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) – Pakistani police on Tuesday said they arrested a policeman who was behind the deadliest attack on police in northwestern Peshawar city in 2023, in which over 100 people were killed and 250 others injured. Speaking to reporters in Peshawar, provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Gandapur said police constable Muhammad Wali ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Six Pakistani military personnel, including a high ranking officer, and eight militants were killed in two separate clashes in northwestern Pakistan, the army has announced. A clash between security forces and militants took place in the Spinwam area of North Waziristan district near the Afghan border, killing six military per...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan has urged Pakistan to reopen a key border crossing between the two neighbors for trade to avoid “huge” financial losses, as over 2,000 trucks of vegetables and fruits are stranded, causing massive financial losses for exporters. Northwestern Torkham, one of the two key trade crossings betw...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven troops were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern region on Sunday, the military said. An improvised explosive device targeted an army vehicle in the Lakki Marwat district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, killing seven soldiers, including...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kabul summoned the top Pakistani diplomat in the country on Monday after Pakistan launched pre-dawn air strikes inside Afghanistan that killed at least eight people, an official statement said. Interim Afghan Foreign Ministry said Kabul lodged a protest with Islamabad over the attacks. Earlier on Monday, interim Afghan ad...
Peshawar, Pakistan – AFP A roadside bomb killed at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. “A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Struggling with a broken economy, the interim Taliban administration in Kabul is seeking international aid to manage the Afghan refugee influx from neighboring Pakistan. “We call on the international community (including) Muslim countries to help,” Taliban’s nominee to the UN, Suhail Shaheen, told reporters, pointing to the rus...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti accused the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) on Saturday of being behind terror attacks in Pakistan. Bugti condemned Friday’s bombing of an Islamic religious gathering and said nearly 55 people were killed. “We know each and e...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – A convoy of paramilitary soldiers was targeted in a roadside bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing one security official and injuring eight others. Superintendent of Police Mohammad Arshad Khan confirmed that a vehicle of the Frontier Constabulary was hit in the attack on Machni Road in Peshawar, the...
