Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Police: 8 militants killed in northwest Pakistan

Pakistani security forces fired on vehicles carrying militants in a volatile region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing eight, a police official said.

Violence is spreading across Pakistan at a moment of particular political uncertainty following the resignation of Pervez Musharraf as president and amid a gathering economic storm.

On Tuesday, gunmen fired at the car of a senior U.S. diplomat in the northwestern city of Peshawar and a bomb killed seven at a roadside restaurant near the capital, Islamabad.

Fazl Rabi, a commander of the tribal police force in Bajur, said government forces fired on vehicles in two areas of the border region …

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