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| 'Loud blasts' heard in Pakistan | |
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| Police in Pakistan say they are investigating two loud explosions heard in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. | |
| The cause and location of the blasts is not clear, but officials say all "sensitive installations" are safe. | |
| Some reports say at least one of the explosions took place in the nearby city of Rawalpindi, 12km (seven miles) from the capital city. | Some reports say at least one of the explosions took place in the nearby city of Rawalpindi, 12km (seven miles) from the capital city. |
| Rawalpindi is the headquarters of Pakistan's army and the residence of President Pervez Musharraf. | |
| A month ago, a car bomb attack near the Danish embassy in Islamabad killed six people and wounded 30 others. | A month ago, a car bomb attack near the Danish embassy in Islamabad killed six people and wounded 30 others. |
| 'All clear' | |
| Residents said buildings in Rawalpindi shook with the impact of the blasts. | |
| "We have information of an explosion. We are still checking where is the site and what is the cause," Rao Mohammed Iqbal, a senior Rawalpindi police officer, told the Associated Press news agency. | |
| "All sensitive installations are clear," he added. | |
| Meanwhile, at least seven people have been killed in an explosion which destroyed the house of a militant leader in the Khyber tribal district in north-west Pakistan. | |
| A major military offensive against Khyber militants began on Saturday | |
| Officials in Khyber told the BBC the house of Haji Namdar, leader of one of the three groups active in the area where security operation was launched on Saturday, was blown up at about 0330 (2230 GMT). | |
| "Some witnesses say the house was hit by missiles, but it is also possible that explosives stored in the house blew up," a local official said. | |
| Security forces launched an operation against militants in the Khyber tribal district on Saturday. | |
| The militants on Sunday said they were suspending peace talks with the government. | |
| Security forces have also recovered eight bodies from another district in the same region, officials said. | |
| They said the men had apparently been executed by local militants, in the neighbouring Kurram tribal district to the south. | |
| "All of them had bullet wounds in the head and chest, but none of them was beheaded," an official from Kurram, Ataur Rahman, told the BBC. | |
| Witnesses said the bodies were those of local men who may have been condemned by a local Taleban kangaroo court. | |
| No resistance | |
| Paramilitary troops, which launched an operation against militant groups in Khyber on Saturday, have destroyed offices and houses of militant leaders in the eastern parts of the district. | |
| They have not faced any resistance from the militants, who are reported to have moved to the remote western mountains near the border with Afghanistan. | |
| The local Taleban have responded by suspending peace talks with the government. | |
| "Talks cannot continue when the government continues to violate its promises and commitments," Maulvi Omar, the spokesman for a Taleban umbrella group, Movement of the Pakistani Taleban, said on Sunday. |