THE TELEGRAPH: Suspected Taliban terrorists have bombed a second Pakistani city in as many days, with reports of blasts in Peshawar.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing and shooting attack in Lahore on Wednesday that claimed as many as 30 lives.
Hours later two explosions were reported in a market in the northern city of Peshawar. Initial reports said that 15 people had been wounded in the blast.
Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy to the Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, said that the Lahore attack, in which offices used by the police and the provicial headquarters of the ISI intelligence service were targeted, "was in response to the Swat operation where innocent people have been killed".
A little-known group calling itself the Taliban Movement in Punjab has also claimed responsibility for the attack. >>> Telegraph’s foreign staff and agencies, Lahore | Thursday, May 28, 2009
