Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Blast near US Embassy in Peshawar

Pakistan suffered yet again when a blast that took place near US Embassy in Peshawar killed two and injured 29 people.

A suicide car bomber struck a police facility in an army cantonment in Pakistan's main northwest city early Wednesday.

Pakistan news channels are calling it a terrorist attack.

Though no group immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attack, it added to fears that it will be a bloody summer as Pakistani Taliban and other Al Qaeda affiliated groups carry out threats to avenge the Al Qaeda chief's slaying.

lready this month, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed they carried out three revenge attacks, including an 18-hour siege of a naval base that killed 10 people.

The bomber's target early Wednesday morning appeared to be a building belonging to the police's criminal investigation department, but Pakistani army facilities also were nearby, said Liaquat Ali Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar.