No ground to concede

Seventeen dead, more than twenty wounded, an entire district placed under emergency - this is the arithmetic of Sunday's suicide bombing outside a police station in Kabal tehsil of Swat. Six policemen were among the martyred. Malakand's deputy inspector general has attributed the attack to Fitna al Khawarij, the outlawed TTP in other words. Preliminary investigation suggests the bomber may have been an Afghan national. If confirmed, this will be one more entry in a pattern that Pakistan's........

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