EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3<br/> <br />At least 17 people were killed, including two women, when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying government officials in the insurgency-plagued Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday (September 27).<br/> <br />The remote-control bomb struck on a main road in Peshawar, near the frontier tribal areas of the northwest where Islamist militants have their strongholds.<br/> <br />The spokesman for the Lady Reading Hospital confirmed 17 bodies had been received but that the death toll was expected to rise.<br/> <br />The bus was carrying employees of the civil secretariat, said police officials.<br/> <br />No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.<br/> <br />Islamist violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in past months, undermining Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's efforts to tame the insurgency by launching peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban.<br/> <br />Last week, a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-yea
