London: Stockpiles of NATO military equipment meant for use against the Taliban are being sold in Pakistan's black market, a British media report said. Stolen military-issue knives, Kevlar bulletproof vests, tool kits, flares, first aid sets and even official stationery are on sale in Pakistan, the Daily Express reported. According to the report, in Pakistan's Karkhano market in Peshawar city, near Afghan border, merchants display masses of camouflage clothing and...
12:01 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Islamabad: Thirteen people were killed on Sunday when a huge explosion ripped through a funeral prayer being held in Pakistan's Peshawar city. The deputy speaker of the provincial assembly left the spot minutes before the blast. The explosion occurred during funeral prayers in Budh Bher area in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The deafening explosion spread panic in the area, with the wounded crying out in pain. Reports...
04:30 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao and his son had a narrow escape when a suicide bomber blew himself up near their motorcade in the country's restive northwest on Saturday, killing two policemen and injuring six other persons. The attacker targeted Sherpao's motorcade as he was travelling to Peshawar after addressing a rally in Charsadda district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The bomber detonated his explosive vest as the...
11:05 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Islamabad: A powerful car bomb ripped through a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar city today, killing at least 12 people, including two children, and injuring 36 others. The bomb containing about 40 kg of TNT explosives was hidden in a car parked near the gate of the bus terminal, police officials said. The explosion, which was heard from several kilometres away, created a large crater at the site. "It...
01:42 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Islamabad: An American national, working with the US Embassy was briefly detained at the airport in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after security officials found 13 bullets in his luggage. The American was set to fly from Peshawar to Islamabad when he was detained. He was questioned before being handed over to officials of the US Consulate, police officials said. Official sources said the detained American was a...
04:57 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Islamabad: Eight persons were injured when a blast caused by a leaking gas cylinder ripped through a hospital in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, police said. The explosion occurred on the second floor of the hospital at Sheikhabad area of Peshawar on Wednesday evening. Several nearby shops caught fire after the blast. The injured persons were taken to Lady Reading Hospital. The fire service later extinguished the...
12:31 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Islamabad: A historic Hindu temple has reopened after 10 years in Pakistan's Peshawar city after a woman devotee fought a long legal battle. The Hindu community celebrated Diwali in the temple at Gor Khutthri area. The temple was reopened for worship after 10 years, reported Dawn on Monday. Kamla Rani, granddaughter of a temple priest, was happy that the temple was reopened for worshippers. "I am very happy that my...
01:34 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Islamabad: A powerful explosion ripped through a market in Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least four persons hours after a suicide car bombing by the Taliban in Karachi killed eight persons. The explosion targeted a shop selling CDs in Nishatarbad area of Peshawar, officials said. A woman was among the dead. More than 30 people were injured by the blast, which triggered a massive fire that...
10:15 PM, Sep 19, 2011
Islamabad: Five school children were gunned down on Tuesday and five others injured in the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after unidentified gunmen attacked a school van, police said. The gunmen targeted the van of a private school in Mattani area on Tuesday afternoon. Five children were killed instantly, police officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels. The condition of two of the five...
03:17 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Islamabad: A blast ripped through a preaching centre Monday in northwest Pakistan, injuring at least six people, police said. The explosion took place around 6 am in Charsadda city, 40 km northeast of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Xinhua reported citing Urdu TV channel Samaa. Police said the bomb was home-made. It was not known how many people were inside the centre when the explosion took place. Several cars in...
12:42 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Peshawar: A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives near police guarding the scene of an explosion earlier Thursday in this northwestern Pakistani city, a rare double-pronged attack that killed four officers and a boy. Police said a second female suicide bomber is also believed to have been killed in the second explosion before she could detonate her vest. At least 30 people were wounded in both attacks. The blasts ended...
11:05 AM, Aug 11, 2011
Timergarah: Police said on Monday that militants kidnapped a 9-year-old girl on her way to school and forced her to wear a suicide bomb vest. The girl and police said she managed to escape her captors as they directed her to attack a paramilitary checkpoint in northwest Pakistan. Sohana Jawed, who is in third grade, said she was abducted near her home in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday...
12:48 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Islamabad: A suicide bomber struck the house of a member of an anti-Taliban militia on the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing three persons and injuring 10 more, police said. The bomber detonated his explosive vest when he was stopped from entering the Hujra (guest house) of the member of the pro-government militia at Mattani, a suburb of Peshawar. A policeman and a member of a...
10:44 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Islamabad: A journalist who was seriously injured in a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar died in hospital on Friday, officials said. Shafiullah Khan, a 28-year-old reporter with The News Daily, suffered severe burns during the suicide blast at Khyber Super Market in Peshawar on June 11. Khan, who was being treated at a military hospital in Wah, was declared dead by doctors on Friday morning. Khan failed...
04:42 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Peshawar/Islamabad: Two bomb blasts ripped through a crowded market in Peshawar city on Saturday, killing 34 people and injuring over 90 others in the latest in a series of terrorist attacks in Pakistan's restive northwest. The explosions occurred at Khyber Super Market in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province that has repeatedly been targeted by militants over the past few years. Thirty-four people were killed and 94 others injured in...
06:52 AM, Jun 12, 2011
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