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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistani rebels launch rocket attacks |
| 2008-11-27 |
| Militants have fired ten rockets at several buildings in the Pakistani cities of Bannu and Peshawar amid a surge in insurgency in Pakistan. One of the rockets fired late on Wednesday in Peshawar, the provincial headquarters of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), hit a terminal for trucks carrying supplies to NATO and US troops in Afghanistan, said police officer Abdul Qadirwhich. Other rockets destroyed a security check post in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan. Khan Markaz, the main office of the Awami National Party was also hit by rockets. Local police officials told Press TV that militants attacked the house of Union Council, Nazim Abdul Malik in Matni area of Adezai while the police and local people in retaliation killed at least four people including two "extremists". |
| Posted by:Fred |