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By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): 13 people, including four policemen were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest after security forces foiled an attempt to strike an Eid al-Adha congregation in southern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said.One suicide bomber was killed and one injured. Two bombers, according to police, tried to enter a […]

29th Aug 2016

Pakistan: Cricket-team attack suspects die in gun battle

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): Three people allegedly involved in a 2009 gun-and-bomb attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore have been killed in a late-night clash between the security forces and terrorists, police said Sunday. A spokesman for Punjab province’s counter-terrorism department said the accused – who had already been in […]

26th Aug 2016

Pakistan: Separatists kill 6 paramilitary troops in Baluschistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least six Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed and another two injured in an attack by separatists on a checkpoint in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, an official said Thursday. The attack took place in Jiwani town in Gwadar district when a group of heavily-armed militants stormed a checkpoint killing […]

15th Aug 2016

Pakistan: Bus falls into ravine, killing 25 wedding party

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least 25 people, including women and children, were killed and 20 others injured when a bus carrying guests for a wedding fell into a ravine in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir on Sunday, police said. The bus carrying over 50 passengers fell into a ravine when the driver failed to […]

9th Aug 2016

Pakistan: Death toll in hospital bombing in Quetta rises to 70

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least 70 people were killed by a suicide attack at a hospital in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, according to a senior official. Balochistan Home Minister Safraz Bugti said 103 people were also injured by the suicide bombing in the state capital, Quetta. The explosion hit moments after a […]

8th Aug 2016

Pakistan: Death toll rises to 53 in Quetta bomb blast

QUETTA, (The News, Dawn): The Quetta Civil Hospital was rocked by a bomb blast followed by firing, which claimed the lives of fifty-three people and injured multiple on Monday. Eyewitnesses stated that scores of lawyers were injured due to the blast. A stampede ensued after the blast took place, causing anarchy and chaos everywhere. A […]

31st Jul 2016

Pakistan: 26 killed after bus washed away by flood

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least 26 passengers, most of them children, were killed after a bus carrying wedding guests was washed away by a flash flood in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. The bus was carrying 32 passengers to a wedding celebration when it was hit by the flood and flung […]

28th Jul 2016

Pakistan: Hindu youth murdered amid communal riots

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): A Hindu youth has been killed and another injured in Pakistan amid inter-communal riots, police said Wednesday. The youth was killed by angry mobs in the remote Dharki district of the populous Sindh province, after accusations that a local Hindu man in a nearby village had burned pages of […]

4th Jul 2016

Pakistan flash floods kill dozens

By Aamir Latif KARACHI ,(AA): Flash floods in Pakistan have killed dozens of people and cut off villages in the country’s remote northwest, officials said Sunday. District Mayor Maghfirat Shah told reporters 31 deaths had been confirmed from the remote Arsun village, in the Chitral district near the Afghan border. Shah said that hundreds […]

10th Jun 2016

Pakistan: Muslims build church for Christian neighbours

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): In Pakistan’s northeastern Punjab province, Muslim villagers are raising funds to help their poor Christian neighbors build a church. The initiative was begun shortly before Easter by a group of Muslims from a village in Faisalabad, Pakistan’s textile-manufacturing hub. “There is a tiny Christian population in the village — […]

9th May 2016

Pakistan: Taliban kill prominent rights activist in Karachi

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): The Taliban have claimed responsibility for killing prominent blogger and rights activist Khurram Zaki, who was gunned down in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi late Saturday night. He was killed just after he had twitted on Sadiq Khan, MP, winning the London Mayor elections: Khurram Zaki ‏@intaffairs May 7 […]

3rd May 2016

India backtracks on precondition for Pakistan talks

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu Kashmir, India, (AA) – After calling off earlier talks with Pakistan after Pakistani officials met with pro-independence leaders in Kashmir, India seems to have quietly backtracked, saying Kashmiri leaders are free to meet with whomever they pleased. In a written reply to parliament last week, Indian Minister of State […]

29th Apr 2016

US journalist insists Pakistan helped US get bin Laden

WASHINGTON (AA) – A famed American journalist is convinced “more than ever” that Pakistan assisted the U.S. in killing Osama bin Laden despite official denials from both countries. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh made the remarks while speaking to Pakistani daily Dawn. His new book, The Killing of Osama bin Laden, lays out the claim, […]

27th Apr 2016

India: After 2-month hiatus, Pakistan-India dialogue resumes

By Ahmad Adil NEW DELHI (AA) – Two months after talks were suspended following a January terrorist attack in northern India allegedly carried out by Pakistani militants, diplomats of both countries held talks in New Delhi on Tuesday. The talks were held on the sidelines of a “Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process” meeting currently underway […]

20th Apr 2016

Pakistan: Suicide blast kills one, injures 18 in NW Pakistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A suicide bomber on Tuesday blew himself up inside a government building in northwestern Pakistan, killing one person and injuring another 18, local police officials said. The bomber struck a tax department building in the Mardan district some 40 kilometers from Peshawar, regional capital of the violence-hit […]

6th Apr 2016

Pakistan: Rains, floods kill over 200 in northern Pakistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): Rescue workers in northwestern Pakistan dug through debris and mud on Tuesday in hopes of finding survivors after a landslide buried at least 30 people alive on Monday as the death toll from days of torrential rains and flashfloods passed the 200-mark, local officials have said. Footage aired on […]

3rd Apr 2016

Pakistan: Five killed in coal mine explosion

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least five miners were killed and six others injured in a coal mine explosion in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. At the time of explosion, 11 workers were present in the coalmine and six of them sustained minor injuries and were rescued. The injured were shifted to […]

29th Mar 2016

Pakistanis mourn victims of deadly Lahore blast

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA) – Grieving Pakistanis held special prayers and memorial services on Monday to mourn the victims of Sunday’s massive suicide blast in Lahore, as expressions of solidarity poured in from around the world. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a park packed with men, women and children on Sunday […]

28th Mar 2016

Pakistan: At least 69 killed by suicide blast in Lahore

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded park in Lahore on Sunday evening, killing at least 69 people and injuring 300 others, Salman Rafiq, health minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has said. According to police, the bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest in a crowded area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal […]

16th Mar 2016

Pakistan: Bus bomb blast kills 15 in Peshawar

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least 15 people were killed and over 30 injured Wednesday after a bomb exploded on a bus in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said. Police said the explosive device was planted at the back of a bus carrying around 50 government employees. The timed devise was […]

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