Car bombing kills dozens in Peshawar

Attack early Wednesday in a crowded market, the deadliest in Pakistan this year, comes as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits the country and vows to continue fighting militants.

Oct. 28

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, prior to their talks at the Prime Minister House in Islamabad, Pakistan. Clinton is on a three-day state visit, aimed at broadening the U.S.-Pakistan relationship beyond counterterrorism, which was almost immediately overshadowed by a bombing that killed at least 86 people.

Alexandre Meneghini-AP

Oct. 28

Pakistani volunteers rush an injured child to a hospital after an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan. A car bomb tore through a market popular with women in the northwestern area of the country, hours after Secretary of State Clinton arrived in the country.

Mohammad Sajjad-AP

Oct. 28

The attack was the latest in a wave of suicide bombings, assassinations and attacks staged in response to a major Pakistani offensive against insurgent sanctuaries near the Afghanistan border.

Mohammad Sajjad-AP

Oct. 28

Men stand at the scene of the bomb explosion in Peshawar, located in Pakistan's restive North-West Frontier Province. The attack involved a car bomb that detonated in the busy Peepal Mandi market street in Peshawar's old city, Reuters reported, sparking a fire that engulfed several buildings.

Fayaz Aziz-REUTERS

Oct. 28

Flames break out in nearby buildings after a car exploded. "These attacks on innocent people are cowardly. They are not courageous," Clinton said of the bombers.

Mohammad Iqbal-AP

Oct. 28

Troops of Pakistani paramilitary force arrive at the site of the explosion in Peshawar.

Mohammad Sajjad-AP

Oct. 28

While opinion polls indicate that only a minority of Pakistanis support the insurgency in Pakistan, even fewer approve of the United States and its war policy, which includes regular drone-launched missile attacks on insurgents in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Mohammad Sajjad-AP

Oct. 28

Two men mourn at the scene of the bomb explosion. "We will not buckle, we will fight you," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Qureshi said of the insurgents who have launched a wave of bombings and suicide attacks here in recent months.

Fayaz Aziz-REUTERS

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