More than 80 Killed by Suicide Bomber in Pakistan

Authorities in northwestern Pakistan say a suspected suicide blast has killed at least 43 people and wounded scores. The attack comes a day after Taliban insurgents launched coordinated assaults on security forces in a neighboring district that left 11 soldiers and 24 militants dead. Ayaz Gul has the details from Islamabad.The suicide bombing occurred in the town of Khar, the administrative center of Pakistan's insurgency-hit Bajaur district on the Afghan border.Witnesses say the powerful explosion instantly killed more than 30 people while others died of their wounds in a government-run hospital.The bomber targeted a crowd of people receiving aid from a distribution facility the World Food Program set up to help families displaced by fighting, One of the Journalist Say, More than 80 has been Killed in this Suspected Suicide Bomber.

Around 4,000 people have died in suicide and bomb attacks across Pakistan since government forces raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in 2007. The attacks have been blamed on networks linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.