10 dead, 40 hurt in Peshawar blast (Lead, Changing Dateline)

October 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Four people were killed and 30 injured Monday in an explosion in Pakistan's Swat region. The bomb blast occurred near a security checkpoint in Shangla of Swat valley in North West Frontier Province, Xinhua reported.

October 9th, 2009 Police: Suicide car bomb behind Peshawar attackPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A top Pakistani police official says a deadly attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar was launched by a suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car. Peshawar police chief Liaqat Ali Khan says the vehicle was packed with a "huge quantity of explosives and artillery rounds." Officials say the blast killed 41 people and injured more than 100 others.

October 9th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least six people were killed and 30 others grievously injured in a powerful bomb blast that rocked Peshawar on Friday noon. The blast occurred in Khyber Bazaar near the North West Frontier Province assembly building, sources said.

October 9th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Fourteen people were killed and about 40 injured Friday when a car stuffed with explosives blew up in a bustling market in Pakistan's Peshawar city. The explosion occurred around noon at the Karachi Bazaar, close to the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) assembly.

September 26th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Just hours after a suicide strike targeted a police station in Bannu, a powerful bomb blast rocked Peshawar on Saturday killing at least six persons besides injuring many others. The explosion occurred in Saddar area of Peshawar near a private bank, The News reports.

August 24th, 2009 PESHAWAR - The Peshawar Police has registered a case against an outlawed outfit of the Khyber Agency, Lashkar-e-Islam, for killing three persons and injuring 15 in Momin Town in a suicide bomb attack. Four persons, including the suicide bomber, were killed in Peshawar.

June 10th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Tuesday's blast at the Pearl Continental Hotel situated in Peshawar's most secure area once again exposes the security lapses, and raises doubts about when this landmark becomes functional again. Earlier, the mausoleum of the great Pashto poet Rahman Baba located on the outskirts of Peshawar was damaged.

June 9th, 2009 Pakistani officials: Huge bomb at Peshawar hotelPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Officials says a huge bomb has exploded at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least five people and wounding 25 others. Police official Liaqat Ali says gunmen stormed into the Pearl Continental Hotel in the northwestern city on Tuesday night just before "a big bomb went off." Sahibzada Anis, a top government official in Peshawar, says at least five people were killed and 25 wounded.

June 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least five people were killed and 35 injured Tuesday evening in a bomb blast at a five-star hotel in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to local TV reports. The blast occurred at the Pearl Continental Hotel, a heavily guarded five-star hotel in Peshawar, capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the Express TV quoted police sources as saying.

May 22nd, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least 10 people were killed and 75 injured when a powerful car bomb exploded in this North West Frontier Province (NWFP) capital Friday, Geo TV reported, quoting the police. The incident occurred on Cinema Road in the city's Khyber Bazaar area.

May 22nd, 2009 PESHAWAR - A car bomb exploded on Cinema Road in Peshawar, killing six people and injuring more than 20, police said on Friday. The dead and injured are being shifted to the city's hospitals where emergency has been declared, The News reported.

May 16th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least ten persons including women and children were killed and twenty others were injured in a powerful car bomb blast in Peshawar on Saturday. The blast occurred on the busy Circular Road in the densely populated Berisco area at Kashkal.

May 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least nine people, including six children, were killed in a blast Saturday in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to a media report. At least 16 children were among the injured in the blast near a school bus at the Kakshal residential area in Peshawar, which is the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the Express TV reported.

March 7th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Eight people, including seven policemen, were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the outskirts of Pakistan's Peshawar city Saturday, a media report said. The blast took place when a police mobile van was passing through Badhber in the outskirts of Peshawar, Dawn TV reported.

March 7th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Eight security personnel were killed when an abandoned car they sought to check exploded on the outskirts of Pakistan's Peshawar city Saturday. Residents of Badahber village had alerted the police to the car parked on a roadside with a man's body inside.