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# Peshawar

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2023
Blast at Pakistan mosque kills at least 80 people and injures 150 others
The attack happened during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar.
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'One student jumped out of the classroom through the window. We never saw him get up'
At least 21 people have died following today’s attack on Pakistan’s Bacha Khan University.
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Jan 20th 2016, 2:50 PM
'Still my heart is crying': Devastation and anger a year on from school massacre
More than 130 students were killed in their school by Taliban gunmen.
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Dec 20th 2015, 10:30 AM
School massacre: Devastating before-and-after photos of 4 best friends
“Friends uplift the soul.”
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Jan 16th 2015, 4:53 PM
132 students and 9 staff slaughtered in terror assault on Pakistan school
The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation has described it as an “outrage that beggars belief”.
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Dec 16th 2014, 5:20 PM
Police find bullet-ridden body of woman kidnapped after giving polio vaccines
Salma Ghani was taken by five unidentified men from outside her house in Peshawar on Sunday. Her bullet-riddled body was found in a field yesterday.
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Mar 25th 2014, 7:30 AM
Pakistani doctor who helped find bin Laden charged with murder and fraud
Shakeel Afridi was recruited by the CIA to run a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad in hopes of obtaining DNA samples to identify the Al Qaeda chief.
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Nov 23rd 2013, 2:46 PM
Car bomb rips through Pakistani market killing at least 39 people
The bomb caused carnage in the busy market in city of Peshawar, a gateway to tribal regions which are a stronghold of militants linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
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Sep 29th 2013, 7:06 PM
Suicide attack kills eight at Pakistan election rally
It was the fourth deadly attack on politicians or political parties in three days as the country prepares to hold historic polls on 11 May.
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Apr 16th 2013, 5:58 PM
Suicide attack at Pakistan checkpost leaves 24 dead
Suicide bombers attacked a military checkpost in Pakistan’s troubled northwest today, killing 13 soldiers and 11 civilians.
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Feb 2nd 2013, 4:56 PM
Pakistan to decide if girl, 14, needs treatment abroad after being shot in head
Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog at age 11 to describe life as a girl under the Taliban. Her condition is described as serious.
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Oct 10th 2012, 9:40 AM
Condemnation after Pakistan child rights activist (14) shot in head
Malala Yousafzai led a campaign for the right to education for children. She was shot in the head on her school bus.
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Oct 9th 2012, 9:23 PM
Bomb targeting government bus in Pakistan kills 18
Eighteen government employees and other civilians were killed when a bomb exploded on a bus in northwestern Pakistan.
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Jun 8th 2012, 11:28 AM
34 killed in double bomb attack at Pakistan market
The Taliban has denied repsonsibility for the explosions, which injured dozens of people.
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Jun 12th 2011, 11:08 AM
Suicide bomb kills five at Pakistani police building
Five people have been killed and 30 injured in Peshawar, in the latest suicide bomb attack designed as revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden.
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May 25th 2011, 12:04 PM
Suicide bomber kills 31 at a funeral in north-west Pakistan
The blast happened on Wednesday morning and injured more than 30 people according to a hospital administrator.
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Mar 9th 2011, 8:21 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Members of the 31st Dáil get ready for their first day at school; the $250 million ‘sex slave’ lawsuit against American Apparel founder, and the answer to the question that has confounded science for centuries – does Guinness travel well?
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Mar 9th 2011, 8:07 AM
Four killed in Pakistan blast
Three police officers and one civilian were killed in attack authorities say was carried out by a teenage suicide bomber.
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Jan 31st 2011, 3:08 PM