Pakistan bomb attack leaves 14 dead

A suspected suicide bomb attack at a Pakistan police checkpoint on the ring road of northwest city Peshawar killed three people and wounded another five on Monday, police said."It was a suspected suicide attack. Three people were killed, five wounded," police official Mohammad Karim told AFP.Doctor Zafar Iqbal at the city's main government-run Lady Reading Hospital confirmed that medics received two dead bodies and six wounded.Monday's attack came one day after a suicide bomber killed 14 people in a crowded cattle market in Peshawar.

A roadside bomb attack targeted a former Pakistan provincial cabinet minister on Sunday, killing him and three other people in the country's restive northwest, police said.The bomb exploded in Bagto village, about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the northwestern town of Hangu in an area with a history of sectarian clashes between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiite Muslims."Four people, including Ghanni-ur Rehman (a former cabinet minister in North West Frontier Province) have died in the attack," Hangu city police chief Abdul Rashid Khan told AFP.

A bomb attack targeting police in a flashpoint town of northwestern Pakistan killed 12 people on Tuesday, a hospital doctor said.The bomb exploded near a police vehicle carrying a senior local officer on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan on the main road leading to Bannu, said police."We have received 12 dead bodies and 10 injured," Doctor Nasir Malik Akhtar, head of the casualty department at Dera Ismail Khan hospital told Geo television."They are three policemen, including one officer, and nine civilians," he said, referring to the deaths.

A bomb attack killed three security personnel outside an army base in Pakistani-administered Kashmir close to the line separating it from Indian territory on Wednesday, police said.The attack came one day after Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visited the area, declaring that regional peace depended on resolving the dispute over Kashmir -- a fault line that has sparked two wars between India and Pakistan.The bomb exploded outside a barracks in Tarar Khal, 150 kilometres (94 miles) east of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

QUETTA, Pakistan — A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said. The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest.

A bomb exploded at a crowded market in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, killing at least 18 people in the second attack on the city in a day, police said."Eighteen people have died including three police officials. Thirty-four people were wounded," senior police official Imran Kishwar told AFP. "It appears to be a suicide attack."Another police official, Abdul Majid, confirmed the bombing at the market, adding that "there are several people killed and wounded".

Seven people were killed and 21 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Kohat on Sunday, police said."It was a suicide attack, the target was a police station," Dilawar Khan Bangash, city police chief, told AFP. "The bomber exploded his vehicle on the back side of the police station."Seven people have been killed and 21 were injured in this car suicide attack," Abdullah Jan, the district's top police officer told reporters."These incidents are a reaction to the military operation in the tribal areas."

The death toll from a suicide attack at a volleyball game in Pakistan rose to 99, police said Sunday, as authorities struggled to cope with one of the country's bloodiest-ever bombings."A total of 99 people have been killed. There are 87 injured who are being treated in three different hospitals," Bannu district police chief Mohammad Ayub Khan told AFP by telephone from the northwest region.Another police officer in the area, Habib Ullah Khan, confirmed the toll.