near a house 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.
's Essa Khel Garhi area on Monday killed four women and maimed three others, police said.
SSP Najeeb, who oversees police operations in Peshawar, said that a raid was conducted in Essa Khel area near Chamkani upon receiving information regarding the presence of suspicious persons.
During the operation a jacket wallah detonated his explosives near the house, he said.
Area residents said a few women were present at the house where Koran khwani (funeral prayers) were being held at the time of the kaboom.
Senior official of the bomb disposal squad Shafqat Malik said six kilograms of high-grade explosives and pellets were used in the blast.
Separately, unknown motorcyclists bumped off three school teachers in Kach Banda area of Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
when they were on their way home following school duty.
District Police Officer Iftikhar Ahmed confirmed that three teachers of Government Primary School Kach Banda were rubbed out.
In an unrelated incident, two brothers were killed as rivals clashed in Umarabad area of the Hangu, police said.
A polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination team also came under attack in Khyber agency on Monday. Three people were reported to be injured in the attack in Landi Kotal area of the tribal region.