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The government of Pakistan is "rethinking" its dependence on China for the loans it needs to complete its Peshawar to Karachi rail project. This is part of a broader pushback on the ambitions of China's Belt and Road Initiative throughout the region.
2018-09-30

Two separate bombings take place in Pakistan, killing at least seven people. A suicide bomber kills five people at the administrative headquarters in the Mohmand Agency tribal district while the other kills two people at a hospital in Peshawar. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claims responsibility for the first attack.
2017-02-15

At least 9 people are killed and 35 injured after a suicide bomber strikes near a security checkpoint near Peshawar, Pakistan.
2016-01-19

At least 17 people are injured in Peshawar, Pakistan, and five people are hurt in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit near the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. The epicenter is in Afghanistan's quake-prone Ishkashim district, a mountainous area where mainly impoverished farmers live in homes made with mud, according to Peshawar District Officer Muhmand Asim Khan. Other details about damage or casualties are not presently available.
2015-12-25

In Peshawar, an unknown assailant shoots and kills Pakistani lawyer Samiullah Afridi, who had defended Dr. Shakil Afridi (in regards to assisting CIA agents hunt al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden), with two Pakistan militant groups, Jundullah and Jamaatul Ahrar, both claiming responsibility.
2015-03-17

A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least eight people.
2013-04-13

A blast near the United States Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 10 people and wounds at least 31 others.
2013-03-29

A suicide bomber kills at least eight people at a political rally in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2012-12-22

A bomb in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan results in nineteen people being injured.
2011-03-25

The Warsak Dam near Peshawar, Pakistan's third-largest dam, is threatened by rising water levels.
2010-08-3