The bomber was on foot and blew himself up outside the gates of the Punjab Regimental Centre, close to a bakery shop in the cantonment area, the sources added. The attack was the deadliest in more than two months. Talking to a private television channel, NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain condemned the attack, adding that it was the work of those who wanted to derail the peace process started by the Awami National Party (ANP) government with militants in the Malakand division. He said such tactics would not affect ongoing talks with militants.
Military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP that four of the dead were soldiers guarding the gate, adding that the bomber blew himself up when he was stopped by one of the soldiers. He said that the regimental centre also ran the bakery, adding that soldiers routinely
guarded the commercial area.
A Taliban militant group claimed responsibility Monday for a suicide bombing that killed at least 11 people at the gate of an army base in Pakistan's volatile northwest.Security has been tightened in this Pakistani city in the wake of a suicide attack in the northwestern city of Mardan that killed 13 people, including four soldiers. Security measures at all entrance points of the city have been beefed up and vehicles coming from the North West Frontier Province, especially the provincial capital of Peshawar, are being checked by police.
All sub-divisional police officers and station house officers too have been directed to beef up patrolling in their areas, the Dawn newspaper reported on Monday. Patrolling in all sectors of Islamabad and around sensitive installations has been intensified. The number of pickets on different roads has been doubled.
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