Tag: Pakistan
Pakistan to support Nigeria’s military
The Pakistani Government has pledged to support Nigeria in strengthening its military apparatus to enable it join in promoting global…
Pakistan provincial minister among 10 killed in suicide attack
A suicide bomber on Sunday killed a Pakistani provincial minister and at least nine other people at a building where…
Pakistan heat wave death toll hits 800
Officials said on Wednesday that death toll from five days of heat wave in southern Pakistan has passed 800, as…
Pakistan orders Save the Children to leave
Pakistani Government on Friday in Islamabad, sealed the offices of international non-profit “Save the Children” and gave its foreign employees…
Pakistan military kills 47 Taliban insurgents
Pakistan’s military Thursday claimed to have killed at least 47 Taliban fighters in two days of airstrikes in the restive…
Man burns wife to death in ‘honour killing’
A Pakistani man and his father have been arrested in the country’s latest so-called “honour killing” after they set the…
Pope condemns Pakistan church attacks
Pope Francis on Sunday condemned two suicide attacks on churches in Pakistan and accused the world of “seeking to hide”…
Taliban attacks on Pakistan churches kill 14, spark riots
Fourteen people were killed and more than 70 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers attacked churches in Pakistan’s Lahore on…
Pakistan suspends health officials for wasting $3.7m vaccines
Pakistani authorities have suspended two health officials after $3.7 million worth of vaccines donated by UNICEF to protect children from…
Bomb blast kills three in Pakistan’s Lahore
A bomb exploded close to the police headquarters in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing three people…
Pakistan hangs 19th militant after school terror attack
Pakistan on Saturday hanged a sectarian militant whose execution was cancelled but later reinstated after a court rejected a pardon…
Children return to Taliban massacre school in Pakistan
Child survivors of Pakistan’s worst ever terrorist attack returned to the school where Taliban militants massacred their classmates Monday, with…
Pakistan offers $100,000 bounty for Taliban leader
The government of Pakistan’s restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Monday announced a bounty worth 10 million rupees (US$100,000) for information leading to…
Muslim cleric questioned after 6-year-old boy is molested, murdered
Pakistani police questioned an Islamic cleric after the body of a 6-year-old boy was found hanged on a ceiling fan…
Militants burn primary schools in Pakistan
Militants set fire to two primary schools in Pakistan’s troubled northwest on Tuesday as authorities extended winter holidays amid threats…
Pakistan forces kill facilitator of Peshawar school massacre
Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who allegedly facilitated the Peshawar school massacre, which left 150 people dead…
Ban Ki-Moon condemns terrorist attack on Nigeria, Pakistan
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned recent attacks on civilians by militant groups in Nigeria, Yemen and Pakistan. Ban,…
Seven dead as Pakistan hits militant hideouts
Seven people including a policeman and paramilitary soldier were killed in two separate incidents when Pakistani security forces hit militant…
Jonathan condemns terrorist attack in Pakistan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday in Abuja flayed the deadly terrorist attack on Peshawar in Pakistan that left 140 people,…
Malala “heartbroken” by Pakistan school slayings
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012, said she was “heartbroken”…
UPDATE: Over 130 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan school
Taliban insurgents killed at least 130 people, most of them children, after storming an army-run school in Pakistan on Tuesday…
Saudi beheads 9th Pakistani for smuggling
Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, bringing to nine the number of people from his country…
Bus crash in southern Pakistan kills 56 people
At least 56 people were killed Tuesday when a passenger bus collided head-on with a goods truck in southern Pakistan,…
Pakistani girl, 6, murdered after rape attempt
Police in southwest Pakistan are investigating after a six-year-old girl was strangled and dumped near a garbage heap after apparently…
Saudi beheads Pakistani drug smuggler
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani on Wednesday for trafficking heroin hidden in his stomach into the kingdom, the interior ministry…
Robbers raid top Pakistan charity, steal $400,000
Armed robbers have raided one of Pakistan’s leading charities and stolen $400,000 in cash as well as five kilos of…
Pakistani women hope for change after Malala Nobel win
Saima Bibi was just 13 when she was married off to settle a debt of honour, a common custom in…
Airstrikes, gunfight kill 21 militants in Pakistan
At least 21 militants have been killed in airstrikes and a gunfight in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal areas, officials said…
Bomb kills one, wounds 22 in Pakistan
A bomb planted on a motorcycle killed a civilian and wounded 22 others in a busy marketplace in Pakistan’s troubled…
US drones kill eight militants in Pakistan
United States drones Wednesday fired missiles at a compound and vehicle and killed at least eight militants in a restive…