| Five soldiers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in South Waziristan on Monday, a day after forces killed 33 Taliban as part of a weeklong campaign in the Khyber Pass, officials said. The blast struck a routine military patrol en route to Wana from Tayarzai."The patrol was sent ahead of a military convoy to check the security on the road and a bomb planted by the Taliban went off and killed five soldiers," an intelligence official said. Separately, unidentified men killed Tahir Khan, a leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid in Kanju area of Swat. |