ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll in tribal clashes in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has climbed to 35, a local official confirmed. Tribal and sectarian clashes in the Kurram district near the Afghan border erupted late Friday following an attack on passenger vans by unidentified assailants on Thursday. R...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least 11 people, including three women, have been killed and several others injured in a gun attack on passenger vans in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, according to police. Gunmen fired on a convoy of passengers in the Lower Kurram area, killing at least 11 passengers and injuring many [&hel...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI (AA) – At least 12 security personnel and six militants were killed in a suicide bombing and ensuing clashes in northwestern Pakistan, the army said on Wednesday. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a security check post in the Mali Khan area of the Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province before […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven Pakistani policemen have been abducted while eight suspected militants and a soldier have been killed in hours-long clashes in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Suspected militants kidnapped seven policemen in Bannu district, near the restive North Waziristan tribal region tha...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A helicopter crash in northwestern Pakistan claimed the lives of at least six individuals and left eight others injured, according to reports from state-run media. The incident involved a chartered Mi-8 helicopter operated by Mari Petroleum Company, which crashed in North Waziristan, close to the Afghan border. Pakistani...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) — The Pakistani army has said that its forces killed at least eight ‘suspected militants’ during an intelligence-based operation near the Afghan border in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Security forces conducted the operation in the Razmak area of North Waziristan district upon the reported prese...