Pakistan to launch offensive in Taliban infested Waziristan

The country’s top civil and military command and most of the major opposition parties’ leaders decided in principle on Friday to launch a military operation in South Waziristan, terming it ‘imperative’ to eliminating terrorism and extremism from the country.
According to sources, participants of a meeting convened by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, agreed that a recent spate of suicide bombings in different parts of the country had roots in South Waziristan and suicide bombings and terrorist attacks could not be curbed without crushing terrorists’ leaders hiding in tribal areas.

Chief of Army Staff, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, gave a detailed briefing and the meeting is reported to have decided about the timing of the operation, but it was not officially disclosed to the media.
According to the sources, the operation might be launched within 24 hours. President Asif Ali Zardari did not attend, but he had discussed the matter with Prime Minister Gilani shortly before the meeting.

The bombings targeted a heavily fortified police station in Peshawar.
One attacker drove a car filled with explosives to the main gate of the station, as a motorcycle carrying a man and a woman pulled up behind it, said the Peshawar police chief.
The woman jumped off and ran toward a nearby housing complex where Army officers live, while the man smashed the motorcycle into the car, which exploded into a huge fireball, he said.
Police shot at the woman, who detonated explosives she was wearing.