Posted on 10/23/2009 9:50:04 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A mine killed 16 wedding guests in Pakistan's tribal belt on Friday while a suicide bomber targeted an air force base, inflicting another reverse on the military in its war on the Taliban.
A car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the northwestern city of Peshawar, wounding 15 and underlining the threat to civilians in a nation where more than 190 people have died during Taliban-linked attacks in 19 days.
The explosion ripped through the wedding party minibus in the Sorandara area of Mohmand, where security forces have been pressing an offensive against Islamist rebels for more than a year.
Troops are waging a separate offensive in South Waziristan, another part of the tribal belt where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants are believed to have planned attacks on Pakistan targets and on the West.
The Red Cross complained Friday that relief workers were being kept out of the area, believing that the number of civilian casualties is mounting sharply.
"A vehicle carrying passengers to a wedding hit an anti-tank mine, killing 16 people including two men, five women and nine children," the top political official in Mohmand, Amjad Ali Khan, told AFP.
Another senior administration official, Rasool Khan, said most of the dead were women and children.
The road is used extensively by Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps, whose locally drawn personnel have been dragged into fighting with the Taliban.
Pakistan's semi-autonomous northwest tribal belt has become a stronghold for hundreds of extremists who fled Afghanistan after the US-led invasion toppled the hardline Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan in late 2001.
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Don't make Pres_ent Obama step in.
He's liable to cut your aid.
Cowards.
Pakistani soldiers inspect the site of an explosion in Peshawar. An anti-tank mine killed 16 wedding guests in Pakistan's tribal belt as a deadly bombing near an air force base inflicted a further reverse on the military in its war on the Taliban. (AFP/A Majeed)
Pakistan faces one of its toughest military tests against the militants to date in waging its ground assault in South Waziristan, part of the lawless tribal belt where Al-Qaeda and Taliban networks are allegedly plotting attacks. Duration: 02:13 (afp.com)
Michael Moore’s “freedom fighters” at work again.
Map of Pakistan locating attacks in Kamra, Sorandara and Peshawar. An anti-tank mine killed 16 wedding guests in Pakistan's tribal belt as a deadly bombing near an air force base inflicted a further reverse on the military in its war on the Taliban. (AFP/Graphics/null)
What the hell? Is that guy on patrol with a rocket? He’s all like step away nothing to see here folks move along or I’ll blow us all up, oh right it is Pakistan that IS how it works there.
Eating their own again are they? Forever mired in islam (small i used to denote disrespect).
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