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Six Frontier Corps personnel were injured in an improvised explosive device attack on a military convoy in Upper Bara here on Wednesday. Security officials in the region said that suspected militants targeted an FC convoy in Enzara area of Upper Read More …
Repolling in the Kohlu district of Balochistan for the PB-9 constituency could not take place on Wednesday after a landmine exploded and rockets were fired at a polling station, according to the deputy commissioner. The incident came just hours after Read More …
Two boys were killed and another sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in the Maidan area of Tirah valley on Saturday, local and official sources said. The victims were reportedly searching for mushrooms in a hilly Read More …
Police in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi shot down a suicide bomber and a militant on Friday as they attacked a vehicle carrying five Japanese nationals, all of whom survived, a police spokesperson said. Islamist militants seeking to overthrow the Read More …
Two children were killed and three others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Shawaal area, South Waziristan on Friday. The bodies and injured children have been shifted to hospital. The deceased were identified as Fakharuddin and Noor Muhammad. Read More …
A police officer died and six other officers were wounded in a grenade attack Monday at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan, authorities said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Local police Read More …
Six security personnel, including a DSP, were martyred and 12 militants killed in separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on Friday night and Saturday. In one incident, eight militants were killed in a gun battle with security forces during Read More …
China has demanded a “thorough investigation” after five of its nationals and one Pakistani were killed in an attack on a convoy in Bisham tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla, according to the regional police chief and a station house officer Read More …
A roadside bomb exploded near a security convoy in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing two soldiers and wounding 15 others, officials said. The attack happened in Dera Ismail Khan, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Read More …
The security forces on Wednesday killed eight terrorists and repulsed an attack by militants on a complex outside the strategic port of Gwadar, security officials and Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti confirmed. Armed with guns and bombs, the militants stormed Read More …
Pakistan has launched overnight air attacks inside Afghanistan, while the Taliban claimed hours later to have fired across the border. Tensions flared on Monday between Islamabad and Kabul following the overnight raids. Pakistan said the attack had targeted armed groups Read More …
Militants attacked a military post in Pakistan near Afghanistan on Saturday morning using a vehicle laden with explosives, killing five security force members, Pakistan’s military said. The incident in northwest Pakistan was carried out by six attackers, the military’s media Read More …
A blast killed two people and injured another person on Peshawar’s Board Bazar road on early Sunday morning, said the police officials. The bomb disposal unit’s (BDU) report revealed that it was not a suicide blast, confirmed Senior Superintendent of Read More …
Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province saw a 72 percent increase in militant attacks during February, mostly as banned outfits targeted political parties’ election activities in days leading up to the polls, the managing director of a Pakistani think tank said on Read More …
A Pakistani national accused by US officials of carrying Iranian-made missile parts to Houthi rebels in Yemen is to remain behind bars awaiting trial. During a detention hearing in a federal court on Tuesday, federal prosecutors charged Muhammad Pahlawan with Read More …
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has claimed arresting five alleged members of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan during a raid in Bajaur tribal district, a senior official said on Friday. Addressing a press conference in the provincial capital, CTD SSP Najmul Husain Read More …
At least nine people were killed and more than a dozen others injured in almost two dozen incidents of violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district and multiple districts of Balochistan on Thursday. Five police personnel were martyred and Read More …
At least 28 people were killed while over 40 suffered injuries after back-to-back blasts hit Balochistan’s Pishin and Qila Saifullah on Wednesday, officials said. he incidents come a day before general elections are scheduled to be held in the country. Read More …
A bomb went off in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, leaving at least one policeman killed and two others injured, official sources said. The explosion happened when a police bomb disposal squad was defusing an improvised explosive device Read More …
Terrorists in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district attacked a police station in the wee hours of Monday, leaving at least 10 cops martyred and six others injured. The terrorists attacked the police station from all sides with grenades and heavy Read More …