Attackers Explode Truck Bomb at Luxury Pakistan Hotel

At this point, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, the largest city in Pakistan's troubled northwest.
Television reports showed that part of the Pearl Continental Hotel had been reduced to rubble.

Police official Liaqat Ali told The Associated Press that witnesses saw three men riding in a truck approach the main gate of the hotel and open fire at security guards before driving inside. "They drove the vehicle inside the hotel gates and blew it up on reaching close to the hotel building," he added.

Saleem Khan, a hotel security guard who was wounded in the attack, said at a nearby hospital:

"They started firing on our security guards; we started firing on them after that. They reached near the building and then blew up the vehicle."

Just last week the Taliban made threats, warning Pakistanis that they were preparing “major attacks” in large cities. These attacks were said to be in retaliation for the military’s campaign against insurgents in parts of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province.