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 …

Pakistan: Three police officers hurt in Hangu explosion, ‘Afghan IED expert’ killed in Tank

Three police officers, including an SHO, were wounded on Sunday when an improvised explosive device struck a police convoy conducting search operations near a cemetery in the Doaba area of Hangu, police said. According to a police official, Saqib, a Read More …

Pakistan: Security forces defuse 100kg bomb in Kalat

Security forces on Sunday successfully defused a 100-kilogram locally manufactured bomb in Balochistan’s Kalat district, preventing what officials said could have been a large-scale terrorist attack. According to Levies sources, the explosive device had been planted under a bridge in Read More …

Pakistan: Abandoned telephone exchange building blown up in Lakki

An old and abandoned building of a telephone exchange was blown up with explosives in Takhtikhel area of Lakki Marwat district on Friday, the police said. An official said that the incident occurred within the limits of Shaheed Asmatullah Khan Read More …

Pakistan: 10 security men injured as Kech DC survives IED blast in Turbat

Nine Levies officials and a pedestrian were injured in a roadside explosion that targeted the convoy of the Kech deputy commissioner in Turbat on Monday. In a separate incident, dozens of armed men invaded a town in Kacchi district and Read More …

Pakistan: 12 militants killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa operations, suicide vehicle destroyed

At least 12 militants were killed in a series of security operations in Bajaur, Hangu and North Waziristan districts between Friday night and Saturday, officials and local sources said. Separately, a station house officer (SHO) was injured in Hangu during Read More …

Pakistan: Confronting Deadly Trifecta of Terrorist Groups

After more than two decades as a frontline state in the Global War on Terror, Pakistan continues to face a complex and adaptive threat landscape. Militant outfits affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Baloch insurgency, and the Islamic State Read More …

Pakistan: Senior police officer and two others killed in back-to-back blasts in Hangu

Three cops, including a superintendent of police (SP), were martyred as back-to-back blasts rocked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu on Friday, according to police. KP Inspector General of Police (IGP) Zulfiqar Hameed shared these details with Dawn.com, saying that the first blast Read More …

Pakistan: Karachi police make first arrest using facial recognition technology

Police on Monday claimed to have made the first-ever arrest using facial recognition technology in the metropolis. Without identifying the exact location, DIG Syed Asad Raza said that an alert was received by an emergency response vehicle (ERV) operator that Read More …

Pakistan says it will ‘take all measures to defend its territory’ after Afghanistan aggression

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Sunday warned Afghanistan that Pakistan was “exercising extreme caution in its defensive response” to the former’s unprovoked firing raids along the border, terming it a “serious provocation”. In a statement on Read More …

Afghanistan: Armed forces of the Islamic Emirate have carried out a counter-attack operation against Pakistan security forces

Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, said that 58 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 30 others wounded during an operation conducted last night. Mujahid added that during the retaliatory operations carried out across the hypothetical Durand Line, Read More …

Pakistan sees surge in militant-linked violence in third quarter

Violence in Pakistan has surged over the past three months due to a spike in militant attacks and intensified counter-terrorism operations, an Islamabad-based think tank said Monday. The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) reported a 46 percent rise Read More …

Pakistan: 7 injured after blast derails 4 Jaffar Express carriages in Sindh’s Shikarpur

At least seven people were injured on Tuesday after a blast on a railway track derailed four bogies of the Jaf­far Express in Sindh’s Shikarpur district, according to officials. Shikarpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shahzeb Chachar said that the Read More …

Pakistan: Peshawar IED blast injures four policemen: official

At least four policemen were injured on Thursday when their vehicle was hit by the improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Peshawar’s Garhi Qamar Din area, said police. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Masood Bangash said that a police Read More …

Pakistan: At least 10 dead, 32 injured in bomb blast near Quetta’s FC headquarters

At least 10 people were killed and 32 were injured on Tuesday after a bomb blast ripped through a busy street near Quetta’s Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters, officials said. According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Special Operations Quetta Read More …

Pakistan: 10 civilians among 24 killed in Tirah blast

At least 14 terrorists and 10 civilians were killed in a powerful explosion at an improvised explosive device (IED) manufacturing facility in the Akakhel area of Khyber district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), late on Sunday night. According to the state-run Associated Press Read More …

Pakistan: Explosion derails Jaffar Express in Balochistan, leaving several injured

Several passengers were injured when three carriages of the Jaffar Express derailed in the Dasht area of Mastung, Balochistan, on Tuesday, following an explosion on the railway track, officials confirmed. Railway authorities reported that one of the carriages overturned, while Read More …