News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
The blast happened in the Swat Valley, which the Pakistani government had claimed had been cleared of Taliban fighters. Witnesses say a military convoy was passing through a busy market area when what police believe was a suicide bomber struck the...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| about 1 month ago
It's part of a fresh Taliban bid to engage the Army on several fronts ahead of the Army's planned offensive in South Waziristan. More than 40 people were killed Monday in a suicide bombing aimed at a military convoy in Pakistan's restive Swat Valley.
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The bomber targeted the convoy as it passed through a security checkpost near a crowded bazaar in Alpuri town in Shangla, a district neighbouring Swat valley and the target of a recent anti-Taliban offensive. "Forty-one people were killed and 45 were...
News Source: Pak Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Thirty-two persons including four security personnel have been killed and 53 injured in a suicide attack in district Shangla. Several injured reported in a critical condition mounting fears that death toll could be rise. Sources said a suicide...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
At least 32 people, most of them civilians, were killed Monday when suicide attacker struck a military convoy near a busy market in northwest Pakistan, a military official said. The bomber targeted the convoy as it passed through a security checkpost...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
At least 29 people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast Monday at a security forces checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, authorities said. About 45 people were injured in the explosion in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley, said Syed...