Bomber in Pakistan kills 7

A suicide bomber killed seven people in Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack on a government-backed militia near the Afghan border, security officials and residents said. More than a dozen men were wounded in the bombing in the remote Tirah Valley, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. Government forces have been battling Islamist militants in the valley for several years. Militant from across Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun areas along the Afghan border have flocked to the Tirah valley since the army launched an offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in the North Waziristan region, to the south, in July. ‘A peace committee meeting was in progress when the suicide bomber entered and blew himself up,’ said a Pashtun elder, referring to the pro-government tribal militia. No group claimed responsibility for the blast, according to Reuters.