Two car bomb attacks have killed at least 16 people in northwestern Pakistan.
In the first attack, a suicide bomber threw a hand grenade towards a crowd of people in the northwestern city of Peshawar before detonating about 100kg of explosives packed into a car.
Ten people were killed and 71 wounded in the attack which took place in the car park of a commercial building close to a military hospital.
Pakistani police said they had detained two suspects at the scene.
The Peshawar attack came hours after a Taliban suicide bomber crashed his truck into a police station in the town of Bannu in North West Frontier Province, killing six people and wounding at least 30 others, most of them policemen.
Bannu is a gateway to North Waziristan, a volatile tribal region on the Afghan border and a major sanctuary for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants fighting both in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
President Asif Ali Zardari, who is in New York for the UN General Assembly session, condemned the attacks and said 'terrorism and extremism would be rooted out from the country with full force'.
