| ISLAMABAD — A moderate earthquake shook Peshawar and the town of Chitral in the northern Hindu Kush mountains yesterday, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, an official said. The magnitude 5.2 quake was centred about 300km north of Peshawar in the Hindu Kush mountain range in neighbouring Afghanistan, said Nasir Mahmood, an official at the state-run seismological centre in Peshawar. The tremor was felt in Peshawar and Chitral at 7.21 local time, he said. Earthquakes are common in the Hindu Kush mountain range that straddles Afghanistan and Pakistan. |