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Six Pakistani security personnel were killed in three attacks in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan in two days. Four personnel including two FC soldiers Lance Naik Mudassir and Sepoy Jamshed and two police constables Abdul Samad and Read More …
The Bomb Disposal Unit personnel on Monday defused an explosive device weighing about two kilogrammes near a car bargain centre in Patang Chowk area on the Ring Road here, the police said. A police official told Dawn that the device Read More …
A large improvised explosive device explosion has killed at least one policeman and wounded 17 others in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, local officials say. The blast targeted a police truck carrying security personnel at the gate of the Read More …
A journalist has been killed in a targeted attack in the southern Pakistani town of Hub, police officials say, with the ethnic separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claiming responsibility for the attack in a statement. Shahid Zehri was killed while Read More …
Four security personnel were martyred and two others injured in a bomb attack on a vehicle of the Frontier Corps in the Khosat area of Harnai district on Saturday. The banned Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack. Official Read More …
An under construction girls middle school was damaged in a blast in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Tank district late Tuesday night. Talking to The Express Tribune, District Police Officer (DPO) Tank, Sahibzada Sajjad said the Government Girls Middle School Kalu Parangi located Read More …
Two policemen were injured in roadside bomb explosion on Quetta’s Sariab road. According to police, an explosive device was planted near Kechi Beg on Sariab road, which was detonated by remote control when Eagle Squad personnel were on a routine Read More …
Two Pakistan Army soldiers were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in North Waziristan on Tuesday, the military’s media affairs wing said. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that security forces were conducting a clearance Read More …
Three security men and two civilians were martyred in firing from the Afghan side of the border and IED (improvised explosive device) attacks in different areas of the merged districts on Sunday. Three terrorists were killed in retaliatory fire by Read More …
Four security personnel were martyred in two separate blasts in Balochistan on Thursday. Three Levies personnel were martyred in a bomb attack on a security forces’ vehicle in Ziarat while one official in an explosion near their vehicle in the Read More …
An army captain was killed and two soldiers were injured in a roadside explosion in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday, the military said. An army vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in remote Gichik area, said a Read More …
Two children were killed while three others, including a Chinese national, injured in a suicide attack targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals near the East Bay Expressway in Gwadar, Balochistan on Friday. Just a month after the attack on the Read More …
At least four people have been killed in a grenade attack on an Ashura mourning procession of Shi’ite Muslims in eastern Pakistan. A spokesman for the Shi’ite organization Majlis-e-Wahdat Muslimeen told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that several people were also injured Read More …
As the dust begins to settle on war-torn Afghanistan, a major question is what will happen to the landmines and other ordinance littering its landscape? More than 40 years of war have left the Afghan landscape littered with landmines as Read More …
The death toll in the hand grenade attack on a mini-truck in Karachi on Saturday night has now climbed up to 13. All the 13 people belonged to the same family and were returning from a wedding reception when their Read More …
Two police personnel were martyred while many others sustained injures when a powerful blast targeted their vehicle near a luxury hotel in Balochistan’s capital Quetta on Sunday, officials said. According to provincial government spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani, a police van was Read More …
At least four people were injured on Monday while a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle was damaged in a blast in Hazar Ganji, a locality on the outskirts of Quetta, officials said. In a statement, a spokesman for the Balochistan Counter-Terrorism Read More …
Military police say a roadside bomb explosion has killed two soldiers in southwest Pakistan. Police said in a statement on July 15 that the attack took place overnight at the Khuda Baksh Bazaar in Pasni, a district of the impoverished Read More …
The federal information minister has sought to demystify ambiguity around a deadly bus tragedy involving Chinese engineers a day after a frenzied media guessing game on the possible causes of the fatal cash. At least 13 people – nine Chinese Read More …
A blast on a bus killed 13 people in north Pakistan on Wednesday, including nine Chinese nationals in what Beijing said was a bomb attack but Islamabad called a vehicle failure. Two Pakistani soldiers were also among the dead after Read More …