And Now its quiet horrible. I was just back from aptech institute where i was learning Software engineering from my Pathaan Teacher ” Miss Samreen Yusufzia” it was a pleasent day for us. but not now. why?? just see what is bbc is saying.
More than 50 people have been killed and scores hurt by a large blast in a market in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Buildings were set on fire after the blast and plumes of smoke were seen drifting over the north-western city.
Similar attacks have killed more than 200 people in recent weeks, as the army carries out an operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan.
The blast comes as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins a visit to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Pakistani television showed footage of burning shops in the Peepal Mandi area of Peshawar and crowds digging through rubble to rescue people.
The market mostly sells products for women, and most of the dead were reported to be women.
The number of casualties is expected to rise.
Hamid Afridi, head of the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, told the AFP news agency more than 80 people had been wounded.
“We have declared an emergency in the hospital,” he said.
Burning buildings
Police official Anwar Shah told AFP the blast had been caused by a car bomb.
“It was a huge bomb blast, heard in almost all the city,” he said.
An eyewitness told Pakistan’s Dawn television station his house shook when the blast happened.
“I saw people taking away bodies on motorcycles and scooters and carrying bodies,” he said.
Another witness, Aqueel ur Rehman, said bodies were lying under the debris.
“Several buildings and a mosque have been badly damaged while a fire has engulfed a building,” he told Reuters.
The BBC’s Mark Dummet in Islamabad says the latest attack is likely to be blamed on the Taliban, who have already carried out a string of bombings in Pakistani cities since the beginning of the month.
Security has been stepped up across the country but the government still appears to be unable to stop the attacks, says our correspondent.
Peshawar was the scene of the deadliest attack in Pakistan, when more than 50 people died in an explosion at an historic market.
Mrs Clinton is in Pakistan to discuss US concerns about the increasing numbers of militant attacks and the security of the country’s nuclear weapons.
She has pledged extra US support in Pakistan’s fight against the militant insurgency.
Correspondents say the Peshawar blasts will comes as a violent reminder for the US of the difficult task it is facing in the fight against the Taliban, both in Pakistan and across the border in Afghanistan.
And according to geo news website.
PESHAWAR: The death toll of Peshawar blast has reached to 60. At least 150 sustained injuries in the blast. DMS Lady Reading Hospital has confirmed the killings.
According to reports, at least 150 people sustained injures as causalities feared to be increased. The injured have been shifted to Lady Reading Hospital and other hospitals where emergency has been announced. The children and women are also among the wounded. Some of the injured reported in a critical condition. The administration of Lady Reading Hospital has appealed for blood donation. The blast shattered windowpanes of nearby buildings and created panic among the people.
The charred bodies have been recovered from the blast site as several persons still trapped under the rubbles. A nearby mosque Umme Habiba has been destroyed in the explosion.
Meanwhile, a building has been collapsed during rescue operation. Police have cordoned off the area as rescue operation is on the blast site.
President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed his heartfelt grief over the loss of innocent lives in Peshawar bomb blast, while denouncing the incident, Prime Minister (PM) Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani directed concerned officials to provide the injured with all the possible medical relief. NWFP Chief Minister (CM), Amir Hyder Khan Hoti has ordered inquiry of the blast.
Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif, CM Punjab Shehbaz Sharif, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Quaid Altaf Hussain, Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira, NWFP CM Amir Hyder Hoti, Governor NWFP Owais Ahmed Ghani, CM Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad, CM Balochistan Aslam Raisani, Governor Balochistan Zulfiqar Magsi, Federal Ministers Farooq Sattar and Babar Ghauri, Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan and Qazi Husain Ahmed have strongly condemned the blast.
What We Can say now? its very saddest moments for all. May God Bless Pakistan And Destroy our pakistan’s Enemies.
Inallillah hi wania alehi rajioon