Death toll from Pakistan market attack rises to 42
The death toll from a car bomb explosion in an ancient
market in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar rose to at least 42. The
blast ripped through the busy centuries-old market known as Quiswakhani, or the
storytellers' bazaar. The dead included at least 15 members of a family who had
come to the city from a nearby village to make wedding arrangements. Islamist
violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in recent months, undermining Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif's efforts to tame the insurgency by launching peace talks
with the Taliban.
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