In Pakistan, at least 50 people were killed and 120 injured when a suspected Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car in a busy Peshawar market. The blast, in which the bomber used 50 kg of artillery shells and machine gun bullets, ripped through the Khyber Bazar market around noon yesterday when a packed bus was passing the suicide bomber's vehicle. Shahib Gul, Deputy Medical Superintendent at LadyReading Hospital said that a woman and nine children are among the dead. Gul said the death toll could rise as 22 of the injuredare in a critical condition. The explosion left blood-soaked bodies strewn on the roadin the famous market of the provincial capital of North WestFrontier Province and the bus reduced to a mass of charred andtwisted metal. Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters that suicide attacks and bombings by militants are forcing the government to order a crackdown in Waziristan, the main stronghold of the Taliban.