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Roadside bomb in Peshawar kills policeman and driver
A roadside bomb hit the car of a police officer in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing him and his driver, police said.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:44 May 24, 2008
Islamabad: A roadside bomb hit the car of a police officer in Peshawar on Saturday, killing him and his driver, police said.
The incident happened as officer Juma Khan was on his way to work in the morning.
"It was a remote-controlled device. Three passers-by were wounded in the blast," an official of the police bomb disposal department said.
This latest bomb was the fourth since mid-February.
Meanwhile, residents in the North Waziristan tribal region on Friday found a body of an Afghan man, apparently hanged to death by suspected militants on suspicion of being a spy for the United States.
Warning
"A note was lying near the body which said he was a spy for Americans and the same treatment will be meted out to those who become American agents," an intelligence official in Waziristan said.
Pakistan's new government led by the party of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who herself was killed in a suicide bombing in December, has begun a policy of engagement, negotiating through tribal leaders to persuade militants to stop their attacks.
Authorities this week signed a peace deal with the militants in the scenic Swat Valley and are close to cutting a similar agreement with Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Pakistani Taliban and an Al Qaida ally. He is blamed for the suicide attacks but he has denied his involvement in Bhutto's murder.
The negotiations have stoked concerns of the US, which fear such pacts will enable militants to focus their attention on attacks in Afghanistan.
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