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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A surge of violence continued in Pakistan’s tribal border region Thursday, with a car bomb blasting a bus filled with police and government workers off a bridge, killing eight.
More than 200 people have died in Taliban bombings and clashes since Pervez Musharraf quit as president.
U.S. officials have been pressing for more action against insurgent strongholds in Pakistan’s wild border region. Pakistan’s army chief secretly met the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top American commanders Tuesday on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to talk about what else could be done.
