Suicide attacks kill at least 35 in Pakistan

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Source: msnbc.com

Suicide attacks kill at least 35 in Pakistan
Exiled ex-premier may return Sunday; Musharraf’s election win ratified

updated 12:15 p.m. ET, Sat., Nov. 24, 2007

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Militants struck at the heart of Pakistan’s security establishment Saturday, killing up to 35 people in suicide attacks on a checkpoint outside army headquarters and a bus carrying intelligence agency employees, officials said.

The brazen early morning attacks in Rawalpindi coincided with the announcement that Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister overthrown in 1999 by the country’s current military leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf, would return from exile Sunday.

Sharif, one of Musharraf’s most strident political foes, may contest parliamentary elections scheduled for January.

“Nawaz Sharif and other members of his family are coming back to (the eastern Pakistani city of) Lahore on Sunday,” said Sadique al-Farooq, a senior leader of Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N party.

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