According to the Pakistani Military and police reports, two bomb blasts occurred in a bus and a business centre in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi today, killing 29 people comprising 10 Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission employees, and injuring more than 60.

The blasts have heightened the sense of crisis in Pakistan amid political doubt prior to elections.

The Pak Police stated that the first explosion took place in a bus ferrying Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission staff to work in the city’s busy Qasim Bazaar.

Waheed Arshad, army spokesman Major General said, 17 people were killed in the blast that occurred at around 7.30 am and turned the white-colored bus into a mangled heap of metal.

Another bomb planted on a motorcycle, went off 15 minutes later on at the busy R A Bazaar killing over 11 people.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks.

"It is terrorism because innocent people were killed in both blasts," Arshad stated.

Pakistan has suffered a surge of militant violence since July, when commandos stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad and a peace pact broke down with militants in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border.

While the majority of the violence has been in the northwest, there were two suicide bomb attacks in Islamabad in July.

Musharraf issued a statement condemning the blasts.