The number of injured is at least 30 and has high as 42, sources said.
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The injured were shifted to Mardan Medical Complex and Mardan District Hospital.
The bomber threw hand grenades before detonating a suicide vest among the morning crowds at the court, senior police official Faisal Shehzad told AFP.
Also on Friday, a group of militants belonging to stormed a Christian neighbourhood near Warsak Dam, just north of Peshawar.
Both the attacks were claimed by terror outfit Jamaatul Ahrar (JA) who were also responsible for last month’s suicide attack at the Quetta Civil Hospital that killed 73 people, mostly lawyers.
At least 13 were killed and 35 injured when two bomb blasts hit the District Courts here on Friday.Two policemen and four lawyers were among those killed in the attack.
“If Islamic law is not imposed across the country, such attacks will continue to be carried out”, the statement said.
The Pakistani Taliban in particular routinely target minority groups and soft targets such as courts and schools. He added that the armed forces had killed 3,500 militants since 2014.
In August, a blast at a hospital in southern Balochistan province capital Quetta killed more than 70 people, almost wiping out the senior lawyers of the city.
The attacks were a “horrific reminder that Pakistan’s authorities must do more to ensure vulnerable groups are protected”, Patel said.
The gunmen were reported to be wearing suicide vests.
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The interior minister said that with the successful operation Zarb-e-Azb and the support of people and political forces, terrorism is defeated but the facilitators still remain to be taken to task. He stressed that the military and government jointly pushed back militancy from the country and now the terrorist networks were operating beyond the border. “Search in progress”, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Asim Bajwa tweeted.
