Gunmen attack Pakistan passenger vehicles, killing at least 38 people
Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in north-western Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 29, the chief secretary of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, said. Among the fatalities in the attack, which occurred in the Kurram tribal district, were a woman and […]
At least 10 killed in attack on police station in Pakistan
Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan Reuters At least 10 police personnel were killed and six others injured in a pre-dawn attack on Monday by militants on a police station in north-west Pakistan, police said, as violence escalated ahead of general elections this week. At around 3am local time militants attacked the police station with sniper fire […]
Suicide bomb at political rally in Pakistan kills more than 40
Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan Reuters At least 42 people were killed and over 130 injured when a suicide bomber set off explosives at a political rally in Pakistan’s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police and rescue officials said. The blast took place at a gathering of the conservative Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party, known […]
Earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 13, nine of them in Pakistan
Peshawar, Pakistan/Kabul, AfghanistanReuters At least 13 people were killed and more than 90 injured in Pakistan and Afghanistan after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck late on Tuesday, government officials said. At least nine people were killed and 44 injured in north-west Pakistan, a Pakistani government official said, and hospitals in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were […]