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A suicide car bomb tore through a police building in Pakistan on Friday, killing 11 people and exacerbating public anger over security breaches behind a wave of recent attacks.
Cash-strapped Pakistan, a nuclear power with a weak government presiding over 167 million people on the fault-line of the US-led war on terror, has been battered by assaults that have left more than 170 people dead in 11 days.
A suicide car bomber unleashed further chaos Friday by blowing up a vehicle near a police investigations office in a garrison area of Pakistan's northwest city Peshawar, bringing down one side of the building, police said.
"I have counted 11 dead bodies and 13 wounded in the emergency unit. All the dead are civilians. Two are women. Among the injured, there is a four-year-old," said police official Mohammad Gul at the main hospital.
The bomber targeted the police-run Central Investigation Agency (CIA) building in the military garrison area of Peshawar -- northwest Pakistan's largest city, on the fringes of the lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border.
At least 40 people died in a string of assaults on security buildings in Lahore, striking at the heart of the country's political heartland, and bombings in the northwest.
Although there was no formal claim of responsibility, suspicion has fallen on Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) movement and Al-Qaeda, as well as home-grown Islamist groups Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad.
