5 Killed In Suicide Attack In Peshawar

PESHAWAR: At least five people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide attack Monday morning near a police station in Peshawar Badhabir.

A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives right flank of the local police station buildings damaged a mosque and college degree near the police station.

The relief operation was underway to recover people trapped under the rubble. The wounded were being brought to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

The blast also damaged nearby residential buildings. Experts say removal of about 200 to 250 kilograms of explosives were used in the attack.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has ordered investigation into the incident.

Suicide Attack In Peshawar Death Toll Rises To 10

PESHAWAR: The death toll in suicide attack at the offices of an intelligence agency in Khyber Road, Peshawar, reached 10, while over 30 were injured, including six in critical condition.

A suicide bomber on Friday morning at 6:30 am rammed a car packed with explosives in Khyber road building with offices of an intelligence agency. A portion of the building collapsed in the explosion.

The sound of the explosion was heard at a distance of 40 to 50 miles from the scene. The windowpanes of houses and vehicles were destroyed by the impact of the explosion.

The injured have been transferred to the Virgin of the city and the Reading Hospital Combined Military Hospital. Six injured, said to be in a critical condition. Eleven security men injured have been transferred to the CMS Lady Reading Hospital.

Suicide Attack 4 Killed in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: A policeman of the four people were killed and five wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint in Peshawar Ring Road, ARY News reported here Thursday.

Liaquat Ali Khan Peshawar CCPO by telephone that the police officer at a checkpoint in the area Patang Chowk – join Peshawar Ring Road and Charsadda Road, noticed a suspicious man aboard a rickshaw stops.

When police tried to verify that the suspect blew up the suicide belt, killing the rickshaw driver, a bystander and a policeman identified as Wahidullah. Two police officers, among five other people were also wounded in the attack, he added.

Police and paramedic teams arrived at the scene of the explosion shortly after the attack, which was cordoned off by the implementing agencies of the law. The dead and wounded were rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where the emergency has been declared.

Suicide Attack Near Nuke-Linked Complex In Pakistan, 7 Killed

ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near a military complex linked to alleged nuclear weapons program in Pakistan on Friday,

Security forces inspect the site of a suicide bombing at the entrance of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra. (Reuters)
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killing seven people as the army continues a major offensive against the Taliban in the northwest. (Video)

The attack took place near the aeronautical complex at Kamra expansion, about 30 miles (50 km) from the capital, Islamabad, and is sure to raise renewed concerns about the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear program.

Kamra The site is often mentioned by foreign military experts and researchers as a likely place to keep planes that can carry nuclear warheads. The army, which does not reveal where they are stored nuclear weapons, has denied that the facility is linked to the program.

The bomber was apparently on a bicycle and detonated his explosives at a checkpoint on a road leading to the complex, police officer Akbar Abbas said, blaming the Taliban. The seven dead included two security forces, while 13 people were injured.

“The attacker wanted to go. He blew himself up when officials wanted to search his body,” said Police Chief Attock Fakhar Sultan Raja said.

The attack is the latest in a wave of radical violence as Pakistan army carries out its offensive against Islamic militants in northwestern tribal region of South Waziristan. More than 170 people have died in attacks and raids on Western security-related objectives in the past three weeks.

One of the attacks of 22-including a confrontation hours at the headquarters of the army, a shameful violation of security that also raised concerns about their ability to protect the country’s nuclear weapons.

The complex in Kamra or their workers have been monitored at least once before. In December 2007, a car bomb exploded near a bus carrying the children of employees of the Pakistan Air Force, wounding five of them.

Pakistan has always insisted its nuclear program is safe, and has tried to protect it from militant attacks by storing warheads, detonators and missiles in separate facilities patrolled by elite troops.

U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton recently expressed his confidence in nuclear security in Pakistan, but analysts are divided over how to ensure that weapons are. Some say that guns are less safe than they were five years ago.

Security plans aside, much depends on the Pakistani army and how vulnerable to infiltration by militants, according to some observers. A possible scenario that could jeopardize the program militant supporters would find work as scientists at the premises and passing information to the extremist.

Pakistan is estimated that between 70 and 90 nuclear warheads, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project of the Federation of American Scientists.

Shaun Gregory, a Pakistani security expert at the University of Bradford in Britain, said in a recent interview that the militants have hit near an air base in Sargodha, where nuclear missiles are believed to be stored, and the Wah cantonment , where the missiles could carry nuclear weapons are believed to be assembled.

He said the attacks appear to have been aimed at nuclear weapons, but said there was no evidence of threats to the program.

Pakistan hopes its week-old military offensive in South Waziristan will go a long way toward eliminating the threat of militants on its soil, but residents fleeing the region, reported this week that the insurgents are digging in a fight.

Refugees arriving tired and dusty Thursday in the northwestern city of Dera Ismail Khan, from different parts of South Waziristan, reported heavy shelling by army planes and helicopters, but said they had seen no ground troops.

The militants were believed to control about 1275 miles square (3,300 square kilometers) of territory before the offensive began. The part covering about half of South Waziristan. The army says its troops are advancing steadily and to regain ground in three fronts. But officials have made clear that the campaign will be long and bloody.

The United Nations says 110,000 people have fled to South Waziristan in recent months increased speculation of an army offensive, about 30,000 of them in recent days. Many are staying with relatives or in rented houses in Dera Ismail Khan and nearby suburbs.

