Police: Bomb kills 24 in northwest Pakistan market
USA Today - 54 minutes agoA suspected car bomb exploded just outside a crowded market in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 20 people and wounding 55, police said.
A suspected car bomb exploded just outside a crowded market in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 20 people and wounding 55, police said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated explosives near a group of police in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar on Monday, killing three people, police said.
Pakistan's traditionally lavish weddings have lost their sparkle this matrimonial season thanks to rising prices of gold and festive essentials in a limping economy overshadowed by Taliban attacks.
Japan on Tuesday announced $5 billion in fresh aid to Afghanistan even as it plans to bring home refueling ships supporting U.S.-led forces there. The pledge comes just days before President Barack Obama arrives in Tokyo for talks that are sure to focus on the countries' military alliance.
A homicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of police constables in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar on Monday, killing three people, police said.
Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.
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As of Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, at least 836 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Monday at 10 a.m. EST.
Two al-Qaida DVDs found at the home of a North Side man are evidence of his involvement in a plot to kill a Danish newspaper cartoonist, federal prosecutors say. One of the DVDs found at Tahawwur Rana's home features Osama bin Laden and is a testimonial to four jihadi "martyrs," according to a new prosecution court filing. "It is quite clear that the planned Copenhagen attack involved and was ...
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- At least five people were killed and 12 were injured in an explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern town of Charsadda, according to the nation’s biggest ambulance service.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest...
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A suspected suicide bomber struck a police post in Pakistan’s northwestern Peshawar city, killing at least three people in the second attack there in two days.
An Explosion On Tuesday Struck A Congested Traffic Circle Outside Peshawar, Killing At Least 10 And Injuring 30 Others, Police Officials Said.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan police killed a suspected terrorist planning an attack in the capital, Islamabad, as at least 12 people died in a suicide bombing in the northeastern city of Peshawar.
Pakistani Taliban have started a guerrilla war against the army and will wage a tough, protracted fight in the insurgents' South Waziristan stronghold, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday.
A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban, officials said.