LAHORE, Pakistan – A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.
LAHORE, Pakistan – A suicide car bomber Monday struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens including women taking children to school, officials said.
PESHAWAR: An al Qaeda-linked militant who has called for attacks on China over its treatment of Muslims has been killed in a US missile strike in Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence and Taliban officials said on Monday.
A British woman who converted to Islam was killed by a suicide bomber after moving to Pakistan to be with her new husband.
New Delhi: The Pakistan Taliban beheaded three Sikhs and dumped their heads at a gurdwara in Peshawar, reports on Sunday said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani jet fighters killed 30 militants in remote, forested mountains on the Afghan border on Saturday, the military said, as U.S. forces spearhead one of NATO’s biggest offensives against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
KABUL – Pakistani authorities, aided by U.S. intelligence, have apprehended more Afghan Taliban chiefs following the capture of the movement’s No. 2 figure — arrests that together represent the biggest blow to the insurgents since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
KHYBER AGENCY: At least 10 personnel of the paramilitary Khasadar force were killed and eight other wounded in a suicide blast occurred on Pak-Afghan Shahrah in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency Wednesday.
The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan is dead, the country’s interior minister and a senior intelligence official have said.
KARACHI: A motorcycle rigged with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shias in Karachi Friday, killing 11 people and wounding 40 in the second such attack in Pakistan’s financial capital in two months.
