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The group is mainly fighting Indian forces in India's part of Kashmir, but its supporters are also known for their links with al Qaeda.

Mushtaq Shah, chief of police operations in Karachi, said a "low-intensity bomb" was strapped to the body of one of the attackers and detonated inside the mosque.

The attack came three days after a suspected suicide bomber attacked a Shiite religious gathering during a festival at a shrine near Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, killing about 20 people and injuring dozens.

"These incidents are happening one after the other. We are trying to find a link between them," he told the private Geo television station. "This is a criminal and merciless attack."

Also Monday, assailants shot and killed Aslam Mujahid, a senior member from Pakistan's largest Islamic group, Jamaa-e-Islami Pakistan, after he was kidnapped from a funeral for another slain member of the party.

On Tuesday, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan asked people to observe a complete strike in Karachi on Wednesday to condemn the killing of Mujahid, the mosque attack and a bombing at a shrine in Islamabad.

He also asked people to observe "protest day" Friday to condemn alleged desecration of Quran at Guantanamo Bay. It is the third time that Ahmed has given a call for anti-U.S. protests since Newsweek magazine reported that interrogators at the U.S. prison placed copies of the Quran in washrooms and flushed one in the toilet to get inmates to talk.

The magazine later withdrew its story and apologized, but Pakistan has said this was not enough, and the country's radical Islamic groups are still protesting, saying the magazine had been made a scapegoat by the United States.

Pakistan has a history of sectarian violence, mostly blamed on rival majority Sunni and minority Shiite extremist groups. About 80 percent of Pakistan's 150 million people are Sunnis and 17 percent Shiites.

Most of the Muslims live together peacefully, but small groups of militants on both sides stage attacks. The schism between Sunnis and Shiites dates to the 7th century over who was the true heir to the Prophet Mohammed.