In Pakistan, a suicide bomber threw himself at a passing para-military convoy near a crowded market killing 41 people and wounding 50 in Shangla district in Malakand division.Witnesses said the suicide bomber blew himself up near a security forces vehicle as it was passing through a security check post in the market at Alpuri and most of the dead were civilian passers by.No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack though Taliban has vowed to carry out more such strikes to take revenge for the death of their leader Baittulla Mehsud. As security forces prepare for a major operation against the Taliban in Waziristan, this was the fourth major terrorist attack in Pakistan in a little more than a week. A suicide attacker struck the UN food agency’s office in Islamabad last week, killing five persons while over 50 people died in a suicide car bombing in Peshawar a few days later. Eleven soldiers and nine gunmen were killed over the weekend when a group of heavily armed terrorists attempted to storm the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. The terrorists also took some 50 hostages before they were killed in a rescue operation carried out by army commandos.