Pakistan

Pakistan has conducted overnight air attacks inside Afghanistan, while the Taliban claimed hours later to have fired across the border, the Al Jazeera reported. Tensions flared on Monday between Islamabad and Kabul following the overnight raids, with Pakistan claiming the…

A military post in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border was targeted by an armed group using a vehicle filled with explosives and suicide bombers, resulting in the death of seven security force members, as reported by Al Jazeera. In…

Two children were tragically burned alive, and nine others sustained injuries in Rawalpindi due to separate gas cylinder explosions, Dawn online newspaper reported. In the first incident at Bhabra Bazar, a gas leak explosion occurred when a matchstick was lit…

At least two people lost their lives in a motorcycle blast in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, Al Jazeera reported. The blast near the Board Bazaar area of the city also wounded one person who has been admitted to Lady…

Pakistani legislators on Saturday elected Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of center-left Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), as the country’s 14th president, Anadolu Agency reported. Zardari, 68, the widower of the two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the candidate of the…

Four terrorists were eliminated by security forces in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, Dawn newspaper reported on Friday. The operation also resulted in the recovery of weapons, ammunition and explosives, the military statement said, adding…

Two terrorists were shot dead in separate operations last night in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dawn online newspaper reported on Thursday. According to a military statement, the operation resulted in killing of terrorist ring leader Shmrooz Sheenay, and recovery of ammunition and…

Shehbaz Sharif was elected by a majority vote of the Pakistani legislators as the country’s premier for a second term following the controversial Feb. 8 election last month. Shehbaz won 201 votes in the 336-member National Assembly, comfortably prevailing over…

Three terrorists were killed and four others injured in a clash with security forces in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Xinhua reported. The military conducted the operation in the Karak district based on intelligence, recovering a large amount of arms, ammunition,…

Several people were killed and several others suffered injuries as provincial capital Peshawar and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa received heavy rain and snowfall under extreme weather conditions, local media reported. A young child died due to roof collapse in Badaber…