By ABDUL SATTAR, AP – 1 minute ago QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A police official says gunmen killed a senior anti-terrorism police officer in southwest Pakistan. Hamid Shakil says two men on a motorcycle opened fire on Shah Nawaz Khan on Tuesday outsid…
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By ANWARULLAH KHAN, AP – 2 hours ago KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A teenager blew himself up near a Pakistani market close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 20 people, officials said. The suicide bombing came a day after the US released letters seized …
In an October 2010 letter to a top lieutenant, bin Laden complains about Faisal Shahzad, the militant recruited by the Pakistani Taliban to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square. The May 2010 bombing failed. During his trial, Shahzad — a …
By RIAZ KHAN, AP – 1 minute ago PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Like many in Pakistan, 13-year-old Kamran Khan's family did not have enough money to send him to school. He was such a promising student that a local private school allowed him to attend…
By RIAZ KHAN, AP – 1 minute ago PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani boy who set himself on fire because his parents could not afford to buy him a new school uniform has died, his family and officials said Sunday. The tragic story is a reminder of…
By ABDUL SATTAR, AP – 11 minutes ago QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen killed six people Thursday in a pair of attacks in southwestern Pakistan, one of which targeted local employees of a UN agency, officials said. The assailants opened fire on the st…
By KATHY GANNON, AP – 3 hours ago LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — It was barely 4 am when 19-year-old Rinkal Kumari disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan's southern Sindh province. When her parents awoke they found only her slippers …
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Barack Obama, closing a nuclear security summit Tuesday, sought a thaw in the diplomatic chill with Pakistan, a critical but difficult US partner whose nuclear weapons and historical links to terrorism make its ……
By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD, AP – 21 minutes ago DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday threatened to attack Pakistani lawmakers and their families if they support allowing NATO to resume shipping supplies through the country to troops in …..
By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD, AP – 21 minutes ago DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday threatened to attack Pakistani lawmakers and their families if they support allowing NATO to resume shipping supplies through the country to troops in …..
