PESHAWAR: At least five people were killed as the United States military fired three missiles on Thursday in South Waziristan, it is the first US missile strike on the very first day of the new year. Security officials said that the missiles were fired in the Karikot area of South Waziristan and one of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
PESHAWAR: At least 25 people were killed and more than 80 injured in a powerful blast at Namak Mandi Chowk of Saddar area here, sources said. According to a local in the city, the blast was so powerful that it was heard in the whole city. The blast occurred outside an Imam Bargah in Koocha [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
PESHAWAR: Two persons were killed and twenty others injured in a blast near Imam Bargah at Hisht Nagri on Monday. Emergency activities were kick started in the area where ambulances were ferrying the injured to a nearby Lady Reading Hospital where emergency was declared. The relief work was hindered due to the congested alleys where [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 23, 2008
PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen abducted Afghanistan’s consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi in Peshawar to an unknown place and his driver was killed in a brazen ambush on Monday. Six attackers in a black car followed the vehicle of Abdul Khaliq Farahi in Phase III of Hayatabad; his residence, forced it to pull over and shot his [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
PESHAWAR: At least 20 miscreants were killed during heavy exchange of firing with Frontier Corps troops in restive Dara Adamkhel in FR Kohat between Wednesday and Thursday night, says a release of FC Media Cell. “In Dara Adamkhel, at about midnight, September 3, 2008, 20 miscreants were killed during heavy exchange of firing with [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
PESHAWAR: Ahsan Khan, 35, has lived in Peshawar almost all his life. He never imagined he would one day consider moving away - but that day has come. Because of ongoing hostilities between different groups, the young businessman, his wife and two small children are seriously considering leaving the capital of the North West Frontier [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 1, 2008
PESHAWAR: Security Forces arrested 25 suspected persons and destroyed headquarters of Pir group and Munir Shakir in Tehsil Bara on the fourth day of the ongoing operation in Kyber Agency. The security forces got Bara market completely shut down on Tuesday and then demolished a building situated next to Pir Group Headquarters in Mandi Kas.The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 30, 2008
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir, Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that Peshawar was under no threat from Taliban instead the government was blowing it up for no reason so that the ground for foreign attacks in tribal areas could be created. Addressing a press conference here on Monday , Qazi Hussain Ahmad said the Prime Minister [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 30, 2008
Pak Army approves govt strategy to counter militancy Operation to be launched in Peshawar too: CCPO Bara operation is not against Taliban: Bashir Ahmad Bilour Popularity: 11% [?]
Continue reading...Friday, June 20, 2008
PESHAWAR: Ghazala Khan, 17, often has dreams about Kabul, the capital of neighbouring Afghanistan, where her parents grew up. However, born to parents who reached adulthood and married in Pakistan, Ghazala is aware that Kabul is no longer what it may have been in the past, and is far from certain that she wishes to [...]
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
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