Angry Pakistani tribesmen traded fire with Taleban militants and demolished their houses in a northwestern tribal region after a car suicide attack killed at least 40 people, residents and officials said on Saturday.
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Militants in Pakistan have kidnapped 26 police recruits on their way to college, police said on Thursday, while security forces killed 36 Islamist insurgents in clashes elsewhere in the northwest.
Separately, the British High Commission closed its (...)
A suicide bomber tried to force his vehicle into a Pakistani military camp in the northwest on Friday but was blown up when soldiers opened fire on him, a day after dozens of people were killed in violence across the region.
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Taleban militants freed eight of the dozens of paramilitary troops and government officials they have been holding hostage for nearly two weeks in northwestern Pakistan, officials and a negotiator said on Friday.
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Suspected pro-Taleban militants shot and killed four Shiite Muslims in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday in what appeared to be the second deadly sectarian attack in two days.
In Tuesday's attack, gunmen opened fire from a car at a group of men in the (...)
Sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims intensified in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Friday, with at least 22 people reportedly killed in gun battles, a senior official said. “Dead bodies are lying inside houses and in (...)
A suspected suicide bombing and gunfire killed at least 29 minority Shi'ite Muslims in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday and gunmen killed at least four more people in an attack on a bus, officials told Reuters.
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