Two killed as Pakistani police foil suicide attack

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Aug 2, 2007, 4:23 GMT

Islamabad - A policemen and an Islamic militant were killed Thursday as Pakistani security forces foiled a suicide attack on a police training centre in the central province of Punjab, officials said. 'The suicide bomber opened fire on the police guards with a pistol when he was stopped from approaching the police recruits busy in morning exercise in the playground of training school in Sargodha district, killing one officer and injuring another,' regional police chief Hamid Mukhtar Gondal said. The attacker was also killed in the fire exchange, which left one policeman injured. 'A bomb disposal squad was diffusing the suicide jacket of the bomber,' Gondal said, adding that at the time of the incident around 400 police recruits were present in the ground. Islamic militants have launched a series of retaliatory attacks on security forces after the military killed at least 75 militants holed up in a radical mosque in Islamabad three weeks ago. More than 200 people, including 100 security personnel, have died in such attacks. Last month 26 people, including 15 policemen, died in a suicide attack on a police training school in Dera Ismaeel Khan in North-West Frontier Province. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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Every wahaby mosque must be under scrutinyAug 2nd, 2007 - 10:42:15

Each and every Wahaby mosque, since they are not Masajed anymore, must be under scrutiny. Every wahaby mullah is a terrorist, untli proven otherwise. They have been killing innocent Muslims since 1980.

THIS IS THE STOP POINT FOR THOSE TERRORISTS.

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