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Bomb kills 40 in Pakistan mosque as Holbrooke visits
Fri Jun 5, 2009 10:24am EDT
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed around 40 worshippers attending Friday prayers at a mosque in a restive area of northwest Pakistan, a senior official in the area told Reuters.
"The death toll is 40. We have no idea as yet how many have been wounded," said Atif-ur-Rehman, the senior-most government administrator in the Upper Dir district, close to Swat Valley, where the army has been conducting a major offensive against the Taliban.
Umer Rehman, a resident of Hayagai village, around 200 km (125 miles) northwest of Islamabad, said 30 bodies had been identified.
"A large number of body parts are scattered in the mosque. We don't know whether these are parts of the dead who have been identified or of others."
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said such incidents would not "deter the government from its resolve to eliminate this scourge (of terrorism) from the country."
Earlier on Friday, police arrested suicide bombers in Islamabad and nearby Rawalpindi, Pakistan's interior minister said.
U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke consulted the country's leaders on what needs to be done once the army eliminates the Taliban in Swat valley.
Gilani urged the United States to write off Pakistan's debt, which at end-March stood at $1.55 billion, and told Holbrooke America should expedite the supply of military hardware.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik told journalists the suspected bombers caught in Islamabad and Rawalpindi had suicide jackets, but did not say how many. The News daily reported four men were being held.
Roadblocks have multiplied in recent days in both the capital and Rawalpindi, where the army is headquartered, over fears of attacks in retaliation against the Swat offensive.
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The military says more than 1,200 militants and 90 soldiers have been killed since the army swung into action in late April, while the militants have carried out bomb attacks in Lahore, and the northwestern cities of Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan.
Western allies, worried the nuclear-armed country was sliding into chaos, have welcomed Pakistan's show of steel and the army action has received wide support from major political parties, the public and media.
"The people of Swat have realized that the entire misery which we are facing today, it is because of the Taliban, because of the terrorists, who are not only enemies of the country but enemies of Islam," Malik said.
On Thursday, hours after Holbrooke visited Mardan district to see camps set up for some of the 2.5 million people who have fled Swat, militants shot dead five policemen and a soldier after first targeting a convoy with a roadside bomb. Continued...
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