At least three people have been killed and five others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police have said.

"The bomber was in a rickshaw and detonated his explosives when the rickshaw was stopped for a check," Zafar Khan, a police official said on Monday.

"One of our constables, a passerby and the rickshaw driver were killed," he said.

Police said five other people were wounded in the blast at Pathang intersection on the well-known ring road around the city.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

A suicide attack rocked Matani district near Peshawar on Sunday, killing 13 people, including the Matani mayor, and injuring more than 30 others.

The Taliban has unleashed a campaign of attacks in Pakistan in recent weeks in retaliation for a major offensive by security forces in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan.