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SARAROGHA, Pakistan — Hakimullah Mehsud, the newly anointed chief of Pakistani Taliban comes across as a no-nonsense man. Having taken over the reins from Baitullah Mehsud following his killing, the man appears in a video clip talking of revenge...
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Watch NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar speak to SAMAA about what he thinks the motivation was for the double attack on Peshawar's Ring Road Thursday night. One policeman was killed and fourteen people were injured. (June 11, 2009) Part 1 of 3
Tags: Pakistan Taliban, Pearl Continental Hotel, suicide attack, ring road, Peshawar
Abdullah Azzam Shaheed Brigade, an al-Qaeda-linked group, claimed responsibility for the bombing. A spokesman of the organisation said the prime target of the attackers were US agents using the hotel as headquarters. According to a report, the hotel was...
Foreign missions have suspended their activities in Peshawar following Tuesday's suicide attack on the five-star hotel while six more bodies were retrieved from the rubble on Wednesday, raising the death toll to 17...Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour...
Tags: Peshawar, Pakistan, Pearl Continental Hotel, Taliban, U.N.
SAMAA VIDEO - SAMAA has acquired the closed-circuit camera footage from the Pearl Continental Hotel bomb blast Tuesday, showing the double-cabin van drive through to the parking lot. This van was detonated with 500kg of explosives, killing 16 people,...
Tags: Peshawar Police, terrorists, northwest Pakistan, Pearl Continental Hotel, luxury hotel, suicide attack, star pearl, truck bomb, star hotel, Taliban
SAMAA VIDEO - SAMAA captures footage of the destruction Tuesday night, June 9, after a car bomb went off at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, NWFP. Sixteen people were killed, including three non-Pakistanis. (June 10, 2009)
Tags: Peshawar Police, NW Pakistan, Pearl Continental Hotel, hotel blast, luxury hotel, suicide attack, pakistan hotel, gunmen stormed, star pearl
A bomb-laden vehicle rammed a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, including two foreigners, officials said. As many as 50 people were wounded when terrorists bombed the Pearl Continental hotel, a popular...
Tags: Pakistan, Pearl Continental Hotel, Peshawar, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Filipina Unicef, Yousuf Raza Gilani