PESHAWAR: Police commandos acting on a tip off killed one militant and arrested five others on Sunday in a raid against a bombing cell accused in recent attacks around the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said.
Elsewhere, in the volatile region, a remote-controlled roadside bomb killed two anti-Taleban tribal elders — underscoring the difficulty Pakistan faces in cracking down on the loose and flexible network of militants threatening its stability.
Police said the commandos encountered fierce resistance when they stormed the compound in the village of Kaka Khel near Peshawar. Three suicide jackets as well as a number of bombs, grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons were seized from the compound, regional police chief Liaquat Ali Khan said.
He said one suspect was killed and five others arrested following a gunbattle that lasted more than two hours. A search operation for more militants continued in the area, some 50 km east of Peshawar.
The detained are suspected of involvement in recent bombings and other attacks not only in Peshawar but in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Khan said.
The bomb that killed two elders Sunday in the Bajur tribal region also left two other tribesmen wounded, an official said.
