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| Grenade Attack on Cinema Kills 4 in NW Pakistan |
| 2014-02-03 |
| [An Nahar] At least four people were killed and 31 maimed late Sunday when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades at a cinema in northwest Pakistain, police and medics said. The attack on the Picture House cinema in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the region's main city, took place as some 90 people were watching a late night show of the film 'Ziddi Pakhtun' (Stubborn Pushtun), police said. "At least four people have been killed and 31 injured. Attackers hurled two grenades and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace," Faisal Mukhtar, a senior police official, told Agence La Belle France Presse. A stampede following the blasts was responsible for many of the injuries, Mukhtar added. Jamil Shah, a front man for Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital said three dead bodies and 31 injured people had so far been taken to his hospital. No one has yet grabbed credit for the attack, but police said that cinema houses in the city were already under threat. "We had informed the cinema owner about the possible threats," Najeeb-ur-Rahman, a police brass hat, told AFP. Peshawar is a frontline city in Pakistain's battle against Islamist bad boys, who regard films as sinful. The Taliban closed down cinemas in the scenic Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... valley in the country's northwest which they controlled from 2007-2009. The decline of cinema houses in Peshawar has also been accelerated by the advent of videos, DVDs and the Internet and today only seven remain. |
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