KOHAT, Oct 10: Four policemen were injured in an explosion in the Bilitang area and 11 CD shops were damaged in a bomb blast in a market in the Gumbat town here on Tuesday night. An explosive device planted on a roadside near the Government High School in Bilitang was set off by remote-control when […]
SWAT, Sept 16: A music centre and a barber’s shop were separately blown up here late Saturday night, officials and witnesses said. They said that the blast that destroyed the music shop was so powerful that it was heard in areas far away from the Khwazakhela Bazaar. The blast was followed by another explosion, blowing […]
BUNER, Sept 15: A video centre was destroyed completely and more than a dozen shops damaged partially when an improvised explosive device went off in the Pir Baba area in the wee hours of Saturday. Official sources said a time-device exploded with a big bang at about 5am in the narrow bazaar near the shrine […]
Karachi:The Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has taken strong exception to threats hurled against media persons by leaders of political parties and other ‘pressure groups’, over not reporting in conformity with their liking and aspiration. In a statement issued on Thursday, the KUJ vowed to jealously guard the freedom of the press and security of […]
KOHAT, Sept 13: A powerful blast in a market in Bilitang town, 8km from here on Rawalpindi road, destroyed nine shops on Thursday morning, police said.By the time Saddar police and bomb disposal squad personnel reached the Afridi market, six CD shops, a saloon and two tailoring shops were completely damaged. The bomb disposal squad […]
SWAT, Sept 9: A CD shop was blown up by unidentified attackers near the Islampura area in Saidu Sharif late on Saturday night with an improvised explosive device. The blast also damaged some nearby grocery shops. The bomb was planted outside the shop of Gul Shad situated in Fazal Bacha Market. Panic gripped the area […]
**For further information on previous bombings of music and video stores by religious extremists, see IFEX alerts of 28 August, 9 July, and 8 and 7 May 2007** (PPF/IFEX):A powerful explosion in the town of Mingora, in the Swat district of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, destroyed over 50 shops in two […]
MINGORA: As many as forty video shops were destroyed when explosives planted inside two adjacent CD and video markets went off simultaneously here on Friday morning. However, no loss to life was caused as the incident occurred at 4 am when no one was in the market. Eyewitnesses told The News that over two-dozen shops […]
MINGORA: Public transporters in Swat district on Saturday received threatening letters by unidentified people, believed to be Taliban militants, asking them to remove “obscene” photographs and stop playing music in their vehicles or their vehicles would be blown up. The threatening pamphlets were delivered at the Matta Bus Stand here and the short warning for […]
SHABQADAR: A bomb blast damaged a net café in Shabqadar Bazaar in Charsadda district on Saturday evening. However, no loss of life was reported. The bomb that went off at 7.45 pm damaged the café owned by one Arif at Ihsanullah Market. Shabqadar Tehsil Nazim Muhammad Ashfaq while talking to The News alleged that the […]
CHARSADDA- Militants blew up a music centre in lhsanullah Market, on Saturday evening. The music centre was completely destroyed. However, no loss of life was reported. Owner of the shop told TheNation that he closed the centre at 8:00 pm, while the militants blew it up at 8:15 pm, just fifteen minutes after he left […]
LAKKI MARWAT, Sept 2: Police booked more than a dozen people on charges of watching obscene movies following a raid on an internet cafe here on Sunday, officials said. Police have launched a crackdown on internet cafes as part of a campaign to eradicate vulgarity and obscenity from the area. During the anti-obscenity drive a […]
MIRAMSHAH, July 4: Five music shops were burnt in Miramshah Bazaar on Tuesday night in the North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday. Local people said that unidentified men sprinkled petrol over the shops at the main bazaar and set them on fire. All shops were gutted. Militants had warned cassettes and CD shop owners in the […]
Two video shops were destroyed and 10 others were damaged when a bomb exploded in a compact disk market in the city of Charsadda, located in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on 26 June 2007. On 24 June, Mishal Khan, the president of the Muttahida Shopkeepers Association of Charsadda, received a threatening letter from […]
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