Pakistan: Blast damages structures in Nasirabad

A powerful blast rocked the Rabi canal area of Nasirabad district on Monday, damaging some structures close to the blast area, but causing no human loss. Police said that some unknown miscreants planted an improvised explosive device (IED) in Rabi Read More …

Pakistan: Trains suspended after Balochistan attacks

Unidentified miscreants targeted the railway infrastructure near the Machh-Sibi section with an improvised explosive device (IED) on Friday evening, destroying a portion of the railway track and forcing authorities to suspend several passenger train services. After the blast, security forces Read More …

Pakistan: Five militants killed in North Waziristan Boya army camp attack

An attack unfolded at the Boya military camp in the Datta Khel area in North Waziristan on Friday. The assailants used an explosive‑laden vehicle and suicide jackets to breach and assault the camp. All four militants were killed, and the Read More …

Iran: Three police officers killed in terrorist attack at checkpoint in Kerman province

At least three police officers were killed after coming under fire during an armed clash with unidentified terrorists at a security checkpoint in Iran’s southeastern province of Kerman, authorities said. In a statement released Tuesday, the Quds Base of the Read More …

India charges Pakistan-based militant groups, six men over Kashmir tourist attack

India’s anti-terrorism agency on Monday charged militant Islamist groups based in Pakistan and six individuals over an April attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir that killed 26 men, and triggered intense fighting between the two countries. The fighting, the worst Read More …

Pakistan: North Waziristan primary school destroyed in explosion

In North Waziristan’s Mir Ali area, a government primary school was destroyed in an overnight explosion, affecting more than 600 students and disrupting education in the region. In the Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan, unknown armed assailants blew up Read More …

Paskistan: Jaffar Express attack averted in Balochistan’s Nasirabad

Security forces foiled an attempt to target Jaffar Express by recovering a bomb planted on a railway track in Nasirabad district on Saturday. Police officials said unidentified individuals had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) on the track in the Read More …

Pakistan: Three police officers killed in IED blast targeting police vehicle in Dera Ismail Khan

Three cops, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeting a police vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan on Wednesday. The spokesperson for district police, Yaqoob Zulqarnain said, told Dawn that an Read More …

Pakistan: Rail line blown up as wave of blasts rocks Balochistan

Seven blasts rocked Quetta and Dera Murad Jamali on Saturday, with one explosion blowing up a section of railway track near the provincial capital and suspending train traffic to other parts of the country. The first blast took place near Read More …

Pakistan: Three children die in landmine explosion inside home in Bolan

Three children were killed and three others injured when a landmine exploded in the Sanni Shoran area of Bolan on Wednesday. Police said the device had been planted inside the home of a local named Abdul Hayee Jatoi. The explosion Read More …

Pakistan: Shepherd killed in South Waziristan landmine blast

A minor shepherd lost his live in a bomb blast in Upper South Waziristan’s Tiarza tehsil on Monday, the police said. They said that the explosion occurred when Mian Din Mehsud, 12, was grazing his goats in a hilly terrain Read More …

Pakistan: Three Federal Constabulary officers killed in suicide attack on force’s headquarters in Peshawar

Three Federal Constabulary (FC) men were martyred in a suicide attack on the force’s headquarters in Peshawar’s Saddar area on Monday morning. The attack occurred on one of the city’s busiest roads just after 8am. Video footage of the incident Read More …

Pakistan: KP CM approves major overhaul of Special Branch to boost counter-terror capabilities

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi on Sunday approved a sweeping set of administrative and operational upgrades for the Police Special Branch in a major push to modernise the intelligence arm and reinforce the province’s counter-terrorism mechanism. Chairing a high-level Read More …

Pakistan: Two police officers killed, four injured as police van targeted in DI Khan

Two cops were martyred and four were injured when a police van was targeted with a bomb in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan, an official said. DI Khan District Police Officer (DPO) Sajjad Ahmad Sahibzada confirmed the casualties to Dawn. Read More …

Pakistan: IED explodes prematurely in Bannu, kills terrorist planting bomb

One terrorist was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) he was installing near Doh Ghoda Bridge in Bannu detonated prematurely on Tuesday, while his injured accomplice fled towards a nearby residential area, police said. No civilian casualties were reported, Read More …

Pakistan: Jaffar Express narrowly escapes another bomb and rocket attack

The Jaffar Express—one of Pakistan’s most frequently targeted passenger trains—narrowly escaped yet another bomb and rocket attack in Balochistan’s Nasirabad district on Sunday, marking the latest strike in a months-long campaign of sabotage against the province’s railway infrastructure, police and Read More …

Pakistan says Afghan nationals carried out this week’s suicide attacks

Pakistan’s interior minister said Thursday that Afghan nationals carried out two fatal suicide attacks this week — one targeting a cadet college near the Afghan border and the other outside a court in the capital, Islamabad. “In both of the Read More …

Pakistan: Security agencies arrest ‘facilitator, handler’ of Islamabad suicide attack

As the probe into the Islamabad Judicial Complex suicide bombing inched forward, security agencies on Thursday detained a handler and a facilitator believed to be linked to the attack, sources said. The sources said that the facilitator, living in Rawalpindi Read More …

Pakistan: At least 12 killed, 27 injured in suicide blast outside district court in Islamabad’s G-11

At least twelve people were killed and 27 people were injured on Tuesday in a suicide blast outside the district and sessions court building in Islamabad’s G-11 area, according to officials. The death toll was initially confirmed to Dawn by Read More …

Pakistan: Security forces kill 2 terrorists after attack on Wana Cadet College

At least two terrorists were killed during an attack on Cadet College Wana in South Waziristan on Monday as security forces conducted a clearance operation at the educational facility, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The military’s media wing said Read More …