Flash floods in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have resulted in a significant loss of life, with the death toll rising to 327 in the last 48 hours. The disaster has prompted relief efforts from the army and government agencies.
At least 30 militants have been killed in a clash with security personnel in the restive Orakzai tribal region of northwest Pakistan, 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.
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.
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.
At least 31 people were killed and another 60 were injured in a suicide bomb attack on a funeral of a member of a pro-government Pashtun tribe in a village in northwest Pakistan on Thursday.
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.
A member of an anti-Taliban militia died in a bomb blast while 11 militants were killed in an operation by security forces in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.
A powerful blast on Tuesday ripped through a packed commercial area in northwest Pakistan's Charsadda town killing at least five people, the latest in a series of terror attacks across the country amid a massive army operation against the Taliban in the restive tribal belt.
Suspected militants shot and killed a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader in the erstwhile Taliban stronghold of Swat in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said.
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.
A teenage suicide bomber targeted security personnel in a crowded market in the restive Bajaur tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 17 people and injuring 42 others, officials said.
Taliban fighters attacked the homes of pro-government tribesmen in Mohmand region of northwest Pakistan, killing four persons and injuring five more, officials said on Monday.
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 powerful bomb blast ripped through a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring over 30 others, officials said. The bomb was planted in a pick-up truck that was parked at a stand for trucks and buses at the market in Jamrud, one of the main towns of Khyber Agency. All the people sitting in the truck were killed instantly when the bomb went off, witnesses and officials said.
At least 10 people, including women and children, were killed on Wednesday when armed terrorists attacked houses of pro-government peace militia members in northwest Pakistan.
At least 15 people, including women and children, were killed and over 30 injured when a powerful car bomb went off at a refugee camp at Nowshera in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, officials said.
At least 52 people were killed when twin suicide bombings ripped through a town in northwest Pakistan's restive tribal belt on Friday in a sudden surge in violence against the minority Shia community.
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.
At least 19 soldiers and 45 militants have been killed in clashes in Pakistan's restive northwest, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowing to respond with full force against the terrorists. The Pakistan army reports clashes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Sharif alleges terrorist leaders operate from Afghan soil and calls for repatriation of illegal Afghan residents.
The local administration denied the rumours about aerial strikes by the Pakistani fighter jets on the compound, saying the explosives used in bomb making exploded, causing the death of 24 people, including 14 militants.
The 2025 US National Security Strategy marks a major pullback, with America turning backward and effectively allowing China greater dominance in Asia. while long-time partners like India are left to face an increasingly unstable global order largely on their own, observes Rajeev Srinivasan.
Hydrology experts suggest that India cannot be directly blamed for the devastating monsoon flooding in Pakistan this year, citing greater destruction upstream of the border and lack of evidence for intentional action.
Cyclone Shakhti, the first cyclonic storm of the post-monsoon season in the Arabian Sea, has intensified.
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shia mosque in Pakistan's restive northwest region on Friday, killing 22 people and injuring over 50, officials said. The attacker detonated his explosives in a narrow alley near the Imambargah at Pat Bazar in Hangu town of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
At least 28 people, including five children, were killed and 30 others injured when a suicide bomber shouting 'Allahu Akbar' blew himself up inside a mosque packed with worshippers for Friday prayers in Mohmand Agency in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal region.
The partition of Bengal in 1905 split more than a province, it touched people's hearts and awakened India's fight for freedom.
The epicentre was located 60 kilometres northwest of Rawalpindi, according to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC).
A Pakistani policeman was killed and eight persons were injured while defusing two bombs planted outside a girls' school in the country's volatile northwest.
A ceremony to launch Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai's book was scrapped after the government of the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province said it could not provide security for the event.
Among the 24 injured are 14 civilians, including women and children, with several said to be in critical condition.
At least 10 people were killed when a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded near a hotel in Pakistan's northwestern Nowshehra city on Thursday, officials said.
There has been an increase in violence in Bannu and other cities in the northwest ever since the Pakistan government stormed a radical pro-Taliban mosque in Islamabad recently.
The attack took place during evening prayers in Kohat in North Western Frontier Province, some 70 kms from Peshawar.
A powerful bomb blast ripped through a bus in the restive tribal belt of northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 13 people including two children, and injuring four others, officials said.
At least 12 persons, including four children, were killed and 30 injured as two explosive-laden vehicles rammed into the boundary wall of the main cantonment in Bannu in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday while the army personnel neutralised at least six terrorists.
'We are too important to want to be paired with Pakistan but too intensely connected to it to successfully detach ourselves,' asserts Aakar Patel.
'It was such a joy for me to return there today -- after 13 long years -- to be surrounded by the mountains, dip my hands in the cold river and laugh with my beloved cousins.'
Hundreds of Taliban fighters on Friday carried out fresh attacks in a remote area in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan though security forces claimed to have regained control of the region after fierce fighting that killed nearly 80 people, including 28 troops.
At least eight soldiers and 25 militants were killed on Tuesday in a skirmish that began after scores of Taliban fighters attacked a military post in the restive Kurram tribal region of northwest Pakistan, which has witnessed fierce clashes in recent days.
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