Pakistani security agencies arrested an alleged recruiter for the Islamic State group in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said Thursday. The Pakistani-Syrian man, named as Yousaf al-Salafi, was arrested over the weekend along with two accomplices, police and intelligence officials said. Al-Salafi reached Pakistan from Syria via Turkey in[…]
Afghan officials say that security forces have arrested five people suspected of being involved in a massacre last month that saw extremists attack a military school in Pakistan, killing 148 people, most of them children. The two officials told The Associated Press on Saturday that the men, all Afghan nationals,[…]
Pakistani students are clashing with police during protests against the French satirical magazine that was attacked last week for publishing images of the Prophet Muhammad. The clashes broke out Friday afternoon when the protesters started heading toward the French consulate in the southern port city of Karachi. The protesters began[…]
Hundreds of Pakistani children Monday returned to a school in the north-western city of Peshawar, almost a month after Taliban gunmen killed 136 students, defying fresh threats by radicals. Dressed in green blazers, young girls and boys walked into the Army Public School with their parents amid a tight security[…]
At least 65 people were killed in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on Sunday, officials said, as a dense fog continued to envelop the country. A head-on collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker in the southern city of Karachi killed 59 people with remains of most[…]
Thousands of villagers had fled from their homes on either side of a stretch of the India-Pakistan border where shooting continued intermittently Tuesday, officials said. At least 10 civilians and soldiers from both sides have been killed since the latest exchange of fire began on January 1. Four Pakistani civilians[…]
Pakistan has voted in favour of military trials for terrorism suspects, following December’s attack by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) on a military-run school that killed 148 people, mostly children. The bill secured the vote of 242 politicians from the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, 14 more than the two-thirds[…]
An Indian official says an Indian soldier was killed when Pakistani troops fired gunshots and mortar shells across the border in northern Kashmir after a brief lull. Border Security Force official D. Parekh said the Indian soldier was killed instantly when Pakistani troops opened fire on Monday. Soldiers of both[…]
Pakistan’s army says its warplanes have killed 31 radicals as part of an ongoing operation in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border. An army statement says the airstrikes on Friday evening in the Tirrah valley of the Khyber region destroyed four rebel hideouts and a suicide bomber training[…]
Pakistan’s military said Saturday that an Indian artillery barrage near the disputed border region of Kashmir killed a 13-year-old girl and wounded a child, the latest exchange of fire between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Both Pakistan and India blamed each other for starting the fire that began Friday night. This[…]
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