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Pakistan’s Wyatt Earp killed in suicide attack

Sean Ecker — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:39:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Sifwat Ghayur, chief of the Frontier Constabulary in the lawless Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, formerly known as the Northwest Frontier Province, has been killed in a suicide bombing attack while he sat in his truck in busy traffic in downtown Peshawar. His three bodyguards also died in the attack 4 August.The killer, reportedly a teenage boy, [...]

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Security in Kabul high for Karzai swearing-in, Peshawar bomb kills 15

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:31:38 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Hamid Karzai’s inauguration for a second term as president of Afghanistan has come with unusually high security in the capital Kabul, and renewed pleas to step up the fight against corruption, from former US President Bill Clinton and other world leaders. Regular flights in and out of the city have been cancelled, citizens urged to [...]

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Pakistan intelligence agency target of new blast, 10 dead, scores wounded

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:32:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The latest in a string of attacks in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province that have targeted military, police and intelligence services took place early Friday 13 November in Peshawar, where a gunfire was followed by a bomb blast at the Inter-Services Intelligence’s provincial headquarters. Ten people died, at least 60 are wounded and several are believed [...]

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UN workers killed in Pakistan bomb blast

Sean Ecker — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:03:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Updated 10:15 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two UN employees were killed Tuesday night 9 June in a bomb blast that killed 16 and demolished the five-star Hotel Pearl Continental in Peshawar, capital of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan. One, a UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) employee from Serbia, was on mission in [...]

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ICRC looking to set up presence in Mingora, NW Pakistan

Sean Ecker — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:01:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Mingora in Pakistan’s Swat valley again today 3 June to evaluate the needs of the civilian population remaining in the area. Simon Schorno, an ICRC delegate now at its Geneva headquarters, who recently returned from the area told GenevaLunch that ICRC is seeking [...]

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Death toll from Pakistan bomb attacks rises to 15

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:01:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Fears are growing in Pakistan, reports AFP, that a series of bomb attacks around the country indicate that militants are seeking revenge this way for the government’s offensive against the Taliban. The number of deaths from several bomb attacks in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan 28 May has risen to 15. The new attacks follow [...]

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