News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| about 1 month ago
A suicide car bomb tore through a bustling market in the northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday, killing at least 49 people in what appeared to be the Pakistani Taliban's latest broadside against a government that says it is preparing a significant...
News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 month ago
The midday blast came just a day after a bomb near the Indian embassy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killed 17 people...We know for certain this attack has been carried out by the Taliban...We don't need to have them claim responsibility," a senior...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, blamed Friday's attack on the Taliban and said that the fighters had left the government "no other option" but to hit back. "We will have to proceed," he told a local television station. Later, Malik told...
News Source: Pakistan Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
Federal Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour has said that today’s suicide blast could be a reaction to the recent attack near Indian embassy in Kabul. Talking to media here at Lady Reading Hospital on the occasion of enquiring the health of...
News Source: Jang.com.pk
| about 1 month ago
Minister for Interior Rehman Malik said on Friday that an operation against the militants in the South Waziristan Agency (SWA) would be launched in a few days. �We have to start an operation against them in the next few days,� Malik said while...
News Source: pakistantimes
| about 1 month ago
UN chief Ban Ki-moon sharply condemned the suicide bomb attack that left at least 50 people dead and more than 100 injured in a packed market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar Friday. "The secretary general condemns, in the strongest possible terms,...