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| Firing leaves at least eight dead in Peshawar |
| 2013-09-07 |
| [Dawn] At least eight unidentified people were killed late Friday night when unknown gunnies attacked their vehicles in 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. , the capital of troubled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province bordering Afghanistan, said a police official. SHO Badaber Police Station, Abidur Rehman told Dawn.com the incident took place near Gulzar Chowk in Peshawar's Matni area -- a buffer zone between lovely provincial capital and lawless tribal region of Dara Adamkhel. "At least eight people are killed and number of others are inured," said Rehman. He said vehicles travelling to southern districts including a Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -bound Bus on Kohat Road were the apparent target of the attackers. The dead bodies and injured were being shifted to Leady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. Police and other law enforcement forces have cordoned off the area and a search operation to arrest the myrmidons was underway. Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... local residents reportedly came out on the street and exchanged fire with the attackers alongside security forces. The clash lasted for an hour at least. The motive and the perpetrators of the attack were not immediately known. Earlier in the day, at least five people were maimed when a cycle of violence packed with explosives detonated inside the Hashtnagri cop shoppe, located in the centre of the city. More than 40,000 Pak people have been killed in attacks by al Qaeda and Taliban-led hard boyz in the last decade. Washington considers the tribal belt as the main hub of Taliban and al Qaeda hard boyz plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan. |
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