A suicide bomber killed 7 people including three family members of a member of Afghan high peace council and wounded 29 early on Monday, Afghan officials in Pakistan said.
The attack took place in Arbab Road in Peshawar today, when an attacker riding a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a police patrol car on the busy University Road during the morning rush hour, killing 7 including three family members of Qazi Amin Waqad, a member of High Peace Council, officials said.
"Qari Helal, son of Qazi Amin Waqad, Idris his nephew and another of his family members were killed in the attack. The target were Pakistan police vehicle, but his [Waqad's] family members were in a bus in the area," an Afghan official in Pakistan told TOLOnews.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
The attack happens as Pakistan moves nervously toward elections scheduled for May 11.
Officials in Peshawar said that Monday's attack was different as it did not appear to target a specific party, but aimed instead to foster a broader climate of fear during the sensitive campaign season.
Taliban attacks have largely focused on the Awami National Party, a secular-minded party that has governed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, in the northwest, since 2008.
The party says that 700 of its activists have been killed by the Taliban in the past five years.