At least seven people were killed and 16 others wounded on Monday after a powerful bomb exploded outside the office of a pro-government peace committee in South Waziristan, northwest Pakistan. The blast occurred in Wana, the main city in South Waziristan district, a region once considered a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban.Usman Wazir, a local […]
More than 100 deadly attacks in Pakistan by Islamist militants and separatist rebels made March the deadliest month over a decade with 335 people killed, a think tank reported Thursday.Of the deaths, 228 were caused by militant groups, according to a report by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) think tank. They […]
At least eight soldiers and a civilian was killed in two separate attacks along Pakistan’s western border with Afghanistan, where violence has surged in recent months, police said on Saturday.A security operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s northwest turned deadly when militants hiding in a house opened fire on security forces, killing seven soldiers, a police source […]
