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| 'Eight killed' in Pakistan attack | |
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| At least eight people have been killed in a suicide attack in north-western Pakistan, according to police. | |
| Some reports said that the bomber blew himself up at a mosque close to former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao's house near the city of Peshawar. | |
| Police officer Khalid Khan told the Associated Press news agency that Mr Sherpao and his son were "safe". | Police officer Khalid Khan told the Associated Press news agency that Mr Sherpao and his son were "safe". |
| The explosion happened on a public holiday in Pakistan when people are observing the Eid festival. | The explosion happened on a public holiday in Pakistan when people are observing the Eid festival. |
| A senior official of the North West Frontier Province, Bacha Gul Wazir, told Reuters news agency that the explosion took place were people were offering prayers at the mosque in Charsadda district. | |
| Police official Mohammad Sharif Virk was quoted by AFP news agency as saying that the bomber was "among the people, offering Eid prayers". | |
| There has been a surge of violence in north-western Pakistan since troops ousted armed militants from the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad in July. | |
| Troops have driven the militants from a series of small towns and villages where they had tried to implement strict Islamic law. | |
| The army says it has killed nearly 300 pro-Taleban militants in the restive Swat region in Swat in North West Frontier Province. | |
| The fighting in Swat is the first serious insurgent threat from pro-Taleban forces in what is considered a settled area of Pakistan. |