Pakistan’s top leaders were to have been in the Islamabad Marriott hotel when it was bombed - but changed venue at the last minute, officials say. Interior Ministry head Rehman Malik said the president, prime minister and military chiefs should have been there. He told journalists “it would have been a great catastrophe”, but did not say why dinner plans were changed. A suicide bomb devastated the hotel on Saturday killing at least 53 people and wounding more than 266.
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