Says Pakistani Taliban attacked the convoy of Consulate U.S.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan- the Pakistani Taliban, said Friday he had attacked a convoy of U.S. Consulate volatile city of Northwest of Peshawar, the latest in a wave of violence since US forces killed the leader of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden earlier this month.

U.S. embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said no Americans were killed or seriously injured in the attack, which killed a Pakistani and injured 10 people. He said initial reports suggested that was carried out by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle.

The attack took place on a main road in a region where many Western direct and involved 50 diplomats kg (110 pounds of explosives, said) police. "There was an attack on a convoy of two cars of the Consulate in Peshawar.". A car was hit. "We are still studying what is actually happened," said Rodriguez.

It was the first attack against Westerners since the death of bin Laden.

Peshawar has seen many operations by Taliban militants who seek to overthrow the Government of Pakistan-backed the U.S. and was home to bin Laden in the 1980s where Islamists have been against the Soviet occupation of the Afghanistan.

Al-Qaeda and its ally, the Pakistani Taliban, vowed to avenge the death of bin Laden, by special forces us on 2 may, and the group to take targeted the Pakistani Government and its Western allies.

"The diplomatic personnel of the countries of NATO is our goals," said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Taliban, Reuters via telephone from an undisclosed location.

"We will continue such attacks." Pakistan is our first target, and America is our second. ?

Chief of police in Peshawar Liaqat Ali told journalists a car trapped seems to have been parked on the side of the road and exploded as a vehicle Consulate was close.

Many Pakistani is frustrated by the inability of the security forces to the Taliban. In a separate attack Friday, an explosion killed five people and injured four in the Orakzai tribal region in Northwest, officials said.

"Security after the assassination of Osama was lax rather more rigorous than." "We feel insécures," said Tahir Khan, 20, a student standing near the site of the explosion in Peshawar.

One of the vehicles the Consulate, which police said was armoured, was riddled with shrapnel. The explosion was forced to slam in a pole of electricity by pre-school education.

"I just arrived at the school and was about to begin my work when there is a big explosion." Our school Windows were broken and I've been injured, said Zahid Zaman to a hospital bed school administrator.

Police superintendent Ijaz Khan told Reuters two American security guards were slightly injured and were treated in a medical facility of the U.S..

TARGETED AMERICANS

The Americans have taken to before target Pakistan.

In April 2010, activists with a car bomb and guns attacked the Consulate of the United States in Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the operation. Eight people, including three militants, were killed. No member of the mission was wounded.

Pakistan has been a jump in violence since the death of Osama bin Laden, whose suicide twin bombing last week that killed more than 80 people, most of them paramilitary recruits.

The Taliban have kept pressure on the Government with suicide bombers despite several offensives armed against them.

The United States want to Pakistani nuclear weapons to be a reliable partner in its war against militancy. Cooperation between the two allies is necessary to stabilize the neighbouring Afghanistan.

Links have been severely damaged since the secret raid that killed the bin Ladens. Pakistan is under pressure to explain how he spent what appeared to be about five years in a military not far from the capital city.

The Pakistani army was furious by the operation, describing as a violation of the sovereignty of the countries of South Asia.

Armed men attacked the Governor of Kandahar compound

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - insurgents launched an attack brazen on the Governor of Kandahar House compound on Saturday, with loud explosions heard in the city in Afghan South and at least three civilians injured as security forces battled armed men hidden in a shopping centre.

An explosion was heard near the Governor Tooryalai Wesa heavily guarded compound in the Centre of the city and another explosion was heard minutes later in the West of the city, a witness for Reuters and the official said.

Shooting broke out after the first explosion and Reuters witness said that he could see armed men take shopping centre compound of the Governor, where security forces returned fire as general expenses with helicopters.

"The Taliban attack compound of the Governor and the battles are continuing.". Three civilians in the compound were wounded, but the staff of the Governor is all end, "spokesman of the Wesa, Zalmai Ayoubi, said Reuters to compound."

It was not immediately clear what had caused the explosions. The Reuters witness said that he could see smoke black near compound of Wesa, which also surrounds the House of the Governor. Ayoubi, stated that the Governor was inside and unharmed.

The Taliban last week, announced the start of their "spring offensive", promising to intensify their attacks against foreign troops and the representatives of the Afghan Government. These threats were reissued after the assassination of the Allied al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan.

A Taliban spokesman, said the militant group had carried out the attack but said it was unrelated to the death of Osama bin Laden.

"A number of fighters is in several places around the city." These are not attacks in retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden but are part of our spring offensive, "Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told Reuters from an undisclosed location."

Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban, has been the subject of military operations in the past year and military commanders have said they have made some progress in security, but that it was fragile and reversible.

Violence in Afghanistan reached its worst in 2010 levels, given that the Taliban were overthrown in late 2001, with record losses on all parties to the conflict.

Last month, hundreds of prisoners, especially the insurgents, escaped from a prison in Kandahar via a tunnel dug by militants, spokesman Taliban President Afghan Hamid Karzai, described as a "disaster" for the Government.

Days before, a suicide bomber wearing a uniform police killed Khan Mohammed Mujahid, Kandahar police chief GEN.

The Taliban have managed to achieve a number of attacks of prestige within the city of Kandahar and the capital, Kabul, more despite the Afghans and abroad of the past year forces strengthen security around these two cities.

The Taliban have issued a statement later Friday their condolences for the death of Ben Laden, who was killed in a raid of U.S. in Pakistan Monday, but said that his death would only revive their fight in Afghanistan.