Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 76 people were killed and more than 160 injured in three powerful explosions in Pakistani cities Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35 people. This is the largest number of killings in a day after 117 people died in a [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 73 people were killed and more than 150 injured in a blast that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community near Meezan chowk in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, media reports said. Bomb disposal squad officials confirmed that the blast was caused by a suicide [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – The banned radical group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Friday claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide bomb attack in Quetta city, Xinhua reported. At least 54 people were killed and over 100 injured in the attack. The Punjab-based Sunni group, founded in 1996, also revealed the identity of the bomber, named Rashid Moaawia, 22. He [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 54 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a blast that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community near Meezan chowk in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, media reports said. Bomb disposal squad officials confirmed that the blast was caused by a suicide [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack in Quetta city that left 40 people dead and over 100 injured. Gilani ordered an immediate probe into the attack, Xinhua reported. Quetta is the capital city of southwestern Balochistan province. The bomber blew himself up among thousands [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 43 people were killed in powerful explosions in three different cities in Pakistan Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35 people. In Quetta, capital of Balochistan provice, at least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a powerful blast ripped through a Shia procession in Pakistan’s Quetta city Friday, two days after a similar attack killed 35 people in Lahore. Panic gripped Quetta after the blast as rescue workers shifted the dead and injured to [...]
Islamabad, Sep 3 – At least 13 people were killed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community in Pakistan’s Quetta city Friday, media reports said. The blast took place near Meezan Chowk in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. Initial reports confirmed 13 people were killed and over [...]
Peshawar, Sep 3 – Two people were killed Friday in a powerful bomb blast in a shrine for a minority community in northwest Pakistan, while another explosion ripped through a police van leaving a policeman dead in Peshawar, media reports said. Six people were injured in the blast that took place at a place of [...]
Peshawar, Sep 3 – A powerful explosion near a police van in Pakistan’s Peshawar city left one policeman dead and three injured Friday, two days after horrific serial blasts in Lahore killed 35 people. The police mobile van that was on the Ring Road in Achini Bala area on the outskirts of Peshawar was heavily [...]
Peshawar, Sep 3 – A powerful explosion in this Pakistani city extensively damaged a police van, injuring two policemen Friday, two days after the blasts in Lahore that killed 35 people. The police mobile van that was on Ring Road in Achini Bala area was heavily damaged, Dawn reported. On Wednesday, three back-to-back blasts in [...]
Lahore, Sep 2 – Lahore, the capital of Punjab province in central Pakistan, once known for its exquisite gardens and seats of knowledge, has witnessed five terror attacks this year, which left more than 230 people killed. At least 20 powerful blasts have hit the city since 2008, leaving over 425 people dead and 2,000 [...]
Lahore, Sep 2 – A day after three back-to-back suicide blasts killed at least 35 Shias and wounded over 200, the streets of this otherwise vibrant cultural capital of Pakistan wore a deserted look Thursday as residents mourned for the victims of the horrific attack. People in most parts of the city and particularly the [...]
Islamabad, Sep 2 – The United Nations expressed fears Thursday that flood-affected people in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan could move toward Iran, sparking illegal cross-border movements. Baluchistan, which July 22 became the first of Pakistan’s provinces hit by flash floods that have since submerged one-fifth of the country, borders Iran’s restive Baluchistan-Sistan province, where [...]
Islamabad, Sep 2 – Pakistan must not let ‘sworn enemy’ India join the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan gas pipeline project to prevent it benefiting and acquiring more means to ‘oppress the Kashmiri people as well as plot against Pakistan’, an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper said Thursday. Noting that after a long hiatus, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan had revived [...]
Lahore, Sep 2 – A couple and their two minor children and nephew were among the dead in Wednesday’s suicide blasts in Pakistan’s Lahore city. Painter Rehmat, in his early 30s, was part of the Shia procession with his family when three back-to-back explosions went off within half hour. A total of 35 people were [...]
Lahore, Sep 2 – Investigators in Pakistan were Thursday examining the similarities between the powerful triple blasts targeting a Shia procession near Karbala Gamay Shah here a day earlier and the July 1 bombing of the famous Sufi shrine Data Darbar just a few metres away. Two back-to-back suicide attacks had killed 47 people at [...]
Islamabad, Sep 2 – The toll from three suicide bombings in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore rose to 38 Thursday as more victims died in hospital from their wounds, rescue workers said. The number of injured nearly doubled from Wednesday to 300 after officials were able to tally the casualties, who had been taken to [...]
Islamabad, Sep 2 – Pakistan Thursday released another batch of 100 Indian fishermen from a prison in Karachi, two days after it freed 100 fishermen languishing in the port city’s jail, authorities said. Pakistani authorities released 100 Indian fishermen Aug 31 from a prison in Karachi. They were held for fishing illegally in Pakistani waters [...]
Lahore, Sep 2 – A day after three back-to-back blasts by militant outfit Lashkar-i-Islami in a Shia congregation in Lahore killed at least 35 people and wounded over 200, the city in Pakistan’s Punjab province wore a deserted look Thursday while traders have declared a three-day mourning. A mass funeral of the dead would be [...]
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