Pakistan has increased its reward for a Taliban chief in the Swat valley to 50m rupees ($600,000, £372,000).The figure is more than 10 times the original bounty for radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.Officials acted after Pakistani Taliban leaders warned of more bomb attacks in cities in retaliation for a government offensive in the north-west.Authorities in Peshawar have banned public gatherings a day after at least 10 people died in two separate attacks.On Wednesday at least 24 people died in a bomb attack in Lahore which targeted a police station and intelligence agency offices.As fighting continued in Swat on Friday, the army said 28 militants had been killed in the last 24 hours and seven arrested. It said five soldiers and two civilians were injured in clashes. The figures cannot be independently verified.
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