A senior officer of Pakistan's top intelligence unit and his subordinate were killed in the continuing violence in the country's North West Frontier Province.

Maj Hamza of the Inter-Services Intelligence and his assistant Subedar Saeed were killed when their car came under
attack in Rashakai area by suspected pro-Taliban militants.

The driver of the car, Momin, and another passenger suffered bullet injuries, media reports in Islamabad said.

Two persons was killed and several others injured in overnight fierce firing by militants in Tank town of North West Frontier Province.

Militants fired mortars and rockets on government and private buildings in Tank town in South Waziristan tribal
area in which a soldier of the paramilitary force Frontier Constabulary and a disabled civilian were killed, officials
said.

A police officer said that militants also looted and burnt down six banks. The government has closed down all
educational institutions in the area.

In an earlier incident, over a dozen armed men forcibly entered the home of Farid Mehsud, principal of Oxford
Public School, in Sheikh Shahnawaz Bhatta area and abducted him and his brother.

Two suspected militants and a police official had been killed on Monday when six armed men had been involved in an
encounter with the police at the school.

The situation has been tense since the killing of a local militant leader, Ehsan Burki, on Monday in a shootout with the police.