Peshawar, Pakistan News

Displaced Pakistani tribal people who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan... Displaced Pakistani tribal people who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting between security forces and militants, wait for relief supplies in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan.

Abdul Malik, the mayor of Adezai Union Council in Pakistan's northwest who was killed in a bomb blast in Peshawar Sunday, was targeted as he did not support Taliban militants, a media report said.

Helicopter gunships shelled militant hide-outs in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 10 suspected fighters after a Taliban attack left two paramilitary soldiers dead at an outpost in the area.

TANK/PESHAWAR: The Army on Tuesday claimed killing nine more militants to raise the Taliban death tally to 492 since the launch of the military operation in South Waziristan on October 17.

A father mourns for his dead son who was killed in the blast in Charsadda, Pakistan.

A suicide bomber attacked a livestock market in the suburbs of the violence-racked northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing a mayor who had opposed the Taliban and 11 other people.

WASHINGTON: Nearly eight years after the brutal murder by beheading of Wall Street Journala s South Asia correspondent Daniel Pearl at the hands of Pakistani extremists, a Pakistani newspaper had endangered the life of another journalist by calling him a CIA spy linked to the Israeli secret service Mossad.

By Javed Aziz Khan PESHAWAR: Three people, including a policeman, were killed and five others sustained injuries here on Monday when a suicide bomber riding an auto-rickshaw blew himself up at a police barricade on the Ring Road in the Latifabad area.

A blast in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday left at least three people dead, local media reported.

SECOND ATTACK: Officials said a policeman and two civilians were killed when a bomber stepped out of his rickshaw and detonated his explosives in Peshawar AFP, PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009, Page 5 A suicide bomber killed three people yesterday in the second attack in the Pakistani city of Peshawar in 24 hours as militants stepped up ...

A suspected suicide bomber struck a police post in Pakistana s northwestern Peshawar city, killing at least four people in the second attack there in two days.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Updated: November 09, 2009, 3:55 AM / Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts.

PESHAWAR: Fifteen people, including the Nazim of the Adezai Union Council, were killed and 42 others sustained injuries in a suicide attack near the Matani cattle market, some 25 kilometres from here, on Sunday.

A former Pakistan Member of the National Assembly , Javed Ibrahim Paracha, who is known for having a good contact with the Taliban leadership, has said that the US has approached him once again to initiate talks with the outlawed group.

By Manzoor Ali Shah PESHAWAR: With more than 2.5 million population, Peshawar lacks proper rescue, relief, and disaster management facilities, while negligence on the part of the government to equip and make functional the organisations created for the purpose is making the situation worse, officials and sources told Daily Times on Saturday.

PESHAWAR: District Coordination Officer Peshawar Sahibzadah Anis confirmed the killings of at least eight people in the blast in Adizai area of Matni in Peshawar, Geo News reported Sunday.

Via Xinhua: Afghan A/H1N1 flu patient dies in Pakistan . Excerpt: An Afghan female who was infected with A/H1N1 influenza died at a hospital in northwest Pakistan's city of Peshawar on Saturday, hospital authorities confirmed.

The blast coincided with a trip to Pakistan by Secretary of State Hillar9 Rodham C Linton , who was abou4 a three-hour drive away.

Washington, Nov.7 : While the Pakistan government has blamed the banned terror outfits such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda for the devastating car bomb blast in Peshawar's Meena Bazaar, in which over 100 people were killed, many Pakistanis believe it was countries like the US, India and Israel which were the real enemies of the state and not the ...

On October 28th, 2009, a bomb ripped through a crowded market in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing over 117 Pakistani civilians.