Death toll hits 7 in Pakistan blast near cinema (AP)

Security officials gather at the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar May 22, 2009. A car bomb which exploded outside a cinema in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday killed six people and wounded about 75, hospital officials said. Picture taken May 22, 2009. REUTERS/Ali Imam     (PAKISTAN POLITICS CONFLICT)AP - The death toll in a car bombing near a Pakistani movie theater climbed overnight to seven, police said Saturday, as the military surrounded Taliban strongholds elsewhere in the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.