A motorcycle-borne suicide bomber has rammed into a police truck in southwestern Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province, killing at least 10 policemen, in one of the deadliest attacks on security forces this year. “The suicide bomber was riding a motorbike and hit the truck from behind,” senior police official Abdul Hai …
Read More »Gunmen shoot dead three coal miners in southwestern Pakistan
Gunmen shot and killed three workers at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan, officials said on Sunday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Suhail Anwar Hashmi, the top administrator in Harnai district in Baluchistan province, said the early morning violence took place in the Sharag area where most …
Read More »Pakistan counter-terrorism units kill 11 ISIS militants in raid, says police
Pakistan’s counter-terrorism units raided a hideout of the ISIS group in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province before dawn on Tuesday, setting off a shootout that killed 11 militants, the police said. The units, acting on intelligence, carried out the raid in the district of Mastung, where ISIS militants had recently …
Read More »Death toll from overnight grenade attack in southern Pakistan rises to 12
The death toll from an overnight grenade attack on a truck carrying women and children in Karachi rose to 12 on Sunday. Attackers targeted the truck on Saturday evening as it shuttled an extended family from a wedding ceremony in a western Karachi neighborhood, killing nine people and wounding nine …
Read More »Roadside bomb targets Revolutionary Guards in southeast Iran, official says
A roadside bomb hit two Revolutionary Guard vehicles in southeast Iran but no one was killed, the official IRIB news agency reported, citing a parliamentarian from the region. A local commander from the Revolutionary Guards was wounded in the explosion in Sistan and Baluchistan province, Fadahossein Maleki, a parliamentarian from …
Read More »Dozens dead after severe winter storms hit Afghanistan, Pakistan
Severe winter weather has struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that left at least 48 people dead, officials said Monday as authorities struggled to clear and reopen highways and evacuate people to safer places. In Pakistan, where 30 people were reported killed, much …
Read More »Pakistan: Deadly explosion rips through Quetta Hazaras.
A bomb hidden among bags of potatoes at a Pakistani market killed at least 16 people, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an attack apparently aimed at minority Shia Muslims. At least 30 people were wounded in the blast in the southwestern city of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan …
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