A series of attacks on security forces in Pakistan has killed at least 38 people, officials say.
In Lahore, militants attacked offices of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), as well as two police academies. At least 26 people died.
In the northern town of Kohat, 11 were killed in a car bomb attack on police.
Then a bomb in the city of Peshawar in the north-west killed a child. Suicide attacks in Pakistan in the past two weeks have killed more than 250 people.
The Peshawar car bomb went off outside a housing complex for government employees. A number of people were wounded.
US President Barack Obama later signed into law a $7.5bn (£4.6bn) civilian aid package for Pakistan.
Thursday's attacks come ahead of an expected military offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in their South Waziristan stronghold on the Afghan border.
The worst of the violence was in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city.
Ten gunmen, some of them teenagers, died in attacks on three police centres in the Punjab province capital.
Seven people - including police and attackers - were killed as several gunmen stormed the FIA building in Lahore.
An FIA building nearby was targeted in a deadly suicide attack in March last year.
At Lahore's Manawan police training academy, three attackers are said to have blown themselves up. Eight other people died.
The same academy was targeted in a deadly attack in March this year.
A third team scaled a wall at a police commando training centre near the airport at Bedian and reportedly began shooting and tossing grenades.
Police say the situation is now under control at all three facilities.
"They were not here to live. They were here to die," Sajjad Bhutta, a senior government official, told AP news agency. "Each time they were injured, they blew themselves up.
"They were well trained to the extent they could jump over the walls and shoot well."
Thursday's attack in Kohat saw a suicide bomber ram his car into the wall of the police station compound, police said, causing part of the building to collapse.
Finger of blame
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said: "The enemy has started a guerrilla war," reports AP.
"The whole nation should be united against these handful of terrorists, and God willing we will defeat them."
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says that although no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks the finger of blame will point towards the Taliban.
Separately, a US drone aircraft fired two missiles at a house in North Waziristan, killing five Taliban militants, Pakistani officials said.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is under US pressure to flush out militants as President Obama considers sending more troops to neighbouring Afghanistan.
Lahore, the centre of Pakistan's cultural life, was long spared the brunt of unrest, but has seen a string of deadly attacks throughout 2009.
In one of the most notable incidents, in March, gunmen attacked the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team, killing six policemen.
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