Bomb Rocks Northwestern Pakistan

[Bullhead]

Pakistani police say a bomb exploded in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least three people.

Officials say the blast occurred in the Pakistani city of Charsada, near Peshawar. Details are still coming in.

On Monday, a suicide bomber in a rickshaw blew himself up at a checkpoint in Peshawar, killing three people and wounding five others.

Police say the bomber was likely heading to a more crowded area but decided to set off his explosives when police stopped him.

In other violence Monday, officials said a roadside bomb killed two paramilitary troops in the Bajaur tribal region, while fighter jets pounded suspected militant hideouts in three villages in the Kurram agency, killing eight suspected militants.

Four Pakistani soldiers died in South Waziristan when militants staged a counterattack against Makeen, their former headquarters and the home of Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader who was killed by a suspected U.S. missile strike in August. Government forces took control of Makeen during their iongoing offensive in South Waziristan.

On Sunday, another suicide bomber in Peshawar killed 13 people in a crowded market outside the city.

VOA News - Bomb Rocks Northwestern Pakistan

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Police: Bomb kills 5 in northwest Pakistan
(AP) – 33 minutes ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A police officer says a bomb near a crowded market in northwest Pakistan has killed at least five people.
The bombing is the third attack in as many days in or close to Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Police officer Maazullah Khan says Tuesday's bombing in Charsada city also wounded at least 20 people. The city is some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Peshawar.
Local TV footage showed a destroyed car and several badly damaged stalls and shops. Ambulances ferried the dead and injured to the hospital along roads littered with debris.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A police official says an explosion has rocked a crowded intersection in a northwest Pakistani city and casualties are feared.
The suspected bombing would be the third attack in as many days in or close to Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Police official Mudasar Khan says Tuesday's blast in Charsada city caused panic and threw up huge clouds of dust in the air. The city is some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Peshawar.

The Associated Press: Police: Bomb kills 5 in northwest Pakistan




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Car bomber strikes north Pakistan

A car bomb has exploded in Pakistani's northwestern town of Charsadda killing at least 10 people.

More than 15 other people were wounded in Tuesday's blast.

Malik Naveed, a police chief for the North West Frontier Province, told Reuters: "We have reports of 10 people killed and 15 wounded."

Mohammad Waseem, another police offcier, said: "It was bomb blast. We have sent forces there."

The AP news agency said that as many as 20 people were wounded in the attack, which occurred 20km northeast of Peshawar, and is said to have been caused by a car bomb.

The blast, the latest in a series, comes as Pakistan presses ahead with a military offensive against Taliban groups in most recently in South Waziristan.

Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Car bomber strikes north Pakistan

 

[Absar]

PESHAWAR: A suicide car bomb ripped through a busy shopping street in Pakistan's northwest town of Charsadda on Tuesday, killing 15 people and wounding more than 25 others, a police official said.

DAWN.COM | Provinces | Suicide blast kills 15 in Charsadda

 

[Absar]

It's too bad. May Allah bless the deceased. And bring those idiot barbarians to some sanity. Ameen

 

[Hulk]

God send to hell these idiots. My condolances to families of victims. May peace come to SE Asia.

 

[Pro Pak]

Bloody Hell

What is the Government doing?
They are hiding in there palaces with security up the a$$.

While the innocent people pay the price in blood.

May the dead RIP.

 

[Ahmad]

I jsut saw the latest news on the guardian website, the death toll stands at around 20 with 55 injured. poor people are paying the price.

 

[PeacefulIndian]

Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war - Yahoo! India News

Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.

The army went on the offensive in South Waziristan, a lawless ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border, on Oct. 17, aiming to root out Pakistani Taliban militants behind a wave of violence in urban areas.

The militants have responded with intensified attacks in towns and cities since the offensive was launched, killing several hundred people.

In the latest attack, a suicide bomber in a car set off explosives in a square in the centre of Charsadda, 20 km (12 miles) northeast of the city of Peshawar, killing up to 20 people and wounding at least 30, town police chief Riaz Khan said.

The Waziristan offensive is closely watched by the United States and other powers embroiled in Afghanistan, as the region's rugged landscape of barren mountains, patchy forest and hidden ravines has become a global centre of Islamist militancy.

Soldiers have been advancing into the militant heartland from three directions, capturing a string of important bases and entering the Taliban headquarters in the town of Makeen, the army said.

But Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq played down the militants' losses.

"They are capturing roads while our people are still operating in the forests and mountains," Tariq told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"We have started guerrilla war against the Pakistani army. We've carried out several actions against the army and inflicted heavy losses on them," he said.

According to army figures, 495 militants have been killed since the offensive began while 48 soldiers have died.

