Bomb Blast
Jun 9 2009, Vincent Van Ross

A powerful bomb went off outside the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar sending up a thick blanket of smoke. Peshawar is the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), in Pakistan. The hotel is on the way to the highway of NWFP...

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