Suicide bomber kills at least 24 at Pakistan mosque

I wish these POSs would just kill themselves.

It's interesting to note that terror attacks in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan etc., however huge and bloody, get only scant attention in the West, unless, of course, if there are casualties from Western countries. No pathetic shows "Je suis Pakistan", no photos of laboriously grieving world leaders. Just a curt, dry news. It speaks volumes about real attitude of the West to the problems of the region.

Asaoze:

" It's interesting to note that terror attacks in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan etc., however huge and bloody, get only scant attention in the West, unless, of course, if there are casualties from Western countries. "

It is natural. If the press was reporting every single islamic terror incident from Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, that would fill the news every day. There would not be space for anything else. Simply put, these attacks would not be "news".

They are (still) news in the West, where we (yet) do not have a massive islamist population. However, demographics are changing. Once we have the rate of jihadi attacks that Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan have, the coverage will be just as low.

Just to point out the obvious.

"get only scant attention in the West,"

A lot of events in the West get scant attention in the Pakistani and other "Eastern" media, usually to a much greater extent. Anyway, you found out about this particular incident from the Associated Press, an American news agency based in New York.

And note the writer has what appears to be a Pakistani name, meaning US readers often receive reports filed by local people with local insights. That's a huge difference from, say, the Japanese media.