KARACHI: An explosive-laden vehicle driven into the gates of a Sindh Rangers compound in Karachi killed three paramilitary troops and wounded four others on Saturday night, the military said, as a Pakistani Taliban faction claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest militant strikes on a security installation in Pakistan’s commercial capital in years.

ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed eight militants, including a suicide bomber, in two intelligence-driven operations in the southwestern province of Balochistan over two consecutive days this week, the military said on Saturday, as Islamabad continued to press its accusation that India is sponsoring terrorism on its soil.

ISLAMABAD: The petroleum minister on Saturday defended the government’s decision to keep petrol and diesel prices frozen at near-record levels, promising consumers that relief was likely in the coming days while dismissing accusations that Islamabad was shielding the oil industry at the public’s expense.

GILGIT: A cloudburst tore through Thore Valley in Pakistan’s northern Diamer district on Saturday, destroying homes, severing roads and leaving dozens of families homeless, as a concurrent heatwave accelerated glacial melt across Gilgit-Baltistan and federal authorities warned of a sharply elevated risk of glacial lake outburst floods through early July.