A suicide attack on a Shi'ite mosque in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 14 people. Source: AAP
A BOMB attack has killed 14 people and wounded more than 25 others at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque and seminary on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police say.
"It was a suicide attack in which 14 people were killed and more than 25 others were wounded," senior police official Shafi Ullah told AFP at the scene on Friday.
"The suicide bomber, who was on foot, first opened fire at police guards who were deployed outside the mosque, then entered the prayer hall where he blew himself up amid worshippers just before the start of prayers."
The mosque and madrassa complex is in Gulshan Colony, a Shi'ite-dominated area on the edge of Peshawar, a city which abuts militant strongholds in the northwestern tribal belt on the Afghan border.
Two other police officials Shaukat Khan and Imran Shahid confirmed the fresh death toll of 14.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but sectarian violence targeting Pakistan's minority Shi'ite community has been on the rise in recent years.
The attack came just days after US officials said they hoped to open peace talks with the Afghan Taliban in Doha, capital of the Gulf state of Qatar.
Shi'ites account for 20 per cent of the mostly Sunni Muslim population in the nuclear-armed state, which suffers from a Taliban insurgency and al-Qaeda-linked violence.
Extremist Sunni militant faction Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for a series of bloody attacks on Shi'ites in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed at least 25 people on June 15.
Earlier on Friday, officials said two members of a pro-government militia were killed when militants armed with guns and rockets attacked their homes in the tribal district of Bajaur on the Afghan border.
About a dozen insurgents attacked the homes near Khar, the main town in Bajaur, late on Thursday, administration official Abdul Haseeb said.
The two elders, who were members of a pro-government tribal militia, were killed and two tribal policemen were wounded, Haseeb told AFP.
Pakistan has for years been fighting homegrown Taliban insurgents in its northwestern border areas with Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan's business capital Karachi gunmen shot dead a politician, his son and a passer-by outside a mosque on Friday.
Sajid Qureshi and his 25-year-old son were targeted in a drive-by shooting as they left the mosque after attending Friday prayers.
"Gunmen on a motorcycle fired at (Sindh) provincial assembly member Sajid Qureshi, his son and a pedestrian when they were coming out of mosque," senior police official Amir Farooqi told AFP.
Qureshi was a member of the secular Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the most powerful political party in Karachi now considering whether to join the government in southern Sindh province.
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