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Suicide bomber hits Pak naval HQ

Navy officer killed, 11 injured

AFP, Islamabad
A suicide bomber attacked Pakistan's navy headquarters in the capital Islamabad yesterday, killing a naval official and injuring 11 others in the latest blast in theTaliban-troubled nation.
A young man walked up to a checkpoint at the entrance to the complex and detonated his explosives when challenged by security forces, scattering bits of flesh across a busy road in central Islamabad, police and witnesses said.
Islamist insurgents frequently target military installations, with attacks intensifying as Islamabad pursues a fierce military offensive, under Western pressure to do more to eliminate Taliban and al-Qaeda sanctuaries.
The attack comes after US President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more troops to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, and said US success in the war there depended heavily on Pakistan's own fight against extremism.
Fazeel Asghar, Islamabad's top administration official, told reporters that a man aged around 17 or 18 and wearing a suicide jacket approached the heavily-guarded navy com-plexonfoot.
"Security officials checked him and one navy police constable, Mohammad Ashraf, asked him to take off his coat. The bomber then blew himself up and the navy constable died in the blast," he said.
Pakistan navy spokesman Captain Mubeen Bajwa said security guards stopped the bomber after a taxi driver complained about his suspicious behaviour.
"A total of 11 people were injured including five soldiers of the Pakistan Navy and six civilians. One of them is critically injured," he said.
Witnesses described the scene in the aftermath of the blast, which shattered car windows and left blood streaked across the road.
"1 was in a nearby street when I heard a loud explosion," said witness Imtiaz Ali. "When I reached to the main Margalla Road there was smoke near the navy complex. 1 saw three soldiers lying wounded."
The attack came a day after a Pakistani provincial lawmaker was killed in a suicide attack in the northwestern Swat valley, and as Taliban insurgents up attacks to avenge the military's multipronged offensive.
Islamabad itself was last hit in late October, when twin suicide blasts tore through the International Islamic University, killing up to five
people.
A brazen raid and hostage siege at the army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi in October hit the heart of the country's most powerful establishment.
Security has drastically deteriorated in Pakistan since Islamabad joined the US-led "war on terror" and hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants fled into the tribal belt after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
Islamabad has this year launched multiple offensives against Taliban militants across the country's northwest. sparking a wave of retaliatory suicide bombings, but its Western allies are urging the administration to do more.
Laying out his new Afghan strategy late Tuesday, Obama vowed to start a withdrawal of troops from the war-torn nation in July 2011.
He praised Pakistan's operations in South Waziristan, but indicated that pressure would remain on Islamabad.
"We will strengthen Pakistan's capacity to target those groups that threaten our countries, and have made it clear that we cannot tolerate a safe-haven for terrorists whose location is known, and whose intentions are clear,” he said.
Washington and London have expressed concern that militants hide out in Pakistan's mountainous and lawless border regions, regrouping and training before slipping over the border to target foreign forces.