Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said that the nation wants good relations with all countries, particularly its neighbours, a day after a military court's order to execute Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav spiked Indo-Pak tensions.
A twin bomb attack targettting recruits at military academy in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least 69 people and injured 30 others, according to the police.
The denial came as Russian troops arrived in Islamabad on Friday for the first-ever joint exercises with Pakistani forces.
In a major embarrassment for Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden was killed just yards from a military compound that he visited last month where he had famously claimed that his forces had broken the "terrorist backbone".
Over 3,100 terrorists have been arrested in Pakistan in the last three years and a majority of them were nabbed from the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the country's northwest.
Four children were killed and three more injured when an explosive device hidden in a sack went off in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. The incident occurred in Jerma village of Kohat district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pakistan Meteorological Department's earthquake centre said the 5.8-magnitude earthquake was located near the mountainous city of Jehlum in Punjab province.
A 'mini-cyclone' coupled with torrential rains tore through northwest Pakistan's Peshawar Valley.
A bomb blast ripped through a mosque within a Sufi shrine at Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 10 persons and injuring 30 others. The powerful blast targeted the mosque inside Akhun Punjo Baba mazar (shrine) in Akbarpura area of Nowshera, nearly 15 km from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa capital Peshawar.Scores of people were offering Friday prayers at the mosque while hundreds had gathered to take food from a 'langar' or community kitchen.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at Mardan military training center in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday.
Militants targeted a bus stop and an army-run bakery in bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 25 people and injuring about 50, officials said.
Four persons were killed and 11 others injured when a bomb blast hit a police station and a mosque in northwest Pakistan, hours after United States Special Forces killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden near the garrison city of Abbottabad. The blast ripped through the police station and mosque in Umerzai area of Charsadda in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, said the police. There was confusion about the nature of the blast.
A powerful time bomb ripped apart a minibus in Pakistan's restive northwest on Monday, killing 18 people and injuring 11 others in escalating violence in the province.
Terrorists targetted a police van with a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan's restive Bannu region on Thursday, killing at least two security personnel and injuring five others, a day after a suicide attack on a police station in the same area claimed 20 lives.
Pakistan perceives that if it had declared Gilgit-Baltistan, PoK or both, which are only a part of the territories of J&K, as legitimate provinces of Pakistan it would weaken its case for the entire J&K and lead to legal complications, observes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including 11 policemen and four schoolchildren. The attacker targeted the main police station in Lakki Marwat, a key city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, shattering the premises. The police station, a nearby mosque and a government office collapsed while portions of two other government buildings were damaged in the blast.
Jamiat Ulema e Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, once considered as the patron of Taliban chief Mullah Omer, is today struggling to save his life in Pakistan, as Taliban and Al Qaeda members are chasing him like shadow.
The Falahi Insaniat Foundation, a sister organisation of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa, is milking the most out of the recent floods in Pakistan and the government's slow placed work.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Quereshi at the special session of the UN General Assembly on August 19 had resulted in pledges worth nearly $800 million -- the major pledges being $150 million from the US and $100 million each from the UK and Saudi Arabia. Only China, which apparently suspected that the Pakistani authorities were exaggerating the estimate of the damages suffered, refrained from increasing its pledge beyond the initial amount of $10 million.
Authorities in northwest Pakistan have launched a crackdown against banned terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Tayiba that are engaged in relief efforts for flood victims and closed down 16 camps set up by these organisations.
Sajad Afghani, Jaish-e-Mohammad's chief 'commander' for Kashmir who was killed during an encounter with security forces in Srinagar last week, belonged to Punjab province of Pakistan. Sajad Afghani is a common name for Kashmiri militants; it has become more of a moniker that is bestowed on the person who is serving as the commander of the insurgent outfit.The first Sajad Afghani belonged to Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.
A suicide bomber struck a police vehicle at a city in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least five persons, including a child, and injuring 15 others.Deputy Inspector General of Police Iftikhar Khan said the bomber, who was on foot, targeted the vehicle near the main police station of Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Other officials said a police constable, a child and three civilians were among those killed.
Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided that the employees of all educational institutions including teachers will be carrying licensed arms on the premises to respond in a suitable way in case of a terrorist attack.
At least 34 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a suicide bomber targeted members of an anti-Taliban militia who were attending a funeral in Pakistan's restive northwest region on Wednesday. The bomber targeted the funeral prayers of the wife of Hakeem Khan, a leader of the 'peace committee' or anti-Taliban militia of Adezai, a tribal area near Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has appointed a new spokesperson, who will work as deputy to main Taliban spokesperson Azam Tariq.
Taliban militants targeted a convoy of the NATO supply vehicles and torched 50 oil tankers in northwest Pakistan, hours after a similar attack in the southwest killed a man and destroyed 20 tankers.
India has sought from Pakistan details about the charges against a 31-year-old Indian engineer who has been sentenced to three years in prison for espionage by a Pakistani military court.
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A suicide bomber on Wednesday targetted a crowded bus terminal at Kohat in Pakistan's restive northwest, killing at least 15 people and injuring 20 others in the latest in a string of deadly terrorist attacks.
In flood-ravaged Pakistan, the government's awfully slow rescue operations are proving out to be largely ineffective, as the destitute victims' plight is turning irreparable, notes Tahir Ali.
More than 800 people have died and at least one million affected by flash floods triggered by the worst monsoon rains in Pakistan in eight decades, officials and the United Nations said on Saturday.
A suicide bomber on Monday struck a political gathering of North Western Frontier Province's ruling Awami National Party to celebrate the renaming of the Pushtun dominated province as Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, killing 25 people and leaving nearly 100 others injured in Timergara in Lower Dir.The bomber detonated his lethal explosives at an open air gathering in the main town of insurgency-infested Lower Dir. Twenty five people were killed and nearly 100 others were injured.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on a provincial cabinet minister on Monday. Seven people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain's residence in northwest Pakistan.Hussain, a vocal critic of the Pakistani Taliban, escaped unhurt in the attack. The bomber, a youth clad in black, detonated his explosive vest when he was stopped by the police.
Paramilitary Frontier Corps personnel repelled the attack in which Taliban fighters used suicide bombers, rockets and assault rifles to overwhelm the security forces check post in Jansi area of Khyber tribal region.
The son of a provincial minister was gunned down by militants at Nowshera in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, the police said.
Pakistani authorities imposed a ban on the publication and sale of a translated version of a book by Al Qaeda leader Aiman al-Zawahiri, saying it has the potential to incite law and order problems.
The seeping unhappiness among soldiers unable to reach out to their families affected by the disaster is not only likely to affect its counter-insurgency performance, but it would also add to the sympathy for the Taliban in the lower ranks.
Residents of Mohib Banda, Shahzad's ancestral village in Pubbi area of Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province, said members of the 30-year-old's family believed he had been implicated in a "false" case.
The TTP, however, did not confirm the death of its chief in the drone strike.
In the conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province of Pakistan, young women are expected to settle down to married life and raising a family.
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