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.
At least 15 people were killed and six others injured on Sunday when a van they were traveling in was targetted with a roadside bomb in Pakistan's troubled northwest.
The son of a provincial minister was gunned down by militants at Nowshera in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, the police said.
Pakistan, a member of the global nuclear club, is struggling to defeat dengue fever as disease is spreading like wildfire across the country.
The death toll in the gruesome suicide attack on a historic church in this northwestern Pakistani city on Monday rose to 83 after five persons succumbed to their injuries.
Members of extremist groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Jaish-e-Mohammed openly collected donations for the jihad against the US in Afghanistan on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr in Pakistan's Peshawar city, a media report said on Tuesday.
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.
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 death row prisoner, who escaped with hundreds of other inmates when Taliban militants stormed a jail in northwest Pakistan, has turned himself in to police in the hope that his "good deed" will earn him a reprieve.
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.
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.
He said alleviation of poverty from interior Sindh will be among top priorities of his government.
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.
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.
At least two policemen were killed and many others injured when Pakistani Taliban militants seized a counter-terrorism centre and took some people hostage in the Bannu district of Pakistan's troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and other top officials of the prime minister's office and the security apparatus were present at the meeting.
Jailed ex-Pakistan premier Imran Khan's party-backed independent candidates on Friday sprang a surprise by winning 86 seats out of the 201 results declared following unusual delays and allegations of rigging, as the country appeared heading towards a hung assembly.
'Terrorists have targeted US diplomats and diplomatic facilities in the past, and information suggests they continue to do so'
The explosion took place at 4 pm at the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl workers' convention in Khar, the capital of Bajaur tribal district.
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.
Nortje, Markram among players nominated for CSA top awards.
Zafar was the brother of Pakistan international player Akhtar Sarfraz.
Women came out in large numbers to vote on Wednesday despite terror attacks and repeated threats.
Two commandos of the special forces were also killed in the rescue operation that was launched after negotiations between the government and the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants to end the hostage crisis failed.
Last month, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat had revealed that Pakistan very recently "reactivated" the terror camp in Balakot.
The PML-N, however, rejected the demand and claimed that it was winning Thursday's elections.
Afridi had ran a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad city to help CIA agents track the former Al Qaeda chief, who was later killed by US Navy Seals in a controversial raid on May 2, 2011.
Extensive firing continues in the area and heavy contingents of elite force have been deployed.
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.
More than 50 people have been killed and over two lakh others affected by the floods caused by torrential rain across Pakistan, officials said on Monday.
Khan said that India, which is a part of Quad, has imported oil from Russia despite American sanctions.
The dead were identified as belonging to Punjab province. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
Sardar Sooran Singh, the Special Assistant to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was assassinated in Pir Baba area of Buner district.
Two Pakistan Air Force personnel were reported missing after a trainer aircraft crashed into the Indus river in the country's northwest on Wednesday, officials said.
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to arrive in Islamabad on Saturday after a four-year self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom, months ahead of general elections.
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.
'Pakistan is a nuclear country.' 'With the kind of situation that is there in Pakistan today, America will help Pakistan stay afloat.'
A roadside bomb blast on Monday killed three personnel of the bomb disposal unit who were on their way to defuse another explosive device elsewhere in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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