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Peshāwar (Pashto: پښور; Urdu:پشاور) literally means City on the Frontier in Persian and is known as Pakhawar in Pas

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$Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party headed by Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pray during a gathering to celebrate Sharif\'s victory, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013. Pakistan says it will conduct a recount or re-do the vote for eight national assembly seats following allegations of vote rigging in the recent election. Pakistan election commission official Khurshid Alam said Thursday there are three other seats where the voting remains to be done, either because a candidate was killed in the run-up to the May 11 election or security was too poor to hold the vote.$

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A Pakistani man who was injured in a bomb blast in a Mosque in Baz Darrah village in the Malakand district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is brought to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013. Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed several people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

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$Election workers count ballots after polls closed for Pakistan\'s general elections in Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan\'s general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country\'s democracy.$

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$Security officials examine a damaged motorbike at the site of a bomb blast on the outskirts of Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan\'s general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country\'s democracy. Television channels reported an explosion in the city of Peshawar.$

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$An election official marks a voter\'s thumb with ink for identification as she gets a ballot paper before casting her vote at a polling station in Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan\'s general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country\'s democracy.$

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$A medic attends to a boy injured during a bomb blast near a polling station in Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan\'s general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country\'s democracy. Television channels reported an explosion in the city of Peshawar.$

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Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party headed by Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pray during a gathering to celebrate Sharif's victory, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013. Pakistan says it will conduct a recount or re-do the vote for eight national assembly seats following allegations of vote rigging in the recent election. Pakistan election commission official Khurshid Alam said Thursday there are three other seats where the voting remains to be done, either because a candidate was killed in the run-up to the May 11 election or security was too poor to hold the vote.

A Pakistani man who was injured in a bomb blast in a Mosque in Baz Darrah village in the Malakand district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is brought to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013. Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed several people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Election workers count ballots after polls closed for Pakistan's general elections in Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan's general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country's democracy.

Security officials examine a damaged motorbike at the site of a bomb blast on the outskirts of Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan's general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country's democracy. Television channels reported an explosion in the city of Peshawar.

An election official marks a voter's thumb with ink for identification as she gets a ballot paper before casting her vote at a polling station in Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan's general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country's democracy.

A medic attends to a boy injured during a bomb blast near a polling station in Peshawar May 11, 2013. A string of militant attacks cast a long shadow over Pakistan's general election on Saturday, but millions still turned out to vote in a landmark test of the troubled country's democracy. Television channels reported an explosion in the city of Peshawar.

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