I am born, raised and educated in Peshawar. No matter, whatever anyone say about my city, it is one of my most favourite city in the world and I feel that I have a very deep emotional attachment to it. I am raised in the cant area around Governor House, Edwards college and RA Bazar [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
