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At least eight policemen were killed and 25 injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden vehicle hitting the main boundary wall of the Bakka Khel Police station in Bannu District. The dead included three police personnel, two Frontier Constabulary...
Tags: police station, NW Pakistan, Bannu District, Pakistan, Bannu, Khan, War Conflict, Chronology of terrorist incidents in Pakistan, Khandar Khan Khel, Peshawar, timeline of the War in Waziristan, Waziristan, Terrorism in Pakistan
The attack came as Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, touched down in Islamabad for talks with government officials. Speaking in the Pakistani capital she expressed her support for the military's offensive against the Taliban and pledging continued...
Tags: Pakistani, NW Pakistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Clinton Focuses, Peshawar, U.S, Lahore, United States, China
At least 41 persons included six personnel of the security forces were killed and 45 others injured as a result of high intensity suicide car bomb explosion in main bazaar of Alpuri, headquarters of Shangla district on Monday noon. Those killed included...
Tags: Shangla Bazaar, Pakistan Presiden, NW Pakistan, northwest Pakistan, Pakistan Army, security forced, bombs militants, South Waziristan, suicide bomber
The incident took place near Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. Witnesses said at least six trucks, an oil tanker and a container were totally destroyed by the blaze...The US military sends three quarters of supplies for its troops in Afghanistan...
Tags: Pakistani, NW Pakistan, Northwest Pakistan, Afghanistan, Peshawar, Taliban, Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda
In another incident, security forces arrested twenty suspected terrorists including a cousin of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Muslim Khan from Bara Banda.
Tags: NW Pakistan, Peshawar, Taliban, Swat Valley
The explosion occurred in Baluchistan province on Monday, after a bullock-cart hit a landmine on the road, killing two women and two children. Two others were also wounded in the incident, a district police spokesperson told Press TV. No group has yet...
Tags: Ahmed Ali Bugti, Dera Bugti, Missorri Bugti, Mureed Bugti, landmine blast, NW Pakistan, Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Authorities in Pakistan's Swat Valley have resumed vaccinating children for polio, a practice the Taliban had banned as un-Islamic before they were beaten back by an army offensive, an official said Tuesday. The Islamist militants, who began...
Tags: Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan, NW Pakistan, Orakzai Agency, Afghanistan, taliban militants
Staff Report SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Two security men were killed and two others were hurt in a bomb blast in Shakai, South Waziristan Monday. Sources told SAMAA that explosion took place when the security men were crossing Shakai. Two of them died on the spot....
Tags: NW Pakistan, Afghanistan, roadside bomb, Swat Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Police say three policemen have been fatally shot each by a single bullet to the head west of Pakistan's capital. Officer Arshad Mahmood says it appears to be a targeted killing but would not say if Taliban militants are suspected. The dead...
Tags: E. Pakistan, NW Pakistan, railway bridge, shot dead, Tamil Tigers, roadside bomb, Swat Taliban, policemen shot
PESHAWAR: Thousands of civilians have fled Pakistan's northwest Khyber tribal region where the latest military offensive killed 33 more suspected militants Sunday. Pakistan is under intense U.S. pressure to crack down on insurgents along its border with...
Tags: E. Pakistan, NW Pakistan, Sri Lankan, Tamil Tigers, Lahore, India, lankan cricketers, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Swat Taliban