Pakistan: Three die in Kech explosion

A roadside explosion killed three people in Balochistan’s Kech district on Sunday, Makran Division Commissioner Saeed Ahmed Umrani said. According to Umrani, unidentified terrorists targeted a vehicle through an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Hoshap tehsil of the district. Read More …

Pakistan: Resurgent militancy

While Pakistan may not be witnessing the mass-casualty terror attacks – particularly against civilian targets in urban centres – that the nation saw a decade ago, the militants are making their presence felt through frequent, deadly forays targeting security personnel. Read More …

Pakistan: One killed, 12 injured in attack on gas exploration company’s convoy

One person was killed while 12 others were injured when unidentified armed men attacked the camp office of a private oil and gas company in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan on Monday. Last week, two police personnel were martyred and Read More …

Pakistan: Explosion derails passenger train in southwest Balochistan

A passenger train was derailed after being hit by an improvised explosive device in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Sunday, the Pakistan Railways said in a statement. The train, with 234 passengers and staff aboard, was on its way to Read More …

Pakistan: 6 killed, over 20 injured in DI Khan motorbike blast

Six people were killed and over 20 injured in a powerful explosion that occurred in Tank Adda in Ponda Bazar of Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan) on Friday. According to SAMAA TV, citing the police, sounds of gunfire were reported Read More …

Pakistan: Child killed, 8 injured in hand grenade explosion in Balochistan Wadh

A child lost his life while eight others were injured on Tuesday when a hand grenade exploded in the Zarchain area of Balochistan’s Wadh city, police said. According to Wadh Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Abdul Manaf, the children from Read More …

Pakistan: At least 52 killed, scores injured in suicide blast near 12th Rabiul Awwal procession in Mastung

At least 52 people, including a police officer, were killed while around 50 were injured in what officials believe was a suicide blast near a Rabiul Awwal procession in Balochistan’s Mastung district on Friday. “The bomber detonated himself near the Read More …

Pakistan: Car-bomb plot foiled in Quetta

The law-enforcement agencies on Wednesday foiled an attempt to carry out a car-bomb attack in the city and seized an explosives-laden car from a parking lot near a police station in the Eastern Bypass area. “Over 35 kilograms of high Read More …

Pakistan militants attack convoy of Chinese engineers

Balochistan Liberation Army militants claimed responsibility for an attack on a convoy of Chinese engineers in the southwest of Pakistan on Sunday, Agence France-Presse reported. The incident took place as the engineers were traveling to Gwadar Port, a Chinese-financed project, Read More …

Pakistan: Three CTD men hurt in roadside IED blast

Senior CTD official Raja Umer Khattab said that their intelligence wing had been working on the presence of militants belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in Karachi and its adjoining cities in Baluchistan, and when it was returning from its Read More …