Powerful blast rocks Peshawar, six killedSeptember 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.
Suicide attack kills 22 security personnel in PeshawarAugust 28th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least 22 security personnel were killed and 20 others were injured in a suicide attack which targeted one of the residential barracks of Khasadar Force in Torkham area of Khyber Agency late on Thursday. According to sources, the blast occurred when a suicide bomber entered the barrack of the Khyber Riffles and Khasadar Force and blew himself up.
Peshawar blast: Case registered against Lashkar-e-IslamAugust 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.
Suicide bombing in Pakistani city of Peshawar kills 3, wounds at least 15August 23rd, 2009 Suicide bomb in Pakistani city of Peshawar kills 3PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Authorities say a suicide bombing on the outskirts in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed three people and wounded 15 others. Peshawar police Chief Safwat Ghayur says the suicide bomber also died in Sunday's attack.
10 killed in Pakistan blastAugust 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 10 people were killed in a suicide blast at a town in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, media reports said Friday. The reports said the suicide blast took place in a market in Kohat town and several shops were completely destroyed in the blast.
Peshawar tense after suicide bomb attackJune 12th, 2009 PESHAWAR - The northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar was tense Thursday following a suicide bomb attack in which three people were killed and 13 policemen injured. The blast occurred near two police vans on the Ring Road in Peshawar City.
Pearl Continental may have to be rebuilt after Peshawar blastJune 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.
Pakistani officials says at least 5 killed, 25 wounded in bomb blast in northwestern PeshawarJune 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.
Five killed in Pakistan hotel blastJune 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.
Car bomb kills 6 in PeshawarMay 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.
10 dead, 20 injured in powerful car bomb blast in PeshawarMay 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.
10 killed in Pakistan suicide attackMay 11th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Ten people were killed and more than 15, including some women, injured in a suicide attack on a paramilitary check post in Pakistan's troubled northwest. Quoting sources, The News said eight civilians and two troopers were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself at the Frontier Corps check post in the semi-tribal area of Darra Adam Khel in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Suicide bomber kills 10 in Darra Adam KhelMay 11th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Ten people have been killed and more than 15 including were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car near a Frontier Constabulary security checkpoint in tribal area of Darra Adam Khel in northwestern Pakistan. The attack hit the outskirts of Darra Adam Khel, a town about 25 kilometres south of Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, where security forces are locked in heavy fighting with Taliban further north.
Five killed, 25 injured in Peshawar suicide attackMay 5th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least five persons were killed in a suicide attack on a Frontier Corps convoy here on Tuesday. The attack took place near the Bara Qadim police checkpost situated on the border between Peshawar and the Khyber Agency, the Dawn reports.
8 killed in Peshawar suicide blastMarch 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.