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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]
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 ...
In the Parachinar bombing of 16 February 2008, a suicide bomber in Parachinar, Pakistan killed 70 people and injured 110 attending a political rally for the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party. [2] The attack occurred on the eve of the 2008 Pakistani general election to be held on 18 February when an explosives-laden car was rammed into the ...
The KP interim Chief Minister, Mohammad Azam Khan, blamed the shooting on a land dispute.Upper Kurram District Police Officer Muhammad Imran responded to the incident by implementing security measures, closing down traffic, and starting talks with tribal chiefs to get things back to normal.
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 ...
Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline as the Israel-Hamas war enters a fifth day. Palestinian civilians were scrambling to find safe havens on Wednesday morning (11 October) as Israel stepped up a ...
Clashes broke out in Parachinar after armed gunmen opened fire inside a Sunni mosque on 16 November, killing at least 10 people. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] The attack triggered a renewed conflict between Sunni and Shia fighters in Kurram, with 30 people being killed and over 100 being injured by the end of 17 November. [ 31 ]