11 killed in Pakistan market blasts
Attackers hit a busy market and a police checkpoint in northern Pakistan, killing at least 11 people.
Many more were injured and the blasts triggered a gun battle between security forces and suspected militants.
The latest violence in Peshawar came as the Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on security forces a day earlier in the eastern city of Lahore.
Bombs mounted on motorcycles tore off walls and shattered windows of a row of small shops in Peshawar's Qissa Khawani bazaar.
Senior police officer Zarman Shah Khan said at least six people were killed. A doctor at a nearby hospital, Sahib Gul, said 80 people wounded in the blast had been brought in, many with critical injuries.
"It was a sudden blast and then there was fire all around, a cloud of smoke filled the sky," said Khair Uddin, a shopkeeper.
Commando units rushed to the scene and engaged in a gunfight with suspected militants who holed up in a building near the market, local police Chief Malik Naveed said. Two gunmen were shot dead and at least one other was arrested.
As the gunfight was under way, a suspected suicide bomber blew up a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the city, killing four police, said police officer Yaseen Khan.
Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy to Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, said that Wednesday's attack in Lahore was in response to the military's ongoing offensive against militants in the north-eastern Swat Valley.
He warned of further attacks in the major cities of Multan, Rawalpindi, Lahore and the capital, Islamabad, and urged civilians to flee.