Source: Chron
Separate blast, U.S. strike leave at least 19 dead
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide bomber bearing a box of sweets managed to penetrate one of the most heavily secured police enclaves in the capital on Thursday, wrecking a residential building that housed anti-terrorism police and injuring half a dozen officers.
Elsewhere in the country, 10 people […]
Suicide bomber hits secured site in Pakistan
October 11th, 2008 Sana · 1 Comment
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Violence spreads across Pakistan border belt
September 1st, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: The Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country’s tribal belt.
The powerful blast left a massive crater in the middle of a bridge in Bannu and left the burnt-out […]
Filed Under: terrorism
Jaipur bomb blasts: four questioned
May 15th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: Telegraph
Four people have been questioned by police in connection with seven bomb blasts that killed 80 people and injured 200 in the crowded markets of Jaipur in India.
The suspects were detained as police sifted through mutilated bodies and the remains of buildings following a series of bombs, which are thought to have been planted […]
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Pakistan stays execution of Sarabjit Singh
March 19th, 2008 Sana · 2 Comments
Source: Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistan has stayed the execution of an Indian accused of spying for a month, India’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, after appeals for clemency to President Pervez Musharraf.
Musharraf had this month rejected the mercy plea by Sarabjit Singh, who was to hang on April 1.
Singh was sentenced to death in […]
Filed Under: Politics
Blast in Pakistan’s Swat claims four lives
March 18th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: Daily India
Peshawar, Mar 12: At least two policemen and two suspected militants were killed in two separate explosions in the troubled Swat Valley.
The police personnel were killed while the security forces were trying to defuse a bomb near a village on the main road through the valley.
“A police bomb disposal unit was trying to […]
Filed Under: terrorism
Officials say attack did not target FBI
March 18th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: Boston
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani police yesterday set up a dragnet after a weekend bomb attack that killed a Turkish woman and wounded four FBI agents among several other people dining at a Italian restaurant in Islamabad.
Investigators do not believe the attack was aimed at the FBI agents, who were among five Americans injured in […]
Filed Under: terrorism
Blast Kills 2 at Restaurant in Pakistan
March 16th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb exploded in the back garden of an Italian restaurant popular with foreigners in Pakistan’s capital Saturday night, killing two people and wounding 11, police said.
It appeared to be the first attack targeting foreigners in a recent wave of violence.
A Turkish woman died in the blast, Pakistani […]
Filed Under: Politics
Bomb at hotel kills 1 in southwestern Pakistan
March 9th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: International Herald Tribune
QUETTA, Pakistan: A bomb exploded Saturday at a small hotel in southwestern Pakistan, killing one person, police said.
It was not immediately clear what kind of a bomb exploded in Kolhu, a remote town about 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, and Ghulam Farid, an area […]
Filed Under: Politics
Soldiers killed in blast
February 14th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: BBC News
Three Pakistani security forces have been killed in a bomb explosion near a military convoy in the tribal region of north-western Pakistan, the army said.
The blast happened near Khair, the main town in the Bajaur tribal area on the border with Afghanistan.
The dead included a senior paramilitary officer, officials said.
The incident comes ahead […]
Filed Under: Politics
BREAKING NEWS:Blast Near GHQ (Rawalpindi)
February 4th, 2008 durrani · 2 Comments
Geo News has just reported (7.35am PST) that a bomb blast was heard infront of National Logistics Cell (NLC) gate near GHQ Rawalpindi. Currently 6 confirmed dead and a number of injured. A military vehicle has also been damaged. Security forces have cordoned off the area. The bomb blast occured when a motorcycle rammed into the military vehicle. Two vehicles and a […]
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Musharraf under pressure as Pakistan police probe bombing
January 15th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: AFP
KARACHI (AFP) — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf faced new calls for his resignation after a bomb killed 10 people in this teeming port city ahead of key February elections.
Filed Under: Politics
26 killed in suicide attack on Pakistan police
January 11th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: AFP
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 22 police and four civilians were killed Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the high court in the commercial heart of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.
The bomber triggered a device packed with ball bearings when police stopped him outside the court, two weeks to the […]
Filed Under: Politics
Pakistan: Bhutto Died of Skull Fracture
December 29th, 2007 Sana · 2 Comments
Source: Associated Press
By Munir Ahmad
The Pakistani government said Friday that Benazir Bhutto was not killed by gunshots or shrapnel as originally claimed but by a skull fracture suffered when her head slammed against her car during a suicide attack.
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