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TechnoratiDeadly bomb blast kills 35 in Pakistan's restive Khyber region
At least 35 people were killed and 69 more wounded in a bomb explosion in a market in the restive north east Khyber region of Pakistan where insurgents are fighting government forces.
The attack is the bloodiest in the country since September when a suicide bomb attack killed 46 people at a funeral in the neighbouring Bas Dir region.
On December 30, 13 people were killed in a bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta. On August 19, 2011, a suicide bomber killed at least 48 people inside a mosque in Jamrud.
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Tuesday's blast is the first major attack this year after a lull in the violence which fuelled rumours that negotiations were underway between Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, TTP, and the Pakistan government. A claim the TPP denied.
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the blast. Pakistani forces have targeted militants in Khyber, including the Pakistani Taliban, on and off for more than four years.
Tribesman said members of the pro-government Zakhakhel tribal militia were the target of the attack.
The TTP, which was formed in 2007, is an umbrella group of a militant organisation allied with the Afghan Taliban. It operates in the troubled tribal areas along the frontier with Afghanistan.
The TTP has pledged to overthrow the Pakistani government after the military started operations against the militants in 2007.
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