A woman in her late teens blew herself up near a police check post killing another woman just hours after a separate bomb planted in a push cart killed six people in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
It was only the third female suicide kaboom that police have confirmed in the country of 167 million, where Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked bombers have killed 4,500 people since 2007, destabilising the government.
The head of the Pak Taliban in the tribal district of
Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
, where Pak troops are fighting against bad boys, said using women bombers was part of a new strategy.
"It is part of our strategy and in war strategies keep on changing," Omar Khalid told AFP by telephone from
"The blasts were in reaction to the current military operation in the tribal areas," he said, threatening further attacks until offensives waged "to appease the United States" come to an end.
The Taliban oppose Islamabad's US alliance in the war against the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan and US drone strikes on Pak soil, which leaked American diplomatic cables showed the government quietly approved.