'Taliban' claim responsibility for Pakistan blast

A probe into the deadliest attack on Pakistani troops waging a counterinsurgency campaign along the Afghan border was progressing well, an investigator said today, as a previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed 42 soldiers.

A man with explosives strapped to his body ran up to soldiers and blew himself up yesterday at an army training centre in the town of Dargai, about 60 miles north of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.