PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into a police station Wednesday as the Taliban intensified attacks against Pakistan's security forces after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. At least five policemen and a soldier were killed in the attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban said they were responsible. The militants, allied with Al-Qaeda, have vowed to avenge bin Laden's killing by US forces in a Pakistani town on May 2. “We will continue attacks on security forces until an Islamic system is implemented in Pakistan, because the Pakistani system is un-Islamic,” Ehsanhullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban, told Reuters, adding the attack was also in revenge for bin Laden's death. Pakistan Wednesday removed the commander of a naval air base that took 17 hours to quell a deeply embarrassing Taliban attack that killed 10 security personnel and destroyed two US-made aircraft. Although a navy spokesman insisted the transfer was pre-planned and unconnected to the gun, grenade and rocket assault, Pakistan's military is under increasing domestic pressure to be held accountable over security lapses. The US killing of Osama Bin Laden near the country's top military academy humiliated the armed forces — for the perceived violation of sovereignty and over allegations they were either incompetent or complicit with Al
