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Suicide blast kills 6 at Danish mission in Pakistan

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-02 19:50

Police and bomb disposal officials inspect the premises of the Danish embassy after a bomb blast in Islamabad June 2, 2008. [Agencies]

Pakistan went through a wave of suicide bombings in the second half of 2007 and early this year but most of the attacks were on the Pakistani security forces and politicians, including former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, killed in a December 27 attack.

Attacks on foreigners have been rare since several in 2002, but a blast at an Italian restaurant in Islamabad in March killed a Turkish woman and wounded several other foreigners, including some US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

The new government has opened talks with militants through intermediaries.

But the talks have raised questions in the United States and among some of Pakistan's other allies, who fear peace deals in Pakistan will free up Taliban and al Qaeda militants to intensify their war against Western troops in Afghanistan.

The blast coincided with an anti-cartoon rally in the city of Multan attended by about 200 people.

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