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Militant violence kills 40 in Pakistan on Sunday
Forty people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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Also on Sunday, pro-Taliban militants in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border called off a 10-month peace deal with the government after accusing authorities of violating the pact.

About 90 people, most of them paramilitary soldiers and police, have been killed in attacks in the northwest since July 3, when security forces in Islamabad surrounded the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, complex following clashes with gunmen.

Early on Sunday, 14 people, 11 of them paramilitary soldiers, were killed in a suicide-bomb ambush on a patrol in the scenic Swat valley in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Hours later, a suicide bomber targeted a police recruiting centre in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, in the same province, killing 26, many of them young men taking a police entrance exam, police said. Dozens were wounded.

Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao said the two attacks could be a militant response to the Lal Masjid assault. "It's very difficult to stop suicide attacks," Sherpao told Geo TV.

Security analysts had expressed fears of a militant backlash over the Lal Masjid assault.
'Backlash' implies the original aggression was the governments. Pfeh.

Posted by: lotp 2007-07-16
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