Top police official says suicide car bomber carried out massive attack in Peshawar, Pakistan

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.

October 5th, 2009 UN chief: Pakistan attack a 'heinous crime'GENEVA — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned a suicide bombing at the U.N.

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 27th, 2009 Pakistan suicide bomber hits checkpoint; 18 deadPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police say a suicide bomber has attacked a Pakistani security checkpoint on the Afghan border. At least 18 people are reported dead.

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.

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 15th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least five security personnel were killed and four others including a civilian,were injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a checkpoint in Swat valley on Saturday. "A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a military checkpost in Waliabad village, killing at least three soldiers," The Nation quoted a senior security official, as saying.

June 13th, 2009 PESHAWAR - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for Friday's serial suicide attacks on two mosques in Nowshera and Lahore. It had also took responsibility for the Pearl Continental Hotel bombing in Peshawar, saying more such attacks would be carried out in future against all those who oppose their decree.

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 Recent attacks in or linked to PakistanA look at some recent major attacks in Pakistan or blamed on Pakistan-based militants: — June 9, 2009: A huge bomb explodes at a luxury hotel in Peshawar, killing at least 11 people and wounding 70 others. — May 27, 2009: A suicide car bomber targets buildings housing police and intelligence offices in the eastern city of Lahore, killing about 30 and wounding at least 250.

May 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.

May 5th, 2009 Police say car bomber kills 4 troops in PakistanPESHAWAR — A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle carrying paramilitary forces in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least four troops and wounding several people, including schoolchildren, police said. The attack happened near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of the volative North West Frontier Province, where the military last week launched an offensive against Taliban militants to halt their push toward the capital, Islamabad.

April 18th, 2009 Suicide bomber kills 10 at Pakistani checkpointPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber attacked security forces manning a checkpoint in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Saturday, killing at least 10 people, officials said. The checkpoint is near the Orakzai tribal region, which has emerged in recent months as a major base for Taliban militants waging war on the Pakistan government.

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.