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| Suicide attacks hits anti-Taliban militia |
| 2010-03-30 |
| [Dawn] Suicide bombers targeted anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing three people and wounding another 10 in twin attacks, officials said. A suicide bomber walked into the office of a militia in Tank, a district of North West Frontier Province -- parts of which suffer heavily from militancy -- and blew himself up shortly after an anti-Taliban meeting. "One volunteer was killed and two others wounded. It was a suicide attack,"Liaqat Ali, a police official in Tank, told AFP by telephone. An intelligence official in Peshawar confirmed the incident, saying the office belonged to Qari Misbahhuddin, brother of Qari Zainuddin, a late rival of former Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. Qari Zainuddin was shot dead by assassins in the northwest in June 2009, while Mehsud was killed in a US missile strike last August. In the far north of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, a second suicide attack killed two tribesmen including an elder who headed another anti-Taliban private militia in Mamoond town in the district of Bajaur. "Two people including Malik Taj Mohammad were killed and eight were injured in this incident. It was a suicide attack," Iqbal Khatok, a senior administrative official, told AFP by telephone. "Malik Taj Mohammad was heading a lashkar against Taliban in Mamoond,"Faramosh Khan, another administrative official in the area, told AFP. |
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