At least 15 militants and two soldiers have been killed in two separate gun battles in a relatively peaceful district of Pakistan just northwest of the capital Islamabad, officials said Wednesday. The shootouts come after a recent resurgence in militant violence, with 130 people killed nationwide in the month of February, ending a lull in … Read more
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 five people were killed and 30 injured after a blast ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area of Pakistan’s Lahore Thursday, officials said, the latest in a surge in Islamist violence. “It was a bomb attack,” Nayab Haider, a spokesman for the provincial Punjab police said. Rescue services spokeswoman Deeba Shehnaz … Read more
Pakistan has been struck by a wave of attacks in recent weeks, killing at least 130 people At least seven have been killed and another 15 wounded in a blast at a market in the eastern city of Lahore, local media says The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Initial reports on Pakistani … Read more
Pakistan’s military on Wednesday launched a nationwide anti-terrorist operation days after a series of bloody extremist assaults killed dozens of people across the country, the military said. “Pakistan army launches ‘Operation Radd-ul-Fassad’ (elimination of violence) across the country,” a military statement said. The announcement came after army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa chaired a high-level … Read more
Police are hunting a suicide bomber believed to be on the loose inside a Pakistani court complex, officials said Tuesday, after a second was killed by security forces and a third detonated outside the main gates. The three bombers attacked the court in Tangi in northwestern Charsadda district, the district’s mayor Bahadur Yar told state … Read more
At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan, officials said, after a series of attacks which have shaken optimism over recent improvements in security. The Islamic State group (IS) claimed the attack, the deadliest to hit Pakistan so far in 2017, … Read more
At least 70 people died Thursday when a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan, police said, in the deadliest attack to hit the militancy-plagued country so far in 2017. The Islamic State group claimed the attack in a statement carried by the Amaq propaganda agency linked to the Sunni Muslim jihadist group. … Read more
A bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan Thursday, killing up to 35 people and wounding 60, officials said, the deadliest in a series of attacks to strike the insurgency-wracked country this week. The bombing struck the shrine in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of … 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
Five people were killed Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, officials said, with the Taliban claiming the assault as the latest in a fresh offensive. At least seven others were wounded in the early-morning attack in Mohmand tribal agency in Pakistan’s northwest. “One attacker came by foot … 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
Gunmen shot dead an employee of a Pakistani TV news channel in Karachi on Sunday shortly after launching a grenade attack on a police vehicle, officials said. Taimoor Abbas, an assistant for privately run Samaa, had gone with colleagues to North Nazimabad neighbourhood to report on the assault on police when the van they were … Read more
A man injured in a bomb blast at a shrine, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Hub town, southwest Pakistan, on Nov. 12, 2016. The death toll of a suicide bomb attack on a shrine in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Saturday night has risen to 52, said an official on Sunday. [Xinhua] The … Read more
The death toll of a suicide bomb attack on a shrine in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Saturday night has risen to 52, said an official on Sunday. Balochistan’s home minister Sanaullah Zehri confirmed that 52 people were killed and over 100 others were injured in the attack, which targeted devotees, playing Dhamal, a kind … Read more
At least 10 feared dead in Pakistan blast At least 10 people have been killed in explosion at a Muslim shrine in the Khuzdar region of Pakistan, officials say. Scores more are reported to have been wounded. Local media report there is no hospital nearby and emergency services are struggling to reach the area because … Read more