Over 40 people where killed in bomb blasts in Pakistan whilst the UK prime minister visited the country to hold talks with the newly elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
One bomb by checkpoint near a Shiite Muslim mosque in the south-western city of Quetta killed over 20 people, whilst a car bombing in Peshawar, killed 17.
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