PESHAWAR, KOMPAS.com – Several suspects have been arrested in connection with Monday’s (30/1/2023) suicide bombing at a mosque in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The bomb killed more than 100 people, according to local authorities. More arrests will be made after a major police investigation into the attack which injured 217 others, said Peshawar … Read more
EPA NOS News•today, 19:05 Yesterday’s suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar is one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in years. Many police officers are among the victims. The terrorist organization Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) is held responsible, but the organization itself denies any involvement. Since the TTP ended a ceasefire with the Pakistani … Read more
Abu Dhabi: UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s visit to Pakistan has been postponed. The revised date of the visit has not been announced yet. The official confirmation is that the visit to Pakistan has been postponed due to bad weather. The visit was planned with the aim of strengthening the UAE’s bilateral … Read more
Islamabad – Bomb explosion that shook a mosque filled with pilgrims in Peshawar, Pakistanconfirmed caused by suicide bomb. The death toll from the bomb blast increased to 59 people, half of whom were local police personnel. As reported ReutersTuesday (31/1/2023), Pakistan Police said that a suicide bomber walked past a number of barricades guarded by … Read more
AFP NOS News•yesterday, 19:11 John Jonker political reporter John Jonker political reporter The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is busy with the consequences of a protest in The Hague in which pages were torn from a Koran. There is an outrage in Islamic countries. The consulate-general in Istanbul has now even been closed to the public … Read more
Al-Marsad newspaper: Today, Monday, the Pakistani police announced that an explosion occurred in a mosque in the city of Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan, confirming that part of the building had collapsed, while some people were still under the rubble. A Pakistani official said that the suicide attack in a mosque in the city … Read more
More than 50 people were killed in two separate accidents in Pakistan on Sunday. At least 41 people died when a bus drove off a bridge and caught fire. In addition, at least ten children drowned when a boat they were on overturned. The boat accident happened on a lake in northwest Pakistan, close to … Read more
A passenger bus fell into the Lasbela Gorge in Balochistan province, killing 41 people in the crash, the newspaper said. Dawn Assistant Commissioner Lasbela Hamza Anjum. Mr. Anjum told the publication that the bus was carrying about 48 passengers, traveling from the city of Quetta to Karachi. According to Mr. Anjum, the car crashed into … Read more
“The dead bodies are unrecognizable,” said Hamza Anjum, an official from Lasbela district in Balochistan province, where the accident occurred. Anjum said three survivors had been rescued. The bus was carrying 48 people when it hit a pillar before going over the bridge it was crossing, he said. Road deaths are high in Pakistan, with … Read more
NEW DELHI: Pakistani currency plunged against the dollar. The value fell to Rs 255 against the dollar. The depreciation came as the exchange rate eased to get more loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It fell by Rs 24 in a single day. The IMF had asked the government of Pakistan to remove government … Read more