Attacks in Pakistan claim 38 lives

LAHORE, Pakistan -- The bloody battle of wills between the Pakistani government and Islamic extremists continued with five terrorist attacks on Thursday that claimed at least 38 lives and was timed, officials said, ahead of a planned military offensive against Taliban guerrillas in their stronghold along the Afghan border.

The latest violence, including three simultaneous assaults in the eastern city of Lahore in Pakistan's Punjab province heartland, jolted a country already reeling from a spate of attacks that started last week.

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