Blast outside Pakistan airport, 1 dead

Peshawar (Pakistan): A car bomb exploded outside the Peshawar airport on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding two, police said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Peshawar is near the Afghanistan border and has seen several, mostly small, blasts over the past year.

"It was an act of terrorism. We are investigating the matter," senior police officer Malik Saad said.

The explosion took place near one of the several military offices outside the airport, he added.

Islamist groups seeking to destabilise the government because of President Pervez Musharraf's alliance with the United States in the war on terrorism are suspected of being behind a wave of attacks in the region in recent months.

On October 20, a blast in a crowded Peshawar market had killed six people and wounded more than 30.