Local lamentations Agencies Published December 4, 2012 1 A cyclist rides past a queue of vehicles as they wait to buy CNG from a government-run station in Islamabad. Huge bottlenecks of cars snaking away from filling stations have become a familiar sight in Pakistan.?Photo by AFP Security officials examine the site of a suicide car bomb attack on a police station outside the restive town of Bannu. A suicide bomber has rammed his explosive-laden car into a checkpoint outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six people, police said.?Photo by AFP Madrassa students, gather around the coffin of Maulana Mohammad Ismail, a teacher at a Sunni seminary, who was killed by unknown gunmen. Violence gripped Karachi's eastern Gulshan-e-Iqbal area on Monday after unknown gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a renowned cleric and a teacher at a Sunni seminary, police said.?Photo by AP The toes of a police officer who was killed during a bomb attack are pictured as people stand near his body on the outskirts of Peshawar. The explosion near Shahab Khel police checkpoint on Kohat road in Peshawar's Budh Bher area early on Monday killed two police officers and injured two others, according to local media.?Photo by Reuters Police officers survey a police vehicle damaged during a bomb attack on the outskirts of Peshawar.?Photo by Reuters Paramilitary soldiers escort an arrested suspect into a police station in Quetta.?Photo by AFP Hindus protest the demolishment of a Hindu temple in Karachi. Authorities have demolished a 50-year-old Hindu temple in Karachi despite a stay order from a court sparking protest by the minority community, officials said.?Photo by AFP Hindus sit next to a demolished Hindu temple in Karachi. Authorities have demolished a 50-year-old Hindu temple in Karachi despite a stay order from a court sparking protest by the minority community, officials said.?Photo by AFP Students of madrasa (religious school) block a road while protesting the killing of a religious leader by an unidentified gunman in Karachi. Unidentified armed men opened fire on a religious leader belonging to Jamia Arabia Ahsanul Uloom on Abul Hassan Ispahani Road in Karachi and killed him on the spot.?Photo by Reuters Police gather at the site of a bomb attack at a house in Mingora, Swat. One woman was killed and six others, including children, were injured in the bomb blast near the house of Kainat Riaz, local media reported on Tuesday.?Photo by Reuters Paramedics and a staffer of a Christian charity organisation tending to injured colleague Bargetta Almby at a hospital following an attack on her in Lahore. Gunmen shot Almby, 72, a female Christian charity worker from Sweden, leaving her hospitalised.?Photo by AFP Police officials carry the coffin of a police officer who was killed in a bomb explosion in Peshawar. Bombers attacked a police patrol, killing two officers and wounding two others on the outskirts of the main northwestern city of Peshawar.?Photo by AFP A vehicle burns on a street during a protest against the killing of cleric Mufti Ismail who was killed by gumen in Karachi. Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a senior cleric of a prominent Islamic seminary in Karachi, in what police say could be sectarian attack.?Photo by AFP Join our Whatsapp channel —Photos by Agencies
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