PESHAWAR- Patients undergoing dialysis treatment at the Peshawar Lady Reading Hospital contracted hepatitis because of infected surgical instruments.According to an inquiry report issued following the directives of Peshawar High Court, patients were treated with infected instruments during their ...

PESHAWAR/KHYBER AGENCY - At least three people were killed and seven others injured when a suicide bomber targeted Afghan religious figure’s vehicle near a seminary in Peshawar suburbs on Friday.The Afghan religious leader and chief of Jamaatul Dawat Alquran and Al-Sunnah Haji Hayatullah was ...

At least three persons were killed and several others were injured in suicide attack targeting the vehicle of a religious leader at the entrance of the Jamia Uloom al-Islamia madressah (seminary) in the suburbs of Peshawar after Friday prayers.The Jamatud Dawa (JuD) leader, Haji Hidayatullah, was ...

A bomb attack targeting female voters in Peshawar wounded eight people as historic elections got underway, according to police."The bomb was planted on a motorcycle. Several people including police have been injured. The motorcycle was parked outside a women's polling station," Shafiullah Khan, a ...

An early morning blast in Peshawar partially damaged the office of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday.A police mobile was also to pass from the blast site a few moments later.According to the police, militants had planted a 3-kg bomb near a roadside. The blast damaged the wall of PIT ...

Peshawar - Ten people, including son and nephew of ex-deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, were killed and 70 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Peshawar on Monday morning. Security officials said the target was a police mobile van. Qazi Muhammad Ameen ...

A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 45 others when he rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Peshawar on Monday, police said.Two staff at the Afghan consulate were among those killed in the attack, which police said targeted a top civil servant who heads the city's ...

At least nine people including a child and two police officials were killed and 45 others including women and children were injured during a blast at a political rally of Awami National Party (ANP) in Peshawar.The bomb blast took place in Yakatoot, a congested neighbourhood of Peshawar, just after ...

At least nine people were killed and several others wounded when a bomb went off here on Saturday.According to police, explosive material was placed in a passenger van, which exploded near a hospital in Matni Bazaar.The dead and injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, where emergency was ...

At least seven people‚ including 2 policemen‚ were killed in a rocket attack on Sheikh Muhammadi Grid Station in Badabe‚ Peshawar early Tuesday morning.According to police‚ militants fired 7 rockets on the grid station. 2 people died on the spot‚ while bodies of 5 ...

At least 10 people were killed and several others wounded when a bus carrying wedding guests plunged into a canal on Charsadda Road here on Friday. Five women are also among thoe dead.Rescue teams shifted the dead and injured to Lady Reading Hospital.According to rescue sources, most of those ...

PESHAWAR - Senior lawyer Peshawar High Court Malak Jarar advocate was gunned down by unknown armed persons in Gulbahar area while another lawyer was tortured by Gulbarg police in a separate incident.Police said the incident occurred on Gulbahar Road when Malak Jarar advocate was on his way to home ...

DG-ISPR Maj. Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa has announced that operation against terrorists in Peshawar had been cleared; and expressed his resolve to defeat terrorism at all costs.Talking to a private TV channel, he said that many terrorists were present in tribal areas, while a total of 10 terrorists ...

A man was killed when a powerful explosion took place in a scrap heaped on Ring Road area of Jamil Chowk here in Peshawar on Friday.The deceased was a laborer. He was killed as a result of blast of something present in heap while he was loading the scrap in a vehicle.The deceased body was shifted ...

A child was killed and three others injured when unknown miscreants hurled a hand grenade at a private school in Charghano area here in Peshawar on Monday.According to police sources, some boys were coming out from a private school during break time when some unidentified miscreants hurled a hand ...

A US citizen was held at Peshawar Airport after 17 live bullets were recovered from his luggage. According to sources, an American citizen, traveling from Peshawar to Islamabad was arrested at the Peshawar Airport after 17 live bullets were recovered from his luggage. The arrested man, identified ...

At least three people including a commander of banned militant outfit Ansarul Islam Haji Akhundzada were killed and seven injured in a suicide attack in the Pakha Ghulam, a suburban area of Peshawar on Monday evening.Among the seven injured two are children. Five of those injured are in critical ...

The police and sensitive agencies during a joint raid at a house here in Peshawar on Saturday arrested three German nationals.According to details, the police and sensitive agencies personnel team under the supervision of SP Cantt carried out a raid at a house occupied by foreigners located in ...

A police mobile was ambushed by miscreants in Speen Qabar area on Sunday in which a miscreant was killed in the exchange of fire. Police said that police mobile was patrolling in Speen Qabar area which was attacked by armed militants who opened indiscriminate fire at police party with automatic ...

Saving the provincial capital from a possible terror attempt, police foiled a terrorism plot on Wednesday by seizing a huge cache of sophisticated arms just an hour before arrival of the Prime Minister in Peshawar. According to police just one hour before Yousuf Raza Gilani landed at Peshawar ...

At least five people were killed in separate incidents in different areas of the Peshawar. According to police, two people Arshad and Wahid shot dead a man Gulzar on the basis of old enmity in Bhana Mathi area. Meanwhile, the son and brother of Gulzar attacked at the house of Arshad and killed his ...

Peshawar Police carrying search operation in different areas of provincial capital arrested 180-suspected persons including a terrorist commander and also recovered huge cache of ammunition from the detainee suspected. According to details Peshawar Police carried search operation against suspected ...

A bomb blast in showroom located in jurisdiction of Fakirabad police station, Peshawar here on Wednesday destroyed five vehicles while, the police have arrested a suspect. As per details, some unknown militants planted bomb in showroom in jurisdiction of Fakirabad police station. The bomb burst ...

The provincial capital has withdrawn the decision to expel all non-local Ulemas serving in different mosques of Peshawar. In wake of law and order situation in the province, the government of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa had announced to expel all Afghan Imams from the district and had also directed to make ...

The security forces have arrested militant's commander Chota Usman with his seven accomplices during search operation in Mehmond Agency on Monday. According to Frontier Core (FC) sources, the security forces conducted search operation in Mehmond Agency and arrested Chota Usman an important militant ...

Four persons of the same family died of suffocation due to gas leakage from their generator here in Hayat Abad phase III on Monday. According to details, night between Sunday and Monday, an Afghan family switched on their generator due to loadshedding and fall asleep. During midnight the gas ...

Frontier Constabulary Commandant dismissed over 900 FC personnel on refusing to take part in operation in FR Peshawar, a private TV reported Sunday. The FC Commandant Sifwat Ghayyur confirmed that the notification regarding the sacking of 903 personnel from 21 platoons, has been issued and the FCs ...

A lawmaker of the Awami National Party and three others were injured in bomb explosion when his vehicle was targeted through a remote control device on the Ring Road here Wednesday. The vehicle was severely damaged in the blast. ANP MPA Aurangzeb Khan and his three body guards sustained injuries on ...

At least seven people have been killed and more then 49 injured in a suicide attack in central Peshawar on Monday. A suicide bomber struck outside a court in Peshawar on Monday, killing seven people and wounding dozens more in the latest attack, officials said. Bashir Bilor, a senior minister in ...

Minister of State for Shipping Nabeel Gabol said a three-star Indian General planned the blasts occurred in Peshawar last month and RAW agents used kidnapped Afghans for suicide attacks. Indian agents supplied weapons in a attack on Sri Lankan cricket team. Pakistan will inform India and ...