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Race relations on knife edge after three Pakistanis killed in hit-and-run
Police in Birmingham were struggling to contain swelling anger within the Asian community after a hit-and-run by suspected rioters killed three Pakistani young men, two of them brothers. Despite appeals for calm from senior officers, young Asian men vowed to defend their streets once more following an attack which has plunged a community into mourning [...]
Continue reading...7 killed, more than 20 injured in Peshawar twin blasts
11. August 2011
At least seven persons including four police personnel and a child were killed and more than 20 others injured in twin acts of terrorism including a suicide blast at police check post and a planted bomb blast near police van here in Peshawar on Thursday. According to police two female suicide bombers blew themselves up [...]
Continue reading...Drone strikes kill 6 in Kurram Agency
20. June 2011
Two unmanned US drones fired missiles at a car and a compound in Lower Kurram Agency on Monday, killing six suspected militants. Two drones struck in Kharh Dand, a far flung area of the agency, targeting a vehicle and militant training compound. The area borders Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktia. Local officials said it was [...]
Continue reading...Drone strikes kill 16 in FATA
15. June 2011
WANA: Unmanned US drones fired missiles in the Wana area of South Waziristan, killing 10 people on Wednesday, said local sources. Two drone strikes occurred, targeting a compound and a vehicle in the Doogh and Karikot areas near Wana. A resident said two missiles apparently hit a sprawling compound belonging to Mullah Nazir’s group — [...]
Continue reading...Target killings: MQM walks out of Assembly as death toll climbs to 18
15. June 2011
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) staged a walk-out from the proceeding of National Assembly on Tuesday, in protest against the renewed spate of violence in Karachi. Raising a point of order in the National Assembly, MQM MNA Haider Abbas Rizvi voiced serious concerns over the fresh wave of terrorism in Karachi, saying the city had [...]
Continue reading...Armed students attack Liaquat National Hospital
15. June 2011
Armed students attacked Liaquat National Hospital in Karachi on Monday, resorting to heavy gunfire and blocking roads in adjoining areas. According to police, the attack was reportedly prompted by a delay in treatment to one of two injured students admitted at the hospital. The two students were brought to the hospital following a clash between [...]
Continue reading...Blast in I-8 sector of Islamabad
13. June 2011
ISLAMABAD: A blast occurred near a branch of Silk Bank in the I-8 sector area of Islamabad on Monday. Initial reports from the area state that the blast took place in the parking lot of the I-8 Markaz, which is the central market in the sector. 3:15pm The suicide bomber detonated outside the bank when [...]
Continue reading...Twin bombings – As violence continues so does life in Peshawar
13. June 2011
PESHAWAR: It was around 11:46pm when the silence on the sweltering weekend night was shattered by a deafening noise. Death and destruction have now become part and parcel of life in Peshawar. But the positive thing is that terrorism has not broken the resilience of the residents of the provincial metropolis, it does not worry [...]
Continue reading...Suicide bombers – Two reluctant fundamentalists arrested with handler
13. June 2011
KARACHI: Waqar and Arshad are going to sing like a canary. The two young men were so eager to talk that they even gave details of the tea they drank in Waziristan while the Taliban trained them as suicide bombers. And the Sindh Police’s Crime Investigation Department is going to lap it all up. The [...]
Continue reading...Peshawar Cantt blasts – Taliban deny responsibility
12. June 2011
Taliban on Sunday denied responsibility for twin bomb blasts that ripped through a crowded market in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 39 people and injuring dozens. The attack, one of the deadliest in a series to hit Pakistan since US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in May, devastated the Khyber Super Market district [...]
Continue reading...Third drone strike in South Waziristan raises death toll to 19
6. June 2011
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: At least 19 people were killed when three separate drone strikes were fired in different areas in South Waziristan on Monday. The first two strikes were 15 minutes apart. The first strike killed seven militants in the early hours in Shalam Raghzai, 10 kilometres (six miles) northwest of Wana, the district’s main town. [...]
Continue reading...Air strikes target Taliban hideouts, 11 killed
31. May 2011
KALAYA: Warplanes attacked Taliban positions in the northwestern Orakzai region on Tuesday, killing 11 militants, a senior regional government official said. Orakzai is one of the tribal regions along the Afghan border where the army has tried to root out militants with offensives against their strongholds. The strike came a day after newspapers reported that [...]
Continue reading...Seven injured in grenade attack in Kohat
31. May 2011
KOHAT: Seven people including women and children were injured in a hand grenade attack at a house in the Mohamadzai area of Kohat. Eyewitnesses said unidentified people hurled a hand grenade at a house situated in the Mohamadzai area injuring seven people including women and children. The house has partially damaged in the attack. Police [...]
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11. August 2011
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