Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at the press club in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least one person, police said.
The booming blast shattered the window panes of the gated brick building.
Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province and situated on the road into Afghanistan, is considered by many to be at the core of Pakistan's war on terror. Local journalists said that the Press Club had received numerous threats from the Taliban.
As the Pakistani military has launched multiple offensives targeting its own homegrown militants, the retaliation has been felt in Peshawar.
In October a truck bomb in a popular market killed over 100 people and government and security forces have suffered regular attacks.