четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

Roadside bomb kills senior police officer in northwest Pakistan

A roadside bomb killed a senior police officer and his driver Friday as they drove through a militancy-plagued region of northwestern Pakistan, police said.

The bomb killed Javed Iqbal, the deputy police chief of the Lakki Marwat district of North West Frontier Province, and his driver as they were driving through the district, said Khaled Khan, a police official. It was unclear who was behind the attack.

The government last year deployed thousands of extra security forces to Lakki Marwat and neighboring districts to prevent it from falling under the control of Taliban-style militants.

The district borders South Waziristan, a tribally governed …

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