Five people have been killed in a blast in northwestern Pakistan, including an influential anti-Taliban tribal leader, police have said, in the first major bombing in more than a decade in an area that was once a battleground between security forces and rebel fighters.
Tuesday’s attack comes as fears rise about the return of the Pakistan Taliban, also known as the TTP, to the Swat area in northwest Pakistan, and peace talks between security forces and fighters, that started last year, have failed.
