Pakistan: Suicide bombings follow mosque siege (pub. Aug. 9, 2007)
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In one of a growing wave of suicide attacks, on Aug. 2 a failed suicide bomber was shot dead having entered a police training centre in Punjab and killed a policeman. He was shot before being able to detonate the bomb he was wearing. A government motion to condemn suicide attacks proposed on Aug. 3 was rejected by the opposition, which instead challenged the government over its activities against militants near the border with Afghanistan in North West Frontier Province and North and South Waziristan.
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