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The 2023 Peshawar mosque bombing was a terrorist attack that killed 84 people on 30 January 2023, at around 1:30 p.m. PKT, in the city of Peshawar, in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The mosque is located inside a high-security compound that includes the headquarters of the provincial police force and a ...
The Blast. On May 18, 2023, around 7:31 pm, a blast happened in Peshawar close to the Ring Road. The Peshatakara police station has jurisdiction over the explosion. Three people were hurt in the explosion, which was caused by a bomb placed inside a motorbike, and one person died. The Hayatabad Medical Complex received the injured patients right ...
2022 Peshawar mosque attack. On 4 March 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province attacked a Shia mosque at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The suicide attack, carried out by an Afghan man who was a long-term resident of Pakistan, killed at least 63 people and injured another 196.
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shopkeeper Karim Khan According to the North West Frontier Province's information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, most of the victims were women and children, in the woman-exclusive Peepal Mindi shopping section of Peshawar. The blast originated from a car bomb parked outside of the city's Meena Bazar. The bomb was said to contain 150 kilograms (330 lb) of explosives, according to bomb squad ...
The Pearl Continental hotel bombing occurred on 9 June 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan, in which 17 people were killed and at least 46 people injured. The blast occurred at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in the city. The force of the explosion caused the hotel to partially collapse. [3]
20 January – A bomb blast derailed a passenger train in Peshi, Kachhi District, Balochistan, injuring eight people. [10] 30 January – 2023 Peshawar mosque bombing. 31 January – A police station in Mianwali, Punjab, came under a gun attack by a group of militants. Police said that the attack was repulsed.
Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2014. Taliban attackers' brazen assault on a school in Pakistan's Peshawar city that claimed the lives of over 150 pupils today has brought back chilling memories of a similar bloodbath in Russia in 2004 when Chechen rebels stormed a school.