PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec 4 (AFP) A female suicide bomber blew herself up at a checkpost in Peshawar Tuesday, police said. There were no other casualties in the blast. It happened in a high-security zone where intelligence services buildings and a Christian convent school are located, provincial police chief Mohammad Sharif told AFP. “This is the first suicide attack carried out by a woman in Pakistan,” Sharif said. Other officials also confirmed that the bomber was female. “The suicide bomber was a woman,” senior police official Kadir Khan told AFP. “She came to the army checkpost, she was stopped but she blew herself up.” Military personnel and police cordoned off the area, an AFP reporter at the scene said. A security official said that the woman was thought to be an Afghan refugee aged about 40.