Suicide Blasts Hit Pakistan Mosque, School

Suicide bombers attacked a mosque and a religious school in two Pakistani cities within minutes of each other after traditional Muslim prayers, killing at least two people and wounding dozens, officials said. A prominent anti-Taliban cleric was among the dead.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for either blast, but they come amid a wave of suicide bombings and other attacks in recent weeks blamed on militants taking revenge for a military operation against the Taliban in the Swat Valley region.

CBS News' Farhan Bokhari reported that the death toll from the two blasts was expected to rise, with as many as 10 people being killed in total.

Among the dead was Sarfraz Naeemi, the senior cleric at the Jamia Naeemia seminary in the eastern city of Lahore. He is a nationally known figure who in the past has been critical of the Taliban.

Police official Sohail Sukhera said the Lahore attack occurred inside offices of the seminary shortly after Friday prayers had finished. At least two people were killed and six wounded, he said.

In Noshehra, a city in the volatile northwestern region about 60 miles from the capital of Islamabad, a bomb exploded at a mosque in a military cantonment area, said police chief Abdullah Khan. At least 32 people were wounded "and we fear that some of them are dead," he said.

Police said both blasts appeared to be suicide attacks.

The building housing the offices of the seminary had collapsed.

"I can see broken glasses, wrecked buildings and blood stains," said Sukhra.

Naeemi is considered a pro-government scholar. In recent weeks he headed several meetings of religious leaders to denounce militants for carrying out suicide blasts, and voicing support for the military operation in Swat.

His son Waqar Naeemi said he was critically wounded in Friday's blast and later died in hospital.

After the two attacks, an Arab diplomat based in Islamabad told Bokhari the attack in Noshehra may have included, "some elements of planning by Arab militants," a suggestion that al Qaeda commanders may have been involved.

The diplomat, spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity and his claim could not be confirmed through other sources, but the person is believed to have access to intelligence information on Taliban and al Qaeda militants. The diplomat said some Arab militants have been fighting alongside the Taliban in Pakistan's Waziristan region, along the Afghan border, where the Pakistani military has stepped up its fight in the past weeks.

The CIA chief said Thursday that Osama bin Laden is still believed to be in Pakistan, and the spy agency is hoping to close in on him as the Pakistani military cracks down on the northwestern tribal area where he is thought to be hiding.

CIA Director Leon Panetta told reporters after a speech on Capitol Hill Thursday that finding bin Laden remains one of the CIA's top priorities.

The attack in Noshehra will be seen in part as a hit on Pakistan's military. The town is home to a number of military training facilities and is thought to have been important in the supply chain for the Pakistani troops fighting militants in the northern Swat Valley in recent weeks.

Pakistani government officials claim to have killed as many as 2,000 Taliban militants in Swat, while loosing just more than 100 troops.