12 DIE IN PESHAWAR MARKET ATTACK

At least 12 people have been killed and about 35 injured in a suicide bomb attack near the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. The blast which happened yesterday ripped through a busy cattle market on the outskirts of the city. The bomber appeared to have targeted a local anti-Taliban mayor, who died in the attack. Islamist militants have unleashed a campaign of attacks in Pakistan in recent weeks in retaliation for an army offensive in South Waziristan. The Taliban said they carried out the latest attack.