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Suicide Bomber Kills 36 at Funeral in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber struck a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 36 mourners and wounding more than 100 in the deadliest militant attack in the country this year. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. The blast near the city of...

Missile Strikes Kill 17 Near Afghan Border in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Three suspected U.S. missile strikes targeting a militant-riddled tribal region near the Afghan border killed 17 people today, including at least two who were retrieving bodies from the first attack, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strikes come in the final days of a year that has seen an...

5 NATO Troops Among Dead in Afghanistan Attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan (Nov. 14) -- A series of bomb blasts and insurgents attacks killed 11 people across Afghanistan on Sunday, including five NATO service members and three Afghan police, officials said. The strikes, which come a day after Taliban fighters stormed a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, show the insurgents'...

Death Toll Rises to 65 in Attack on Pakistanis

QUETTA, Pakistan (Sept. 4) -- The death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospitals, police said Saturday. About 150 people were wounded and some remained in critical condition after the bombing Friday in the...

Peshawar's Women Lead the Way to Recovery

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (July 23) -- A late Sunday morning in Peshawar's main shopping district used to be a place reserved only for the brave or the suicidal. A year ago, when this roiling frontier city was gripped by the savagery of near daily bomb blasts, few people dared to risk their lives for the sake of a new outfit or...

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Pakistani police officers are seen through the shattered windshield of a vehicle at the site of a blast in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 11, 2012.

peshawar News From the Web

06/03/12 KP plans 13 new medical colleges Source: Dawn The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has chalked out a plan to establish medical colleges in 13 more districts and boost the performance of district headquarters hospitals by improving patients' care, officials say.
06/02/12 Taliban Bombs Get Deadlier Source: IPS Inter Press Service In their efforts to kill and injure more people as part of a terror campaign in northern Pakistan, the Taliban militia have resorted to lacing bombs with toxic chemicals that leave survivors with complicated wounds.
06/02/12 Pakistan government urged to shift Shakil Afridi from... Source: New Kerala Dot Com The chief minister of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has urged the federal government to shift jailed Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi to any other place in the country citing threat to the physician's life from terrorists, Online news agency reported.
06/02/12 HEC gets Rs 15,800m allocation Source: Pak Watan Government has allocated Rs 15800 million for Higher Education Commission (HEC) projects in PSDP.
05/31/12 Fewer than 10 US special operations soldiers have been... Source: Daily Times - Pakistan The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against terrorists despite a string of confrontations that have left Washingtons relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Background on peshawar

Peshawar ( Pēx̌awar; Pishōr; Pishāwar; P īshāwar; ) is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as NWFP), and the administrative centre and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

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