Peshawar, Dec.15 (ANI): An unheard militant group, Zarqawi, has reportedly claimed that it is being provided arms, ammunitions and finance to carry out terror strikes inside Pakistan.
According to police official, he had arrested a terror suspect named Ismail following a car bomb blast here in October, in which [...]
Peshawar, Nov.26 (ANI): Several persons were injured in a car bomb blast which occurred near a private school in Charsadda area of Peshawar early on Thursday morning.
Security officials cordoned off the region and injured were admitted to various hospitals across the city, The News reports.
Eye-witnesses said the bomb was planted in a car which was [...]
Peshawar, Nov. 14 (ANI): At least seven persons, including a policeman were killed in a car bomb blast outside a police station here on Saturday.
Saturday’s blast came a day after another blast had claimed at least eight lives on Friday.
Senior [...]
Peshawar, Nov.8 (ANI): At least eight persons were killed, including a Union Council Mayor, and 24 wounded in a car bomb blast that rocked Peshawar on Sunday morning.
The blast took place in a crowded cattle market in Adezai area of Matni.
Peshawar’s District Coordination Officer (DCO) Sahibzadah Anis confirmed death of eight persons including Mayor Adizai [...]
Washington, Nov.7 (ANI): 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 [...]
Peshawar, Nov.5 (ANI): Pakistan witnessed some of the most deadly and brazen terror attacks in the month of Octobe,r with over 300 people being killed are scores others receiving grievous injuries.
Year 2009’s month of October would be remembered as the bloodiest month in the country’s modern history with some of the most shocking attacks.
While almost [...]
New Delhi, Nov. 4 (ANI): Minister of state for Defence MM Pallam Raju on Wednesday raised doubt over whether Pakistan would be able to safeguard its nuclear arsenal from the Taliban.
“I think the internal security situation in Pakistan seems to be deteriorating everyday and we really don’t know how long [...]
Rawalpindi, Nov. 2 (ANI): The death toll in the suspected suicide attack that rocked Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city on Monday morning has reached 30, while over 40 people have been injured, police say.
“Two men arrived in the car park on [...]
Rawalpindi, Nov. 2 (ANI): A bomb explosion behind a hotel near the army headquarters in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city reportedly killed 10 people and injured several others on Monday morning.
According to The News, the blast took place near Shalimar Hotel located on Mall Road at 10:40 am.
The GHQ [...]
New York, Oct.29 (ANI): Wednesday’s deadly car bomb blast, which decimated a congested market in Peshawar killing over 100 people, mainly women and children, was aimed at destabilising Pakistan’s democratic set-up to create havoc in the country, experts have said.
The blast, which almost coincided with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s arrival in Islamabad, was [...]
Islamabad, Oct 23 (IANS) Seven people were killed and 13 injured Friday when a suicide bomber struck at an air force base in Pakistan’s Attock district while eight people were injured in a bombing outside a restaurant in Peshawar.
The bombings took place as the army continued to tighten its grip in the country’s restive northwest [...]
Islamabad, Oct 8 (ANI): The Pakistan Government on Thursday condemned the car bomb attack outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, saying elements in Afghanistan were intent on sabotaging the peace efforts initiated by allied forces.
Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit told media [...]
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) British Foreign Minister David Miliband Thursday rang up his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna and expressed his sympathies at the suicide car bomb attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul.
‘I condemn unreservedly the awful terrorist attack which took place in Kabul earlier today. Our thoughts and condolences are with the injured [...]
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) India will not be intimidated by the criminal killers who perpetrated the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul and will take all steps to protect Indians, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor affirmed Thursday.
‘India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers. We will take all steps [...]
Hyderabad, Oct 1 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government Thursday ordered the release of 950 prisoners who are serving life imprisonment in various jails across the state.
State Home Minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy told reporters that the prisoners, whose prison terms were being shortened, would be released Friday on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti.
The [...]
Peshawar, Sep.18 (ANI): The death toll from a suicide car bomb blast that tore through a bazaar and gutted shops in Ustarzai, a small mainly Shia northwest town which lies between the garrison city of Kohat and Hangu, has risen to 33. Police sources also confirmed injuries [...]
Srinagar, Sep 13(ANI): A day after the car bomb blast that killed at least three people and injured ten others near the Central Jail in Srinagar, the top brass of the police on Sunday said that the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had masterminded the attack.
“We have some vital clues, we know who has done. It [...]
Kabul, Aug.15 (ANI): At least three people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide car bomb blast outside the NATO headquarters here on Saturday.
The blast comes just five days before presidential elections and against a backdrop of increased violence by the Taliban. More than 100,000 foreign troops are based [...]
