One Dead In Gunfight In Pakistan’s Peshawar – Police (Nasdaq)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP)–At least one gunman was killed and five others arrested Friday after they opened fire on a police checkpoint in the troubled northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said.
3 killed in NW Pakistan blasts (People’s Daily)
At least three people including a policeman were killed Thursday night in two blasts near a police check post in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to local TV reports. Another 13 policemen were injured in the blasts at the ring road of Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). A large contingent of police was present at the spot following the first …
Pakistan hotel blast toll rises to 16, Taliban suspected (The Times of India)
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: Pakistani police on Wednesday pulled bodies from the charred rubble of a luxury hotel in northwest Peshawar after a suicide car bomb killed 16 people in the city troubled by Taliban violence.
Pakistan widens offensive; US triples aid (The Malaysian Insider)
BANNU, Pakistan, June 12 Pakistani forces stepped up attacks on militants across the northwest today as the US House of Representatives approved tripling aid to Pakistan to about US$1.5 billion (RM5.25 billion) a year for the next five years. Security forces have made progress in more than a month of fighting against Taliban militants in the Swat valley, northwest of Islamabad, and in recent …
Pakistan: Commando-Style Assaults Show Militants Know Sophisticated Tactics (The Huffington Post)
A Pakistani police officer stands next to U.N. car damaged by Tuesday’s suicide blast at the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence Wednesday after a brazen suicide bombing killed 11 people, including aid workers, in what the U.N. condemned as a “heinous terrorist …
a0496 BC-AS-Pakistan 2ndLd 06-12 0212 (The Hays Daily News)
Eds: APNewsNow. RECASTS with blasts; CHANGES overline, dateline from Peshawar, Pakistan. LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say two blasts went off within minutes of each other in two Pakistani cities, killing at least two people and wounding dozens more.
Pakistan widens offensive; U.S. triples aid (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Pakistani forces stepped up attacks on militants across the northwest on Friday as the U.S. House of Representatives approved tripling aid to Pakistan to about $1.5 billion a year for the next five years.
Pakistan Puts Peshawar on High Alert as Suicide Attack Kills 2 (Bloomberg)
June 12 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan s northwestern city of Peshawar was on high alert today after two people were killed in a suicide bombing, the second such attack in two days as the military widens its offensive against the Taliban.
Pakistan Suicide Blast Hits Peshawar Police as Conflict Widens (Bloomberg)
June 12 (Bloomberg) — A suicide bomber attacked Pakistani police in Peshawar last night, the second blast in two days in the northwestern city, as fighting between security forces and Taliban insurgents in the country intensified.
Q+A-What next in Pakistan’s battle with militants? (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (For more stories on the conflict in Pakistan and Afghanistan click on [ID:nSP102615] By Robert Birsel ISLAMABAD, June 12 (Reuters) – Pakistani forces have stepped up attacks on militants across …
