A bomb blast targeting a military parade in northwest Pakistan has left at least 25 soldiers dead and more than 45 others injured, a Pakistani military official says. The official said that a teenage bomber, disguised as a schoolchild, blew himself up in Punjab Regiment Center in the cantonment area of Mardan on Thursday morning, killing 25 soldiers and leaving more than 45 others injured. The death toll is expected to rise further as most of the injured are said to be in critical condition, the report added. The explosion took place inside the army training center in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when security personnel were busy in routine training and parade. The banned Pakistani Taliban outfit, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, sources said. A rescue team and several ambulances were seen heading to the blast site and emergency was declared in the city's military hospital.
Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the attack, adding that such cowardly attacks cannot affect the morale of the security agencies and resolve of the nation to eradicate terrorism. Pakistani Taliban militants backed by CIA and RAW have vowed to step up attacks on Pakistani security forces in the region to avenge a fresh offensive against terrorist hideouts in the tribal district of Mohmand Agency. Pakistan's military launched an offensive against the so called terrorists named "Pakistani Talibans" in Mohmand Agency last month. Mardan is some 50 kilometers east of Mohmand tribal district and officials said that a surge in bomb and suicide attacks was a reaction to the operation. Security situation in Pakistan is deteriorating and the country's military has increasingly been targeted by bombers.
Earlier on Monday, two bomb explosions outside two police stations in the Pakistani city of Karachi left two people injured. On January 13, five Pakistani soldiers were killed and seven others injured in separate attacks by unknown assailants across the country. Two soldiers lost their lives in a bomb attack near the town of Bannu, the principal city of the Bannu district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. In yet another act of violence, two security personnel lost their lives in a roadside blast in South Waziristan region on the same day. One more soldier died when militants fired mortar shells at a military camp in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border in Tehsil Baizai of Mohmand Agency. Nearly 4,000 people have so far been killed in the attacks carried out by the CIA/RAW sponsored Taliban outfit throughout Pakistan since July 2007.
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