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Salman Shehzad Gunmen shot dead an anti-polio vaccination campaigner while injuring two others after storming a hospital where children were being immunized on Saturday in the northern parts of Pakistan. The incident took place in Mattani, on the outskirts of provincial capital, Peshawar. Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the killing, but Taliban militants have been targeting anti-polio campaigners and security personnel during vaccination campaigns. 11 people including leady health workers has been so far killed in such attacks "Two men riding a motorbike stormed the office of an immunization officer located inside the premises of Civil Hospital Mattani and shot him dead," a police official told. "Two other local staffs of the hospital including a woman were injured in the attack," he added. Provincial health minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, confirmed the attack. "Routine immunisation of children was going on in the hospit...

wartribune: Pictures: History of Waziristan Military operation... : Salman Shehzad The history of endless and unproductive military operations against the tribes of Waziristan form 1919 till 2013,...

Salman Shehzad The history of endless and unproductive military operations against the tribes of Waziristan form 1919 till 2013, that took the life of thousands of people living in the area, although the British and Pakistan army has succeeded in the elimination of hundreds of tribesmen, who were acting as terrorists but most of the people, killed in these operation were innocent and peaceful and had nothing to do with militancy.

The situation is most dire in the Pakistan's semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), situated along Pakistan's northwestern border with Afghanistan. In recent years, nearly 450 schools have been destroyed by Pakistani Taliban.

Salman Shehzad Another 25 years-old Hindu women allegedly kidnapped in the Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, while her way back home after performing school duty. Sapna Rani, the missing women is a school teacher at Peshawar Science Academy, GT Road. Her farther Faqir Chand informed the police that Rani went to school at around 7:45am on Saturday morning and when she did not return till evening the family started to worry and inquiring about her form the academy’s administration.    After trying in vain to locate her, Chand’s nephew Suraish Kumar went to the Paharipura Police Station to lodge a missing report. Bindya Rani, the kidnapped woman’s grief-stricken mother, said “We don’t have an enmity with anyone,” and pleaded to the government to do everything in its power to find her daughter. However, this is not the only story in Pakistan, according to some reports every month 25 to 30 young people suffer similar abuses, for a yearly total of about ...

Peshawar: The zoo has become a death valley for the animals, as two leopards and two zebras died during the last year died while after the death of two crocodiles and so many other animals now we have lost the 22 years old female elephant due to the negligence of Islamabad Zoo authorities. The elephant has been gifted by the Sir Lankan Government in 1991 when she was just one year old.        The female elephant of the zoo was found dead on early morning of Sunday in its enclosure. All the Marghzar Zoo officers reached the elephant’s enclosure and the zoos veterinary officer examined the animal and declared that the animal had expired. The female elephant was suffering from an injury in one of its legs but this may not be considered as a reason behind its death. Some of the reports suggest that the elephant was poisoned.    “Our host, our friend, our ‘...