Pakistan bomb kills anti-Taliban militiaman

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 25 (AFP): A roadside bomb targeted an anti-Taliban militia member in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, ripping through his vehicle and killing four people, police said. The blast badly damaged the militiaman's car in a remote village in the district of Lower Dir, where Pakistan launched a major operation designed to dislodge a Taliban insurgency in 2009. Sponsored by the government, tribesmen across the northwest have set up militias in a bid to drive the Taliban out of their communities. "The bomb targeted anti-Taliban militia member Aziz-ur-Rehman. His 12-year-old son, a son-in-law and a neighbour who were also travelling in his car were also killed," local police chief Salim Khan Marwat told. "It was a remote-controlled IED (improvised explosive device) which exploded when the vehicle passed. Two people passing near by the car were wounded," said Marwat.