal region. The TTP has responded to drone attacks by saying it would strike Western targets. "We will launch attacks in America and Europe very soon," Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior Pakistani Taliban and mentor of suicide bombers, told Reuters on Friday. The attacks in Quetta and Lahore were the first major attacks since the floods which began more than a month ago and swept through the country from northwest to south, leaving an area almost the size of England under water. A new wave of violence would be especially difficult to manage given the enormity of the task of providing relief to millions of flood victims. The Pakistan Army has taken the lead in providing flood relief. Many are still homeless and face diseases including dysentery and malaria. (Editing by Myra MacDonald and Sugita Katyal) World Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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