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Militants hit Pakistan spy agency in Peshawar
Militants stepped up their fight against the Pakistani government on Friday, ramming a truck bomb into a regional office of the country's main intelligence agency.
The early-morning blast in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least nine people and wounded more than 50, authorities said, in what has become a grimly familiar cycle of violence. An attack on a police station in a different area left as many as six dead.
The violence comes as Gen. James L. Jones, President Obama's national security adviser, began a two-day visit to the Pakistani capital for meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari and other senior Pakistani officials. On Friday morning, he met with the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.