, AFP, 29 March 2010

EXCERPT: "Suicide bombers targeted anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing three people and wounding another 10 in twin attacks, officials said. A suicide bomber walked into the office of a militia in Tank, a district of North West Frontier Province -- parts of which suffer heavily from militancy -- and blew himself up shortly after an anti-Taliban meeting. 'One volunteer was killed and two others wounded. It was a suicide attack,' Liaqat Ali, a police official in Tank, told AFP by telephone. An intelligence official in Peshawar confirmed the incident, saying the office belonged to Qari Misbahhuddin, brother of Qari Zainuddin, a late rival of former Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. Qari Zainuddin was shot dead by assassins in the northwest in June 2009, while Mehsud was killed in a US missile strike last August."

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