A Pakistani police officer is seen near burning vehicles after a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. A suicide bomber struck outside a court building in the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing people in a fiery reminder of the threat militants pose to the U.S.-allied, nuclear-armed country. Police in northwest Pakistan say a suicide bomber has killed at least seven people and wounded several others.
Authorities say the bomber blew himself up Monday after security officials stopped him from entering a courthouse in Peshawar. 
Injured people are seen at a roadside after a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. A suicide bomber struck outside a court building in the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing people in a fiery reminder of the threat militants pose to the U.S.-allied, nuclear-armed country.
Militants in Pakistan have killed hundreds of people in bombings since military forces launched a major offensive in the South Waziristan tribal region two months ago. 
A Pakistani man removes a gas cylinder from a burning rickshaw after a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. A suicide bomber struck outside a court building in the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing people in a fiery reminder of the threat militantspose to the U.S.-allied, nuclear-armed country.
A Pakistani man removes a gas cylinder from a burning rickshaw after a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. A suicide bomber struck outside a court building in the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing people in a fiery reminder of the threat militantspose to the U.S.-allied, nuclear-armed country.Many of these attacks have targeted Peshawar, including a bomb blast late last month that ripped through a police vehicle and killed three police officers.
Elsewhere, local media reports say a blast in the western city of Quetta has wounded at least five people. Details of the explosion are still coming in.
On Sunday, the Pakistani military said forces pursuing militants in the northwestern tribal belt had killed at least 14 insurgents and arrested some 45 others.
Soldiers race to secure the site of a bomb blast in Pakistan's north west city Peshawar December 7, 2009. A bomb exploded near a court building in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday killing at least five people, officials said. Witnesses said the bomb was apparently planted in a auto-rickshaw near the court.
A military statement said forces in South Waziristan apprehended six suspects in one sector and seven in another.
One militant was reported killed in clashes with troops on the outskirts of Peshawar.
Earlier this year, Pakistan's military began two significant offensives against Taliban factions in Pakistan's turbulent northwest.
The offensives in South Waziristan and Swat Valley have sparked a wave of retaliatory attacks against military and government targets in major cities that have killed hundreds of people.
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