![Peshawar’s Last Bookstore Closes, a Victim of Extremism](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Crop-IMG_09741474131371.jpg)
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Owner Riaz Gul outside Shaheen Books in Peshawar, Pakistan, which closed Aug. 31 after 25 years in business. The poster laments the “moral degradation” and “terrorism” that have driven bookstores in Pakistan out of business. (Pamela Constable/The Washington Post)
![Peshawar’s Last Bookstore Closes, a Victim of Extremism](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Crop-IMG_09741474131371.jpg)
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A soldier escorts schoolchildren from the Army Public School that was under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014. (Reuters/Khuram Parvez)
![Opinion: A Chilling Response to a Terrible Tragedy](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pakistan-school.jpg)
Opinion: A Chilling Response to a Terrible Tragedy
When news of the school massacre in Pakistan’s Peshawar first broke, it seemed exaggerated and unreal. One’s mind is sometimes incapable of believing such events are possible, or rather immediately rejects the notion that someone has decided the time has come to...Caption:
A soldier escorts schoolchildren from the Army Public School that was under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014. (Reuters/Khuram Parvez)
![Taliban storm Pakistani school, killing 126](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pakistan-school.jpg)
Taliban storm Pakistani school, killing 126
Peshawar, Pakistan, AP—Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing 126 people, officials said, in the worst attack to hit the country in years. The overwhelming majority of the victims were students...Caption:
A man cries over the death of his relative, who was killed in a bomb blast, at a hospital in Peshawar September 29, 2013. (REUTERS/ Fayaz Aziz)
![Car bomb kills 33 in northwest Pakistan](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Pakistan-bomb-29.09.jpg)
Car bomb kills 33 in northwest Pakistan
Peshawar, Associated Press—A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing 33 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said. The latest explosion appeared to have been a bomb planted in a...Caption:
An American Drone Reaper is displayed during the Air Show 2013 at Le Bourget, France, 18 June 2013.
Source: EPA / Etienne Laurent
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