At least 90 dead in Peshawar blast
Updated on 28 October 2009
At least 91 people die and 200 are injured after massive car bomb rips through a crowded market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The Pakistan blast injured a further 100 people in a crowded marketplace. It coincided with a visit to the country by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Pakistan is on high alert amid fears of retaliatory strikes by Taliban militants, as the army attacks their strongholds in South Waziristan on the Afghan border.
The offensive in South Waziristan came after a series of attacks on the United Nations, army headquarters, police and general public, in which more than 150 people were killed.
The Pakistan blast followed two Taliban attacks in the capital of Afghanistan.
The first, on a guest house in the heart of Kabul, left six United Nation workers dead, along with three Afghan police officers and at least one local civilian.
And more than 100 guests in the luxury Serena hotel, including a Channel 4 News team, had to be evacuated to an underground bunker when the building came under rocket attack.
An increasingly resurgent Taliban have vowed to stage attacks ahead of the run-off on 7 November and as US President Barack Obama weighs sending more soldiers to Afghanistan to fight an insurgency that has reached its fiercest level since 2001.
