Islamabad: Pakistan's army and political leaders laid their plans at crisis talks on Friday after a twin suicide bombing capped an avalanche of attacks that has killed over 170 people this month.
Pakistan's military chiefs and weak government have been floundering on the frontline of the US-led war on terror after an upsurge in a two-year campaign of suicide blasts and armed assaults by Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
A woman suicide bomber on a motorbike and a car bomber unleashed fresh chaos Friday, detonating near a police investigations office in a garrison area of the northwestern city of Peshawar, heavily damaging the building, police said.
It was only the second suicide bomb attack by a woman in Pakistan. The twin blasts flung human limbs across the street, splattering blood on the ground and scattering shoes, an AFP reporter at the scene saw.
"Police tried to intercept a woman sitting on a motorcycle with a terrorist. She blew herself up and after that there was another blast when a suicide attacker sitting in a car exploded," said Liaqat Ali Khan, city police chief.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, October 16, 2009, 23:01