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VOV News English 36 month(s) ago
The death toll in the worst monsoon floods in living memory in Pakistan has risen to 800, while one million have been affected, a local official says.
Rescuers are struggling to reach inundated areas where transportation and communications have been severed.
Peshawar, the area's largest city with population of three million, is cut off.
At least 60 people have died across the border in Afghanistan where flooding affected four provinces.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister for Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (formerly North-West...
Keywords: FloodsworstNorth West Frontier ProvinceRescuerssheltercut offThe Death
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VietnamNet English 44 month(s) ago
Rescue workers carry an injured man who was injured in a bomb blast to hospital for treatment in the town of Lakki Marwat January 1, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 75 people in a village that opposes al Qaeda-linked Taliban insurgents, police said.
Keywords: attackMilitantsNorth West Frontier ProvinceUp InAl QaedaThe DeathOn Saturday
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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 44 month(s) ago
An Iraqi journalist working for Britain's Guardian newspaper in Afghanistan has been released along with two Afghan journalists after they were held hostage for six days, the newspaper said on Thursday.
Keywords: GuardianNorth West Frontier ProvincepaperAn IraqiHostagesmove inbread
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VietnamNet English 44 month(s) ago
TV grab taken on Dec. 7, 2009 shows people gathering at the explosion site at the Moon Market in Lahore in east Pakistan. (Xinhua Photo)
Keywords: twinfiremarketpeopleNorth West Frontier ProvincePersonsFeared
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VietnamNet English 45 month(s) ago
A member of security force inspects a damaged car at the blast scene in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, on Nov. 19, 2009. A suicide bombing killed at least 16 people and injured 36 others in Peshawar on Thursday, officials and hospital sources said. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)
Keywords: attackSourcesNorth West Frontier ProvincesurrenderA MemberOn Nov
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VietnamNet English 45 month(s) ago
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Photo taken on Nov. 12, 2009 shows a bullet hole on the windscreen of the car where Syed Abul Hasan was shot dead in Peshawar, Pakistan. Syed Abul Hasan, director of public relations in the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, was shot dead in the city on Thursday. (Xinhua Photo)
Keywords: GunmenWitnessesNorth West Frontier ProvinceattackOn Nov
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SaiGon GP English 46 month(s) ago
Militants blew up a high school and a clinic in restive northwest Pakistan on Friday in the latest spike of violence that has left more than 300 people dead this month, officials said.
Keywords: MilitantsSwat ValleyMaulana FazlullahNorth West Frontier ProvinceMingoracrushblow up
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SaiGon GP English 46 month(s) ago
The death toll has risen to 80 after a massive bomb attack that ripped through a crowded Pakistani market on Wednesday, a hospital and local government official said.
Keywords: tollThe DeathState Hillary Rodham ClintonNorth West Frontier ProvincedoctorAfp Photo
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VietnamNet English 46 month(s) ago
Pakistani university students gather and demonstrate after the suicide blast at Islamic International University in Islamabad on Oct. 20, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)
Keywords: South WaziristanThreatschannelNorth West Frontier ProvinceConcernsdestabilize
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VietnamNet English 46 month(s) ago
Security forces stand at the site of a bomb attack in Shangla district October 12, 2009. A suicide bomber killed 41 people in an attack on a Pakistani military convoy passing through a market on Monday as the Taliban claimed responsibility for a weekend raid on the army's headquarters.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Keywords: attackconvoyNorth West Frontier ProvinceYousufSwat ValleyThe TalibanThe Army
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VietnamNet English 47 month(s) ago
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Residents stand in the midst of the aftermath of a car-bomb explosion in Peshawar, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province on October 9, 2009. A car bomb blast on Friday killed at least 30 people in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the provincial information minister and local police said.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)
Keywords: North West Frontier ProvinceattackReportersministeraction
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VietnamNet English 47 month(s) ago
Extremist commander Mohammad Shah alias Maamy was arrested in a raid in Du-aaba of District Hungo, North West Frontier Province, the private TV GEO News reported.
Keywords: Hakimullah MehsudassociatedroneTehreekNorth West Frontier ProvinceAttacksPakistan Taliban