Police say bomb injures 5 near school in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar

October 9th, 2009 Police: Suicide car bomb behind Pakistan 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 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 Official: Bomb kills 30, wounds 100 in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani official says 30 people have been killed in a bomb blast in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain says the Friday explosion also wounded more than 100 people.

September 23rd, 2009 PESHAWAR - Extremists have bombed a co-ed primary school in Peshawar destroying the three room building completely, Pakistani security officials said. There were no immediate reports of any casualty in the bombing as the school was closed on the occassion of Eid -ul-Fitr.

September 22nd, 2009 Girls school attacked in PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The school on the outskirts of the Peshawar was empty when the explosion took place, police officer Hamdullah Khan said.

August 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.

August 17th, 2009 Pakistan: Suicide bombing kills at least 6 in NWPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attacker detonated a truck bomb Monday at a fuel station in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six people, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but the area lies next to the tribal regions dominated by the Pakistani Taliban, who have vowed revenge following the reported death of top leader Baitullah Mehsud.

August 11th, 2009 2 killed in rocket attack in northwest PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A barrage of rockets hit a residential area of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city in a brazen pre-dawn attack Tuesday, killing two civilians and wounding 10 others, police said. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the rocket assault, but the city is close to the lawless tribal areas where Taliban militants are based.

August 11th, 2009 PESHAWAR - A pre-dawn rocket attack in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least two persons and left three others injured, police said. BBC quoted a senior police official as saying that around a dozen rockets had landed in the city in the early morning hours, hitting the office of a paramilitary force.

June 12th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Pakistani security forces have shot dead two gunmen in overnight clashes in northwestern Peshawar city, close on the heels of a suicide bomb attack in which three people were killed and 13 policemen injured, as the city remained tense amid fears of more unrest. Two gunmen were killed in a shootout that lasted for an hour on the Ring road Thursday night, the Geo TV said Friday, adding that seven of their accomplices have been captured.

June 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.

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.

May 28th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least five persons were killed and 100 others were injured when two explosions rocked the northwestern Pakistani city of Pakistan on Thursday evening. The blasts were reported from Qisa Khwani and Kabari Bazar within minutes of each other.

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.

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.