Lahore on high alert

A prominent anti-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric was killed today in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Lahore. In another blast, a suicide car-bomber set off explosives near a mosque in the northwestern town of Nowshera, killing three people, according to the latest reports. The blasts came as Pakistani forces stepped up attacks on militants across the northwest. Hospitals in Lahore are on high alert. The city is under severe tension.