Pakistan attacks kill 37 as summit convenes
- Published: 22 Nov 2012 at 05.47
- Online news: Asia
Muslim leaders pledged to work more closely at a rare summit in Pakistan on Thursday as militant attacks killed 37 people across the country in some of the deadliest violence claimed by the Taliban for months.
Pakistani policemen and local residents gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite Muslim procession in Rawalpindi. Muslim leaders pledged to work more closely at a rare summit in Pakistan on Thursday as militant attacks killed 37 people across the country in some of the deadliest violence claimed by the Taliban for months.
The string of attacks on Shiite Muslims and police and troops underscored the security challenge in a country where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists bitterly oppose the US-allied government.
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