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At least three FC personnel including an army major were killed in a blast that occurred in Bajour Agency on Thursday morning.
According to details, some unidentified miscreants blew up the vehicle of security forces (Bajour Scouts) in Bajour Agency tehsil of Mamond in Trakhpul area on Inayat Klay Road.
The bomb was remote-controlled, which killed three FC officials and injured one. The injured have been transported to Agency Headquarter Hospital in Khar area.
According to Pak Army Major General Athar Abbas, the blast occurred when the caravan of security forces was moving towards Khar in Pak-Afghan area, adding the blast claimed three officials of Frontier Corps and anther was injured.

A bomb attached to a bicycle exploded outside the office of an election candidate in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding nine people including four journalists, police said.
The blast happened as an independent candidate in February 18’s general elections, Sardar Aslam Bizenjo, addressed a press conference at his office in the town of Khuzdar, local police chief Hamid Shakil said.
“Someone parked a bicycle outside Bizenjo’s office which exploded during his press conference,” Shakil told AFP.
The candidate was unhurt, he said, adding that the injured had been rushed to hospital.
A wave of bomb blasts has gripped Pakistan ahead of the elections, claiming the lives of about 100 people so far this year.

A blast has been occurred at Ring Road in Peshawar that destroyed a motorbike and partially damaged several shops.
According to sources, unknown persons planted an explosive material outside Noor Khan market at Ring Road that went off and partially damaged seven shops. No loss of life has been reported in the incident.
Bomb disposal squad said that the 1 kg explosive was used for the blast.

More than 10 people including 6 security officials have been killed in an alleged suicide attack targeted Army Medical Corps van on Monday morning.

At least 25 people injured in the attack. Government sources have initially confirmed the killing of 4 security officials.

According to official source, the incident occurred at RA Bazar Road in Saddar area of Rawalpindi when a suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into a staff coaster of Army Medical Corps.

The blast also damaged another coaster and other vehicles. The injured were admitted to CMH and other hospitals.

The CMH sources said that 8 dead bodies and 26 injured were brought into the hospital.

The area has been cordoned off after the blast and President Musharraf has called an emergency meeting of security forces officials following the blast.

President Pervez Musharraf and caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro Thursday strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Lahore and expressed their deep grief and sorrow over the tragic loss of life.

The two leaders while reiterating their resolve to continue the fight against terrorism and extremism said the government would not be deterred by such acts.

The President and Prime Minister in their separate messages expressed their deep shock over the loss of innocent lives.

They directed the law enforcing agencies to gear up their efforts in hunting down the perpetrators. They instructed the local authorities to provide best possible treatment to the injured.

Caretaker Prime Minister Muhammadmian Soomro has announced Rs. 3,00,000 relief for the families of each person died in Lahore suicide blast on Thursday.

Some of the policemen died in the bombing have been identified as Muhammad Riaz, Shoaib-ur-Rahman, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Saleem.

At least 22 police were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside the Lahore High Court here on Thursday, officers said.The bomber set off a device packed with ball bearings when police stopped him outside the court.Up to 60 people, many of them police officers, were rushed to hospital after the explosion in the city’s main commercial district.The bodies of at least 11 dead police officers, dressed in full riot gear with protective vests and helmets, were seen lying side-by-side where they had fallen. A dead horse, still attached to a vendor’s cart, lay nearby. “Twenty-two policemen died in the attack, six are critically wounded,” Lahore police chief Malik Iqbal told AFP.”Around 35 have minor injuries. The suicide bomber approached the police picket and was signalled to stop,” Iqbal said.A wounded officer with his clothes apparently blown off by the force of the blast lay in the street screaming for help as security forces scrambled to cordon off the downtown area.Police said the head of the suspected suicide bomber had been found about 100 metres (330 feet) from the blast site, which was littered with the dead and wounded. The blast ripped through a busy square in front of the Lahore High Court as the riot police were gathering ahead of a protest by lawyers against the rule of President Pervez Musharraf. “There were a large number of police posted outside (the court) because the lawyers had planned a rally against the government today,” Cheema said.Witnesses described seeing the dead and wounded scattered among debris and body parts. “It was a very loud blast. I was one of the first who rushed out of the court and I saw a man bleeding from his nose and his mouth. He died minutes later,” said lawyer Khurram Latif Khosa.”I saw about 50 to 60 injured police, bleeding, scattered everywhere. They were asking for water. There were body parts on the ground.”After visiting the blast site Inspector General of Punjab Police Nasim Ahmed told reporters: “The target was the police force. “Today’s bombing was to demoralise the Punjab police, but it will not. They have given their lives while performing their duty.”He said the bomber was on foot and not on a motorcycle as initially reported by police.”Security has been put on high alert in Lahore and elsewhere in Punjab,” he added. “It will be doubled during Moharram starting on Friday.”The motive for Thursday’s attack is unknown. But police are bracing for more violence during the holy month of Moharram, a time of high tension between minority Shia and majority Sunni communities.More than 800 people have been killed in attacks — mainly suicide bombings targeting the security forces — in Pakistan over the past year, making 2007 the deadliest for militant violence in the country’s history.

One person was killed in an explosion that occurred outside the CDs shop located at Budhaber area here.

Police told that the blast in between Saturday and Sunday night at Budhaber here killed a watchman Sherzada, while indiscriminate firing was also resorted to at the time of explosion.

News Coming That Two Blasts In Rawalpindi In The Most Secured Area Near GHQ (Generals Head Quarter) Have Killed Many Poeple.

This News make me to think that if our armed forces are not safe then how Government Claims To Make Ordinary People safe n Sound.

Here Is What Geo TV said About This News …

“RAWALPINDI: Fifteen people have been killed and more than 30 injured in Rawalpindi suicide attacks on Saturday.  “One was at a check post near GHQ through explosive laden car and the other was on a bus of sensitive institution carrying security officials near Faizabad,” Director General ISPR Major General Waheed Arshad told Geo News.  ISPR spokesman said that 15 people were killed and several injured in an attack on the bus of sensitive institution.  Another suicide attack occured at army check post near GHQ in which suicide bomber has been killed and three security officials sustained injuries.  The injured were shifted to Rawalpindi General Hospital and other hospitals. Following the incident, security forces cordoned off the area. 

Meanwhile, US news agency has reported 35 deaths in suicide attack in Rawalpindi.”