Taliban militants kept up an unrelenting wave of terror campaign in Pakistan with a suicide car bomber striking a police station in Peshawar killing 13 people and wounding 16 others.

Targeting the city for the second day in running the bomber rammed his explosive laden car into the police station creating an impact which also severely damaged a nearby mosque and the casualties including two women and a child.

In 12 days of wanton violence, the terrorists have carried out numerous suicide bombing, blasts and attacks, including the storming of Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi and three synchronised attacks on law enforcement establishments in Lahore yesterday leaving a trail of 174 deaths.

With terror toll mounting, Pakistan law enforcement agencies began swoops countrywide in which over 80 people suspected to be involved in the recent spate of deadly strikes, including in the synchronised suicide attacks in Lahore which left 29 people dead have been arrested.

The security agencies have warned of more such strikes in coming days and said they were aimed at scuttling Army’s impending major assault on their stronghold of South Waziristan.

The attacker detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside the police station in the cantonment of the North West Frontier Province capital Peshawar. The building housed the office of the Crime Investigation Agency. A nearby mosque was also severely damaged.

NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Bilour said 13 people were killed. Three policemen, two women and a child were among the dead, officials said. Three security personnel were among the injured, they added.