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At least three people were killed as a result of an explosion in the Ring Road area of Peshawar. The police said that the blast occurred in the office of a property dealer on Ring Road. Provincial Minister for Information, Mian Iftikhar had reached the scene just after the blast and confirmed that at least three people have been died in the incident. Talking to media, he vowed to defeat an ambitions of terrorists and said the US should be involved Pakistan in the negotiations with Taliban.

The police here Wednesday foiled a terrorism bid by seizing an explosives-laden motorbike on the Ring Road before it could strike its target, officials said.

Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations), Tahir Ayub, told a press conference that the police had been tipped off that terrorists were planning to strike somewhere in Peshawar. “Acting on the tip-off, we alerted the police. When the cops on the Ring Road signalled a motorcyclist near Achini, he ran away after abandoning his motorbike on the road,” the official said.

The death toll from the suicide attack reached five as another wounded person expired at the Lady Reading Hospital on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old Said Mohammad had sustained critical injuries in the suicide attack on Haji Akhunzada, a leader of the Khyber Agency-based militant group Ansarul Islam, on Monday. Said Mohammad was being treated at the ICU in Lady Reading Hospital where he expired in the wee hours of Tuesday.

The banned Lashkar-e-Islam has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the outskirts of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar that killed four persons, including a leader of a rival militant group. More >

A suicide bomber killed an Islamist militant commander in northwest Pakistan who had escaped two previous assassination attempts, and three other people on Monday, police said.

The attack damaged a house that commander Haji Akhunzada was building in Pakha Ghulam on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan’s main northwestern city that borders Taliban and Al-Qaeda strongholds near the Afghan border.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs Syed Aqil Shah on Friday said the youth have an integral role to play in the development and progress of the country, adding that the government is formulating a new policy for providing the youth with a better future in the province.

Shah made the statement during the opening session of a two-day seminar on the ‘Formulation of a Youth Policy’ at Peshawar’s Archives Hall.

The Federal Government has agreed in principal to rename Peshawar International Airport after the name of Khudai Khidmatgar Khan Abdul Ghaffar alias Baacha Khan in recognition to his services for the Muslims of sub continent and struggle as preacher of non-violence.

The jubilant President of Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan announced this at a public meeting held in connection with the 24th death anniversary of Baacha Khan and 6th death anniversary of Rehbr e Tehrik Khan Abdul Wali Khan held here at Tehmas Khan Stadium.

Seven persons, including four children, were killed and two others sustained injuries when the roofs of two houses collapsed in Mohallah Shah Qabool No2, Namakmandi, here early Wednesday.

Six of those killed included a couple and their four children while one woman died in the second house. The apparent reason for the collapse of the houses seemed to be an explosion caused by gas leakage. However, some police officials and locals said the buildings were in a dilapidated condition.

Six schoolchildren who had mysteriously disappeared from a private school in Rawalpindi on Thursday were recovered from a hotel at Hashtnagri area here on Monday, police said. More >

Pakistan on Monday sternly rejected an American account of a deadly NATO airstrike in November, an incident that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at a post near the Afghan border and severely strained ties between the long-wary allies.

In a terse formal report, the Pakistani military maintained its previously stated position that coalition forces conducting a ground raid in Afghanistan carried sole blame for a clash that it said was “deliberate at some level.”