PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A hotel blast in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday left 25 people dead and 30 injured, police said.
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said in an interview Wednesday that he had "every intention" of returning home, and described Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf as a "gone man."
Pakistan's chief justice challenged his ouster at the hands of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf before the highest court Tuesday, alleging he had been held against his will for several hours in the leader's army office.
A suicide bomber with a warning to alleged US spies taped to his leg attacked a hotel in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, killing 25 people and deepening instability in the strife-torn nation.
A top court official shot dead at his home was targeted because of his ties to Pakistan's suspended chief justice and had come under pressure from the government, lawyers for the judge said Tuesday.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 15 -- A suicide bomber detonated his charge inside a crowded restaurant during the lunch hour here on Tuesday, killing 25 people and adding to a string of violent episodes that have badly shaken the government of President Pervez Musharraf.
The explosion was in Peshawar which lies close to the lawless tribal areas that straddle the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. Raising the specter of the Afghanistan conflict spilling over into Pakistan's cities, a suicide bomber blew himself up today in a hotel restaurant popular with Afghans in this frontier provincial capital, killing at least 22 people and injuring scores of others.
Political clashes that began Saturday have left 49 people dead in the southern port city of Karachi, as a general strike took hold across Pakistan in protest over the suspension of the country's chief justice.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan | A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday in a hotel restaurant popular with Afghans, killing 25 people and injuring scores of others.
A powerful blast rocked Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar near the Afghan border Tuesday, killing at least 17 people and injuring scores more, police said.