Bomb blast injures one in Pakistan: police

Peshawar, Pakistan - A bomb exploded near the building of a non-governmental organizations that provide treatment for the blind in Peshavar northwestern town Saturday, injuring one person, police said.
The bomb was placed after two-storey building housing the German funded comprehensive Health and Education Foundation in the University City neighborhood of the city, senior police officer Imran said Kishwar.
"It damaged the external walls and a clerk was injured. His condition is stable," said Kishwar AFP.
Group leader, Daud Khan, said the early morning blast damaged some office equipment.
"We are committed to providing treatment to blind people in North West Frontier Province. Our teams visit different parts of the province and provide treatment for local people who suffer from eye diseases," he told AFP. "We received funding from Germany."
Peshawar has been in the grip of a wave of militant violence for several weeks and was shocked by the blasts of eight to 12 days as the military presses in Pakistan with a major offensive against Taliban in southern Waziristan.
Sprawling city of 2.5 million people situated on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, where U.S. officials say Al-Qaeda militants are plotting against the West.
Attacks in the north-west have been as 30,000 troops in Taliban release Pakistan hostile castles in the ground near the border with Afghanistan, with 100,000 NATO and American troops are fighting a deadly insurgency.