An explosion that killed seven people and caused panic in the Pakistani city of Lahore was caused by a gas leak and not a bomb as police had earlier stated, according to officials Friday. The blast on Thursday wounded dozens in the provincial capital, already on edge after a suicide attack just ten days earlier … Read more
At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in Pakistan Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of devotees at a revered Sufi shrine in southern Sindh province. Here is a list of major attacks by militant groups in the country since 2007: October 18: Bomb attacks targeting former … Read more
An improvised explosive device hit an army convoy on Thursday in the restive southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, killing three soldiers and wounding two others, the military said. A captain was among the three killed by the IED in Awaran district, the military said in a statement. Mineral-rich Balochistan has been plagued for decades by … Read more
Pakistanis Tuesday mourned the victims of a Taliban-claimed suicide bomb in Lahore, as the death toll rose to 15 and the city’s residents railed at the government for failing to protect them. The chief minister of Punjab state Shahbaz Sharif declared a day of mourning after Monday’s blast on Lahore’s Mall Road, one of the … Read more
A powerful bomb blast on Monday ripped through a protest in the Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, according to officials. The explosion went off in Lahore’s busy Mall Road during a rally attended by hundreds of pharmacists protesting against changes to a drug sale law outside the provincial … Read more
At least 11 people have been killed and 60 were wounded after a Taliban off-shoot attacked a demonstration in Lahore, Pakistan. The suicide bomber approached the pharmacists on a motorbike and detonated his device as he was passing the marchers. Hundreds of pharmacists were demonstrating over new laws governing drugs sales when the suicide bomber … Read more
A powerful explosion killed at least 10 people and injured 60 when it ripped through a protest in Pakistan’s Lahore Monday, officials said, shattering a growing sense of security in the provincial capital. Police had cordoned off the area on Mall Road, one of the city’s main arteries, as witnesses fled amid fears of a … Read more
An explosion killed at least one person and injured 22 in Pakistan’s teeming eastern city Lahore Monday, officials said, sending onlookers fleeing and shattering a growing sense of security in the provincial capital. Police had cordoned off the area on Mall Road, one of the city’s main arteries, amid fears of a second blast as … Read more
U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday condemned the deadly attack in southwestern Pakistan, which has killed at least 52 people, and voiced his hope that the perpetrators can be swiftly brought to justice. The secretary-general, in a statement issued here Saturday night by his spokesman, extended “his heartfelt condolences” to the families of the … Read more
Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least four people at a religious gathering of Shi’ite Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, on Saturday, police said, in the latest attack claimed by the Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s Al Alami faction. The shooting took place in the North Nazimabad neighborhood of the sprawling metropolis of more than 18 … Read more