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=> MULTAN (December 07 2007): A number of lawyers, jo

MULTAN (December 07 2007): A number of lawyers, journalists and policemen sustained injuries in a clash at Chowk Kutchery on Thursday when lawyers broke all barriers and moved to Chowk Kutchery for staging a demonstration. The Demonstrators also damaged two police vehicles and slapped on the face of DSPs. Police resorted to baton charge to […]


=> * Businessmen say shops closed after police expres

* Businessmen say shops closed after police expressed ‘helplessness’ * Govt official says militants planned to tighten noose around Peshawar till June 2008 PESHAWAR: Two men were seen busy putting up a white-coloured banner with announcements in blue, green and red to mark an end to the “business of movies” on Tuesday and the start […]


=> MARDAN: Unidentified militants blew up a video sho

MARDAN: Unidentified militants blew up a video shop situated on the Mardan-Malakand road. However, no loss of life was reported. The explosion damaged the windowpanes and shutter of the shop, situated at Mangal Bagh Chowk. Earlier, unidentified men distributed pamphlets in residential areas of Mardan warning people to halt ‘un-IslamicÂ’ businesses, or face consequences. Source: […]


=> PESHAWAR, Dec 3: A CD shop and a barber shop were

PESHAWAR, Dec 3: A CD shop and a barber shop were blown up in the Sheikh Mohammadzai area on Monday, police said. The owner of the CD shop, Daud Khan, told police that they had received threats from some people. Police have started investigation. Source: Dawn Date:12/4/2007


=> MARDAN: Unidentified militants blew up a video sho

MARDAN: Unidentified militants blew up a video shop situated on the Mardan-Malakand road. However, no loss of life was reported. The explosion damaged the windowpanes and shutter of the shop, situated at Mangal Bagh Chowk. Earlier, unidentified men distributed pamphlets in residential areas of Mardan warning people to halt ‘un-Islamic’ businesses, or face consequences. Source: […]


=> BUNER: Unknown miscreants have blown up three vide

BUNER: Unknown miscreants have blown up three video shops in Swari Bazaar by planting locally-assembled time devices that also damaged dozens of other shops in the market. The devices, planted at Mian Yousaf Music Centre, Malik Cassette House and Ismail Music Centre, exploded one after another on Saturday at 10.37 p.m. Large contingent of police, […]


=> PESHAWAR, Dec 2: A music centre was blown up as a

PESHAWAR, Dec 2: A music centre was blown up as a result of a bomb explosion in the Tauheedabad village here on Sunday morning, while another bomb was defused in the Faisalabad-Zargarabad village. Police said it was a mortar shell that rammed into the music centre. It was the second bomb blast in the area. […]


=> PESHAWAR, Dec 2: A music centre was blown up as a

PESHAWAR, Dec 2: A music centre was blown up as a result of a bomb explosion in the Tauheedabad village here on Sunday morning, while another bomb was defused in the Faisalabad-Zargarabad village. Police said it was a mortar shell that rammed into the music centre. It was the second bomb blast in the area. […]


=> BUNER: Unknown miscreants have blown up three vide

BUNER: Unknown miscreants have blown up three video shops in Swari Bazaar by planting locally-assembled time devices that also damaged dozens of other shops in the market. The devices, planted at Mian Yousaf Music Centre, Malik Cassette House and Ismail Music Centre, exploded one after another on Saturday at 10.37 p.m. Large contingent of police, […]


=> KOHAT, Dec 1: Police on Saturday formally arrested

KOHAT, Dec 1: Police on Saturday formally arrested a soldier of the Swat Scouts for allegedly blowing up music and CD shops in Kohat on Friday, reinforcing fears that some extremists and militants had made inroads even into security forces of the country. Jan Mohammad, a soldier of the Swat Scouts currently serving at the […]


CD businesses shut down in Karkhano Market

* Most market owners asking shopkeepers to wind up CD business owing to fears of bomb blasts PESHAWAR: Most of the shopkeepers, previously dealing in CDs, have switched over to other businesses while some of the Afghan businessmen have migrated to Afghanistan, shopkeepers in the Karkhano Market told Daily Tunes on Sunday. Fearing attacks from […]


Threats force closure of 60 CD shops

Owners of at least 60 shops dealing in CDs, VCSs and other ‘objectionable’ items closed their business in the Karkhano Bazaar on the Torkham Road, Peshawar after they received warnings from militants. The Karkhano Bazaar, having some 25 plazas, is famous for smuggled foreign goods. According to shopkeepers, they had received threatening letters in October […]


Three video shops blown up in Swabi, Mardan

Three video shops were blown up near Mardan and a bomb went off near Chota Lahor police station in Swabi on November 23, 2007. Police sources said a homemade device had been used in the explosion at Chamdheri village in the suburbs of Mardan on Friday night which destroyed three video shops and damaged two […]


Net cafes shut down in Peshawar

The local police have closed five net cafes in the capital of North Western Frontier Province of Pakistan on Thursday while four net cafes were also ordered to shut down earlier on Wednesday. According to press reports, Peshawar police said that the net cafes had not been closed but asked to remove the cabins due […]