There has been no independent verification of casualties as reporters and other independent observers are not allowed into the war zone except on an occasional trip with the military.

"TOUGHER THAN KASHMIR"

Asked earlier about urban attacks, most of which have been carried out by suicide bombers, Tariq said: "Whoever harms our movement will be given a lesson."

The violence has unsettled trade on Pakistan's stock market and the main index ended 1.95 percent lower at 8,762.40 on very thin turnover of 58.8 million shares.

"There was barely any interest as there is a lot of uncertainty regarding security and the political scenario," said Asad Iqbal, managing director at Ismail Iqbal Securities Ltd.

Tariq vowed a long, tough fight.

"They thought they would capture Waziristan easily but the fight in Waziristan will be tougher than in Kashmir," he said.

Indian security forces have been battling separatist guerrillas in the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir since 1989. Tens of thousands of people have been killed.

The military said on Tuesday afternoon nine militants had been killed in the previous 24 hours as soldiers cleared captured villages and secured ridges.

Soldiers found a militant jail near the captured stronghold of Ladha and destroyed some caves, bunkers and observation posts, the army said.

(Additional reporting by Kamran Haider and Augustine Anthony; Writing by Robert Birsel; Editing by Bryson Hull)

Alamgir Bitani

 

[pakdefender]

"They thought they would capture Waziristan easily but the fight in Waziristan will be tougher than in Kashmir," he [Tariq] said.

Right there this bloody dirty cowardly *** gave it away who these SOBs are working for!

KILL THEM ALL!!! JUST FUCKIN KILL THEM ALL!!

 

[Metallic]

Bomb kills 24, wounds over 100 in NW Pakistan
10 NOVEMBER 2009

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants apparently aimed at avenging an army offensive along the Afghan border.

The bombing, aimed at causing maximum civilian casualties, was the third blast in as many days in or close to Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, an area bordering the tribal region where the army is pushing into a key Taliban and al-Qaida sanctuary.

The blast in Charsadda, some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Peshawar, was caused by some 90 pounds (40 kilograms) of explosives stuffed into a van, said the senior police chief in Peshawar, Liaqat Ali Khan. Authorities were investigating whether the attack, which killed at least 24 people and wounded 102 others, was carried out by a suicide bomber, he said.

Rashid Kaka said he was returning from the mosque to his shop in the market when the bomb exploded, destroying stores on both sides of the road and knocking down electrical wires.

"It was deafening and there were clouds of dust all around. I could not see anything around me," said Kaka. "Later I saw many bodies lying scattered."

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi condemned the attack, calling those behind it the "enemies of Islam.

No one claimed responsibility, but authorities have blamed similar attacks in recent weeks on the Taliban.

The insurgents apparently hope the blasts will weaken the resolve of the army, which launched an offensive in mid-October against militants in South Waziristan, the main Taliban and al-Qaida sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal area along the Afghan border.

On Monday, a suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in Peshawar, killing three people. A day before, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a market south of Peshawar, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban.

Less than two weeks ago, a car bomb killed 112 people in a market in Peshawar, the deadliest attack in Pakistan in more than two years.

The government has pledged to press ahead with the offensive despite the assaults. The U.S. supports the South Waziristan operation because Pakistan's tribal belt is home to many militants involved in attacks on Western troops across the border in Afghanistan.

Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister for North West Frontier Province, said Tuesday's bombing was evidence the government crackdown was putting pressure on the militants.

"They are not able to target freely, and that's why they are targeting innocent people," said Hussain. "But we and the people of Pakistan are determined to continue this jihad against terrorists undeterred."

Pakistan's army has pitted some 30,000 troops against up to 8,000 militants in South Waziristan, including many Uzbeks and other foreign insurgents who have long taken refuge in the lawless tribal areas.

The soldiers have been battling militants in three key Taliban bases in South Waziristan over the past few days.

The latest fighting has killed nine militants, an army statement said Tuesday.

The information is nearly impossible to verify independently since Pakistan has blocked access to the battle zone.













Source: Associated Press

 

[S-2]

Good Lord in heaven.

My condolences to the families and friends of these innocent people.

May they find solace and comfort in this hour of loss.

My sympathies for the wounded and prayers for their speedy and full recovery.

May the dead rest in peace.

God bless all of you.

 

[TOPGUN]

My heart goes out to the familes & and dead rest in peace also my middle finger goes out to the f_ken terrorist may they die & go to hell . I hope the army kills all these cowardly bastards send them straight to hell!

 

[Ahmad]

I can feel the pain of these people in pakistan. allah punish all these taliban in afghanistan and pakistan for killing the innocent people.