Another attack near Army HQ in Rawalpindi,35 dead

Police said the motorcycle bomber drove into the pensioners,who had come to collect their salaries from the National Bank,and blew himself up.

Rescue service officials put the toll at 35,while police said 45 injured were taken to nearby hospitals. Most of those killed were Army personnel.

The attack came nearly a month after an audacious terrorist strike on the General Headquarters in which 14 people were killed before most of the attackers were gunned down by Army commandos.

Military police and paramilitary personnel cordoned off the area and diverted traffic from the road in front of the hotel.

In the evening,two suicide bombers blew themselves up when their car was stopped by policemen on the outskirts of Lahore injuring at least 15. Police said no one was dead in the attack barring the two bombers.

Quoting an eyewitness,Lahore police chief Pervez Rathore said that the two attackers,who were in a car,detonated their explosives when policemen stopped them at a checkpost at Babu Sabu outside the city.

Two policemen were seriously injured in the explosion,Rathore said.

Police said body parts of the bombers,including a severed head,had been found.

Meanwhile,the government on Monday raised the bounties on the heads of 19 Tehrik-e-Taliban militants including its chief Hakimullah Mehsud to a whopping Rs 41 crore or $5 million.

The rewards for the Taliban rouges gallery was announced with the government splashing black-and-white advertisement in Urdu on the front page of the mass-circulated The News daily.