ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Inspector General Police and Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan have been suspended after Nanga Parbat incident, in which gunmen killed 10 people including nine foreign tourists. Speaking in the National Assembly, he strongly criticized the apathy on part of security institutions in thwarting such acts of terrorism. He, however, said that there was no question of point scoring.The minister applauded army jawans for their efforts following the incident. He said that an inquiry would be carried out against the IGP and chief secretary. He told the house that gunmen entered the base camp in security forces’ uniform and gunned down three Chinese, five Ukrainian and a Russian tourist. Nisar said that a Chinese tourist was recovered from the base camp. “I talked to Chinese ambassador who asked whether Chinese tourists were militants’ target. I told him Pakistan was the target of the attack,” Nisar said. He said that the attack was aimed at giving the message to the world that Pakistan was an insecure country. The interior minister said that no army personnel would enter the Red Zone in Islamabad without being searched. He said that nobody would be able to stop only six terrorists if they enter the parliament.

KIRKUK: Three car bombs, including a suicide attack, killed at least four people on Sunday in disputed territory in northern Iraq where analysts fear tensions could trigger a full-blown conflict.

The unresolved row over the swathe of land, which Iraqi Kurdistan wants to incorporate into it's three-province autonomous region over Baghdad's

objections, is cited by diplomats as among the biggest threats to Iraq's

long-term stability.
                                              

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In the town of Riyadh, just west of the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk,

three policemen were killed and 14 people were wounded when a suicide attacker set off a minibus rigged with explosives outside the town's police headquarters, according to police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader.

Among the wounded in the 10:00 am (0700 GMT) attack were nine policemen,

including local police chief Major Mundher Ahmed. Another person was killed and 27 were wounded by two car bombs targeting Shia Turkmen areas of Tuz Khurmatu, another ethnically-diverse town in the disputed territory, which stretches from Iraq's eastern border with Iran to its

western frontier with Syria.

The row is one of several between the central government and the autonomous Kurdish region, and diplomats and analysts often voice worry that tensions tied to the disputes could spill over into armed conflict.

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Iraq has suffered a surge in violence since the beginning of the year,

coinciding with rising discontent among Sunnis that erupted into protests in late December.

Analysts say a failure by the Shia-led authorities to address the

underlying causes of the demonstrations has given militant groups both a

recruitment platform and room to manoeuvre.