Peshawar:
Pakistan suffered yet again when a blast that took place near US Embassy in Peshawar killed nine and injured many.
Pakistan news channels are calling it a terrorist attack.
A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden pickup truck leveled a police building in the latest round of bloodshed to rattle the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, reported Associated Press.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the early morning strike in an army cantonment in Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan's volatile northwest. But it added to growing fears of a long, violent summer ahead as the Pakistani Taliban and other al-Qaida affiliated groups carry out threats to avenge the Al Qaeda chief's slaying.
Already this month, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed they carried out three revenge attacks, including a deadly 18-hour siege of a naval base.
The bomber's target Wednesday appeared to be a building belonging to the police's criminal investigation department, although military facilities also are nearby, said Liaquat Ali Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar. Investigators with the counter-terrorism unit of the police were stationed at the center, said Fayaz Khan Toru, the top police official in northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
Police officer Mohammad Zahid was in the basement of the building when the bomb went off.
Bin Laden was killed on May 2 by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs in the army town of Abbottabad, elsewhere in Pakistan's northwest and roughly a mile away from Pakistan's premier military academy.
Since the raid, U.S.-Pakistan relations have sunk to new lows. Pakistani leaders insist they had no idea the Al Qaida leader had been living, apparently for five years, in the large, three-story house in Abbottabad. And they are furious that the U.S. raided the house without telling them in advance.
The Pakistani Taliban are exploiting the tense relations by promising to attack both Western and Pakistani targets to avenge bin Laden's death. The militant group has long despised the Pakistani government and army for their alliance with the U.S., a sentiment shared by many ordinary Pakistanis.