ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has opened its largest airport, in Gwadar, southwestern Balochistan province. The first commercial flight of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) landed at the Gwadar International Airport which was welcomed by Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, Balochistan Governor Jafar Khan Mandokhel and Chief Minister Sarfaraz A...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Five school children were among the seven people killed in a blast that hit a police van guarding a polio team in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, police said. The incident, which also injured 17 others, including four policemen, took place in the Mastung district of Balochistan province. “Terrorists targeted our p...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) — At least 20 miners have been killed and six others injured in a suspected militant attack in southwestern Pakistan, an official confirmed. Attackers targeted miners in the Duki area of Balochistan, Kaleemullah Kakar, deputy commissioner of Duki, told reporters. According to local police, the militants also fired rock...
Pakistan experienced its deadliest month of August in six years, with 254 fatalities from militant violence, according to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies. The attacks killed 92 civilians and 54 security personnel. Militants launched 83 assaults nationwide, resulting in 175 deaths and 123 injuries. The southwestern ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 74 people, including 21 terrorists and 14 security personnel, were killed in multiple clashes and attacks that lasted several hours in southwest and northwest Pakistan, officials and local media reported on Monday. Terrorists carried out coordinated attacks on army in Musakhel, Qalat, and Lasbela distric...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 40 people were killed and dozens others injured in two road accidents in southwest and northwest Pakistan on Sunday, police and local media reported. Some 29 passengers were killed when a passenger vehicle fell into a ravine near Rawlakot in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from th...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 11 people were killed in a coalmine accident in southwest Pakistan on Monday, an official said. The incident – the latest in a string of similar accidents – occurred near Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province due to gas leakage, Abdul Ghani Baloch, the provincial chief mine...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the US sanctions imposed against commercial entities on allegations of links with Pakistan’s ballistic missile program. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said such listings of commercial entities have taken place in the past as well on allegations of links to Pakistan...
– ISLAMABAD (AA) – Nearly 100 people were killed and dozens of others injured in rain-triggered incidents during the last one week after heavy rains and floods hit the northwestern and southwestern parts of Pakistan. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), heavy rains caused flash floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhw...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 25 people were killed and dozens of others injured in two separate “terrorist attacks” in Pakistan on Wednesday ahead of a high-stake national vote, officials said. The first blast, the latest in a string of poll-related violence, took place in the Pishin district of southwestern Balochistan province onl...
