Blast kills 35 at Pakistan army camp

MALAKAND—A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at the army's main training base  killing at least 35 soldiers. According to the details in a suicide attack on the Punjab Regiment training camp at 08:00 am this morning 35 people were killed, while several people were injured  and shifted to various hospitals of Peshawar.
Local residents said the soldiers had been doing morning exercises before the attack, which also wounded some troops."A man wrapped in a cloak came running into the training area and exploded himself where recruits had gathered for training," the army said in a statement.
"We heard a deafening sound of a blast in the morning," said Akbar Khan, who lives nearby. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in Dargai, but the town about 60 miles north of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, is the stronghold of an outlawed Islamic group, Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi, or Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law, which has been fighting government forces in tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
Some leaders of the group publicly vowed to carry out suicide attacks against the army after an Oct. 30 air strike on an Islamic school in another tribal region killed 80 people, most of them students.
The government insists that the school was a training base for terrorists affiliated with Afghanistan's Taliban guerrilla movement.
Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror and it has deployed about 80,000 troops in the country's tribal area in an effort to flush out remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida