 The military suspects that FridayÂ’s attack on a security forcesÂ’ command base in South Waziristan was a suicide attack, army spokesman Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan
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said on Saturday. “We suspect it was a suicide attack,” Sultan told Daily Times. The attack is the first of its kind in South Waziristan and comes when a grand tribal jirga is trying to broker peace between militants and the government in the neighbouring North Waziristan.
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Official sources said a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the boundary wall of the base in Shakai Valley, once a stronghold of foreign militants. Five soldiers were reported injured in the attack, which also left a dozen military vehicles “damaged”. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. “The base has been set up in the private rest house of slain tribal elder Faridullah Khan and the attack appears to be the work of foreign militants,” sources said. A tribal source in Wana said that foreign militants were roaming around in Rustam Bazaar, a few hundred yards from the Zarinoor military base. |