Peshawar, Pakistan: October 23, 2009 - A car bomb blasted outside a restaurant in Pakistan's main northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, 10 people wounded, and a police officer said.

The blast in the upmarket district Hayatabad came just hours after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a major air force base in the town of Kamra, on the main road between Peshawar and Pakistan's capital Islamabad.

 There are 10 people wounded and the blast took place in a parking area of a restaurant in Hayatabad, police officer Fazal-e-Amin said at the sight of attack.

Police said a car outside the Evergreen complex, which is used as a wedding hall, restaurant and swimming pool, was completely destroyed.

"Preliminary news says it was a car bomb explosion. It was a severe explosion but people were not there at the time so there are not so many casualties," police officer Anwar Shah told AFP.

Aftab Durrani, the head of the Hayatabad Medical Complex, confirmed that 10 wounded people were admitted exactly after the blast.

Peshawar runs into Pakistan's lawless tribal badlands, an area infested with Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents that the US has branded the most dangerous place in the world and the site of six militant attacks in four months.

There was no immediate state of responsibility but a deluge of attacks blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists has left more than 190 people dead this month in the frontline state in the US-led war on global extremism.

Pakistan has declare to crush the network, unleashing a major ground and air offensive targeting TTP in their South Waziristan stronghold along the Afghan border, where al-Qaida is accused of plotting attacks on the West.