Bomb blast kills eight in northwest PakistanPESHAWAR - At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured Tuesday in a bomb blast in this northwestern city of Pakistan, Geo TV reported. Three-day mourning announced over Pakistan lawmaker’s deathPESHAWAR - The chief minister of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province has announced a three-day mourning over death of a fellow lawmaker in a bomb blast Wednesday, a media report said. Taliban trains its fighters in Pakistan’s Swat ValleyPESHAWAR - Peuchar is a little-known place high up in restive Swat Valley in Pakistan’s part of the Koh Hindu Kush range, but its rugged mountain terrain and dense pine forests make it a perfect hiding place for local Taliban fighters and their occasional Al Qaeda visitors. Pakistan’s Pashtu artists flee Taliban repressionPESHAWAR - When his captors released famous Pashtu comedian Alamzeb Mujahid after a week of horror and humiliation in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s conflict-ridden North West Frontier Province, they gave him the lone choice of abandoning showbiz. Earthquake jolts northwestern PakistanPESHAWAR - An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted northwestern Pakistan Sunday morning, but there was no report of casualty or damage to property, according to a media report. |