Kalam, Pakistan: Car bomb kills four

Car bomb kills four in Pakistan amid further violence - Summary
Posted on : 2007-08-13 | Author : DPA
News Category : Asia

Islamabad - Four people were killed and eight were injured in a car bomb explosion in north-western Pakistan Monday as a fresh wave of violence hit the border region near Afghanistan, officials said. The blast occurred at a popular tourist spot in the Swat district in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), Mohammed Kara, a local police duty officer, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
It was not immediately clear if a suicide bomber triggered the explosion, he added.
The Aaj news channel cited officials as increasing the earlier death toll from three to four.
The province has seen a rising incidence of retaliatory attacks by pro-Taliban militants since Pakistani government troops in July stormed the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad.
Also on Monday, Pakistani troops in the nearby border district of South Waziristan killed three pro-Taliban gunmen during an attack on two checkpoints.
Insurgents fired rockets at the posts in Dargai and Magai in a pre-dawn assault, injuring two soldiers, military spokesman Major General Arshad Waheed said.
Three militants were killed as the security forces returned fire and several more were injured.
Meanwhile, militants who last week abducted 16 paramilitary troops near South Waziristan's main town of Wana have demanded the release of ten of their comrades being held in custody, Pakistan's Daily Times newspaper reported.
In neighbouring North Waziristan, the decapitated bodies of two Afghan refugees were found on Sunday with notes saying they were killed for spying for the United States, reports said.
"All those spying for the Americans will meet the same fate," the note warned in the local Pashtu language.
The bullet-ridden body of a third Afghan refugee was found in the same area.
More than 250 bodies of suspected US spies and pro-government tribal elders were reportedly found in the border region in the past few years but no arrests have been made.
Pakistan has deployed around 90,000 soldiers along its tribal belt to contain Taliban militants and al-Qaeda elements. But Washington and Kabul say more must be done to eliminate safe-havens of groups that attack NATO-led international forces in Afghanistan.
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Car bomb kills four in Pakistan's Frontier Province
13 Aug 2007, 1842 hrs IST
Times of India

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ISLAMABAD: Four people were killed and six others injured in a car bomb blast in the restive North West Frontier Province on the eve of Pakistan's Independence Day.
The blast occurred near the town of Kalam in the mountainous Swat valley on Monday in which four persons were killed, District Police Office, Muhammad Iqbal told the TV channels here.
Though initial reports said that the deaths could have been caused by lightening, later it was confirmed that the incident took place due to explosion, he said.
Several suicide attacks and car bombings have rocked Pakistan' tribal areas and remote areas of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) bordering Afghanistan after the July 11 military raid on Lal Masjid here, in which over 90 Islamic militants were killed.



Car bomb kills three in Pakistan
Aug 13, 2007, 11:59 GMT
Islamabad - At least three people died and six were injured Monday in a car bomb attack in north-western Pakistan, police officials said.
The blast occurred at a tourist site in the Swat district in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), Mohammed Kara, a duty officer with the local police, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
It was not immediately clear if a suicide bomber triggered the explosion.
The province, located along the border with Afghanistan, has seen a rising incidence of attacks by pro-Taliban militants since Pakistani government troops in July stormed the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur



Three killed in explosion in NWFP
The Hindu

Islamabad, Aug. 13 (PTI): At least three persons were killed and several others injured in an explosion in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier province today.
According to TV channels, the car bomb blast occurred near Kalam town in Swat valley.
However, district police officer of Swat Iqbal Ahmed Khan said they were still trying to ascertain the cause of the explosion.
"It has occurred in a remote area," he said.