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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A roadside bomb hit a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing a police officer in their security detail, police said. Swat district ...
Suspected militants blew up a school for girls in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure but no one was harmed in the ...
Five militants attacked a security post in southwest Pakistan in the early hours Wednesday, triggering an intense shootout that left nine soldiers, five attackers and a female passerby dead ...
On 24 April 2023, an explosion in the Counter-Terrorism Department building in Kabal, Swat Valley, Pakistan, killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 others. [1] Although the origin of the explosion is still being looked into, it is assumed that either an ancient ammo store or the explosive material kept in the building's basement ...
20 March - 10 people (including 2 soldiers) were killed in a bomb blast and gun attack by the BLA militants at Gwadar Port Authority Complex. [13] 26 March - 6 killed (including one paramilitary soldier) in a militant attack on Pakistan naval airbase. [14] 26 March - Five Chinese nationals killed in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan. [15]
Swat, located around 240 kilometres (150 miles) from Islamabad, was a significant TTP stronghold until operation rahe rast in 2009, when the Pakistani military drove the armed group's militants out. [5] The new uptick in violence comes after peace negotiations between Pakistan's security services and the TTP failed to produce any results. [2]
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Nine Islamist militants attacked an air force training base in the central Pakistani area of Mianwali on Saturday damaging three "non-operational" aircraft, the military said ...
The insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, also known as the War in North-West Pakistan or Pakistan's war on terror, is an ongoing armed conflict involving Pakistan and Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundallah, Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI), TNSM, al-Qaeda, and their Central Asian allies such as the ISIL–Khorasan ...