A young boy of around 15-16 entered Mandokhel Masjid in Khyber Agency through a window and exploded himself in the main hall during Friday prayers that resulted in the killing of at least 55 people while another 123 tribesmen injured during this incident.
Lashkar-e-Islami chief Mangal Bagh, who wields considerable influence in the Khyber Agency, said Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin is not in the tribal region and it would be unjust for the government to conduct any sort of military operation in the agency to locate him. The radical leader also told Dawn News channel that Azizuddin had not been kidnapped from the Agency, contrary to media reports.
Burgeoning terrorism and military operations in the area have forced many members of the Sikh community to leave Khyber Agency, says Tahir Ali
Continuing their campaign against girls education, the Taliban blew up a girl's school in Pakistan's restive Khyber tribal region, on Monday, where two soldiers and 10 militants were killed in ongoing operations against the banned radical Lashkar-e-Islam group.
Pakistan has seen a surge in militant attacks, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, after the banned TTP called off its ceasefire with the government in November 2022 and vowed to target security forces, police, and law enforcement agencies.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi announced that the suicide bomber involved in the deadly Islamabad bombing was an Afghan national. The announcement follows a suicide bombing in Islamabad and another attack in South Waziristan.
Pakistan-based terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) have begun relocating their bases to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir in the wake of India's Operation Sindoor, sources said.
'During the 5-day visit, Amir Khan Muttaqi would have, conceivably, bumped into our powerful security agencies one way or another and some interaction would have ensued, which, in turn, can lead to future dealings.' 'Indeed, this will be the one crucial template of the Indo-Afghan relationship that Pakistan will be monitoring closely,' points Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Among the 24 injured are 14 civilians, including women and children, with several said to be in critical condition.
Two children were killed and 13 others were injured when a bomb went off near the home of a tribal elder in the restive Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. The bomb was detonated by remote control as a group of people were leaving the home of tribal elder Malik Rasool Jan Shinwari at Landi Kotal in Khyber Agency. The people had gathered at his residence for a jirga or tribal council, officials said.
The Islamabad high court is set to hear the petitions requesting the suspension of sentences to Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the 190 million Pound Al-Qadir Trust case on June 11.
'Pakistan's only concern has been while they were on the FATF watch list was to distance their State institutions and organs from any direct connection with the actual execution of militancy inside Kashmir.'
The Bahawalpur centre is notorious for hoarding arms and ammunition left behind by the NATO forces in Afghanistan, the officials said.
The announcement on expansion of CPEC was made following a meeting among Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar and Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Beijing, according to a Pakistani readout.
'We've moved from thousands killed yearly in Jammu and Kashmir to 127 last year.' 'Cross-border terrorism in Kashmir is being solved. We are winning it.'
Asim Munir and his brand of short-sighted army officers give no inkling of paying heed, changing course or learning lessons from the past, observes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W.
The explosion ripped through the provincial capital Quetta's railway station as passengers gathered on the platform before the scheduled departure of the Jaffar Express to Peshawar.
A senior Taliban commander, believed to be a key planner in the Peshawar school massacre, has been killed by the security forces in Pakistan's troubled Khyber Agency.
Prime Minister Shehbaz is himself overseeing the security of the Chinese projects and engineers.
In a gruesome incident, three members of an anti-Taliban militia have been beheaded by terrorists while another four were kidnapped in Pakistan's restive Khyber Agency.
Pakistani security forces on Thursday launched a crackdown against tribesmen, arresting nine of them in the Khyber Agency, after they failed to trace the country's ambassador to Afghanistan, who is believed to have been kidnapped in the region on Monday.The authorities defended the action, saying the tribesmen were taken into custody under the collective responsibility law as the ambassador had gone missing from a main road in their area.
It is regrouping under a new commander in\n\nthe remote Khyber area of Pakistan.
Aware of simmering dissensions within the top echelons of the army, Munir has moved slowly in reshuffling senior generals, observes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W, India's external intelligence agency.
The fighting started last night when army and paramilitary forces launched an operation in Zao Kharamtang area of Khyber Agency, one of seven tribal districts where Al Qaeda-linked terrorists are active.
Thirty militants and 23 soldiers have been killed during fighting between security forces and pro-Taliban rebels in the lawless Khyber tribal region of Pakistan. The fighting erupted after troops, including Special Services Group commandoes, launched a "decisive operation" against militants in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency.
Six Pakistani security personnel were killed and 16 injured on Tuesday when militants attacked a check post in the country's restive Khyber tribal region.
Pakistani Taliban terrorists on Tuesday carried out two attacks on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation container trucks in the Khyber tribal region in country's northwest, killing one person and injuring another in the first strikes since supply routes to Afghanistan were reopened earlier this month.
At least 11 Pakistani security personnel were killed in a militant attack on a check0post and a roadside bomb explosion in restive regions of the country. In the first incident, six security personnel were killed and 16 others injured when militants attacked a check post in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan.
Taliban fighters attacked a truck carrying supplies for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces in the restive Khyber tribal region of Pakistan on Monday, killing its driver, officials said.
Eight Pakistani soldiers, including an officer, were killed and three others injured when their convoy was targetted with a roadside bomb in the country's restive Khyber tribal region on Thursday, officials said.
At least six militants have died in fresh fighting between the Taliban and a pro-government militant group in Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, taking the death toll in clashes that erupted last week to nearly 60.
Over 50 terrorists have been killed in clashes between the Taliban and another banned group in the restless Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, according to media reports on Friday.
Nine Pakistani soldiers and 16 militants were killed on Monday when heavily-armed gunmen ambushed troops during a search operation in the country's restive Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
An American drone strike on Tuesday killed at least nine Pakistani Taliban militants in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province
At least 19 people, including women and children, were killed and 50 others injured on Monday when a powerful car bomb ripped through a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan.
A total of 33 people, including 23 pro-Taliban militants, were killed in two separate incidents of violence in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Friday, officials said.
Seventeen pro-Taliban terrorists, a soldier and three members of a pro-government militia were killed in a clash on Friday in Pakistan's restive northwestern Khyber tribal region, officials said.
A powerful explosion on Saturday ripped through a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, killing at least 14 people and injuring over 20 others, officials said.
The blast at Landi Kotal in Khyber Agency targeted the mosque and an adjoining shrine, officials said.
At least seven persons were killed and nine others injured when a passenger van was targetted with a bomb in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said.
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