Militants again brought the fight to the military's front door when a suicide bomber blew himself up during morning rush hour in the town of Kamra, near the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex.
Several hours later, a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, wounding 15 people.
District police chief Fakhar Sultan said the attack in Kamra killed eight and thirteen were wounded .
The Air Force said 15 security staff were wounded and confirmed two of its personnel died when the bomber blew himself up at the checkpoint on the road outside the base, about 60km west of the capital Islamabad.
Officials said the explosion in Peshawar was a car bomb, detonated in the wealthy district of Hayatabad.
'There are 10 people wounded and the blast took place in a parking area of a restaurant in Hayatabad,' police official Fazal-e-Amin told AFP at the scene.
Police said a vehicle outside the Evergreen complex, which is used as a wedding hall, restaurant and swimming pool, was completely destroyed.
'It was a severe blast but people were not there at the time so there are not so many casualties,' police official Anwar Shah told AFP.
Aftab Durrani, the head of the Hayatabad Medical Complex, confirmed that 10 wounded people were admitted after the blast.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but a series of attacks blamed on Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked extremists has left at least 193 dead this month in the frontline state in the US-led battle with global extremism.
The attacks come as troops press on with a week-old offensive against the Taliban in the remote tribal belt.
