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Suicide attack in Pakistan: 20 killed

Nirupama Subramanian

ISLAMABAD: At least 20 persons were killed in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) on Saturday in two attacks.

One was a suicide bombing at a crowded bus stop in Parachinar, a town in the Kurram tribal agency on the Afghan border.

The bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle standing close to a bus, killing at least six persons and leaving many others wounded. The blast also damaged several other vehicles and shops.

Rockets fired

Hours earlier, militants attacked a checkpoint at Dosali in North Waziristan tribal agency killing 14 persons, four of them soldiers and the rest militants.

The military said militants fired 50 to 60 rockets at several checkpoints and later stormed one. On Friday, President Pervez Musharraf told his corps commanders that extremism and militancy were the greatest challenges before the nation, and reiterated his resolve to stamp them out.

The meeting reviewed the situation in the NWFP, where troops were deployed recently after a spike in militancy and suicide attacks.

U.S. officials and presidential candidates, including the Democratic hopeful Barack Obama, have spoken of U.S. military operations in Pakistan to take on alleged Al-Qaeda safe havens.

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