Taliban militants wearing suicide vests fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at an army post in northwestern Pakistan in a pre-dawn raid Saturday, killing 23 people, including 10 civilians, officials said.
Supporters of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri participate in an anti-government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Pakistan’s leaders received a powerful one-two punch Tuesday as the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister in a corruption case and the firebrand cleric led thousands of protesters in another day of anti-government demonstrations in the capital. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan— A suicide bomber in a pickup truck detonated his explosives near several government offices in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 26 people, in the latest violence to hit the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Its devastation was likely [...]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—A suicide car bomber struck a police facility in an army cantonment in Pakistan’s main northwest city early Wednesday, officials said, killing one person and wounding at least 14 people in the latest attack in the country since the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Though no group immediately claimed responsibility for the [...]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan —A car bomb exploded near a pair of armored US consulate vehicles carrying Americans in northwest Pakistan on Friday, the first attack on Westerners since the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. A Pakistani passer-by died, while Americans in one vehicle were slightly wounded. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the morning [...]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Police say two explosions have killed at least 68 people and wounded dozens more at a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan. The attack Friday in Charsadda district is the bloodiest since US forces killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2. Militant groups have promised to avenge the terrorist [...]
