 LADAH: A powerful bomb exploded outside a guesthouse in the Shakai area late on Tuesday, damaging the main gate and the boundary wall, a security official said on Wednesday. The guesthouse in owned by pro-government tribal elder and former federal minister Malik Faridullah Khan, the official said. Bomb attacks are common in South Waziristan. Militants often target pro-government tribal elders and political agents in such attacks. South Waziristan Agency chief administrator Asmatullah Gandapur was also targeted in one such attack in Tank in December 30, 2004. |