Four Policemen killed in Pakistan Car bomb blast

A suicide car bomb struck a Pakistani police checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar previous to dawn Wednesday, killing four policemen and injured 10 people, counting a woman, police said.

The assailant struck near Checkpoint ten Bala village on the main road from Pakistan's northwestern capital of Mohmand, one of the seven districts of Al-Qaida and the Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border.

"The car was on its way from the tribal area. It was full of explosives and suicide attacks came from Mohmand," policeman Liaqat Ali said.

"Four policemen were killed," he told AFP by phone.

The force of the bang destroyed the simple, one-storey mud-brick structure at the police station, post, injured a nearby house and a mosque, police said.

Those who were killed had been on guard at the checkpoint at the time of the attack, 4:30 to 5:00 am, according to police officer Mussarat Khan.

"The small building at the police checkpoint was shattered. A nearby houses and a mosque were also destroyed," he said.

Northwest Pakistan is anguish from chronic lack of confidence, mainly related to the semi-autonomous tribal belt near Afghanistan, which Washington calls the most unsafe place on earth and global head office of Al-Qaeda.

Tues Bala extends Warsak Road, which connects Peshawar, a city of 2.5 million to the mountains in the tribal areas of the Badlands, which were strongholds of hundreds of extremists who fled Afghanistan after the US-led incursion in late 2001.

Mohammad Gul, a police officer on guard Peshawar's Lady interpretation Hospital, confirmed dead, said 10 people were injured in the explosion, including seven policemen, a priest, a woman and a civilian man.

A movement of suicide and bomb attacks has killed almost 3300 people in less than three years across the country nuclear weapons of 167 million. The attacks are answerable on Al Qaeda, Taliban and other extreme Islamic groups.

Following U.S. pressure, Pakistan last year considerably increased air and ground offensives next to the home team militants in tribal areas of the belt, which Washington has called a global control center of al-Qaida.

But the rocky region is also routinely hit by U.S. drone attack against Al-Qaeda-linked Taliban and leaders, especially in the district of North Waziristan. The latest attack on Monday killed eight Islamist militants.

More than 880 people have been killed in almost 100 drone attack in Pakistan since August 2008. The bomb attacks fuel anti-American feelings in Muslim Pakistan and draw public censure from the administration.