MUZAFFARABAD: A month-long protest movement led by a banned rights alliance, the Joint Awami Action Committee, barreled toward a government deadline this week with no sign of a breakthrough, as the group and police continued to clash over the death toll from the weekend’s latest bout of violence and neither side showed any appetite for talks.
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Air Force officer Tariq dies shielding stranger on Islamabad avenue
ISLAMABAD: Group Captain Asim Tariq had just left his house near Shaheen Chowk on Sunday, driving through the capital, when something on the road ahead made him turn around.
Suspected drone strike kills three sisters in northwest Pakistan
WANA: Three sisters were killed and four other members of their family were wounded before dawn on Sunday when explosives believed to have been dropped by a quadcopter drone struck their home in a remote district of northwestern Pakistan, according to local officials and hospital sources, the latest in a monthslong string of unexplained aerial attacks that has left residents of the country’s tribal belt increasingly afraid to sleep in their own houses.
At least 40 killed as overloaded bus plunges into ravine in northwest Pakistan
QUETTA: At least 40 people were killed and eight injured on Friday when an overcrowded passenger bus plunged into a ravine on a mountain road straddling the border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, officials said, in one of the country’s deadliest road accidents in years.
Relative of senior politician among five charged in kidnapping and sexual assault of two foreign women in Lahore
LAHORE: Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore registered a criminal case on Thursday against five suspects accused of kidnapping two foreign women for ransom and subjecting them to sexual assault, an incident that has drawn direct intervention from the top elected official in Punjab province.
Militant violence in Pakistan declines in June, though high-profile attacks continue – report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan recorded a broad decline in militant violence and security force casualties in June even as a string of high-profile suicide bombings underscored the persistent threat facing the country, according to data published on Wednesday by an Islamabad-based research group that tracks conflict trends.
Roof collapse kills 14 children at Lahore tuition centre
LAHORE: At least 14 children were killed and several more injured on Tuesday when the roof of a private tuition centre collapsed in the Kahna area of Lahore, officials said, in one of the deadliest accidents to strike Pakistan’s second-largest city in recent years.
Pakistan summons Afghan diplomat over Karachi Rangers attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the Afghan chargé d’affaires on Monday and issued a formal protest over a weekend attack on a paramilitary facility in Karachi, hours after the government confirmed it had launched ground and air strikes against militant targets across the Afghan border, killing 29 fighters.
Arrested attacker says Karachi Rangers camp attack planned from Afghanistan, trained by militant group
KARACHI: Â An injured militant captured after a deadly assault on a Pakistan Rangers camp in Karachi has told interrogators that he and his accomplices were trained in Afghanistan and crossed into Pakistan under a logistics network organised by the banned Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group, security sources said on Sunday.
Security forces kill eight India-backed militants in Balochistan sweep
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.