Pakistani authorities have ordered an investigation into the killing of an unarmed young man by the country’s paramilitary forces in the port city of Karachi.“The probe into the matter will ensure transparency, and the findings of the JIT (the Joint Investigation Team) will be made public and the investigation will be done in a transparent […]

A barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes have killed at least 18 people and wounded several others in Pakistan’s South Waziristan’s tribal region near the Afghan border.In the first strike, the US drone fired two missiles on a house in Shalam Raghzai area in the town of Wana in northwestern Pakistan, killing seven people and […]

Death toll from the suicide blast in a bakery in Cantonment area here climbed to 17 while scores others injured, Geo News reported on Monday.Those killed included wife and two children of a high ranked security official, sources said.

A US drone strike has killed Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al-Qaeda-linked figure, in Pakistan’s tribal region after a tipoff from local intelligence, according to a Pakistani intelligence official.A US embassy spokesman said on Saturday he could not confirm the killing of Kashmiri or whether Pakistan provided support for an operation.

A top US general in Afghanistan has dismissed speculations that the alleged death of Osama bin Laden may result in an expedited drawdown of US forces in the country.Deputy Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan Lieutenant General David Rodriguez told a press conference in Washington on Thursday that the Taliban could regain a foothold if […]

At least 22 policemen and 45 militants have been killed when hundreds of heavily armed Taliban militants from Afghanistan attacked a key police station in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern tribal belt.More than 200 Taliban militants launched the attack from across the border in the Afghan province of Kunar on Wednesday and targeted the Shaltalu police checkpoint […]

Militants in northwest Pakistan have torched at least seven oil tankers carrying fuel for US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani authorities say.Pakistani authorities say that the trucks went up in flames after a bomb was detonated at a parking lot in Khyber Agency later on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

ZAHEDAN- The provincial officials of ‘Sistan-Baluchitan’ have not permitted the Baluch activists in universities of Zahedan to hold their annual ceremony in honor of new Baluch graduates.

At least 56 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed in US-led airstrikes in various parts of Afghanistan over the past days.

An operation to regain control of a Pakistani naval base assaulted by Taliban militants has been completed after almost 16 hours of fighting with up to 20 assailants holed up in a building, a security official told Reuters from inside the base.