By Fakhar ur Rehman, Producer, NBC News
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful car bomb blast killed at least 33 people, including women and children, in a busy market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to a hospital official.
The explosion -- which sent plumes of dark smoke into the sky and destroyed many shops outside a police station -- injured some 75 people, said Dr. Arshad Javed, executive director at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital.
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Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.
Six women and four children were among the dead, Javed added.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The attack came just a week after a bomb at a church in the same city in western Pakistan killed more than 80 people, the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.
Violence has been on the rise in the last months, undermining Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's efforts to end an insurgency by holding peace talks with the Taliban.
Taliban militants have rejected Pakistan's constitution and call for the implementation of Islamic law and for war with India. Sharif and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on are due to meet the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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