Saturday, October 24, 2009

Trouble, With a Capital T - Part IV

A suicide bomber at the gates of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (an Air Force base) detonated his payload on Friday, killing 8 and wounding 17. Kamra is northwest of the capital, Islamabad, on the way to Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province.

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The Pakistani Taliban also set off a bomb in Peshawar, a major northern city.

  Juan Cole

Gunmen in Islamabad killed a brigadier general and a soldier of the Pakistani army on Thursday, underlining the way in which the army's Waziristan campaign has become a feud of sorts, with the militants targeting officers.

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All schools and universities in most of Pakistan have been closed until at least Sunday, in response to the recent bombing at Islamic International University [on Tuesday which killed six and wounded 37].

  Juan Cole


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