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11 die as Pakistanis attack Taliban

AP, AFP, Islamabad/ Peshawar
Hundreds of Pakistanis banded together and attacked Taliban strongholds in a troubled northwestern region, killing 11 militants, to avenge a deadly suicide bombing at a local mosque, officials said Sunday.
'Hie incident Saturday indicated a swing in the national mood toward a more anti-Taliban stance a shift that comes as suicide attacks have surged and the military wages an offensive in die Swat Valley.
Some 400 villagers from neighbouring Upper Dir district, where a suicide bomber killed 33 worshippers at a mosque in the Haya Gai area on Friday, formed a militia and attacked five villages in the nearby Dhok Darra area, said Atif-ur-Rehman, the district coordination officer.
The citizens' militia has occupied three of the villages since Saturday and is trying to push the Taliban out of the other two. Some 20 houses suspected of harbouring Taliban were destroyed, he said.
At least 11 militants were killed, the district police chief, Ejaz Ahmad, said.
The government has encouraged local citizens to set up militias, known as lashkars, to oustTaliban fighters.
"It is something very positive that tribesmen
are standing against the militants. It will discourage the miscreants," Rehman said.
Ahmad said around 200 militants were putting up a stiff resistance in their strongholds surrounded by the villagers. "We will send security forces, maybe artillery too, if the villagers ask for a reinforcement," he added.
The surge in suicide attacks reached Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, late Saturday when a man wearing an explosive-laden jacket attacked a police compound but was shot down before he could enter the main building. Iwo officers died and six were wounded, police said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack at the police emergency response centre, but it fit with a Taliban threat of strikes in major cities across Pakistan in retaliation for the military's month-old offensive in Swat.
Meanwhile, gunmen killed two Shia Muslim brothers on Sunday in a drive-by shooting in a northwestern Pakistani town troubled by sectarian violence, police said.
The attackers, who were riding on a motorbike, opened fire on the two men in the main bazaar of Dera Ismail Khan town before fleeing the scene, local police officer Naimatullah Khan said.
" The victims who died on the spot were brothers. They belonged to the Shia community," he told AFP.