Two roadside bombings in Pakistan"s restive north-western region on Sunday killed at least six people, including a former lawmaker and an anti-Taliban tribal elder, dpa quoted officials said. Separately, a suspected US drone targeted a Taliban hideout in Pakistan"s tribal badlands, killing two people. Ghani-ur-Rehman, a former minister in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and three of his guards died when their vehicle was struck by a bomb near Hangu, a town located 100 kilometres south-west of the provincial capital Peshawar. "It was a remote-controlled explosion and Ghani-ur-Rehman was the target," local police official Iqbal Khan said. The blast injured five people, Khan added. Elsewhere in the north-west, a roadside bomb tore through a vehicle in the Bajaur tribal district near the Afghan border, killing two people and wounding four. Officials in the region said the victims included tribal elders, who were trying to raise a pro-government militia against the Taliban insurgents.
