ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 22 Pakistani border guards on Thursday at the main border crossing into Afghanistan at the western end of the Khyber Pass.
The bombing at the Torkham border post was the first big attack in Pakistan since the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in a missile strike by a CIA-operated pilotless drone on Aug. 5.
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