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Pakistan suffers worst militant attack in two years

Pakistan suffered its worst militant attack in two years on Wednesday when a car bomb killed more than 80 people in a crowded market in Peshawar.

Suicide bomber strikes at Pakistan police

Pakistani forces attacked a Taliban stronghold with aircraft and artillery on Friday, as a suicide bomber killed 12 people in Peshawar.

US strikes kill dozens in Taliban heartland

US missile strikes killed dozens of people in a Pakistani tribal area controlled by Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, officials said on Wednesday.

Over a dozen dead in Pakistan hotel blast, Taliban blamed

Pakistani police on Wednesday pulled bodies from the rubble of a luxury hotel in north-west Peshawar after a suicide car bomb killed 16 people.

Fear of death stalks Pakistan women in Swat

Courting death if they go out alone, women oppressed by Taliban extremists in Swat valley have nothing to celebrate on International Women’s Day.

Pakistan reopens Nato route to Afghanistan

Pakistani engineers on Wednesday opened an alternative supply route for Nato in Afghanistan after militants blew up a key bridge and torched trucks.

Pakistan launches anti-Taliban crackdown

Pakistani security forces on Saturday launched an offensive against Taliban militants who were threatening the main north-western city of Peshawar.

Bodies found of 22 abducted by Pakistani Taliban

Pakistani Taliban militants murdered 22 rivals captured this week when they seized a north-western town, a government official said.

Many hurt as militants blow up tankers in Pakistan

Islamic militants in a Pakistani border town blew up 36 tankers supplying fuel for United States and Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, wounding up to 100 people, officials…

Grieving Pakistan tribesmen bury dead after blast

Pakistani tribesmen on Monday buried the last of the 43 people killed in a suicide bomb attack at a meeting of tribal elders discussing how to tackle al-Qaeda and Taliban…

Pakistan militants free 300 schoolchildren

Heavily armed militants took about 300 children hostage at a school in Pakistan on Monday but freed them after tense negotiations with tribal elders, the Interior Ministry said.…

Pakistanis reel from one bomb to the next

A few days ago a Pakistani newspaper published a cartoon of a political weather map forecasting bombs all across Pakistan. It is all too real. There has been no let-up in attacks…

Sectarian clashes in Pakistan kill 70

Fighting between rival Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims in north-western Pakistan’s troubled tribal belt has claimed 70 lives, security officials and state media reported Sunday. State…

Suicide bomber targets Pakistan minister’s house

A suicide bomber blew himself up at the house of a Pakistani minister in the north-western city of Peshawar on Friday, killing four people, police said. Federal Minister for…

Thirty dead in Pakistan blast

A blast tore through a security-forces vehicle in restive north-west Pakistan on Thursday, killing 30 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. The attack in scenic Swat…