Russia foils 'terrorist attack' on Moscow
Source: NewKerala
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-21 09:36:37 -0700 | travel-news
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the terrorist group was located in a house in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, east of the capital. According to the BBC, the suspects are said to be Russian citizens who had undergone training in the...
Blast in passenger coach kills 16
Source: Pak Tribune
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-13 03:34:11 -0700 | disasters-news
At least 16 people were killed on Sunday in a blast that ripped through a passenger coach in a remote area of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. The nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately. However, reports said the...
15 killed as van gas cylinder blows up in Pakistan
Source: NewKerala
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-12 11:05:10 -0700 | political-news
At least 15 people were killed and four others injured Sunday when the gas cylinder of a passenger van exploded in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, a media report said. The passenger van carrying over 20 people was on its way...
Pakistanis vote in landmark, unpredictable election
Source: Fox
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-10 22:05:43 -0700 | political-news
Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan was holding historic elections Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. Polls opened...
CIA Drone Strikes on Trial in Pakistan
Source: Inter Press Service
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-10 18:53:33 -0700 | political-news
Victims of drone attacks readied for burial in Miranshah, North Waziristan. Adding fuel to a long-simmering dispute between the U.S. and Pakistan, a Peshawar High Court declared CIA drone strikes illegal on Thursday, referring to such attacks in Pakistan's tribal...
Taliban threaten polling day suicide attacks ...
Source: Pak Tribune
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-10 10:32:39 -0700 | travel-news
The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said on Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives. Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a...
Tribal women warned not to vote
Source: Pak Tribune
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-09 02:45:24 -0700 | political-news
An unknown group on Wednesday warned that women in a restive tribal region should not vote in Saturday's general election, threatening punishment. "The people of Waziristan are hereby warned that they should not allow their women to cast votes and...
2 killed, 27 injured as suicide car bomb hits police station in NW Pakistan
Source: NewKerala
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-08 10:10:03 -0700 | disasters-news
At least two people were killed and 27 others injured when a suicide car bomb hit a police station in Pakistan's northwest Bannu district on Wednesday morning, reported local media. According to local media reports, the attack took place at...
Entrance to PTI candidate house blown up
Source: Pak Tribune
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-06 13:48:28 -0700 | political-news
The main entrance to the house and adjacent hujra of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for NA-40 North Waziristan Agency were damaged in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mir Ali on Sunday. Family members of the PTI...
First polio case in Pakistan's Waziristan since Taliban ban
Source: Kuwait News Top Stories
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-05 23:58:43 -0700 | health-news
May 6, 2013 (AFP) -A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said Monday. "The new case has been detected in North Waziristan...
Campaigners want end to slaughter by remote control
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-04-24 15:48:30 -0700 | political-news
Last week, a missile fired from a United States drone slammed into a village in South Waziristan, in Pakistan's tribal territories, killing between four and six people and wounding at least two. After a decade of attacks from the skies,...
Bomb kills four Pakistani soldiers
Source: The Courier-Mail
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-04-16 07:49:58 -0700 | travel-news
Pakistani soldiers and wounded many others in the country's most notorious militant stronghold on the Afghan border, local officials say. The bomb struck on a road under construction, five kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town of the district of...
Taliban stop students from going to schools
Source: DAWN
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-04-15 19:42:59 -0700 | political-news
Irritated by blockade of main artery of Miramshah in North Waziristan, the local Taliban Shura issued a decree' on Monday barring boys and girls from going to schools near the Cantonment area until security forces removed the barricades. The Hafiz...
Pak journalists in the crosshairs
Source: Arab News
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-04-15 15:51:05 -0700 | political-news
Muhammad Waqas Tuesday 16 April 2013 Last Update 16 April 2013 1:12 am Eeven though the media in Pakistan stand liberated today, they are facing testing times. Members of the fraternity, journalists in particular, are facing heightened security risks and...
Militants blow up election office in Pakistan
Source: Qatar English Daily
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | updated 2013-04-13 13:33:29 -0700 | travel-news
Militants blew up the election office of an independent candidate in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, adding to security fears ahead of historic national polls next month. No one was hurt in the bombing in Miranshah, which is the main town...
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