MULTAN: A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of the famous Baba Farid Shakar Ganj sufi shrine in central Pakistan’s Pakpattan district during morning prayers Monday, killing at least five people, officials said.

Pakistan has freed a top Taliban commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who can play a major role in secret talks with the US through the Pakistani army.

KARACHI: In a fresh spate of violence that erupted in the metropolis city Saturday, one day ahead of by-polls, has left at least 15 people killed and over four dozens others injured while unknown armed men forced shops in different areas to close, Geo News reported Saturday.

A new report says the US military is mistreating detainees and violating its own rules at a secret prison in Afghanistan as Washington is pushing to make peace with the Taliban insurgents.

One more US-led troop was killed by a Taliban-style bomb Friday, NATO said as it announced that another soldier died from injuries sustained in a similar attack a day earlier.

US leaders know they cannot win the Afghan war despite the heavy costs that the United States is paying for it, an American activist says. While the Afghan war is taking its heavy toll on both the American troops and civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the majority of the US military commanders as well as […]

Four people have been killed in a non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region only hours after another US drone attack had killed four people.

NATO has confirmed the death of six more soldiers in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of US-led foreign forces in the war-torn country to 580 so far this year.

A cargo plane has crashed into mountains near the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing all eight people on board, a local civil aviation official said. The C-130 plane was reportedly transporting goods for Nato when it crashed on Tuesday.

At least 20 civilians have been killed during an operation by US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, officials and residents say.