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Peshawar

Type: City
Name: Peshawar
Country: Pakistan
Latitude: 34.009998
Longitude: 71.540001
population: 1,219,248
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 51 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
A suicide bomber killed 19 people yesterday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.The bombing was the seventh attack ... [Taipei Times Online - 19 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 42 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Suicide bomber hits PeshawarSTORY HIGHLIGHTSAttack is seventh deadly explosion around Peshawar in less than two weeksBlast occurs when judicial compound is normally crowdedThere are at least three police and military police checkpointsIslamabad, Pakistan ... [CNN - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 47 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
A suicide bomber killed 19 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.The bombing was the seventh attack ... [3 News - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Targeting a top al-Qaeda commander, a US drone fired missiles at a hideout in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region killing eight militants, most of them foreigners, even as a bomb packed with steel pellets left at least three policemen dead in P ... [Indian Express - 13 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 3 Documents
‘Victims are pouring in almost daily now. We start our day with prayers that may Allah spare us from tragedy,’ says Arif. —AFP PhotoPESHAWAR: Doctors and nurses battle round the clock to save lives in Pakistan’s war against the Taliban, threatened with ... [DAWN Group - 21 hours ago]
First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Peshawar: At least three policemen were killed and seven injured when unidentified assailants targeted a security vehicle with a roadside bomb here today, a day after a suicide attack outside a court complex claimed 19 lives amid an anti-Taliban offensive ... [DNA India - 15 hours ago]
First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
A SUICIDE bomber struck a court in Peshawar Thursday killing 16 people, the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops press a major anti-Taliban offensive.The bomber hit at the main gate of the building, near the five-star Pearl ... [Eastern Eye - 7 hours ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 4 hours ago - 2 Documents
Death toll hits three as two more cops dieBy Javed Aziz KhanPESHAWAR: The death toll in the bomb attack on police party in Yakatoot rose to three after a sub-inspector and another cop succumbed to injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) on Friday ... [The News International - 4 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 Documents
PESHAWAR (SANA): A suicide bomber on Thursday attacked the judicial complex on Khyber Road killing 19 persons including three policemen and injuring 45 others in a deadly blast that damaged most of the buildings.Senior minister NWFP Bashir Ahmad Bilour ... [South Asian News Agency - 21 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and injured 36 others in the Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, officials and hospital sources said. A member of security force inspects a damaged car at the blast scene in Peshawar, northwest ... [VietNamNet Bridge - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Bhatt seeks PM interventionNational Solar Mission approved by cabinet Sugarcane prices: PM holds emergency meeting State dinner to reflect Obama's personal style and taste India in talks with Sri Lanka to bring back prisoners: Krishna Sheikh Hasina chosen ... [Deccan Herald - 11/19/2009]
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First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents
KABUL - Newly inaugurated Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged to tackle corruption and said his country's security forces should be ready to take over security from foreign forces within his new five-year term.- - - -PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber ... [Forbes.com - 11/19/2009]

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The statement referred to the seven separate terrorist attacks in Peshawar in less than two weeks and noted that, "all the attacks targeted innocent civilians and public buildings and claimed lives of innocent people. It is known that such kind of attacks would not deter Pakistan's fight against terrorism."
...where according to the victim's brother Mir Hamza, his 35-year-old sister Chand Bibi was hanging cloths on the roof of his house in Sikandarabad. "While standing on the roof, she suddenly got hit by a stray bullet. She was immediately rushed to Civil Hospital, Karachi (CHK) where she succumbed to her injuries while receiving medical treatment" Hamza told the police...
"If you look at Peshawar, it's a hub for dozens of smaller towns," said Imtiaz Gul, a security analyst based in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. "To create a scare, the easiest place to hit is Peshawar. What you need is penetration into the militants' networks in the suburbs, and that's missing right now. We don't have the required intelligence resources. There have been arrests, but that's not enough."
Eight suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan this month alone -- six of them in Peshawar -- have killed 110 people. "It was a remote-controlled bomb. Two policemen died on the spot, while a third has succumbed to his injuries a short while ago" police official Mohammad Haroon told Reuters

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One hurt in rocket attack on NGO office in Pesh... [The News International - 18 mins ago]
Bomb blast injures one in NW Pakistan's Peshawar [Xinhua News Agency - 25 mins ago]
NWFP fighting war of country's survival: Shahbaz [The News International - 1 hour ago]
USC offers Eid package, doubles sugar supply to... [The News International - 1 hour ago]
Peshawar hospital experiences war-time crisis, ... [Oman Tribune - 2 hours ago]
Foreign Ministry Condemns Bloody Attack in Pesh... [Turkish Weekly - 2 hours ago]
Policeman killed, SHO wounded [The News International - 3 hours ago]
Attack on policemen in Peshawar [The News International - 4 hours ago]
PC hotel refutes employees' termination charges [The News International - 4 hours ago]
O Peshawar! [The News International - 4 hours ago]
Attacks kill 22 in Peshawar [Individual.com - 5 hours ago]
Suicide bomber kills 16 in Peshawar [Eastern Eye - 7 hours ago]
Jonathon Narvey: Aiding and abetting the Taliban [National Post - 8 hours ago]
Report warns of Pakistan's younger generation l... [Guardian.co.uk - 8 hours ago]
'US strike' kills eight in Pakistan [The Age - 9 hours ago]
Pakistan: Death toll of police van attack rises... [Muslim News - 9 hours ago]
Pakistan: 17 die, 46 hurt in Peshawar suicide b... [Muslim News - 9 hours ago]
NFC to come out with a good decision on Award: ... [Business Recorder - 10 hours ago]
NA (NA condemns terror attacks in Peshawar, Bannu) [Individual.com - 11 hours ago]
Suspected US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan [AFP via Yahoo! - 11 hours ago]
CIA's Panetta arrives in Pakistan [UPI - 11 hours ago]
Lahore lawyers condemn suicide blasts [Sify - 12 hours ago]
Suicide bomb attack at Pakistan court kills 15 [Arab Times - 12 hours ago]
Peshawar: Suspected US strike on al-Qaeda kills... [Daily Telegraph Australia - 12 hours ago]
Suspected US strike kills eight [Sky News Australia - 13 hours ago]
Daily brief: at least 16 dead after suicide bom... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 13 hours ago]
US drone attack kills 8 militants; 3 cops die i... [Indian Express - 13 hours ago]
Three policemen killed, 7 injured in Peshawar b... [DNA India - 15 hours ago]
Pakistani court seeks report on US agency Black... [Sify - 15 hours ago]
Pakistan: 8 Militants Killed In Reported US Strike [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 15 hours ago]
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The NEFA Foundation has obtained a transcript of a video message from Shaykh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid (a.k.a. “Shaykh Saeed”) titled ““Blackwater and the Peshawar Bombings”. ...
2 Bombings Rock Peshawar: Karzai Inaugurated [Informed Comment - 23 hours ago]
Two bombs rocked the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday. The first, in the morning, targeted the city's courthouse. The suicide bomber, wearing ...
Suicide bomber kills 19 outside Peshawar courth... [The Long War Journal - 11/19/2009]
A suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis and wounded 50 more in an attack outside of the Peshawar judicial complex. The strike is the latest in the Taliban's suicide ...
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Deadly bomb strikes Peshawar - 19 Nov 09 [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
Deadly blast in Pakistan [CNN International - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
Deadly blast in Pakistan [CNN.com - Video - 11/19/2009]
Deadly Courthouse Bombing in NW Pakistan [Associated Press - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
Pakistan's intensifying insurgency [Reuters Video: Top News - 11/19/2009]
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