Gunmen kill Pak politician

Gunmen have killed a former member of parliament and three other men in an attack on their vehicle in northern Pakistan's volatile Charsadda district.
Alamzeb Omarzai was Charsadda's MP from 2002 to 2008. Since then he has been a member of a group linked to the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP).bullets on it," a local police official told the BBC.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's security forces yesterday killed 19 militants, while one soldier also died in fighting in the northwest, a bastion of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked fighters, officials said.
Troops used heavy artillery to target suspected insurgent bases in two villages in the tribal district of Orakzai.