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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
That the town has been completely cleared of the Taliban was evident from a photograph the military released, showing Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman being briefed in the open on a street with minimal security in...
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
Hundreds of residents in northern Pakistan attacked villages suspected of sheltering Taliban militants following a mosque bombing last week, authorities said Sunday. Some 400 villagers killed at least seven Taliban fighters, burning a number of...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
The assault comes after the bombing of a mosque on Friday, which killed 38 people in Hayagai Sharki village in Upper Dir district. The villagers have blamed the bombing on the Taliban hiding in the area. Nearby Swat valley has been the scene of heavy...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
A bomb has exploded at a police station in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, as the military continues to battle Taliban fighters in the northwest of the country. Local media reported that at least one person had been confirmed dead in the explosion on...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| 5 months ago
The explosion comes just a day after a bomb attack on a mosque in North-West Pakistan, in which 38 people died. There has been a series of bombings and attacks in major cities in Pakistan in recent weeks. Security officials in Pakistan are concerned...
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News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 5 months ago
Pakistan (AFP) – Investigators were Saturday sifting through a mosque in northwest Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed 38 people, heightening fears of a rebel backlash against an offensive to eliminate the Taliban. The attack happened during...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
Two pro-Taliban clerics were killed in a shootout between security forces and militants in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, a day after around 40 people were killed in a suicide attack in a mosque, the military said. The clerics were arrested by...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people and wounded 40 attending prayers at a mosque in Pakistan's northwest yesterday. The violence came as the country's leaders urged a visiting US envoy for more aid to stave off the Taliban-led militancy.
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 6 months ago
The security forces also killed 10 more militants and apprehended six terrorists, including three activists of the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muhammadi in different parts of the Malakand division, the military said in a statement. Fourteen...
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News Source: Truthout
| 6 months ago
A group of Pakistani refugees flees fighting in the Swat Valley...A suicide bombing today killed at least 38 people. (Photo: Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images) A bomb has exploded at a mosque in north-western Pakistan during Friday prayers,...