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Cyclists compete during the second stage of the Himalayas 2011 International Mountainbike Race in the mountainous area of Lake Saif-ul-Maluk in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sept. 17. The cycling event, organized by the Kaghan Memorial Trust to raise funds for its charity school set up in the Kaghan valley for children affected in the October 2005 earthquake, attracted some 30 international and 11 Pakistani cyclists.
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Policemen pick up clothing and shoes of residents who were targeted by a suicide bomber during a funeral in Bero Shina, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sept. 15. The funeral was for a member of a pro-government Pashtun tribe in northwest Pakistan. The blast killed at least 40 people.
The death toll from a suicide bombing at a funeral in Pakistan’s northwest climbed to 40 on Friday, police said.
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A tear runs down a boy’s face as he lies on a bench after being treated for his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Sept. 13. Gunmen opened fire on a school bus, killing four children and the driver. Fifteen children were wounded.
Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing four children and the driver, a police official said.
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Mohammad Azam, 56, sits injured as a dead child lies nearby, at the site of a double suicide bombing in Quetta Sept. 7. Two suicide bombers targeting a senior security official struck near government offices in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 22 people.
A pair of suicide bombers killed 22 people while targeting a top army officer in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, missing him and killing his wife, several guards, a senior officer and two children, officials said.
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Local residents attempt to extinguish burning vechicles after a car bomb blast in Quetta on Aug. 31. A car bomb exploded in a parking lot after Eid prayers, killing at least four people and wounding 10 others.
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Pakistani railway and security officials gather around train wreckage following a crash in Lahore on Aug. 30. At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded, five of them critically, when two trains collided in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Train travel is popular among Pakistan’s poorer classes, but the railways have been hit by a severe funding shortfall and a lack of barriers at most level crossings are a frequent cause of accidents.
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Pakistani Army officials display ammunition and arms recovered during an operation in Dra Zinda outskirts area of Dera Ismail Khan, Aug. 29. Pakistan is under intense pressure to eliminate sanctuaries of Taliban and al-Qaida fighters, but the militants have responded by intensifying attacks on security and government installations across the country.
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A cobbler waits for customers at his shoe repair shop in Quetta Aug. 29.
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Pakistani paramilitary troops enter into a house during a crackdown operation against target killers and the extortion mafia in a troubled area in Karachi, Aug. 28. Over one hundred people lost their lives in the week prior in a fresh wave of violence which crippled the Pakistan’s largest city.
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Pakistani security personnel examine a crashed American surveillance drone just inside Pakistan territory in the town of Chaman, on Aug. 25. The American surveillance drone crashed in southwestern Pakistan near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.