Pakistan - Taliban Bomber Attacks Paramilitary Base - NYTimes.com A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into a compound housing a paramilitary force in Karachi on Thursday, killing 3 officers and wounding 20. The attack struck a housing compound for the Rangers, a paramilitary force that helps Karachi's police maintain security in the city, said Javed Odho, deputy inspector general of the Karachi police. A Taliban spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, said the group claimed responsibility for the attack. "We punished the Rangers as they are working against us and they are doing nothing to serve Islam," Mr. Ahsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.