(AKI) - A car bomb exploded Wednesday in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killing a woman and wounding four others, police said. The blast occurred amid simmering tension between India and Pakistan and reports that their security forces were on high alert after the deadly terrorist attacks in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, last month. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani on Wednesday quickly moved to defuse political tension and strongly condemned the blast in Lahore.
Lahore is home to the headquarters of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamist organisation blamed for the Mumbai attacks, but there is no indication that it was linked to Wednesday's attack.
Under international pressure, Pakistani security forces have sealed Jamaat's offices and placed its leaders under house arrest.