PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A bomb blast at an Islamic preaching centre in troubled northwest Pakistan on Thursday killed at least nine people and wounded more than 50, officials said.
The explosion took place at a centre run by the hardline Tablighi Jamaat group just metres from the military cantonment in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and has been hit by numerous bombings in recent years.
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