CHARSADDA: At least 25 people - including women and children - were killed and several others injured in a powerful blast in Charsadda area of Farroq-e-Azam Chawk here on Tuesday.

The place is usually crowded one. The people on their own kick-started the relief activities and rushed the bodies and injured to the nearby hospital.

The blast was so power that the windowpanes of nearby buildings broke and the smoke started billowing from the blast site. A state of emergency was instantly declared in the hospitals.

At least 20 bodies have been taken to the District Hospital and some injured are in critical condition. Some injured were also rushed to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, the metropolis on the NWFP.

Police has, however confirmed the death of 20 people with 30 others injured in the blast. The security was up to the mark at the blast site. A police official says that an explosion rocked the crowded intersection in a northwest Pakistani city taking at least 15 lives with injuries to many others.

This bombing is the third attack in two days in or close to Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Police official Mudasar Khan says Tuesday blast in Charsada city caused panic and threw up huge clouds of dust in the air. The city is some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Peshawar.

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A suicide car bomb ripped through a packed shopping street in a small market town on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people in the third militant attack in northwest in as many days.

The vehicle rigged with explosives blew up in the heart of Charsadda on a road lined with fruit and juice shops, ripping off shop roofs and littering the ground with slippers, human flesh and broken push carts, witnesses said.

It was a terrible scene. There were injured and wounded everywhere, one witness told reporters. I joined the relief and rescue operation and myself removed about a dozen casualties.

Frightened people gazed at the wreckage as the force of the blast tossed signboards and hoardings and damaged cars during the afternoon shopping rush in the most popular market, television footage showed.

A senior police official in the district confirmed the death toll was 25 and that all the victims were civilians who had been in the area was so crowded when the bomber unleashed mayhem at around 4:15 pm. It was a suicide car bomb blast. Twenty-five people died and more than 40 were injured - all of them are civilians, senior police official Liaquat Ali said.

This is a busy area. It is usually crowded in the evening time. It took place in the main bazaar, said district police chief Mohammad Riaz Khan. It was the third suicide bombing in three days in northwest towns.

Another report says at least 24 people were killed and 42 others injured in a powerful car bomb blast at Farooq-e-Azam Chawk in Charsadda, hospital sources said on Tuesday.

The District Hospital sources said that the death toll could rise, as at least 20 bodies were brought to the hospital. Dr Manzoorullah said that at least 24 people killed in the blast.

According to police sources, an explosive-laden car was used for the blast. The blast was so power that the windowpanes of nearby buildings broke and the smoke is seen billowing from the blast site.

The search was underway at the blast site for the people trapped under the rubble. According to hospital sources, the deceased included women and children.

The police personnel put security cordon around the blast site. A state of emergency was immediately declared in the hospitals and the entire staff was recalled for treatment of the injured.

According to hospital sources, most of the injured are in normal condition at District Hospital; however, some injured are in critical condition. At least 11 injured including body of a woman was instantly rushed to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

Yet another report says that at least 25 people were killed and 42 injured in a suicide car bomb explosion at congested Farooq-e- Azam Chowk in Charsadda Tuesday afternoon, said Dr Manzoorullah of District Headquarters Hospital Charsadda. Dr. Manzoorullah said they received 24 dead bodies in the hospital and 42 injured. The condition of several injured is stated to be critical, he added. The dead also include women and children.

Apparently, a suicide bomber in an explosive packed car blasted himself minutes after I passed through the Farooq-e-Azam Chowk on Tangi Road DPO Charsadda Riaz Khan said.

good to see dotheads highlighting the sacrafices the pakistani nation is making on a mainly US fueled, intiated war on terrorism

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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yes i know you feeling good. should i also post a smiley.

good to see dotheads highlighting the sacrafices the pakistani nation is making on a mainly US fueled, intiated war on terrorism
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He very same persons that Pakistan supported (to be used as a tool against US and India) not so long ago are turning against Pakistan.



When I was young I used to pray for a bike, then I realized that God doesn't work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.

"highlighting the sacrafices the pakistani nation is making"

A whore(country) doesnt "sacrifice" anything, she peddles her body for money. Same thing with phuckistan.




colours of Kaziranga

@eric

these tools were used against Northern alliance and not US. Al qaida was never supported by pakistan army, they never trusted the arabs. kashmir free dom fighter still havent turned on pakistan and continue to fight india

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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Eric youe knowledge surprise me.....you are educated enough about Afghan-Soviet war...

PEACE

Although it is safe to say that karma is a b1tch. The same country that turned Afghanistan into hell is effectively getting a taste of their own medicine.

However I cannot sit here and cheer the deaths of the innocent. RIP

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Rumi