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| India-Pakistan |
| Suicide attack, bomb blast dash peace hopes |
| 2014-03-15 |
| [DAWN] AS people hoped for peace in the wake of a ceasefire announced by Taliban, a suicide kaboom on an armoured personnel carrier of police in a market near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and a powerful kaboom near a college in Quetta left at least 19 people dead and 60 others injured on Friday. The attacks dealt a fresh blow to the process initiated by the government for talks with the bully boys. The TTP distanced itself from the terrorist attacks but an increasingly active Taliban splinter group, Ahrarul Hind, grabbed credit for both the dastardly incidents. The attacks took place on the day a negotiating team nominated by the Taliban reported that TTP leaders had agreed to meet the government's representatives to present their demands. |
| Posted by:Fred |