Blast in Kohat; Four soldiers among seven injured

Suspected militants set off a roadside bomb as a military truck was passing on Tuesday, wounding seven people in the third bomb attack in the country in two days.Tuesday’s blast was near a military headquarters in the northwestern town of Kohat.”The bomb was planted on a bicycle and it wounded seven people including four soldiers,” said police official Ibrahimullah at the site.There was no claim of responsibility for Tuesday’s blast, or one on Monday evening that killed three outside a mosque in Bajaur. But Pro-Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in Mardan on Sunday.New government, sworn in at the end of March, has begun a policy of engagement, negotiating through tribal leaders to persuade militants to stop their attacks.But that has raised concern among Pakistan’s allies with troops in neighbouring Afghanistan who fear any peace pact on the Pakistani side of the border will enable militants to focus their attention on attacks in Afghanistan.