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/ 28 October 2009
Pakistan suffered its worst militant attack in two years on Wednesday when a car bomb killed more than 80 people in a crowded market in Peshawar.
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/ 16 October 2009
Pakistani forces attacked a Taliban stronghold with aircraft and artillery on Friday, as a suicide bomber killed 12 people in Peshawar.
US missile strikes killed dozens of people in a Pakistani tribal area controlled by Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, officials said on Wednesday.
Pakistani police on Wednesday pulled bodies from the rubble of a luxury hotel in north-west Peshawar after a suicide car bomb killed 16 people.
Courting death if they go out alone, women oppressed by Taliban extremists in Swat valley have nothing to celebrate on International Women’s Day.
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/ 4 February 2009
Pakistani engineers on Wednesday opened an alternative supply route for Nato in Afghanistan after militants blew up a key bridge and torched trucks.
Pakistani security forces on Saturday launched an offensive against Taliban militants who were threatening the main north-western city of Peshawar.
Pakistani Taliban militants murdered 22 rivals captured this week when they seized a north-western town, a government official said.
Islamic militants in a Pakistani border town blew up 36 tankers supplying fuel for United States and Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, wounding up to 100 people, officials said on Monday. The rebels late on Sunday destroyed the tankers that were parked in Landikotal, the main town of the troubled Khyber tribal district.
Pakistani tribesmen on Monday buried the last of the 43 people killed in a suicide bomb attack at a meeting of tribal elders discussing how to tackle al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
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/ 28 January 2008
Heavily armed militants took about 300 children hostage at a school in Pakistan on Monday but freed them after tense negotiations with tribal elders, the Interior Ministry said. Rebels armed with rocket launchers holed up at the school in the North West Frontier Province after a failed attempt to abduct a local official.
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/ 18 January 2008
A few days ago a Pakistani newspaper published a cartoon of a political weather map forecasting bombs all across Pakistan. It is all too real. There has been no let-up in attacks in a country still reeling from the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in a gun and suicide-bomb attack last month.
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/ 18 November 2007
Fighting between rival Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims in north-western Pakistan’s troubled tribal belt has claimed 70 lives, security officials and state media reported Sunday. State television said another 150 people were injured as heavily armed tribesmen clashed in the Kurram district bordering Afghanistan.
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/ 9 November 2007
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the house of a Pakistani minister in the north-western city of Peshawar on Friday, killing four people, police said. Federal Minister for Political Affairs Amir Muqam, who is also the local head of President Pervez Musharraf’s ruling party, told state television that he was unharmed in the blast.
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/ 25 October 2007
A blast tore through a security-forces vehicle in restive north-west Pakistan on Thursday, killing 30 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. The attack in scenic Swat Valley in the North West Frontier Province was the latest in a wave of violence targeting the military since government troops stormed the al-Qaeda-linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.
A bomb planted in a hotel reception killed at least 25 people in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, a provincial official said. The blast occurred at a hotel owned and frequented by Afghans, near a well known mosque in the heart of the capital of Pakistan’s volatile North West Frontier Province.
Fierce battles between tribesmen and foreign al-Qaeda militants in north-west Pakistan have left up to 160 people dead, including 130 Uzbeks and Chechens, a provincial governor said on Friday. Between 25 and 30 tribesmen also died in the clashes that erupted on Monday in the South Waziristan tribal zone bordering Afghanistan.
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/ 28 January 2007
Pakistan ordered a federal probe and beefed up security on Sunday after a suspected suicide bomb killed 14 people, including two top police officers — the second such attack in two days. As investigators hunted for clues about the bombing in Peshawar, thousands of mourners attended the funeral prayers of its slain police chief and deputy superintendent.
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/ 27 January 2007
A suspected suicide attacker exploded a bomb near a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar late on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, including the city police chief, and wounding 35, police said. Most of the victims were police and municipal officials who were clearing the route for a procession of Shi’ites.
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/ 8 November 2006
A suicide bomber killed at least 42 soldiers at an army base in north-west Pakistan on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a revenge attack for a missile strike against an al-Qaeda training camp, officials said. Witnesses said the huge explosion left body parts and shredded clothing scattered across a parade ground.
In his office in Peshawar’s historic Mohabat Khan mosque, prayer leader Maulana Yousaf Qureshi smoothes his beard from the white roots to the henna-orange tips. "There’s no time limit. If someone kills the cartoonist in 50 years he will still get the million dollars," he says.
Nearly 120 pro-Taliban militants have been killed during three days of clashes with Pakistani forces in a remote tribal town, the military said on Monday. ”According to latest information, the death toll in fighting last Saturday has gone up to 100,” military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told Agence France-Presse.
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/ 6 February 2006
Opener Salman Butt hit a punishing century and Shoaib Malik a quickfire 90 to help Pakistan score a dramatic seven-run win under special bad-light rules against India in Peshawar on Monday. Pakistan, chasing 329 to win, were 311-7 in 47 overs before the light stopped play.
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/ 15 February 2004
Rescue and relief efforts were under way in remote areas of northern Pakistan on Sunday after a powerful earthquake killed at least 20 people and damaged hundreds of buildings. The quake, measuring 5,7 on the Richter scale, struck at 10.30am GMT on Saturday and was followed by an aftershock measuring 5,5.
Tribal elders in a deeply conservative district in Pakistan’s northwestern frontier warned women not to get involved in upcoming elections, threatening on Sunday to burn down the homes of any family that allows its women to vote.