Convoy attack kills 16 Pakistani soldiers

Source: Associated Press

Convoy attack kills 16 Pakistani soldiers
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | 5:13 AM ET

Suspected militants attacked a second military convoy
Wednesday in northwestern Pakistan, detonating a
remote- control bomb and opening fire to kill 16 soldiers
and wound 14 others, the army spokesman said.

The assault, and an earlier one that wounded as many
as seven people, occurred in North Waziristan, where
militants have stepped up attacks in recent days, said
spokesman Maj.-Gen. Waheed Arshad.

The attackers first detonated a roadside bomb, then
fired AK-47 assault rifles from nearby bushes at the
convoy, about 40 kilometres west of North Waziristan's
main town of Miran Shah, said a senior military official.

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Source: Reuters

Musharraf rules out Pakistan emergency over attacks
18 Jul 2007 10:34:06 GMT

By Haji Mujtaba

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, July 18 (Reuters) - Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday ruled out
declaring an emergency in an effort to stem a rising tide
of militant attacks that have killed more than 130 people
this month, officials said.

In the lastest violence, militants killed 17 soldiers in the
North Waziristan region on the Afghan border a day after a
suicide bomber killed 16 people in the capital, Islamabad.

Violence has spiralled since government forces stormed
Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, compound last
week, ending a week-long siege and killing 75 supporters
of hardline clerics.

At the same time as militants are believed to be exacting
revenge for the mosque assault, pro-Taliban fighters in
North Waziristan have vowed to attack security forces
after abandoning a 10-month peace pact.

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