Suicide attack, market blasts hit Peshawar

Funny how the Taliban ,who say they are for the people And are against the killing of innocent people ! Are always killing those innocent people , But it is O.K they said they regret it !

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants detonated two bombs in a busy
market and attacked two police checkpoints in northern Pakistan on
Thursday, killing at least 14 people, wounding scores more and testing
the resolve of the government as it takes on the Taliban in the Swat
Valley.

The attacks in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan happened
within two hours of each other and a day after an assault on security
forces in the eastern city of Lahore killed around 30 people. That
strike was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, who warned of further
attacks unless the government called off the Swat offensive.

"Our
targets are security forces, who are killing innocent people in Swat
and other adjoining areas," said Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy to
Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. "We regret that some innocent
people were also killed in the Lahore attack, we did not want that."

He
said other attacks were planned for the major cities of Multan,
Rawalpindi, Lahore and the capital, Islamabad, and urged civilians to
flee.

Two bombs in Peshawar were mounted on motorcycles and
exploded within seconds of each other, tearing off walls and shattering
windows of a row of small shops at a popular market, police and
witnesses said.