Pakistan bombs kill 10 as police targeted

BOMBINGS targeting police killed 10 people and wounded 14 in Pakistan’s volatile north-west and the capital yesterday — vivid reminders of the challenge facing the US-allied country as its lawmakers pursue a national consensus on battling terrorism.

One attack, an apparent suicide car bombing, targeted a police complex in Islamabad. It wrecked an anti-terror squad building and wounded at least four police, while lawmakers met elsewhere in the capital for a private military briefing about domestic militancy.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb struck a prisoners’ vehicle in the Dir region near Afghanistan and killed two police, four inmates and four children.