Fierce fighting raged between Pakistani Army and Taliban for the third day in running for the control of the key Waziristan town of Makeen.<br/><br/> The army has been locked in pitched battles to clear the Taliban stronghold using fighter jets and helicopter gunships. Four soldiers were killed and another injured as militants fired rockets on the troops.<br/><br/> In pitched battles, eight Taliban fighters were killed with the Army claiming to have cleared the Tauda China Khola area.<br/><br/> Further to the north, a roadside bomb killed two paramilitary soldiers in Bajaur district also in the restive North West Frontier Province, which is witnessing fresh flare-up by militants.<br/><br/> Meanwhile, in the second such attack in the last 24 hours in the provincial capital of Peshawar, a suicide bomber got out of a rickshaw and blew himself up at a police checkpoint killing three persons, including a police constable.<br/><br/> Five other people were wounded in the attack, the latest in a string of strikes that has left more than 300 people dead in the country.<br/><br/> Peshawar police chief Liaqat Ali Khan said the bomber apparently seemed to be heading somewhere else but blew himself up when he was stopped by the policemen.