Price of 20kg flour bag hits Rs3,300 in Peshawar; dealers warn it could soar to Rs4,000 if supply not restored

Taliban launch frontal attack on consulate with suicide car bomb and RPGs. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, April 5, 2010 — -- Pakistani militants launched a frontal assault on the American consulate in the frontier city of Peshawar today, firing rockets and ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A city in northwestern Pakistan observed a day of mourning on Wednesday, a day after a twin suicide bombing targeted a military base and killed 18 people, including five soldiers. A militant group linked with the Pakistani ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 42 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent ...

Omar Mansoor was the leader of the Taliban faction Tariq Gidar and was known as one of Pakistan’s most brutal militants. By Salman Masood The closing of the Pakistani military’s network of colleges and schools around Karachi in the wake of the Taliban ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Anguished Pakistanis searched remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll reached 277 on Monday, while one official replied to the lack of evacuation warnings by saying people should have built ...

On Sept. 29, Naveed Qureshi was sitting in his shoe store in Peshawar’s historic Qissa Khawani market when it was shaken by a huge explosion outside. “All we could see was fire,” he says. “And there were piles of bodies, and body parts, everywhere.”

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Akber Khan is seeing a brisk trade at his restaurant in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. Staff fan skewers of grilled meats and dole out rice and salad. As an Afghan, Khan ought to be leaving as part of a nationwide ...

The Peshawar High Court upheld the Pakistan government's ban on the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and its leaders. The court rejected petitions challenging the proscription, which PTM argued was illegal and violated constitutional rights.