Pakistan

Following religious clashes sparked by the opening this week of a controversial Hindu temple in India, Pakistan has urged the United Nations to take action for the protection of Islamic sites in the country. Pakistan’s UN envoy Munir Akram shared…

Islamabad on Thursday accused longtime rival India of being involved in the killing of two Pakistanis in Pakistan last year, a charge New Delhi immediately rejected. Addressing a news conference in the capital Islamabad, Foreign Secretary Syrus Sajjad Qazi claimed…

Seven terrorists were killed on Monday during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Sambaza sector of Balochistan’s Zhob district, near the Pak-Afghan border, local media reported. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), army troops “effectively surrounded and engaged fleeing…

A polio programme official was killed and a policeman sustained injuries on Friday after unidentified assailants opened fire on a vehicle in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district. According to the police statement, unknown gunmen opened fire on Dr. Abdul Rehman’s…

Nine people, including a traffic policeman and three children, were injured in a blast on Quetta’s Zarghoon Road on Wednesday, Dawn reported today. According to the police, the explosive material was planted in a heap of trash that had been…

Iran used “precision missile and drone strikes,” to destroy two strongholds of the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl, in the Koh-e-Sabz area of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, according to Iran’s state-aligned Tasnim news agency. The Tuesday night attack, which reportedly…

Authorities in Pakistan said Saturday that a roadside bomb exploded near a military convoy in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing at least five soldiers. An army statement said the deadly bombing occurred during a counterterrorism operation in the remote Kech district,…

Security forces on Friday killed two terrorists during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military said in a statement. It said that the killed militants remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area including…

Five police officers and a civilian were killed on January 10 in separate attacks in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province bordering Afghanistan, local media reported. Two police officers were killed in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban in…

A group of Shia Muslims from the Pakistani city of Parachinar organized a protest in front of the Press Club in the capital, Islamabad, to denounce the increasing number of terrorist attacks carried out by extremist groups against Shias, Pakistani…