INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 29,
the chief secretary of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, said.Reuters reported that among the fatalities in the
attack, which occurred in the Kurram tribal district, were a woman and a child, Chaudhry said, adding: “It’s a major tragedy and death
toll is likely to rise.”No group claimed responsibility for the incident.“There were two convoys of passenger vehicles, one carrying
passengers from Peshawar to Parachinar and another from Parachinar to Peshawar, when armed men opened fire on them,” a local resident of
Parachinar, Ziarat Hussain told Reuters by telephone, adding that his relatives were travelling from Peshawar in the convoy.President Asif
Ali Zardari, in a statement, strongly condemned the attack on passenger vehicles.
