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| 35 killed in Pakistan blast | | | Rawalpindi | Mar 2
A blast in northwest Pakistan on Sunday killed 35 people, while 40 others were injured. The injured have been shifted to a local hospital.
The suspected suicide blast occurred at a tribal meeting held to discuss the security situation in the tribal region of Dera Adamkhel. Leaders of 5 major tribes are reported to have been killed in the explosion.
Alam Khan, a tribesman at the meeting, said a young man walked up to a group of elders and apparently blew himself up.
Major cities in Pakistan and hospitals in neighbouring towns have been put on high alert after the blast in Darra Adamkhel.
Earlier yesterday, the Tribal Union of Journalists had asked the government to protect three journalists in Kohat after the Taliban in Darra Adamkhel threatened to kill them.
Over 450 people have been killed in militant related violence this year alone. A suicide bomb campaign targetting security forces intensified after the army stormed Islamabad`s Red Mosque last July to crush a militant student movement.
A suicide attack on a police funeral in northwest Pakistan killed at least 38 people on Friday, while on Monday, the army`s top medical officer was killed in a bomb attack in Rawalpindi.
The escalating violence has raised concern about the stability of the nuclear armed state as it passes through a period of political transition, with doubts over how long President Pervez Musharraf can hold onto power after his allies lost a parliamentary election on Feb 18.
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