Nineteen people were killed and 44 others injured when a bomb went off in a bus carrying government employees on the outskirts of this northwestern Pakistani city on Friday.
Hizbul Mujahideen leader Mast Gul, involved in the 1995 siege of Charar-e-Sharief shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, was behind a suicide attack on Shias in Peshawar that killed nine persons, a Pakistani Taliban commander has said.
Pakistan on Wednesday executed nine death-row prisoners, a day after 12 others were hanged
A suicide bomber on Tuesday targeted leaders of the secular Awami National Party in Peshawar city of northeast Pakistan, killing 15 people and injuring dozens more in the latest in a string of terrorist attacks ahead of next month's general election.
A suicide bomber targeted the convoy of a senior security forces official in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing five persons and injuring over a dozen others, officials and witnesses said.
The CPL, which was originally scheduled to commence on August 28, will now be played between August 26 and September 15.
"Mera Bharat mahaan, meri madam mahaan, sab madam ne hi kiya hai," Ansari's mother Fauzia Ansari told EAM.
A top Shia leader of the ruling Pakistan People's Party was gunned down by suspected terrorists outside his medical clinic in Peshawar city in the country's restive northwest on Wednesday, officials said.
Twenty-one Pakistani security personnel kidnapped by the Taliban from check posts near Peshawar were gunned down by the militants today, police officials said.
Gunmen staged fresh attacks on UN-backed polio vaccination teams in Pakistan, killing two more polio workers and wounding six in the country's northwest on Wednesday, a day after six health workers were gunned down in Karachi and Peshawar.
West Indian batsman Marlon Samuels, who top-scored in both of the team's T20 World Cup final wins during a career that also had its share of controversies including a two-year ban for corruption, has retired from all forms of cricket.
Shehbaz, the younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, received 174 votes -- two more than the simple majority of 172.
A Muslim cleric in northwest Pakistan has been arrested under the tough anti-terrorism act for threatening to kill Malala Yousafzai in a suicide attack and instigating people against the Nobel Laureate for her recent comments on marriage, police 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.
Four members of an anti-Taliban militia were shot dead by unidentified gunmen on the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, the police said.
Pakistan on Wednesday hanged a man convicted for attempting to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the seventh execution in the country after a moratorium on death penalty was lifted following the Peshawar school carnage.
Rup Narayan Das reveals the towering Odisha leader's role in improving national security after the 1962 War with China.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday met the family of Indian prisoner Hamid Nehal Ansari, who was attacked at least thrice by inmates in a Peshawar jail, and assured them of all possible help.
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.
Nortje, Markram among players nominated for CSA top awards.
An explosives-laden car rammed a vehicle leaving the United States Consulate in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least three persons and injuring over a dozen others, including foreigners. The incident occurred a short distance from the US Consulate and an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at Aabdara Road in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
Six policemen, including a senior officer, were killed and nearly a dozen others injured when a large group of Taliban militants stormed a police check-post on the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Monday. Superintendent of Police Khurshid Khan was among the policemen killed when militants targeted the check post at Mattani, a suburb of Peshawar, at about 10 pm on Sunday.
'Some of the conditions put forth by the UAE authorities make it next to impossible for the PCB to host the matches in UAE.'
India has much paranoia in India about a new 'Terroristan' coming up between Pakistan and a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Pakistan has zero ability economically, diplomatically, geostrategically or militarily to create one. If they try, it will be great for India as they will destroy themselves yet again, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Dreaded Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is trying to expand its influence in Pakistan, with pamphlets being distributed in Peshawar and border provinces of Afghanistan, seeking support for jihad.
Gambhir also took a dig at Qureshi's emphasis on a "new Pakistan" under Khan, saying while the Indian delegation had come to listen to Pakistan's "new" foreign minister outline the vision of a new Pakistan, "what we heard is a 'New Pakistan' cast in the mold of old."
Six persons were injured when terrorists targetted police vehicles in two separate attacks in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan today, officials said.
Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province government has announced a bounty worth Rs 10 million for information leading to the arrest or killing of Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, the mastermind of the Peshawar school massacre that left 150 people dead, mostly students.
A young Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside a crowded government office in Pakistan's restive northwest killing 26.
'Such events will help promote peace between the two countries'
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Stepping up the campaign against terrorists, Pakistani security forces killed at least 67 militants in a countrywide swoop on Friday, taking the number of insurgents killed to 124 after the brutal Peshawar school massacre that left 148 people dead.
Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday signed death warrants of six terrorist, whose execution was pending.
The quake hit at 12:37 pm near Afghanistan's northern border with Tajikistan in the Hindu Kush mountains at a depth of 191 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said.
Former captain Misbah applies for Pakistan head coach role
The Taliban will either attack Peshawar prison, abduct Dr Shakil Afridi and let their leaders decide his fate, or they will use an inmate in the jail kill the doctor. Amir Mir reports from Islamabad
Taliban attackers' brazen assault on a school in Pakistan's Peshawar city that claimed the lives of over 150 students on Tuesday has brought back chilling memories of a similar bloodbath in Russia in 2004 when Chechen rebels stormed a school.
India must watch for signs after Peshawar that Pakistan is waking up to the dangers of Islamism, muses Ajai Shukla
Suicide bombers armed with guns and grenades stormed a police station in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing three policemen, including an officer, and wounding eight more. Three suicide bombers stormed into the Kotwali police station premises located in a congested neighbourhood in the heart of Peshawar under the cover of heavy fire from assault rifles, throwing grenades. They blew themselves up after getting inside.
A 'mini-cyclone' coupled with torrential rains tore through northwest Pakistan's Peshawar Valley.
