At least 40 people were killed and scores more injured when a suicide bomber attacked a traditional tribal meeting in northwestern Pakistan on March 2.
Officials say that the blast happened as the elders were discussing the security situation in the area. It is the third attack in as many days in northwestern Pakistan.
On Friday, a suicide bomber attacked a funeral in the troubled Swat valley, killing at least 38 people.
At least 13 troops and 70 militants were killed after militants occupied a Japanese-built road tunnel.
Border areas of North West Frontier Province are a hotbed of militancy and a feeding ground for the Taleban and al-Qaeda, and have seen growing violence directed at Pakistani government forces. But Islamists were beaten by secular parties in the tribal regions and in neighbouring North West Frontier Province in the recent parliamentary elections.
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