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The Taliban bombed another government girls’ high school in the Landi Arbab area of Peshawar on Monday, police and local residents said. Local residents told Daily Times that terrorists planted the explosives around the school during load shedding, which had exploded at 2am. According to police officials, the blast damaged the walls and windows of the school but the institution’s watchman remained safe. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Minister Sardar Hussain Babak said that the number of schools destroyed due to the massive floods and terrorist attacks had risen to 2,000 and Rs 5 billion would be required for their reconstruction.

Pakistani army soldiers patrol near the U.S. consulate in Peshawar August 28, 2010. U.S. drone aircraft have attacked suspected militants in northwest Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan, killing five people, Pakistani officials said on Saturday. Shots were also fired near the U.S. consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar and an unknown number of gunmen were surrounded in a building but there had been no casualties, authorities said.

At least three persons including two members of Adezai Peace Lashkar were killed and seven others including two minors got injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast here in Mattni Bazaar on Monday evening.

Sources said that the bomb was planted on a roadside and probably the peace volunteers were the main target, as it was detonated when they were busy shopping for Iftar dinner. The intensity of the blast was so severe that it jolted the entire area and caused severe fear and panic among the residents.

The flash floods which caused colossal damage to infrastructure in the country, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, have set new benchmark for future planners.

Experts say that highways, roads, bridges, embankments, barrages, dams and buildings are designed on the basis of 100 years history of floods in a country.

The recent unusual rains and floods have changed these parameters for the reconstruction of the damaged or destroyed infrastructure.

The step-sister of the chief of the ruling Awami National Party was injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, police said.

Gulalai Khan, the step-sister of ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan, was attacked by the gunmen outside her private medical clinic at Karachi Market in the northwestern provincial capital Peshawar this evening.

They found Neelam’s body three days after she and her child disappeared.

She was lying beside the body of her 1-year-old baby, with a Holy Koran in her hands and her eyes still open with terror.

Around 200 armed militants stormed the Achini police post jointly manned by the Peshawar Police and the Frontier Constabulary, killing a soldier and a cop early Monday.

A police official said the militants armed with heavy weapons and rocket launchers attacked the Achini post near Malukabad area of Bara, Khyber Agency. He added that the policemen and soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary fired back, resulting in an exchange of heavy fire. More contingents of police rushed to the spot to push back the attackers and the exchange of fire continued for almost an hour.

The Peshawar police rounded up 170 suspects during search operations.

The suspects were picked up from different areas of the city including Gul Bahar, Phandoo and Chamkanai.

During the raid, the police recovered 10 riffles , 10 Kalashnikovs, 14 pistols and 330 ammunition rounds.

Taliban militants blew up a government-run primary school for boys within the precincts of Urmur police station early on Tuesday, police said.

An official of Urmur Police Station said that militants had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) in the school’s building in the Katako Pul area. The explosion damaged the school’s building and boundary walls.

PESHAWAR: Maulana Sufi Muhammad is being produced before an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) today to face charges of sedition, conspiring against the state and encouraging terrorism.

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