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Suicide bombers attack Pakistani police station

BANNU, Pakistan: Pakistani police say five suicide bombers attacked a police station in the country’s northwest, wounding one police officer. Nisar Tanoli says three of the bombers detonated their explosive vests while

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Bomb kills 16, missiles hit militants in Pakistan

PARACHINAR, Pakistan: A bomb exploded near a marketplace in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 16 people, and suspected U.S. missiles hit a militant compound — the latest incidents of rising

Heavy rain kills 34 in Pakistan: officials

ISLAMABAD: Days of torrential rain have killed 34 people in Pakistan, mostly on the northwestern border with Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.The worst-hit region was Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the northwest where

Pakistan: 23 killed in Taliban attack on army post

PESHAWAR: Militants attacked an army post in northwestern Pakistan with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests before dawn on Saturday, killing 23 people including 10 civilians, officials said. Twelve

Bomb kills two more anti-polio workers in Pakistan

PESHAWAR: A bomb Thursday killed two polio vaccination workers in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, officials said, the latest in a series of such attacks which have now killed 19 in

Militant groups clash in NW Pakistan, 24 killed

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani official says clashes between two Islamic militant groups over control of a prized valley near the Afghan border have killed 24 people. Arshad Khan of the Khyber

Pakistani officer probing PM graft case found dead

A Pakistani officer investigating a corruption case against the prime minister was found dead in the country’s capital Friday in what was likely an act of suicide, police said. The

Pakistani cleric ends rally after government deal

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials struck a deal late Thursday with a fiery Muslim cleric to end four days of anti-government protests by thousands of his supporters that largely paralyzed

India, Pakistan agree to ease tensions in Kashmir

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan agreed on Wednesday to ease tensions in disputed Kashmir by strictly observing a decade-old cease-fire after five soldiers were killed in recent clashes,

Firebrand cleric raises fear of “soft coup” in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – To Pakistan’s ruling party, a firebrand cleric camped outside parliament with thousands of protesters is looking more and more like the harbinger of their worst fear: a