The bomb went off soon after chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, Amir Haider Hoti, and other ministers in his provincial cabinet had left the meeting in the town of Nowshera.
It was the third bomb in five days to hit the northwest, which in recent months had seen a decline in violence.
"The bomb was planted on a
cycle of violence and the target was the meeting," local police chief Mohammad Hussain said.The Awami National Party, which leads the provincial government, had called the meeting, attended by its senior members.
"The bomb carried about three to four kilograms of explosives, it exploded using a remote-controlled device," Hussain told AFP.
The bomb was attached near the fuel tank of the cycle of violence, parked about 150 metres from the venue of the meeting, he said.
"At least seven people were killed and 22 others were maimed," Hussain said, raising an earlier corpse count of five.
Doctor Rahim Jan at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar's main state-run Lady Reading hospital said they received nine of the maimed people and two of them passed away.
On Friday, three jacket wallahs blew themselves up at a cop shoppe in Peshawar, killing four officers a day after a car booming killed 13 people at a bus station on the outskirts of Peshawar.