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Pakistan police blast puts scarred city on edge

Pakistan police blast puts scarred city on edge

PESHAWAR: A mosque blast that killed 101 people -- mostly police officers -- in northwest Pakistan this week has put a city long scarred by violence back on edge, residents said Wednesday.A suicide bomber slipped undetected into a highly sensitive police headquarters and detonated explosives among a row of worshippers in the compound's mosque on Monday, causing a wall to collapse and crush officers.It is Pakistan's deadliest attack in five years and harks back to more than a decade ago when Peshawar, a city near the former tribal areas that borders Afghanistan, was at the centre of rampant militancy.“The main fear is a second attack, another blast ... a suicide bomber may blow himself in a market,“ said 55-year-old Naeemullah Jan, a building contractor in the city.The city's police chief said the mosque blast was a revenge attack against the police force who are on the frontline fighting a resurgence in militancy since the Afghan Taliban came to power across the border.Authorities are

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