Pakistan: Burqa-clad bomber strikes
Passenger of motorised rickshaw kills at least 15 people at a police checkpoint.
Earlier reports had suggested that Pakistan had suffered its first suicide attack by a female bomber.
Suicide operations
A member of the so-called “Pakistan Taliban” movement told Al Jazeera that there were 300 people, including 33 Pakistani women, ready to carry out suicide operations in the region.
“Pakistan needs a military leader who can control both civil and possible military extremism” Creative_person01, Islamabad, Pakistan |
Pakistan’s military has suffered a string of deadly attacks since a peace treaty with tribal elders broke down and government troops stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.
Also in Bannu on Monday, more than 20 Pakistan troops went missing, feared kidnapped, after a gunfight.
Abdul Nawaz Khan, district officer of the Bannu frontier force, said more than 100 fighters had surrounded a security post and fired rockets and mortar shells.
Bannu, a major garrison town near Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas on the Afghanistan border, has seen frequent clashes between government troops and fighters loyal to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.