Peshawar
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15 killed, 30 injured in Peshawar bus explosion
World | Mar 16, 2016, 01:45 PM ISTAt least 15 people were killed and 25 others injured when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar this morning.
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Indian lover sentenced in Pakistan for espionage
World | Feb 16, 2016, 11:43 PM ISTIslamabad: Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari, who went missing after illegally entering Pakistan over three years ago to meet his Pakistani girlfriend, has been jailed for three years for espionage.A military court passed the sentence
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10 point factsheet: Check if your child's school safe enough from terror attacks!
India | Jan 21, 2016, 04:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: The horrifying terror attack on Pakistan's Bacha Khan University on Wednesday jolted the entire nation. The deadly attack took 22 lives and sent a shockwave to India.While the attack reignited the trauma of
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Eyewitness account: When the Bacha Khan University came under attack
World | Jan 20, 2016, 07:09 PM ISTPeshawar: Ayat Ibrahim was entering the South Block of the Bacha Khan University on Wednesday morning when she heard the first of the gunshots and huge blasts.Initially, the student, in her late 20s, had no
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At least 21 dead in terror attack at Bacha Khan University
World | Jan 20, 2016, 07:10 PM ISTPeshawar: In yet another horrible attack on students, Taliban militants today stormed Bacha Khan University in Pakistan which resulted in the death of at least 25 people majority of whom were students of the university.The
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Bollywood legend Raj Kapoor's birthplace in Pakistan partially demolished
Bollywood | Jan 17, 2016, 05:30 PM ISTPeshawar: The birthplace of Bollywood legend Raj Kapoor has been partially demolished by its owner here in Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday.Officials of the archaeology directorate said they made an eleventh-hour attempt on
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The Mumbai techie whose love story ended in Pakistani jail
India | Jan 15, 2016, 07:05 PM ISTPeshawar: Hamid N Ansari, an engineer from Mumbai who went missing in Pakistan three years ago while searching for a girl he fell in love with over the Internet, is reported to be alive and
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Pakistan to build 265 km long Peshawar-Kabul motorway
World | Jan 04, 2016, 03:37 PM ISTIslamabad: The Pakistani government has planned to build a motorway from its Peshawar city to Afghanistan's capital Kabul, the media reported.The four-lane road via Jalalabad and Torkham covers 265 km and the land acquisition process
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Pakistan to fight terror to logical end: Defence Minister
World | Sep 19, 2015, 12:02 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan is determined to continue war against terrorism with full zeal till its logical end, Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said.Operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched to eradicate terrorism from the country and was going
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Is Pakistan cinema on the verge of a renaissance?
Bollywood | Sep 13, 2015, 11:27 PM ISTNew Delhi: Over the years, Pakistan's once flourishing film industry has been terrorised into submission. Since 2009, when a spate of Taliban-led attacks on cinemas and movie halls led to a decline in the number
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Pakistan's first indigenous drone kills 3 top militants
World | Sep 08, 2015, 07:45 AM ISTPeshawar: Pakistan's military yesterday deployed an indigenously-made armed drone for the first time to attack a militant compound in the restive northwestern tribal region, killing at least three "high-profile" terrorists, joining a select group of
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Pakistani air force jets kill 31 militants in northwest
World | Sep 03, 2015, 01:01 AM ISTIslamabad: At least 31 militants were killed yesterday when Pakistani fighter jets targeted their hideouts in the restive northwestern tribal region, the military said. The air strikes were launched in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency
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Pakistan to hang Peshawar school massacre plotters
World | Aug 14, 2015, 02:29 PM ISTISLAMABAD: Six militants who plotted and aided Pakistan's worst ever terrorist attack at a Peshawar school are set to be hanged after Army Chief General Raheel Sharif confirmed their death sentences.The men, belonging to the
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Mastermind behind Peshawar school massacre killed in air strike?
World | Mar 23, 2015, 08:26 PM ISTTehreek-e-Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, who masterminded the Peshawar school massacre, was believed to be killed after being seriously hit in air strikes in Pakistan's restive Khyber tribal area over the weekend.Fazlullah, 40, who took over
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Taliban militants storm Shia mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar, kill 20, injure 50
World | Feb 13, 2015, 07:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: At least 20 people were killed and over 50 injured when Kalashnikov-wielding Taliban suicide bombers stormed a crowded minority Shia mosque located in Peshawar's Hayatabad Phase V where worshippers had gathered for the
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Peshawar school attack: Most attackers killed or arrested, says Pakistan
World | Feb 13, 2015, 07:38 AM ISTIslamabad: Most of the terrorists, who were involved in the brutal attack on an army school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar in December last year have either been killed or arrested, the Pakistani army
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Peshawar school attack: Parents protest slow probe
World | Feb 08, 2015, 01:42 PM ISTIslamabad: Agitated over a sluggish investigation process, hundreds of parents and students protested outside the Peshawar school where terrorists killed over 140 students and teachers last December, a media report said Sunday.The protesters at the
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Afghan officials say 5 arrested for Pakistan school massacre
World | Jan 17, 2015, 02:33 PM ISTKabul, Afghanistan: Afghan security services have arrested five men in connection with the massacre at a Pakistan military school last month that killed 150 people, most of them children, officials said Saturday.The men, all foreigners,
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Police to inspect security measures in Mumbai schools
India | Jan 14, 2015, 09:24 AM ISTMumbai: In the wake of the massacre in a Peshawar school last month, Mumbai police have decided to conduct security audits of the schools in the city.Senior police officials will visit the institutions in the
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa offers Rs 10 millon bounty for Taliban chief
World | Jan 06, 2015, 02:47 PM ISTPeshawar: Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province government has announced a bounty worth Rs 10 million for information leading to the arrest or killing of Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, the mastermind of the Peshawar school massacre that left