The United Nations has closed all its offices and suspended its operations in this northwestern Pakistani city due to security fears in the wake of an audacious terrorist attack on the US consulate. All UN offices in Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, will remain closed for two days because of the security situation.
Setting off powerful explosions and firing from automatic weapons, militants dressed in battle fatigues on Monday made a brazen attempt to storm the US consulate within the cantonment in Peshawar today, killing at least one person and injuring several others.
Six militants involved in the brutal massacre of over 150 people, mostly school children, at a military-run school in Peshawar have been sentenced to death while one has been handed down life imprisonment by military courts, the Pakistan army announced on Thursday.
A first explosion lured in onlookers and emergency services before a second more powerful blast, believed to be from a suicide strike, went off in Khyber Super Market area in Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, police said on Sunday.
A blast occurred yet again in Pakistan's terror-hit Peshawar city today though there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Two bombs ripped through crowded bazaars in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar today killing at least one person and wounding 20, barely a day after terrorists struck in Lahore targeting ISI's provincial headquarters which claimed 35 lives.
Among the political parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) emerged as the largest party, winning 227 seats, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) with 160 seats.
A Pakistan Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with worshippers during afternoon prayers in the high-security zone in Peshawar, killing at least 61 people and wounding more than 150 others, mostly policemen.
Boxer Amir Khan will donate a pair of 30,000 pounds ($47,007) shorts to the Peshawar school in Pakistan where 132 children were killed by Taliban gunmen earlier this week.
The Pakistan Taliban chief behind the Peshawar attack that killed 132 pupils has issued a chilling warning that more deaths will follow in another terror "spectacular" in a new video released on Tuesday.
The attacker, a youth aged about 18 years who was clad in black, detonated his explosives at the entrance of the Mirza Kasim Imambargah at Kohati in the congested old quarters of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, at 6.55 pm (local time).
Clearly, her father hopes that a successful tenure in Lahore will give Maryam the ballast to be prime minister after the next general election.
Several high-profile international cricketers have pulled out of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) due to the overlapping of dates with other franchise-based tournaments and many cricket boards denying permission to their players to compete in domestic T20 competitions.
Officials said Umar Mansour, alias Umar Naray, had been killed in the US drone attack in the Bandar area of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Saturday.
'A collapsing Pakistan may well unleash its nuclear weapons as the last throw of the dice. With a nuclear arsenal of over 50 bombs, even a regional nuclear exchange can devastate the world.'
Afridi had ran a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad city to help CIA agents track the former Al Qaeda chief, who was later killed by US Navy Seals in a controversial raid on May 2, 2011.
At least 12 people, including two women and a child, were killed in a Taliban suicide car bombing in Karachi targeting a senior Pakistani counter-terrorism official and an explosion at a music shop in Peshawar, the capital of restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
Tanmay's 300 came off just 147 balls with 31 fours and 20 sixes. He broke the record held by South African batter Marco Marais (300 off 191 balls).
Unidentified gunmen attacked a team of a TV news channel in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, critically injuring a senior journalist, police said on Monday.
The explosive device hidden in a tin was left outside a grocery shop at Rampura Bazaar.
The Northwest Frontier Province government has expressed its inability to host the match in the wake of Moharram.
A suicide bomber blew himself up when he was stopped at a police check post in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least four persons and injuring 11 others in the latest in a wave of terrorist attacks across the country.
The blast occurred at 7:45 am near a police station in the Badhbeer area, he said, adding that some people may be trapped under the rubble. The police and relief workers have arrived on the blast site. There are some children and a woman among the injured.
Hindus celebrated Diwali at a historic 160-year-old temple at Peshawar in northwest Pakistan after it was reopened to the minority community after six decades on a court's orders.
Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, who brokered a now-defunct peace deal between the authorities and insurgents, was arrested on Sunday in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar for his links to militants and his role in fomenting unrest in the lawless Swat valley. Sufi, who heads the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muhammadi, was arrested with his sons Ziaullah and Rizwanullah and an accomplice by a large police contingent during a raid in the City Town area of Peshawar.
A child was killed and nine persons injured on Thursday in a bomb blast on a residential area in northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, hours after terrorists struck in Lahore and Kohat leaving 41 people dead.
The BCCI delegation wants the team's stay in the two cities curtailed.
At least five people, including four police personnel, were killed in three explosions that rocked Pakistan's Peshawar city on Thursday.
Two Taliban suicide bombers struck a historic church in Peshawar Sunday, killing at least 78 people, including women and children, in the deadliest attack on the minority Christian community in Pakistan's history.
A suicide bomber Monday targeted a police van in restive Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, killing six persons and injuring nearly 40 others, officials said.
The border city was technically ruled out as a possible venue for this winter's tour of England.
Babar's answer stumped the questioner and left everyone in splits.
Ten members of the team, including batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, went to the Kisakhani Market, located near the team's hotel.
Tribesmen from Khyber Agency staged a protest in front of the Governor House in Peshawar on Wednesday against the killing of 18 people whose mutilated bodies were recovered from the Alam Gudar area situated in Bara subdivision.
Four persons, including a senior police officer, were killed and about 30 others injured when a powerful bomb blast targeted a police vehicle in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.
Pakistan honoured the victims of the Peshawar's Army Public School massacre in a sombre ceremony at the school as the country marks the first anniversary of the attack.
On Tuesday, Taliban terrorists barged into Army Public School in Peshawar and began firing on all present there. They took no hostages, did not discriminate between the young and old and killed as many as they could. They killed 132 children and nine others during their eight-hour rampage. Some students who were lucky enough to escape recount their horror and the massacre that unfolded right in front of them. These are some their tales:
Just days after carrying out a devastating suicide car bombing of a five star hotel, militants today struck at the home of Pakistan's army commander heading the military offensive against Taliban in the country's troubled northwestern city of Peshawar.
One woman passenger was killed and two fight stewards injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a Pakistan International Airlines flight while landing at the Peshawar airport late Tuesday night.
At least three people were killed and five others injured on Monday when a suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up near a group of policemen in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, a day after 14 people died in a similar attack in the city.The bomber, who was in his early 20s, detonated his explosives when the auto-rickshaw was stopped by policemen at the check post on the ring road at 10 am.
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