Suicide Bomber in Pakistan Kills 3 at Peshawar Press Club
VOA News 22 December 2009
Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing three people.
Officials say a policeman stopped the bomber at the gate of the press club Tuesday and tried to search him, at which point the bomber detonated his explosives. The blast killed the officer, a press club accountant and a woman and wounded 17 others.
The attack was the first against a media institution in Peshawar, which has experienced frequent bombings in recent months. Militants are carrying out attacks across Pakistan in retaliation for the army offensive against Taliban strongholds in the country's northwest.
Pakistan's army said Tuesday that troops killed four suspected terrorists and wounded two others in the latest fighting in the South Waziristan Taliban stronghold.
A military statement also said troops apprehended seven suspects during operations in Swat Valley.
Also Tuesday, an appeals court in Lahore suspended a prison sentence given to Interior Minister Rehman Malik in 2004. The case is one of some 8,000 corruption cases that were revived by the Supreme Court last week when it threw out a nationwide amnesty created by former President Pervez Musharraf in 2007.
Tuesday's ruling by the Lahore court will allow Malik to avoid arrest until judges begin hearings in his case early next year. Malik insists he was falsely accused.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP.
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