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Bombs, missiles and guns leave 36 dead in Pakistan
By Asif Shahzad
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 25 - 04 - 2010

A suicide car bomber attacked a prison van while gunmen torched six NATO oil tankers in separate strikes Saturday that killed four Pakistani police officers and wounded 10 others, authorities said.
The army, meanwhile, kept up its pressure on the Pakistani Taliban in the tribal belt, killing 25 suspected fighters, while apparent US missiles killed seven alleged insurgents in a nearby northwest region, officials said.
The oil tankers were hit in Chakwal district – a rare, possibly unprecedented such assault in Punjab province.
Militants and ordinary criminals frequently attack trucks that travel along supply routes used by NATO and US forces in Afghanistan, but usually in the northwest Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa or southwest Baluchistan provinces.
Suspected militants in two pick-up trucks rode up to the gas station where the tankers were parked and opened fire before setting the vehicles aflame, police officer Aslam Tareen said. Four police officers who responded to the scene were killed, he said.
The drivers of the oil tankers said they were headed for NATO troops in Afghanistan, Tareen said. The militants managed to flee. Chakwal is not far from the Punjab border with the northwest province.
On Saturday morning, a suicide car bomber targeted a prison van as it arrived at a jail in Timergarah to pick up prisoners to take to the nearby Swat Valley, senior police official Shakeel Khan said.
No prisoners were in the van at the time, but 10 police officials were wounded.
Timergarah is in Lower Dir district, which is near the Afghan border. It was a militant stronghold until spring 2009 when a military offensive there and in Swat largely reclaimed the areas from insurgents.
Pakistan followed that offensive with one in South Waziristan tribal region, the key haven for the Pakistani Taliban.
Many militants there have since fled to other areas such as Orakzai, another part of the lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, leading the army to open new fronts.
Troops on Saturday raided a militant ammunition depot in Sangra village of Orakzai, killing 10 alleged insurgents, local administrator Jehanzeb Khan said. One soldier was wounded.


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