Pakistan’s security forces surrounded and injured Mangal Bagh, a warlord of Khyber Agency. 28 commanders of Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam) were killed during fierce fighting at midnight on Wednesday, confirmed Mir Qadir Khan, a Bara-based journalist.

A well placed official of the Interior Ministry, on the condition of anonymity, told Arab News here Monday, “We have received confirmed intelligence reports that terrorists after suffering defeats after defeats in Malakand and South Waziristan have now planned to use Burqa-clad women as suicide bombers.”

Terrorist activities ranging from the attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, attacks on the police rescue and training centers in Lahore, the murder of Pakistan’s respected religious scholar Dr. Sarfraz Naeemi, and the attack on the mosque in Nowshehra last Friday have been claimed by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Baitullah Mehsud, according to the governor of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Awais Ghani, who also said Sunday, “Now the armed forces have been asked to eliminate him wherever he is hiding.”

In a late address to the nation after twin bombings in Nowshehra and Lahore, President Asif Ali Zardari said the Taliban have started attacking mosques and questioned their claim to be Muslims.

Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and third Chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), is almost a forgotten chapter within the government of her widower, Asif Ali Zardari.

Pakistan’s two cities Lahore and Nowshera were subjected to suicide bombings after Friday prayers.