Authorities have identified the kidnappers of an American working for the UN refugee agency but want to avoid hasty action that may endanger him.
Pakistani insurgents holding a US citizen working for the UN said on Monday they would extend the deadline given for the hostage’s execution.
At least 80 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck south-west Pakistan on Wednesday, bringing down hundreds of mud-walled houses.
Pakistani security forces wounded and captured a prominent Taliban commander on Monday near the border area with Afghanistan. Mullah Mansour Dadullah took over as commander of…
Three supporters of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto were killed on Saturday when gunmen attacked her party’s office in a town in south-western Pakistan, police said, in…
Water levels are falling in some parts of flood-hit Pakistan, enabling rescuers to reach areas cut off for days, but more bad weather is on the way, officials said on Monday.…
Pakistani investigators were searching on Sunday for clues to a bloody suicide bombing in a court after one person wounded in the blast on the previous day died, taking the death…
A judge and six lawyers were among 15 people killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack on a courtroom in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta on Saturday. Police found a…
Elderly Mohammed Nabi pounded his fist on the rug at his mudbrick house in south-west Pakistan and told how the Taliban recruited his cousin to avenge Nato bombings across the…
A vehicle carrying a wedding party hit a landmine in Pakistan’s restive south-western province of Baluchistan on Friday, killing 26 people and injuring seven, provincial…
More than 400 people are still missing in a remote area of south-western Pakistan after heavy rains caused a large dam to burst, sweeping villagers into the Arabian Sea, a…
A bomb apparently targeting a military truck killed nine people, including a soldier, and injured at least 21 when it ripped through a market in the Pakistani city of Quetta on…
At least 29 people were killed in three-way gunfire triggered by an attack on a procession of Shiite Muslims in the southwest Pakistani city of Quetta on Tuesday, a senior…
