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| Explosion in Peshawar; DSP escapes unhurt |
| 2009-12-20 |
| [Dawn] A DSP escaped unhurt in an explosion in Peshawar's Afridiabad area on Saturday. Meanwhile, authorities also arrested a suspected militant commander named Zahidur Rehman from the Peshawar airport while he was trying to escape to Dubai Police said a remote-controlled bomb planted on the roadside went off as the police mobile drove by. The explosion partially damaged the vehicle of DSP Gulbahar Khan. No casualties were reported and ambulances and a bomb disposal squad rushed to the site soon after the blast. According to DSP Bomb Disposal Squad, Tanveer Khan, 700 grams of explosives were used in the blast. Three suspects were also arrested from the scene. Afridiabad is a sensitive area where a radio transmission centre and JUI-F's NWFP secretariat is located. Police said this was the second such attack in the area in the past two days. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 OOOPSIES, forgot SAME > VIDEO NEWS - THERE WILL BE REVOLUTION, in PAKISTAN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-20 19:17 |
| #1 PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN IN CRSIS AS "CREEPING COUP" UNFOLDS [Arrest of PAK Interior Minister sought]; + IMPLICATIONS OF THE HEADLEY CASE [US-PAK-INDIA relations]. versus SAME > PETRAEUS: PAK ARMY NOT PLANNING COUP. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-20 19:15 |