Islamabad, November 15: Suicide attacks, car bombings, shootings in the capital and fighting in the mountains Taliban guerrillas are dragging Pakistan into a war deadlier than in Afghanistan and mimicking the carnage of Iraq.
Militant attacks killed at least 320 people in nuclear-armed Pakistan last month alone, including 170 civilians slaughtered in market bombings in the northwestern city of Peshawar, according to tallies from police and medics, and the bloodshed has continued in November.
Across the border in Afghanistan, where US President Barack Obama is mulling whether to send thousands of extra troops into battle against the Taliban, attacks were more frequent, but the death toll for October was around 130.
–Agencoes