latimes.com - The Rawalpindi blast targets people gathered at a bank for their monthly pay. Meanwhile, the U.N. will suspend some aid efforts in the country's northwest.

Reporting from Rawalpindi, Pakistan - Militants continued to exact a price on Pakistan today for the government's ongoing offensive against the Taliban near the Afghan border, killing 35 people in a suicide bomb attack on military personnel and civilian workers lined up at a bank to get their monthly wages and pension checks.

The United Nations, meanwhile, announced that violence in Pakistan had forced it to suspend long-term development efforts in the country's northwest and pull out some of its non-Pakistani staff members.

The midmorning bomb blast in the city of Rawalpindi, just a few hundred yards from the Pakistani army's sprawling headquarters, was followed by another suicide bomb attack at a highway checkpost outside the eastern city of Lahore that injured at least 15 people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either attack.... Read full article »