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"The bus was carrying around 40 people, most of them government employees, from Peshawar to Charsadda when a huge blast took place inside the bus at Daudzai area of Peshawar. I believe the bomb was planted inside the bus," senior police Tahir Ayub told NBC News.
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He said the dead included four women and two children.
Dr. Rahim Jan, chief administrator of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, said the injured had been moved to the hospital and 15 were in critical condition.
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Peshawar borders Pakistan's semi-autonomous ethnic Pashtun regions along the Afghanistan border. Islamist militants have found refuge there despite a series of military offensives over the past few years.
Pakistan's decision to convict a doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was met with outrage in the U.S. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
The Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan Taliban, al-Qaida and affiliated militant groups are entrenched in the tribal regions and take advantage of the porous border to launch attacks against NATO and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.
NBC News' Mushtaq Yusufzai in Pakistan and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Let's see if the person(s) responsible apologizes. Isn't that the politically correct thing to do?
When the earthquake happened, we gave aid; when the flood happened, we gave aid; when the bomb blasted, we had nothing to do with it. Pakistan, your enemy is inside you. Don't be like a patient dying of cancer who is angry with the surgeon who is trying to remove the tumor.
If Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, invented by the British, are in map, it is due to the US and allies.
But half of NATO forces deaths are due to Pakis, our "trusted" and "valued" ally!
Both of them are responsible Islamic radicalism and terrorism and 80 percent of world problems. Saudis are responsible for economic mess through their Iraqi wars.
Can there be more ungrateful people on earth?
They sure love to blow each other and everyone else out there. Thank God there's safety in numbers.
Sounds to me like Allah has just about had it with Pakistan!
"The Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan Taliban, al-Qaida and affiliated militant groups are entrenched in the tribal regions and take advantage of the porous border to launch attacks against NATO and Afghan forces in Afghanistan."
This is the payback from the ally for the all eonomic and military aid.
Pakis and Saudis invented their Frankenstein monsters of militant groups. They exported them globally too.
Now Pakis are reaping what they sowed.
Just wait and watch. There will be bloody sectarian and tribal civil wars, which even the US and allies can't caliberate/meddle.
Gee and Pakistan is surprised by this why?
This is what you get for supporting and harboring terrorists.
didn't know Bin Laden was in Abbottabad my @ss.