Powerful blast kills six, injures scores in Peshawar

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.

October 9th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least 10 people were killed and about 40 injured Friday in a bomb blast that ripped through a bustling market in this Pakistani city. The explosion occurred around noon at the Karachi Bazaar, close to the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) assembly.

October 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A bomb explosion outside the UN's World Food Programme offices in Islamabad on Monday killed one person and injures two others, police say. "There was a blast in the street where a UN office is located.

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.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - At least six persons have died and 38 injured in a bomb attack on Thursday in the centre of Kabul amid rising tension in Afghanistan. The blast occurred near the U.S embassy.

August 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.

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 3rd, 2009 HERAT - At least 12 people were killed and another 20 were injured in a remote controlled bomb blast in the western Afghanistan city of Herat on Monday, just weeks before the presidential elections. Provincial police chief Esmatullah Alizai said the blast was caused by a bomb planted in a roadside rubbish bin and remotely detonated.

June 27th, 2009 KARACHI - At least four persons, including a woman, were killed and 26 others injured when a powerful blast rocked a firecracker factory, which was being run in a residential building, here. The blast which took place in the Gharibabad area of the city was so powerful that it destroyed the factory building completely besides damaging several adjacent buildings.

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 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 - 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 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 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.

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.