Clues: Security forces say the bomb was detonated by a man driving a pick-up laden with explosives
Casualty: A man injured in the blast is helped to safety by ambulance men
Farmer Mossam Khan, 67, center, a displaced Pakistani tribal man from Kani Guram village, in South Waziristan, waits in line for relief supplies together with other displaced people who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting between security forces and militants, in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. The U.S. has urged Pakistan to persevere with its South Waziristan offensive because militants have used the area as a base to attack Western troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Rubble: The Taliban claimed responsibility for this bombing near Camp Phoenix, in Kabul, Afghanistan, today
Blast: Debris at the scene of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency building in Peshawar, Pakistan, this morning
Displaced Pakistani tribal people, who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting between security forces and militants, wait for relief supplies in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. The U.S. has urged Pakistan to persevere with its South Waziristan offensive because militants have used the area as a base to attack Western troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Displaced Pakistani tribal people, who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting between security forces and militants, are checked by security personal prior to receiving relief supplies in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. The U.S. has urged Pakistan to persevere with its South Waziristan offensive because militants have used the area as a base to attack Western troops across the border in Afghanistan
Suicide car bombers killed 16 people and wounded more than 80 in two attacks in northwestern Pakistan this morning, including a devastating strike on the regional headquarters of the spy agency overseeing much of the country's anti-terror campaign.
The bombings were the latest in a string of attacks on security forces, civilians and Western targets since the government launched an offensive in mid-October against militants in the border region of South Waziristan, where al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.
The attack on the Inter-Services Intelligence agency building occurred in the city of Peshawar, which has borne the brunt of the militants' retaliation against the army offensive. A wave of bombings in the last week alone in and around the city has killed more than 50 people.
Security forces guarding the intelligence complex opened fire on a pick-up laden with explosives, but the bomber was able to detonate in time.
The early morning blast destroyed much of the three-story building and killed 10 people, including seven who worked for the spy agency, the army said in a statement. Another 55 people were wounded, officials said.
About an hour later, a second suicide car bomber attacked a police station farther south near the Afghan border, killing six people, said police official Tahir Shah.
Five of the dead were policemen working at the station in Bakkakhel village in Bannu district; the other was a civilian. Another 27 people were wounded, he said.
The station is close to the border with North Waziristan, an area in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region where officials believe many militants have fled to escape the recent army offensive.
The government has vowed the surging militant attacks will not dent the country's resolve to pursue the operation in South Waziristan, where officials say the most deadly insurgent network in Pakistan is based. The army claims to be making good progress.
Friday's attack in Peshawar was the second to target a spy agency complex this year. A suicide squad using guns, grenades and a van packed with explosives attacked a police and an ISI building in Lahore in May, killing 30 people.
The ISI has been involved in scores of covert operations in the northwest against al-Qaeda targets since 2001, when many militant leaders crossed into the area following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. The region is seen as a likely hiding place for Osama bin Laden.
Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters are waging a war against the Pakistani government because they deem it un-Islamic and are angry about its alliance with the US.
The insurgency began in earnest in 2007, and attacks have spiked since the run-up to the offensive in South Waziristan.
Meanwhile the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing today that wounded at least six people near Camp Phoenix, a logistics support base for US forces on the outskirts of Kabul, in Afghanistan.
Nato said the suicide bombing occurred at 8am on the Jalalabad road, and reports indicated Afghan civilians, Nato service members and civilian contractors had been wounded.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed the attack was carried out by a Taliban suicide car bomber targeting an international military convoy.
Separately, a land mine exploded near a police station in Logar province, south of Kabul, killing a member of the Afghan National Police and wounding an Afghan National Army officer today, provincial police chief Mustafa Mosseini said.
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