Tag: Nowshera

A police officer involved in anti-militant operations was killed along with his driver on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near his...

A bomb blast at a hotel in Nowshera claimed at least 11 lives and injured 13 people on Thursday. According to a private television...

At least two people including a woman died of cholera on Monday in the Nizampur village of Nowshera District as dozens of others with...

At least two people were injured when a NATO tanker was blown up here on Tuesday. According to police, NATO oil tanker was blown up...

The death toll from the late Sunday night’s suicide bombing on an army-run bakery in Nowshera rose to 19 when a teenage girl succumbed...

At least one person was killed while four others including three policemen injured in two different bomb attacks here on Thursday. In the first incident,...

A bomb attack targeting the District Courts in Nowshera on Tuesday killed two police constables including a female officer and wounded six other people,...

PESHAWAR - A bomb attack on a packed mosque adjoining Akhun Panjoo Baba's shrine in Nowshera district's Akbarpura town, killed 10 people and injured 38 as it ripped through Friday prayers. Hundreds of people were coming out of the mosque or waiting for a charity meal (langar) when the bomb, planted inside the building, went off.
Witnesses described scenes of panic, the mosque's windows and doors blown out by the strength of the explosion and blood sprayed on the building walls.

KARACHI - MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Friday strongly condemned the bomb blast in a mosque near the shrine of Akhund Baba in Nowshera and termed the attack as outrageous.
"Islam is a religion of peace and such a brutal attack in a mosque can only be carried out by diabolical minds that have nothing to do with Islam," said Altaf. Expressing profound grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives in the attack, he prayed for the early recovery of the injured and stressed upon the