[Dawn] A politician of the opposition in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Assembly on Monday contradicted official figures about the corpse count of All Saints Church, 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.
attack and claimed that twin suicide kaboom had killed 123 churchgoers on Sept 22.
Minority MPA Askar Pervaiz of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
-Fazl told the House that the list issued by the provincial government about the corpse count of church attack was not correct and that total 123 people had been perished in the bombing attack instead of 83 as claimed by the government.
The assembly session has been convened on the requisition of the opposition parties to discuss security situation in the province in the aftermath of twin suicide kaboom attack on the church near Kohati Gate and express solidarity with the bereaved Christian Community.
Deputy Speaker Imtiaz Shahid presided over the proceedings.
Former Bishop Mano Roomal Shah and other representatives of the Christian Community were present in the Speaker's gallery.
A clash between Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
MPA Soran Singh and Pakistain Peoples Party politician Nighat Orakzai disrupted somberness of the floor and turned the House into a fish market.
Both politicians used unparliamentary language as the chair was looking helpless in restoring order in the House.
Soran Singh, who is also a special assistant to the chief minister, blamed that opposition was trying to draw political mileage from current wave of terrorism in Peshawar and had no sympathies with affected families.
He alleged that former information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain and MPA Nighat Orakzai had tried to provoke people after attack on the church.
"They should be ashamed of doing politics over the dead bodies," he remarked. He also accused MPA Askar Pervaiz of exaggerating situation. His remakes irritated opposition benches.