Road crash kills nine in Pakistan
Islamabad - At least nine people were killed and several more injured in a road accident on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Tuesday, police and emergency service said. An oil tanker truck ploughed into a commuter van which had veered...
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Video shows more Germans in Islamist camps than suspected
Berlin - The latest German-language video from Islamist militants based in the wilds of Pakistan suggests more men raised in Germany are with such groups than previously suspected. The German Interior Ministry in Berlin said Sunday the video confirme...
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Obama wrestles with next steps in Afghanistan - Feature
Washington - US President Barack Obama is holding another round of meetings with top advisors this week to plot out his next steps in Afghanistan and Pakistan as the debate over the best approach heats up. Obama is said to be evaluating a number of o...
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Suicide, rocket attacks kills 16 in Pakistan - Summary
Islamabad - A suicide bombing and a rocket attack at two security installations in north-western Pakistan on Friday killed 16 people, including three soldiers and the same number of policemen, officials said, as the country reeled from a string of mi...
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Al-Qaeda number two lashes out at Pakistani military
Islamabad - The Pakistan Army has become a tool in the hands of the crusaders to save American and NATO troops from certain defeat in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda's second-in-command said in a new video message on Tuesday. At this moment Pakistani forces...
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UN condemns attack that killed over 90 people in Pakistan
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned in the strongest terms on Wednesday the bomb attack that killed at least 93 people in Peshawar, Pakistan. I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, today's bomb attack at a market in Peshawar...
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Twin suicide bombings at Pakistani university - Summary
Islamabad - Six people, including two female students, were killed and many more wounded Tuesday when two suicide bombers struck an Islamic university in Pakistan's capital, officials said. The successive bombings came as government forces pressed ah...
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Iran demands Pakistan hand over terrorist leader
Islamabad - Iran formally asked Pakistan on Friday to hand over the leader of a terrorist organization allegedly involved in a series of deadly attacks, including last weekend's suicide blast that killed at least 42 Iranians. Iran says that Abdolmali...
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Clinton meets Pakistani tribal chiefs
Islamabad - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday had her first face-to-face interaction with tribesmen from Pakistan's violence-plagued north-western areas, a day after she urged Islamabad to eliminate al-Qaeda from the region. The meeting...
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Suspected US airstrike kills nine Taliban in Pakistan
Islamabad - A suspected US missile strike targeted Taliban fighters on the move in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region Wednesday and killed at least nine militants, including foreigners, an intelligence official said. Pilotless aircraft attacke...
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Train collision kills 17 in Pakistan - Summary
Islamabad - A passenger train collided Tuesday with a freight train in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing at least 17 people and injuring 38, officials said. The crash occurred near the Juma Goth railway station on the city's outskirts...
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Nine killed in train collision in Pakistan - Summary
Islamabad - A passenger train collided Tuesday with a freight train in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing nine people and injuring 40, officials said. The crash occurred near the Juma Goth railway station on the city's outskirts. Negli...
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US condemns attack on UN in Pakistan
Washington - The United States condemned the attack on the UN food office in Pakistan on Monday that left five people dead, calling it a senseless act against individuals helping to help feed the poor. Such cruel acts expose the true nature of the...
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EXTRA: UN condemns attack on food agency, deaths of workers
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned in the strongest terms the attack that killed three workers of the World Food Programme in Pakistan, calling it a heinous crime. Such an attack is unjustifiable, Ban said. This is ...
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