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Posts Tagged ‘peshawar’

Afghanis Attacking Pakistan

By Haris Hashmi • Jun 19th, 2011 • Category: Politics

A new disturbing trend is emerging and two incidents of similar nature has occurred already.
In one incident, the Pakistani forces killed three militants after insurgents attacked a military check-post in the South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, killing one soldier and wounding two.
In the other incident, the militants stormed [...]



Peshawar Twin Blasts: 34 Killed, 80 Injured

By Mohammad Yusha • Jun 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics

It seems like everyday news. It happens so often that we have become numb to it. Numb to the pain of the family of those killed. Numb to the anger that should arise when we hear the news. Numb to the agony and grief of the tragedy.
Two blasts occurred in Peshawar on Saturday night killing [...]



RED ALERT: U.S. Consulate Attacked In Pakistan

By A Khokar • Apr 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Stratfor Today » April 5, 2010 | 0922 GMT

A series of powerful explosions and gunfire rocked Pakistan’s northwestern capital Peshawar as heavy grey smoke spewed into the sky, according to witnesses and a security official, Dawn News reported April 5. AAJ TV reported that the attackers wore military uniforms and shot rockets at the U.S. [...]



Desensitised

By Chris Cork • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

It was an hour or so later that I came to realise the import of what I had said. There was a conversation with a colleague about the stream of bombings that have hit Peshawar and how we comment on them in the press. We were trying to decide what we should write about a [...]



Doing Business in Peshawar

By Mushtaq Ahmad • Nov 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In Pakistan, almost everyone is aware of the famous Bara markets and the bazaars of Peshawar. People from all over Pakistan came rushing towards the Bara markets and the Peshawar to buy smuggled electronics things, cutlery, and other daily life items.
The food of Peshawar was also relished by Pakistanis. People used to return to Peshawar [...]



Salam to NWFP

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Our army is fighting the terrorists and the terrorists have the advantage to appear, attack and disappear from anywhere, unlike conventional warfare where the whereabouts of the enemy are known. Ironically, due to the negligency and lack of vision on the part of our army and the government, the terrorists have been fostering in this [...]



PTCL Entertainment at PTCL Buzz

By Sumaira Bajwa • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Misc

PTCL has become the first company in Pakistan to provide Broadband services in over 100 cities across the country, whereas before PTCL’s entry into the Broadband [...]



US Occupation of Pakistan: Phase one is complete

By A Khokar • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistanis are watching it happen in the streets of Islamabad. The recurring nightmare has become a grim reality here that after watching last 8 years the horrors of the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and neighbouring Afghanistan, the exterminators and executioners of “war on terror” have finally arrived in The Land of the Pure—-Pakistan. [...]



An Incident of Highly Obnoxious Behavior at Dara Adam Khel Checkpost

By Guest Blogger • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The event took place  in a sequence   mentioned  as  under
(a)  I On 13 June  2009  was  coming   in a public  transport  coach from  Karak  to Peshawar
(b) At  about 17000 hrs, when we  reached  at Dara Adam Khel diversion( Kohat- Peshawar Road  ) we  the  said  coachers stopped for   security check up
(c) During  the  process of [...]



Letter from a Reader

By Guest Blogger • Jul 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The checking of vehicle at  check points near  dare Adam khel ( Peshawar Kohat  Road is  no doubt an  indispensable arrangement  for the sake  of security  and prevention of  terrorism.  However it is often observed  that  some security personal ( both from Army and FC) are so offensive  and humiliating in their dealing and  behavior [...]