The new arrivals said the Taliban were preparing for a fight. “We saw no ground forces on the road, nothing but helicopters and planes. However, we have seen a lot of Taliban movement,” said Jan Awal, a refugee from the town of Sarwakai. “They were hanging around in their cars and digging trenches in the mountains.”

The military has previously moved in South Waziristan three times since 2004. Every time I have suffered many casualties and signed peace agreements that left the rebels with the effective control of the region. Western officials say al Qaeda is now using and neighboring North Waziristan as a base of operations and training.

Suicide Attack In Shangla Toll Rises To 41

SHANGLA: The death toll in Shangla suicide attack at a check-post has increased to 41 including six security men.

Around 45 persons have been injured in the attack and 12 injured said to be in critical condition.

A suicide bomber rammed an explosives laden vehicle with a check post in the incident, reports said.

The troops cordoned off the area after the attack and launched a search operation after clamping an unannounced curfew.

The blast damaged several nearby houses and shops.

The forces clamped undeclared curfew in the area and launched search operation after the blast.

Suicide Attack Kills Six In Afghanistan: Officials

KHOST : A suicide attack in southeastern Afghanistan killed six guards working for a road construction company, while Nato forces killed 15 Taliban insurgents elsewhere, officials said.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the Sky construction company in the Jadran district of Paktia province, local governor Abdul Wali Jadran told AFP.

“Six security guards of the company were killed and another three were wounded in the blast,” Jadran said.

Separately, Nato and Afghan soldiers killed a Taliban commander and 11 of his men in an overnight operation in western Herat province, said Jalandar Shah Behnam, the Afghan army corp commander for western Afghanistan.

The operation was launched after a tip-off about the whereabouts of the hideout of Ghulam Yahya Akbari, who he described as a local Taliban commander.

“The joint forces killed Akbari and his men in a firefight. We were supported by Nato helicopters but no air strike was needed,” he said.

Akbari was a former anti-Soviet fighter who served as Herat major before the Taliban took over the country, after which he joined the anti-Taliban resistance from 1996 until they were overthrown in a US-led invasion in 2001.

He was director of public works for the province in the years immediately following the Taliban’s overthrow, but turned against the government three years ago.

In another operation, three militants were killed in a clash that erupted after insurgents attacked a joint Afghan police and Swedish Nato forces patrol in Chahar Bolak district of northern Balkh province, the deputy provincial police chief said.

Eight years after the Taliban regime was ousted, the militants are spreading their web from their southern power base to the relatively peaceful north and west of the country.

In Bannu Suicide Attack Five Killed

Bannu: Five people, including Maulana Abdul Hakim, a member of the Peace Committee and former Taliban commander killed in another suicide attack in Bannu.

According to Aaj News, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck with the vehicle of Maulana Abdul Hakim, who traveled with their partners in Miranshah Road in Baka Khel area of Bannu.

Five people, including Maulana Abdul Hakim died on the spot while several others have been wounded.

The injured have been rushed to a local hospital in Bannu.

Meanwhile, police have surrounded the area after the explosion and the bomb disposal squad was called to collect the evidence.

Suicide Attack In Afghanistan 5 Killed

KANDAHAR: Suicide attack killed five people and wounded more than 20 others across Afghanistan on Tuesday, fanning security fears just over two weeks before elections.

In the southern province of Zabul, a suicide attacker walked up to an intelligence agency vehicle in a busy bazaar and blew himself up, killing one of the agency’s staff and four civilian passers-by, police said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack was similar to scores carried out by the Taliban, which routinely bombs security services in a bloody insurgency that reached record levels this year.

Sixteen civilians, including three children, two agency staffers and a policeman were wounded, deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Jailani Khan told a news agency.

Zabul is one of Afghanistan’s most troubled provinces, part of the southern belt where the insurgency is strongest and where thousands of Western soldiers are pressing major battles to root out the hardliners.

Suicide Attack in Darra Adamkhel 10 Killed

DARRA ADAMKHEL: A suicide bomber blown up him at the Frontier Constabulary (FC) check post near Govt Degree College in Darra Adamkhel on Monday, in which at least 10 persons including one security man were killed. Eighteen persons were wounded in the attack among them seven security men.

The dead bodies of three persons including a child and 10 injured were brought to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

According to the sources a suicide bomber rammed an explosives laden vehicle with FC check post in the precinct of Spin police station.

A suicide bomber tried to enter the FC fort at Kohat-Peshawar road and detonated the bomb at the gate of the camp.

The attack has also affected the communication system. The security men have cordoned off the area after the incident.

Suicide Attack In Peshawar 11 Killed

PESHAWAR: The death toll in a suicide attack on a vehicle of Frontier Corps in Bara Qadeem area here on Tuesday has reached to 11 including two children and four security men. At least 42 persons have wounded in the attack.

AIG Bomb Disposal Squad Shafqat Malik has said that 85 kilogramme RDX was used in the suicide attack.
The vehicle parked near a check post was carrying two children of an officer to drop at school.

The suicide bomber rammed an explosives laden car with the FC vehicle carrying two children to drop at their school, OneWorld correspondent reported.

The dead bodies and injured were transferred to Lady Reading Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar.

The dead bodies of two children and their parents were later sent to Karigar Garhi area in Khyber Agency.

CCPO Peshawar Siffat Ghayyur talking to OneWorld said the suicide attack can be reaction of the security operation in Khyber Agency and adjoining areas.

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