Security forces face attacks

A Pakistani policemen mans a bunker in the Swat district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), 15 July. The administration of President George W. Bush plans to pour 750 million dollars worth of aid into Pakistan’s tribal areas in a bid to wrest it away from Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, The New York Times reported on its website late Sunday(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)



3 security men killed in Pakistan's tribal area

Three security men were killed Monday in Pakistan's tribal area near the Afghan border, military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said.
Earlier, local press reports said that militants fired rockets at the airfield of a Pakistan army base in the tribal region.
They quoted local officials as saying that security forces responded with artillery fire after two rockets hit their camp just after midnight in Miranshah, the main town in the troubled North Waziristan tribal district.
Arshad said that security forces have set up four new checkposts in Miranshah's main bazaar to prevent attacks and stop thefts and looting.
Reports said that the army's creation of new checkpoints was a major factor in the breakdown of the peace accord between the local militants and the government.
Source: Xinhua




Security forces' vehicle attacked in Pakistan's tribal area

A vehicle of security forces was attacked Tuesday in Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan bordering Afghanistan, causing some casualties, according to local TV reports.
Meanwhile, the military has launched attacks in the neighboring tribal region of North Waziristan, targeting militants' hideouts, the reports said.
Source: Xinhua


Five injured in bomb blast in NW Pakistan

At least five people, including a policeman and an employee of a secret agency, were injured in a bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan Friday, the police said.
The bomb was planted outside a cycle shop near a police station in the town of Srai Nurang in the North West Frontier Province ( NWFP), the police said.
The bomb exploded with huge bang, creating panic in the town, witnesses said.
Police stations have been targeted in recent series of bomb blasts and suicide attacks in the NWFP.
No group has claimed responsibility of the blast.
Source: Xinhua


Pakistani PM condemns terrorist attack on spokesman

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday strongly condemned a terrorist attack in southwestern Pakistan in which the spokesman of Baluchistan government was killed.
Aziz said that such acts of terrorism only serve the cause of anti-state elements who want to destabilize the country and create chaos.
He reiterated that these agents of terror would not be able to succeed in their evil designs as the government and the people of Pakistan are determined to eliminate such elements from the society.
Aziz expressed his heart-felt condolences over the death of Razik Bugti, the spokesman of Baluchistan government.
Two gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at Razik Bugti and killed him on Friday.
Source: Xinhua