Military officials said the security forces were steadily advancing towards Sawary, the main bazaar of the valley.

The missile strike came in the main bazaar in Miran Shah, the biggest town in North Waziristan.

A wooden gallows was erected in a park near the main bazaar in Kabul where convicts were hanged in public.

Early reports say the Nato vehicle was set alight in the attack in the main bazaar of Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province.

A NORTH Indian marketplace was earlier this week turned into the main bazaar of the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad by Oscar-winning film-maker Kathryn Bigelow.

First the priests knew it, then it filtered through the main bazaars and from them on through the smaller streets.

In the towns, militants who had roamed around the main bazaars in four-wheel-drive vehicles with tinted glass windows were spotted less often.