5 militants including a Taliban leader killed in bomb blast in Pakistan

At least five militants including a Taliban leader were killed in a bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan early Thursday morning, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (Radio Pakistan) stated Thursday. (Radio Pakistan said the remote-controlled bomb blast went off in ‘Shulam’ area belonging to Southern Balouchestan province . The blast killed five people including the commander of Pakistan’s taliban movement. A series of bomb attacks have ripped through a residential area near an intelligence agency’s office in the southern Pakistani city of Sukkur, killing at least five people and injuring more than two dozen others. A senior police officer said on Wednesday at least four bomb explosions took place in an area where Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the regular police and paramilitary forces are based. “The blasts took place in a compound that houses the offices of senior police officials and an intelligence agency,” Deputy Inspector General of Police Javed Odho told reporters. Pakistani media reports say the powerful explosions were followed by protracted gun battles in the troubled city, which is located around 500 kilometers from Karachi, the main city in Sindh Province. At least 30 injured people have been moved to nearby hospitals for treatment. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.