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    Security and CrimePESHAWAR, September 23: Unknown armed men attacked Afghan consulate in Peshawar, killing his driver while abducted Haji Abdul Khaliq Farahi. The photo shows the body of slain driver. PAJHWOK/Janullah Hashimzada

    4 dead in Peshawar suicide attack

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): Four people were killed and 30 others wounded in a suicide attack on a judicial complex in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, officials said.



    Accidents & Disasters

    23 Pakistan troops killed in accident

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): At least 23 Pakistani soldiers were killed on Saturday when their coach plunged into the Indus River on the main Pakistan-China highway in the mountainous northern region of Gilgit, officials said.



    Security and Crime

    676 Pakistanis missing presumed dead

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): A researcher has declared some 676 Pakistanis reported to be missing in Afghanistan since 2001 are believed to have died there.



    Security and Crime

    Blast kills 4; Christian homes torched in Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): A bomb blast inside a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least four people and injured dozens others on Saturday noon, officials said.



    Governance

    Pakistan, Qatar support Afghan peace drive

    KABUL (PAN): Pakistan has renewed its commitment to stabilising Afghanistan, calling an inclusive intra-Afghan dialogue central to lasting peace in the conflict-devastated country.



    Security and Crime

    45 dead as twin blasts rock Karachi

    KABUL (PAN): At least 45 people were killed and over 135 others wounded as twin explosions rocked Pakistan’s port city of Karachi o Sunday evening. The powerful blasts occurred outside a mosque in Abbas Town.



    Governance

    Ashrafi does U-turn on Afghan suicide attacks

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): A top Pakistani religious scholar on Sunday did a U-turn on suicide attacks in Afghanistan, saying he had been quoted out of context by some media outlets.



    Governance

    Pak elders move to initiate talks with Taliban

    KABUL (PAN): Top administrators of all tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan have been directed to supports a tribal jirga to pave the way for peace parleys between the government and the Taliban, reports said on Saturday.



    Security and Crime

    Reporter gunned down in Balochistan

    KABUL (PAN): A senior Pakistani journalist was gunned down in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern province of Balochistan on Friday evening.



    Security and Crime

    4 schools blown up in Pakistan’s northwest

    KABUL (PAN): Suspected militants have blown up four more government-run schools in Pakistan’s restive northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a media report said on Friday.