Pakistan vows to hunt perpetrators of Karachi attack

On Sunday, an explosion near the Karachi airport killed three people, including two Chinese citizens, and injured over a dozen. The attack was claimed by the Majeed Brigade of the Baloch Liberation Army, a banned separatist outfit. Investigators probing the Read More …

Pakistan: Two foreign nationals dead, several injured in explosion near Karachi airport

At least two foreign nationals died while 17 others sustained injuries in a huge explosion near Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, with Home Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar suspecting it to be an improvised explosive device (IED) strike. Sources told Geo Read More …

Pakistan: Security forces ‘carried out over 7,000 anti-terror ops’ in less than 3 months

Pakistan’s security forces have carried out as many as 7,745 anti-terror operations from April 1 to June 10 in their bid to curb the scourge of terrorism faced by the country, sources told Geo News on Wednesday. These operations were Read More …

Pakistan police kill bomber to thwart attack on Japanese nationals

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 …

Pakistan: Bomb found in Karachi-bound Awami Express defused

A major tragedy was averted when a bomb was recovered from one of the bogies of Karachi-bound Awami Express train on Friday, police and railways officials said. According to details, a suspicious bag containing switches and wires was spotted under Read More …

Pakistan: 8 people killed after a rocket launcher shell explodes at a home in southern Sindh province

A shell of a rocket launcher apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, including women and children, police said. At least two people were also wounded in Read More …

Pakistan: Suicide bomb attack on Chinese shipyard workers foiled by police in Karachi

A suspected suicide bomb attack on Chinese shipyard workers in Pakistan has been foiled by police. The PTI news agency cited police officers as saying the attacker was killed by security forces on Wednesday following an intelligence tip-off. An attack Read More …

Thailand: Two bomb disposal team members die, one injured in Narathiwat

Two members of an army bomb disposal squad were killed and another injured by a southern insurgent IED attack on the convoy of the deputy commander of the Fourth Army Region in Si Sakhon district of the restive southern province Read More …

Pakistan: Militants killed in Gulshan-e-Maymar raid affiliated with IS-K

The Sindh Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Sunday revealed that a pair of militants killed in an encounter in Karachi’s outskirts a day ago were affiliated with the outlawed militant Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) group and had planned a suicide Read More …