Suicide bomb attack hits Lahore High Court; Peace deal initiated in North Waziristan; Scotland Yard delivers preliminary findings on Benazir Bhutto’s assassination; US intervention concerns Pakistan
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    • Acts of violence continued across the country as 24 people were killed and around 80 injured in a suicide bomb attack outside the Lahore High Court on January 10. The bomber targeted police personnel deployed to control the lawyers’ protests against the Musharraf government1.

    A peace deal was initiated by a tribal Jirga between the government and pro-Taliban militants on January 12 as a part of which the army withdrew from important check posts in North Waziristan. The situation became peaceful after paramilitary forces took control of the check posts. Prior to this development, at least 50 militants were killed by security forces in North Waziristan on January 92.

    Washington meanwhile raised Pakistani concerns by stating that it could go after Taliban targets inside Pakistan on its own3. Later in the week however, the US clarified that it would not indulge in any act which was not acceptable to the government of Pakistan4.

    The Scotland Yard submitted its preliminary report on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto to President Musharraf on January 155. In a related development, the investigating agencies identified the man who shot at Mrs. Bhutto as belonging to Swabi. More details were not released

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