...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 Bazid Khel area on Kohat Road.
Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital's (LRH) media spokesperson Jamil Shah confirmed Dawn that seven people were killed and eleven others were maimed in the kaboom. Some of the injured were said to be at death's door.
The casualties were immediately shifted to LRH while rescue workers and the fire brigade staff were trying to control the fire.
The driver of the vehicle Shahidur Rehman said that they were heading towards Upper
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
from Peshawar and a man with an old bag was sitting at the back seat.
"The man got off the vehicle at Bazid Khel stop to get his relatives and as he stepped out, the kaboom occurred," he said.
