PESHAWAR: CCTV footage of suicide attack on FC Chief Siffwat Ghayur at Peshawar Cantt. has been issued. The footage begins with images showing traffic plying normally around a traffic signal

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has strongly condemned the suicide attack in Peshawar on Wednesday in which FC Commandant Sifwat Ghayur along with his bodyguards. It is most deplorable, he said, that when the whole nation, particularly the people of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa are facing worst difficulties because of floods the terrorists have chosen to add to their miseries through such inhuman acts. He ordered the concerned authorities for holding an immediate enquiry into the sad incident and provide best medical facilities tothe injured.

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Abdul Rehman Malik Monday night, terming the killing of MQM’s MPA Raza Haider an act of secretion terrorism, has said deceased was on terrorists’ hit list, Geo News reported. Malik has also raised fear over likely suicide attack at the funeral ceremony of deceased Raza Haider

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DIR: A suicide bomber rammed into his explosive-laden vehicle into a Scouts Post located in Lower Dir district, injuring 11 security personnel and two civilians. Hand grenade explosions took place followed by shooting on a Scouts post, leaving 13 people injured.

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At least 18 are dead including six NATO officials, five of them Americans, after a suicide attack by the Taliban. That news could sound like another rote report from Afghanistan — except that Tuesday’s attack didn’t take place in that country’s troubled south (what US commanders call “a Taliban stronghold.”) Tuesday’s attack took place in Kabul, the capital, where NATO forces were supposed to have ousted the Taliban years ago. Kabul is home to heavy military patrols, a slew of NGOS, and populated mostly by ethnic Tajiks, not the Pashtuns we’re told dominate the Taliban.

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Suicide Attack In Pakistan 11 People Killed:A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed 11 people Tuesday when he attacked a police patrol in an area of northwestern Pakistan where many citizens fled last year to escape a large army offensive against the Taliban, police said.
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NEW YORK — They were former classmates at a New York high school, both on a mission to join the Taliban and fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

But when Zarein Ahmedzay and Najibullah Zazi arrived in Pakistan in the summer of 2008, two high-ranking al-Qaida operatives gave them another set of marching orders.

“They told us we would be more useful if we returned to New York City … to conduct operations,” Ahmedzay said Friday in a guilty plea that offered more chilling details of a foiled plot attack on the New York City subways last fall.

Asked by a judge in federal court in Brooklyn what kind of operations, he responded: “Suicide-bombing operations.”

The attacks were to coincide with Ramadan and target landmarks, but the plan was scaled back because the conspirators didn’t have enough homemade explosives.

The plea also marked the first time prosecutors named the al-Qaida operatives involved in the high-profile case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Knox identified them as Saleh al-Somali and Rashid Rauf, who were both killed in Pakistan. The U.S. Justice Department on Friday described al-Somali as the head of international operations for al-Qaida.

Al-Somali was killed in a drone strike in December. Rauf, a British militant linked to a jetliner bomb plot, was also killed in a Predator strike in November 2008.

Knox said Ahmedzay met with a third senior al-Qaida operative in a training camp in northern Waziristan in Pakistan. He has not been identified.

Prosecutors say the 25-year-old Ahmedzay – who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and other charges – joined Zazi and Adis Medunjanin, another friend from their Queens high school, on the trip to Pakistan to seek terrorism training.

Zazi, a Colorado airport van driver, admitted this year that he tested bomb-making materials in a Denver suburb before traveling by car to New York with the intent of attacking the subway system to avenge U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.

Ahmedzay, who had been licensed to drive a taxi in New York, said Friday that al-Qaida leadership encouraged the men to target “well-known structures” in New York to cause “maximum casualties.” He said they also decided that the attack should occur during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, between Aug. 22 to Sept. 20.

Ahmedzay quoted heavily from a jihad verse in the Quran and urged Americans to “stop supporting the war against Islam.”

“I’m thankful for myself that I didn’t harm anyone, but I feel someone else will do the same thing,” he said.

Prosecutors said the three settled on the subways after Zazi determined he could only make enough explosives for a smaller attack in time for Ramadan, and decided it would happen Sept. 14, 15 or 16.

Prosecutors say the attacks were modeled after the London transit system bombings in July 2005, when four suicide bombers killed 52 people and themselves in an attack on three subway trains and a bus.

The New York plot was disrupted in early September when police officials stopped Zazi’s car as it entered New York.

Last month, an Afghanistan-born imam linked to the suspects pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI when asked about the men. He was sentenced to time served and ordered to leave the United States.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that the plot “makes clear we face a continued threat from al-Qaida and its affiliates overseas.”

“With three guilty pleas already and the investigation continuing, this prosecution underscores the importance of using every tool we have available to both disrupt plots against our nation and hold suspected terrorists accountable,” he said.

Defense attorney Michael Marinaccio declined to say whether Ahmedzay was cooperating with the investigation. But he added that by agreeing to plead guilty, “there’s a potential benefit to him.”

Ahmedzay and Medunjanin previously pleaded not guilty to charges they sought to join Zazi in what prosecutors described as three “coordinated suicide bombing attacks” on Manhattan subway lines. Medunjanin attorney Robert C. Gottlieb said Friday his client intends to go to trial.

“This case is much different as it pertains to Mr. Medunjanin,” said Gottlieb.

Officials have said a fourth suspect is in custody in Pakistan but have given no other details about him.

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Associated Press writer Adam Goldman contributed to this report.

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Pakistan: Islamist Blames US For Suicide Bombing:An Islamist politician whose party lost several members in a suicide attack blamed Pakistan’s alliance with the U.S. for the violence and urged Islamabad on Tuesday to break ranks in the war on terror.
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KOHAT: At least seven people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Kohat on Sunday, police said.

“It was a suicide attack, the target was a police station,” Dilawar Khan Bangash, city police chief, said while talking to a French news agency.

“The bomber exploded his vehicle on the back side of the police station.

“Seven people have been killed and 26 were injured in this car suicide attack,” Abdullah Jan, the district’’s top police officer told reporters.

“These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas.”

Another senior police officer confirmed the attack, adding that around 200 kilograms of explosives were used.

The attack comes just a day after two suicide bombers dressed in burqas struck a crowd of displaced people collecting aid handouts, killing at least 41 and wounding more than 60 at a nearby camp.

The bombers struck minutes apart on Saturday in the Kacha Pukha camp on the outskirts of the garrison city of Kohat, a registration centre for people fleeing Taliban violence and Pakistani army operations close to the Afghan border.
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TIMERGRAH: At least 25 persons were killed and 30 others were injured when a suicide bomber attacked Awami National Party public meeting here, reports said.

ANP tehsil president Sultan Zeb was also among the killed, while a brother of ANP leader Haji Adeel also injured in the attack.

According to reports, provincial ruling party ANP had organized a rally to celebrate renaming of the NWFP province. The rally when  reached near Timergrah rest house an explosion hit it. According to eyewitnesses it was a suicide attack.

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