Islamabad: A Christian hospital in Pakistan's North Western border area was attacked with a grenade on October 4, but there were no casualties, a government official said.

"A grenade was thrown and landed in the compound of the Christian hospital at Bannu," an Interior Ministry official told said on condition of anonymity.

Bannu lies 50 kilometres East of the Afghan border and 240 kilometres South West of the capital Islamabad. It is on the edge of the semi-autonomous tribal belt, whose residents are mainly fundamentalist Muslims.

The explosion shattered the hospital's windows. It was unclear who hurled the grenade, he said.

AFP