( CNN ) -- A deadly car bomb attack on a busy market in Peshawar Wednesday continued a bloody trend of atrocities in Pakistan during October . Ten attacks have been carried out so far this month , resulting in nearly 400 deaths , according to security expert Will Geddes , chief executive of International Corporate Protection . Geddes gives CNN his assessment on the latest attack and the challenges facing the Pakistan forces . Why Peshawar and why now ? No one 's actually releasing any statement , but I would say it 's a retaliatory action to the seizing of Kotkai , a town in the South Waziristan district by Pakistani troops almost two weeks ago on October 17 . The Taliban is setting off devices and suicide bombs in other parts of the country to draw attention away from Waziristan to make it harder for them . Because obviously troops will be deployed to the areas perceived to be the greatest threat . It 's a pretty smart tactic on behalf of the Taliban . Why did the attackers target the marketplace Meena Bazaar ? It 's indiscriminate . It 's the purest essence of terrorism . It is to absolutely instill fear and terror into the general populace . Whether that works effectively and advantageously for them in the longer run , I do n't think so . Because ultimately it will be the local community who will be feeding intelligence back to Pakistani intelligence service , the Inter-Services Intelligence . If you alienate that community by targeting them then you 're not winning the support of people who are potentially going to hide you out or not disclose your whereabouts , your location or your operations . It is a risky tactic . It is showing the arrogance of the Taliban . They do n't care who they target -- they just want to terrorize the whole nation . How much can be read into the timing of the attacks ? It coincides with Hillary Clinton being in the country . It 's fundamentally saying : `` You 've got a high-ranked world leader who 's a guest in the country , and we 're showing you we 're still kicking your backside , '' for lack of better words . It 's really to make President Zardari lose face , as well as to continue the turmoil across the country and to show to the international community that the Taliban is winning . It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks this October . Why is the Taliban so active now ? The Taliban are always more active up in the mountains in the autumn months because it 's far harder for the enemy to be successful . It is colder , the terrain 's harder . The Taliban are experts at fighting in mountainous regions . The Taliban will generally come down on to the flats during the summer months and during the winter months they retreat back up into the mountains . What would conditions be like on the ground ? It would be very cold , very brutal . It would be tough , tough terrain for any military forced to try to fight against the Taliban . They are kings of their castle in many respects in those regions . Can you see the fighting intensifying between now and the end of the year ? The Pakistan military will find it incredibly hard going to battle against them as the winter months progress . There is very possibly going to be some kind of withdrawal , maybe the closer we get to the end of the year , because it starts becoming more and more brutal before the early months of the year . It 's like Afghanistan ; you do n't want to be down there in January or February . However the government ca n't lose face and they ca n't seem to be losing . Is there anything the government can do to halt the spate of suicide attacks ? If you have got sorties from the Taliban coming down into Islamabad and Karachi and undertaking attacks there , it 's very difficult to intersect . Quite often what you may have is a group that is working in Karachi and Islamabad who will be the resource ; they 'll be the ones doing the reconnaissance , looking at the various targets and then the suicide bombers would likely come down to be briefed by the local team and pointed to the explosives , wherever they might be . It demonstrates their determined campaign to embarrass and humiliate Zardari 's government . iReporter : `` Increasing chaos '' in Pakistan .
Car bomb in October market killed Ten people , injured many more . Of recent attacks by the Taliban , Geddes says : `` It 's the purest essence of terrorism '' Pakistani forces fighting Geddes militants in increasingly difficult conditions . Taliban : Taliban employing risky tactic of terrorizing nation with indiscriminate attacks .