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(CBS News) ISLAMABAD – A senior U.S. general on Friday concluded a trip to Pakistan a day after two major terrorist attacks, a powerful reminder of a growing security challenge to the south Asian nuclear-armed country. But senior Pakistani government officials and Western diplomats who spoke to CBS News said the visit by Gen. James Mattis, commander of the Florida-based U.S. Central Command, should be seen for its relevance to an upcoming anti-militant campaign by Pakistan’s armed forces. “The contacts between the highest levels of the U.S. military and the Pakistani military at this time are very important,” one senior Western diplomat said on condition of anonymity. “A deeper U.S. engagement with Pakistan will only help to improve their coordination ahead of the new campaign.” In the past fortnight, Western diplomats and Pakistani officials have said the Pakistani army will soon launch a new military operation across the rugged north Waziristan region along the Afghan border. U.S. officials insist north Waziristan poses not only a threat to U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan, which have been targeted by militants operating from the area, but also to Pakistan. After the two attacks on Thursday, including one targeting an airbase of the Pakistani air force and another killing at least 22 people of Pakistan’s Shia Muslim minority sect, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility. Pakistan’s army and intelligence officials said the TTP...

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Updated at 3:53 p.m. ET (AP) KABUL, Afghanistan – Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border Tuesday, killing policemen and shoppers buying food to break their daily Ramadan fast. A market bombing in northern Afghanistan brought the overall toll to 46 in the deadliest day for civilians this year. There were no claims of responsibility, but the attacks on opposite ends of the country — the provinces of Nimroz in the southwest and Kunduz in the north — came as Taliban insurgents and their allies step up attacks while international troops hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces. NATO plans to withdraw most of its troops by the end of 2014. There have been relatively few insurgent attacks in Nimroz over the past year. Tuesday’s bombings took place in the provincial capital, Zaranj, where three men wearing suicide vests detonated their explosives in different neighborhoods, provincial police chief Musa Rasouli said. At least 25 civilians and 11 police were killed, he said. More in Afghanistan: The way forward Authorities said the casualties would have been far higher had they not learned of the plot beforehand. Police killed two would-be attackers Monday night and captured another three Tuesday morning. Three more militants attacked the governor’s compound but were killed by security forces before they could detonate their suicide vests. One of...