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January 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have carried out hundreds of bombings in the
country since 2007, killing tens of thousands of soldiers, police officers
and civilians.
However, last year brought a downturn in violence amid tentative peace talks
with Pakistan Taliban commanders and reports that extremists were struggling
to raise cash.
The Jamrud bomb was detonated at a bus terminal and targeted members of an
anti-Taliban militia, according to local officials.
The explosion left a deep crater in the road, and wrecked at least 15 cars
parked nearby – and will dash hopes that the downturn in violence would last
through 2012.
“The total number of deaths in the blast is 35 while 69 people were
wounded, and of them the condition of 11 is critical,” a senior
administration official, Shakeel Khan Umarzai.
Members of the militia – or “lashkar” – were filling their vehicles
at a petrol station when the bomb exploded.
Pakistan’s mountainous north-western region has been attacked repeatedly by
the Pakistan Taliban, which is fighting to bring down a government it
believes is a stooge of America.
But the market bombing was the first major Islamist attack since a suicide
bomber killed 46 people at a funeral attended by an anti-Taliban volunteer
force in the northwestern district of Lower Dir in September.
The Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies recently reported a downturn in
violence. It found the number of people killed in suicide attacks in the
first 11 months of 2011 had fallen almost 40 per cent and the death toll
from all attacks was down almost 20 per cent.
At the same time, several commanders of the Pakistan Taliban said they had
held exploratory talks with the government in Islamabad, raising hopes that
a settlement was possible.
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