Source: Reuters
By Kamran Haider
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan will reopen a main supply route to Western forces in Afghanistan on Monday, a week after militants hijacked more than a dozen trucks on the road through the Khyber Pass, a senior official said on Sunday.
Most supplies, including fuel, for U.S. and NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan […]

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Source: CNN
Pakistan (CNN) — Iran has condemned the kidnapping of one of its diplomats in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, calling it an “act of terrorism,” an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said.
“Pakistan should do its best to protect foreign diplomats and their residential places,” the spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
At […]

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Source: Guardian
Man and his driver attacked in Peshawar district where many diplomats and foreign aid workers live
A US aid worker and his driver were shot dead in north-west Pakistan today, police said.
A senior police officer, who requested anonymity, told Reuters the man was attacked after leaving his home in the University Town area of Peshawar, […]

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Source: BBC News
A suicide bomber has killed one person in an attack outside a stadium in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
Officials said the bomber walked up to the gate and then blew himself up.
The attack happened as the governor of North West Frontier Province left after a sports tournament. He was unhurt but […]

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Source: The New York Times
In the last two months, Taliban militants have suddenly tightened the noose on this city of three million people, one of Pakistan’s biggest, establishing bases in surrounding towns and, in daylight, abducting residents for high ransoms.
The militants move unchallenged out of the lawless tribal region, just 10 miles away, in convoys […]

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Source: The Economic Times
PESHAWAR/ PAKISTAN: Four people were killed and 30 injured when a car bomb ripped through a police station in northwest Pakistan on Friday, ending a month-long lull in attacks, officials said.
The powerful blast in the city of Mardan destroyed most of the police station, wrecked a hotel and several shops, said local […]

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Source: Reuters
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least three brothers in Pakistan were infected with the bird flu virus last year, and some human-to-human spread likely occurred, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
But the United Nations agency said the deadly disease had not gone beyond the family cluster near Peshawar, suggesting “limited human […]

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There has been a fresh bomb blast in Peshawar today (Wednesday) afternoon! It is unconfirmed if the blast was a suicide bombing or a remote detonation, but it has caused sustainable damage, causing the Gareebabad bridge to collapse! There are no reports about casualties as yet.

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Source: ABC News
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Feb 20, 2008 (AP)
Share Fed up with violence and economic hardship, voters in the deeply conservative northwest have thrown out the Islamist parties that ruled this province for five years a clear sign that Pakistanis are rejecting religious extremism in a region where al-Qaida and the Taliban have sought refuge.
Instead, voters […]

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Source: AFP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Heavily armed Islamic militants took more than 300 children hostage at a school in northwest Pakistan Monday but freed them after tense negotiations with tribal elders, officials said.
Seven rebels equipped with rocket launchers and dynamite holed up at the primary school in the remote village of Domail after a failed […]

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Source: The News International
Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar to be affected
CNG stations in Lahore will suspend their services from Friday midnight to Saturday midnight as part of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd’s load management programme.
The SNGPL had asked the CNG Association to stop the sale of CNG in Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar for 24 hours […]

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Source: AFP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — A teenage suicide attacker blew himself up Thursday at a Shiite mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least eight people and wounding 20, officials said.
The explosion happened days before the start of the Muslim religious festival of Ashura, a traditionally tense time when minority Shiite Muslims […]

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Source: AFP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan— Pakistan’s military said that the death toll from a suicide attack on an army convoy was up to nine, with 23 people wounded.
Sunday’s attack took place in the Swat valley in the country’s restive northwest, where there have been three suicide attacks since President Pervez Musharraf lifted a nationwide state of emergency […]

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Source: Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early Friday at a residential compound of Pakistan’s former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, police said.
The politician, Aftab Khan Sherpao, was not hurt in what appeared to be the second […]

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Peshawar (Dec 17): Female PTI students of Peshawar University staged a protest here to express solidarity with the judiciary and media. Earlier, the administration thwarted plans of holding a peaceful walk on campus by a group of girls numbering about one hundred, when its officials along with police armed with AK-47s arrived at the gates […]

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Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov 7 (PPI) - Continuing their protest for the third consecutive day the lawyers established hunger strike camp at the premises…More

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