At least ten killed in Pakistan suicide attack

2010-03-13T05:15:43Z

<div><p>At least ten people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said.</p><p>The bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a building used by security forces in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said.</p><p>The bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a building used by security forces in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said.</p><p>The bomber blew himself up in Saidu Sharif, on the southern outskirts of ...

At least eight killed in Pakistan suicide attack

2010-03-12T23:16:00Z

<div><p>At least eight people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said.</p><p>The bomber blew himself up in Saidu Sharif, on the southern outskirts ...

At least 6 killed in Pakistan suicide attack: police

2010-03-12T22:15:16Z

<div><p>At least six people including three security personnel were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, police said.</p><p>"Six people have been killed and more than 16 were wounded. It was a suicide attack," senior police official Qazi Jamil told AFP by telephone.</p><p>The attacker was trying to get into a government building us...

Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 7

2010-03-12T22:00:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Police say suicide attack at security checkpoint kills at least 7 people in northwest Pakistan</div><div><p>A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 26.</p><p>The attacker — who was in a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw — detonated explosives in the Saidu Sharif

At least 6 dead in Pakistan suicide attack: police

2010-03-12T21:16:06Z

Key Swat Taliban commander 'killed in Pakistan'

2010-03-01T09:17:34Z

<div><p>A Taliban commander has been killed in a clash with security forces in Pakistan's Swat valley, where the military claims to have quelled an Islamist uprising, officials said Monday.</p><p>Mohammad Alam Binouri, who had a 10-million-rupee (117,000-dollar) r...

Pakistan

2010-02-22T23:30:32Z

A Pakistani police officer helps to carry a person injured by a suicide bombing in Mingora, capital of Pakistan's troubled valley of Swat on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. A blast apparently aimed at Pakistani security forces ripped through a busy market in the northwestern Swat Valley on Monday, killing many people and wounding dozens of others, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

APTOPIX Pakistan

2010-02-22T08:01:06Z

Pakistani officials gather at the site of suicide bombing in Mingora, capital of Pakistan's troubled valley of Swat on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. A blast apparently aimed at Pakistani security forces ripped through a busy market in the northwestern Swat Valley on Monday, killing many people and wounding dozens of others, officials and witnesses said.(AP Photo/Sherin Zada)

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Suicide car bomb kills nine in Pakistan's Swat

2010-02-22T07:17:16Z

<div><p>A suicide car bomber hit a military convoy killing nine people, including children, in Pakistan's Swat district on Monday, just months after the army claimed to have quelled a Taliban uprising.</p><p>The bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives as security forces drove through the centre of Mingora, the main town of Swat where the military has sought to rea...

Suicide car bomb kills seven in Pakistan's Swat

2010-02-22T07:17:15Z

<div><p>A suicide car bomber targeting an army convoy killed seven people in Pakistan's Swat district on Monday, just months after the military claimed to have quelled a Taliban insurgency.</p><p>The bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives as security forces drove through the centre of Mingora, the main town of Swat where the military has sought to reassert contro...

Car bomb kills six in Pakistan's Swat

2010-02-22T06:16:38Z

<div><p>A suicide car bomber targeting an army convoy killed six people in Pakistan's Swat district on Monday, just months after the military claimed to have quelled a Taliban insurgency.</p><p>The bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives as security forces drove through Mingora, the main town of Swat where the military has sought to reassert control after putting ...

Car bomb kills six in Pakistan's Swat: police

2010-02-22T06:16:03Z

<div><p>A car bomb targeting Pakistani security forces killed six people and wounded up to 19 on Monday in Mingora, the main town in the northwestern Swat valley, police said.</p><p>"It was a car bomb blast. We are not sure whether a suicide bomber was inside the car or not," Qazi Ghulam Farooq, Mingora police chief, told AFP by telephone.</p><p>"A security convoy was passing when the bomb exploded," he add...

Car bomb kills two in Pakistan's Swat

2010-02-22T06:16:02Z

<div><p>A car bomb ripped through the main town in Pakistan's Swat district on Monday, killing two people less than a year after a major military offensive sought to quell a Taliban insurgency.</p><p>Police said an army convoy was passing when the bomb exploded in Mingora, the administrative centre of the northwest district where the military has sought to reassert contro...

Blast in Pakistan's Swat kills six: police

2010-02-22T08:24:01Z

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber killed six people in an attack on a security forces convoy in a market in the main town of Pakistan's Swat valley on Monday, police said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Several more were wounded in the at...

US envoy: Brutal attacks erode militants' support

2010-02-22T19:30:08Z

<div id="subtitle">US envoy: Brutality of extremist attacks in northwest Pakistan will cost them public support</div><div><p>The brutality of Taliban attacks in northwest Pakistan has cost the militants public support, the U.S. special envoy to the region said Saturday.</p><p>Pakistan on Thursday offered millions of dollars in tax breaks, financial aid and relief measures for its war-torn northwest that business leaders rubbished as insufficient.</p><p>"The impact of incentives that the government is announcing for North West Frontier Province (NWFP) will be billions of ...

Militants 'bomb schools' in Pakistan tribal area

2010-02-23T07:37:58Z

<div><p>Militants blew up two boys' schools in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, which the United States has branded the most dangerous region on the planet, officials said Thursday.</p><p>A 21-room government high school and five-room primary school side by side in Shago village of Bajaur district were blow up with e...

'Militants bomb schools in Pakistan tribal area'

2010-02-23T07:40:13Z

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