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One killed as Afghan-Pakistan clashes resume
Jun 15, 2016 07:46An Afghan border guard has been killed and five others have been injured in fresh clashes at a border crossing with Pakistan, an Afghan official says.
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Pakistani religious scholars declare honor killings ‘a great sin’
Jun 14, 2016 09:05A group of prominent Pakistani clerics have issued a fatwa, declaring the so-called honor killings in Pakistan a “great sin,” and urging the government to act on the issue.
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Pakistan summons US envoy over drone strike that killed Mansour
May 24, 2016 03:40Islamabad has summoned the US ambassador to voice its concerns over a recent US drone strike on Pakistani soil that reportedly killed Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
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Pakistani police kill 14 al-Qaeda militants in shootouts in Punjab
May 20, 2016 08:40Pakistani authorities say the country’s police have killed 14 al-Qaeda militants in two separate shootouts in the Central Province of Punjab.
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Two bomb blasts kill policeman in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan
May 18, 2016 12:04At least one policeman has been killed and 10 others injured in two bomb blasts targeting a police patrol in the troubled city of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan.
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Iran, Pakistan opt for fighting terrorism
Apr 26, 2016 09:03A Pakistani military expert said Tehran and Islamabad are seriously determined to fight against the terrorist groups.
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Afghan leader urges Pakistan to battle Taliban
Apr 25, 2016 11:06Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called on Pakistan to fight the Taliban militants rather than attempt to bring them into peace talks.
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About 23 Pakistanis dead after eating poisoned cake in party
Apr 25, 2016 10:24Over twenty people have died after they consumed suspected poisoned confectionery at a party in central Pakistan, police say.
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Pakistani Taliban kill provincial minister
Apr 23, 2016 06:13Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have killed a provincial minister in the country’s restive northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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Pakistan captures al-Qaeda financier blacklisted by UN
Apr 22, 2016 13:30Pakistani security officials have arrested a senior al-Qaeda member who has been on the United Nations Security Council sanctions list since 2012.