ISLAMABAD (AA) – With at least 685 fatalities, 2024 was a deadly year for Pakistani security forces, the Center for Research and Security Studies said in a report. Security forces killed 934 suspected militants. The violence took the heaviest toll on the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, followed by southwestern Balochistan provi...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for improved relations with Afghanistan and urged Kabul to take action against violent elements living on their soil. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting, Premier Sharif said the Afghan interim government should take practical actions to eliminate militant hideouts on its s...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration has claimed that at least 46 people have been killed in a bombing by Pakistani fighter jets in the eastern Paktika province. Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the interim Taliban administration, said that Pakistani jets bombed four locations in Paktika’s Ba...
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 ...
