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.
A pro-Taliban cleric's militant followers on Saturday clashed with security forces at several places in Swat valley of northwest Pakistan leaving up to 15 people dead, a day after troops backed by helicopter gunships attacked a seminary run by him. The skirmishes erupted after security forces attacked Maulana Fazlullah's sprawling madrassa at Imamdheri, three kilometres from Mingora, the headquarters of Swat district in North West Frontier Province.
Five militants were on Wednesday killed and three others injured when United States drones targeted a compound in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan, security officials and tribesmen said.
Seven security personnel and 18 militants were killed and five soldiers were kidnapped by Taliban militants on Friday during an attack on a check-post in the restive Kurram tribal region of northwest Pakistan, which has witnessed fierce fighting in recent days. The militants attacked the check-post in Shidano Dand area near the border with Afghanistan, officials were quoted as saying by TV channels. The attack triggered fierce clashes in which seven soldiers were killed.
Three heavily armed militants were killed after they stormed a district police chief's office in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, triggering a two-hour standoff with security forces, during which nine persons were injured. Two of the attackers detonated their suicide vests inside the police compound at Dera Ismail Khan while one more was gunned down by security forces. Police officers said they believed between five and eight militants were involved in the assault.
At least six persons were killed and about 30 others injured when a bomb went off inside a mosque in the restive city of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, witnesses and officials said.
A suicide attacker detonated his explosive vest near the gate of a mosque in Nakai area of Tirah Valley, located close to the border with Afghanistan, as the Lashkar-e-Islam militants were leaving after offering Friday prayers, officials of the local political administration told the media.
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.
Cyclone Asna, formed over the coast of Kutch in Gujarat earlier during the day, has moved into the Arabian sea towards Oman without leaving any major impact on the region, officials said on Friday evening.
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.
At least 13 people of a marriage party were killed and 14 injured when a remote-controlled bomb ripped through the vehicle carrying them in northwest Pakistan's troubled Swat region on Friday.
At least five persons were killed and four others wounded when two vehicles were targeted with roadside bombs on Thursday in the restive Bajaur tribal region of northwest Pakistan. Two pick-up trucks carrying passengers were hit by the remote-controlled bombs in Chamrkand area near the border with Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber struck a convoy of buses near a market in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 15 others, including women and children.
At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in a blast in a mosque in the troubled Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan on Thursday.
An American national, working with the United States embassy was briefly detained at the airport in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after security officials found 13 bullets in his luggage, police said.
The death toll in a devastating suicide car bomb attack in northwest Pakistan rose to 39 on Friday as more bodies were pulled out of the rubble of buildings that collapsed when the attacker detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in a congested area of Hangu city.
At least 16 militants, including some foreign fighters, were killed when the United States drones targeted the compound of a militant commander believed to have links with the Haqqani network and the Al Qaeda in northwest Pakistan on Thursday.
Five school children were gunned down on Tuesday and five others injured in the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan after unidentified gunmen attacked a school van, police said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with worshippers offering Friday prayers, killing over 40 people and injuring at least 70 others in the restive Darra Adam Khel region of northwest Pakistan on Friday.
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.
A powerful car bomb ripped through a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar city on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, including two children. The bomb, containing about 40 kg of TNT explosives, was hidden in a car parked near the gate of the bus terminal, police officials said. The explosion, which was heard from several km away, created a large crater at the site.Other officials said two children were among the dead.
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.
Two Sikhs, abducted by Taliban, have been rescued by security forces in the restive Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan, a week after two members of the community were beheaded by the militants, a military spokesman said on Monday.The two abducted Sikhs--Surjeet Singh and Gurvinder Singh--are safe, a spokesman said.
The death toll in two suicide car bombings in northwest Pakistan today rose to 25 with the recovery of five more bodies from the debris of a police station that was destroyed in one of the attacks.
"We estimate that Pakistan now has a nuclear weapons stockpile of approximately 170 warheads. The US Defense Intelligence Agency projected in 1999 that Pakistan would have 60 to 80 warheads by 2020, but several new weapon systems have been fielded and developed since then, which leads us to a higher estimate," the Nuclear Notebook column published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 11 said.
The drone fired four missiles targeting the compound and the vehicle in Danday Darpakhel area in North Waziristan tribal region's Miranshah on Tuesday night
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near a court complex and government offices at Hangu in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing 18 people, including policemen and injuring nearly 40 others, officials said.
Nine Chinese engineers were among 13 people killed on Wednesday when a bus carrying construction workers in northwest Pakistan's mountainous region was "attacked", according to officials and eyewitnesses.
A United States drone fired two missiles in Pakistan's northwest tribal region on Thursday night amid anti-drone protests being staged in the country.
"We continue to urge our partners in Pakistan to go after all terrorist networks operating in their country. We stand ready to help them," said Adam Szubin, Acting Under Secretary on Countering the Financing of Terrorism.
At least 80 militants and seven soldiers were killed on Saturday in clashes between security forces and terrorists in Pakistan's volatile northwest tribal region
A central leader of radical Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, Rehmat Salam Khattak, is among 30 arrested in raids following the attack on the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Karak district on Wednesday, Station House Officer Rehmatullah Khan told PTI.
The militants have also decided to establish a seminary similar to Jamia Hafsa, the girls madrassa attached to Lal Masjid which was razed to the ground by the government after its capture early this month.
Four young children were killed and a senior police officer escaped an attempt on his life in two separate incidents in Pakistan's restive northwest on Friday, officials said.
At least 53 people have been killed and nearly 140 injured in Pakistan in separate attacks, including a deadly suicide bombing in restive Quetta city.
Former information minister and senior leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party Fawad Chaudhry said that the premier made the decision after approval from the party's core committee.
The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday threatened to target Indians 'anywhere' in retaliation for the execution of Ajmal Kasab and demanded that India should return the body of the LeT militant involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks to his family.
The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed responsibility for a botched car bombing in New York's Times Square in 2010, on Tuesday denied any role in the bombings at the Boston Marathon in the US that killed three people and injured over 140.
The jets targeted militant hideouts in Ghaljo and Dabori areas of Orakzai tribal agency, officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels.
A nine-feet tall cold bronze statue of the first Sikh ruler, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was on Tuesday vandalised by an activist of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) at the Lahore Fort in Pakistan's Punjab province, according to media reports.
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