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President Arif Alvi and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called for those responsible for the attack to be punished. [4] Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and senior Shiite leader Inayat Hussain Toori also condemned the attack. [1] [7] On 5 May, thousands of mourners attended the victims' mass funeral and rallied against the ...
Protesters in Parachinar set ablaze two police checkpoints. [10] Internet was shut down, mobile services were suspended, schools were closed and a severe medicine and food shortage occurred after the attack. [11] Reports emerged of intense gunfire in Lower Kurram Agency between the Alizai and Bagan tribes. [9] [12]
Additional Army troops have been moved in Parachinar to enhance its security while FC troops are being beefed up on Pak-Afg border to seal it effectively. Toori Razakars are also being dovetailed on check posts. [1] Safe city project for Parachinar by installing CCTV cameras in line with the ones in Lahore and Islamabad will be undertaken. [1]
On 21 January 2017, a bomb was detonated at a vegetable market in Parachinar, in the Kurram Valley of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. At least 25 people were killed and 87 injured by the explosion. [5] [6] Parachinar is the administrative headquarters of the Kurram Agency near the Afghan border. [7]
The conflict began on May 4, 2023, when a school shooting took place at a high school in Tari Mangal, killing seven people, including five teachers and two labors, [3] According to Deputy Commissioner Saiful Islam, the teacher who died in the initial attack was a Sunni Muslim, while those targeted in the subsequent shooting at the school were ...
On 31 March 2017, a car bombing took place at a market in Parachinar, northwest Pakistan. [2] The bombing was believed to be motivated by sectarianism, as the majority of the area's residents are Shia Muslims. At least 24 people were killed and more than 70 injured as a result of the blast.
The 2013 Parachinar bombing was a bombing incident that occurred in Parachinar, Pakistan on 26 July 2013. At least 57 people were killed and more than 100 injured after two bombs exploded on a market in Parachinar a capital city in Kurram Valley and the largest city of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in northern Pakistan on Friday the official said.
The attacks followed earlier blasts that had occurred in Quetta and Parachinar in 2017: Quetta on 13 February [7] and 21 April; and Parachinar on 21 January and 31 March. [8] In response to these and other attacks , the Pakistani military had launched Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad in February which aimed to eliminate the "residual/latent threat of ...