Another Suicide Bombing in Pakistan

It really is quite amazing that Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's widower and leader of the PPP, is trying to build a coalition with the same people who are responsible for these attacks. Not to mention his wife's assassination. Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 39 people were killed and scores more injured when a suicide bomber attacked a traditional tribal meeting in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.

Pakistan is in the middle of a wave of violence blamed on al Qaeda-linked militants based in tribal lands on the Afghan border and there have been three suicide attacks in as many days.

Over 500 people have been killed in militant related violence this year alone.

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A top government official in Darra Adam Kheil tribal region told Reuters the bomber detonated a device while tribal elders were holding an outdoor "jirga", or traditional meeting.

"They were finalizing the formation of a committee of locals to take steps against miscreants and help the government," said Kamran Zaib, a government official.

A security official who asked not to be identified put the number of dead at 39.