"The region is heading toward the unknown and the regional fires are hitting us with their heat, " Mr. Mikati said in a live televised announcement of his resignation.
He said word spread quickly that he was in possession of an unknown animal -- often speculated in his region to be chupacabras, or mythical creatures, he said.
In the past few months, a rash of suicide bombings something previously almost unknown in Pakistan have left scores of people dead in the frontier region.