© unknownPakistani police officials examine the wreckage of a police vehicle after a bomb attack site in Peshawar on January 31.
The explosions took place at about 6:10 a.m. local time Friday morning at the Frontier Constabulary training site, AFP reported.
"Seventy people have been killed," said the police chief of the northwestern Charsadda district, Nisar Khan Marwat.
"Sixty-five of them are from the paramilitary police. Five dead bodies of civilians were taken to Shabqadar hospital," the police chief added.
The death toll is still expected to rise since the injured are reported to be in critical condition and medical items at the city's hospital are in short supply.
Marwat said the attacks occurred when newly-trained cadets, wearing civilian clothes, were getting into buses to go on a 10-day leave after the end of their training course.
This is the bloodiest attack since May 2, when al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was allegedly killed by US special forces in Abbottabad.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the assault. It had vowed earlier to avenge the death of bin Laden by attacking government buildings as well as official figures.
"This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location."
Pakistani authorities say they will review anti-militancy cooperation with the US as the "unauthorized" attack on an alleged bin Laden compound has spawned severe criticisms from Pakistani people.
According to the AFP report, over 4,300 people have been killed in bomb attacks across Pakistan in the past four years.
I can't help but wonder if this is another sign of the CIA running amok and fanning the flames for civil war in Pakistan, similar to the destabilisation ground work that had been carried out in Libya before the invasion of Libyan airspace. If this was the Taliban at work, which I very much doubt, then there are three points of consideration that make no logical sense in this move.
1 - The Taliban already know that their ideological ally Bin Laden was already laid to rest years ago, so they would know that there is no need for retaliation over this faked assassination scenario.
2 - The Taliban would also know that the US has been seeking to destabilise Pakistan since the start of the drone strikes on Pakistani territory, so why help the US further their military conquest of Pakistan, by helping foment civil war?
3 - Even if the Taliban had forgotten all about Bin Ladens previous death, bought into these lies (or been paid off) and sought any form of revenge, would it not make more sense to target those responsible in either Afghanistan or Pakistan, namely the US military or US interests...as there are plenty of US bases and the consulate in Pakistan which could have been targeted if they were truly seeking revenge against the perpetrators of the act.
This just seems like more smoke and mirrors brought to us by the secret team in an effort to form a plausible excuse - in the eyes of the brianwashed masses - for military interventionism in Pakistan, under the guise of doing it to secure those Pakistani nuclear assets from an increasingly failed state. I think we will unfortunately see more of these random and acts of violence as the CIA assets working across Pakistan seek to murder and maim as many as possible to create division and push the war/interventionist agenda forward, with the hope that they can stir up another civil war.