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| Deadly bomb shakes Pakistani city | |
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| At least six people have died in a bomb blast in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police officials say. | At least six people have died in a bomb blast in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police officials say. |
| The explosion is reported to have taken place at a police investigation bureau in the Swati Pathak area, which is close to the Pakistani army garrison. | |
| Security has been tightened across Pakistan after a series of attacks in Lahore and the north-west on Thursday . | Security has been tightened across Pakistan after a series of attacks in Lahore and the north-west on Thursday . |
| About 40 people died in those attacks, the latest in a recent wave of brazen militant assaults across the country. | About 40 people died in those attacks, the latest in a recent wave of brazen militant assaults across the country. |
| Friday's attack is thought have been caused by a suicide car bomb. | |
| Strategic city | |
| Peshawar was also targeted a day earlier, when a bombing killed a child - and one week ago, when a deadly bomb ripped through a busy city market in the city | |
| That attack killed at least 49 people in the busy Khyber Bazaar. | |
| Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, has seen regular bomb and gun attacks in recent years. | |
| The city occupies a strategic position on the road to the Afghan border and is the gateway to Pakistan's tribal regions, long regarded as a haven for Islamist militants. | |
| The latest wave of attacks comes as Pakistan's military prepares for what the government has said is an imminent assault on the Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan. | |
| Nuclear-armed Pakistan is under US pressure to flush out militants as President Barack Obama considers sending more troops to neighbouring Afghanistan. | |
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