Pakistan recovers 8 out of 16 mine workers abducted by militants
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Pakistan recovers 8 out of 16 mine workers abducted by militants

Associated Press  

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces recovered at least eight out of 16 mine workers who were kidnapped by militants in the country’s restive northwest Thursday morning, police and two security officials said. The operation was launched hours after insurgents ambushed and attacked the workers’ vehicle in a narrow road in Lakki Marwat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, police officer Mohammad Ijaz said. The latest attack came a day after dozens of armed Baloch separatists seized a government office, robbed a bank and partially burned a police station in a remote district in southwestern Pakistan before fleeing when security forces arrived, police said Thursday. In recent months, Balochistan and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have experienced a surge in militant violence, most blamed on the Baloch army and the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

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Militants abduct 16 laborers working on a mining project in restive northwestern Pakistan
16 hours, 47 minutes ago

Militants abduct 16 laborers working on a mining project in restive northwestern Pakistan

The Hindu  

Militants ambushed a vehicle in restive northwestern Pakistan and abducted 16 laborers working on a mining project, police and two security officials said. The insurgents also burned the vehicle that had been carrying the workers on a narrow road in Lakki Marwat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, police officer Mohammad Ijaz said. Other security officials said the mining …

Separatists attack government office; burn police station in restive southwest Pakistan
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1 day ago

Separatists attack government office; burn police station in restive southwest Pakistan

The Hindu  

“Dozens of armed Baloch separatists seized a government office, robbed a bank and partially burnt a police station in a remote district in southwestern Pakistan before fleeing when security forces arrived,” police said on Thursday The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday in Khuzdar in Balochistan, where analysts say separatists are becoming as large a …

Pakistan mass abduction: 16 labourers en route to atomic site kidnapped in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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1 day, 9 hours ago

Pakistan mass abduction: 16 labourers en route to atomic site kidnapped in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

India TV News  

Peshawar: At least 16 labourers working on a uranium and plutonium mining site in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were abducted by unknown armed men on Thursday, news agency PTI sources said. 3 Hindu youths kidnapped in Rahim Yar Khan district Earlier on Wednesday, Outlaws in Pakistan's Punjab province kidnapped three Hindus and demanded police release their accomplices or they …

Taliban say Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, mostly women and children
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Taliban say Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, mostly women and children

Associated Press  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday, raising fears of further straining relations between the two neighbors. In a statement, it said while a representative of the civilian government of Pakistan was busy in talks with the Afghan officials, the strikes were carried out by Pakistani …

Pakistan airstrikes Paktika province in Afghanistan, 15 killed, Taliban vows to retaliate
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Pakistan airstrikes Paktika province in Afghanistan, 15 killed, Taliban vows to retaliate

India TV News  

In a major escalation, Pakistan conducted a series of airstrikes on the Barmal district of Paktika province in Afghanistan which resulted in the death of at least 15 people, including women and children, with the toll expected to rise. Enayatullah Khwarazmi, a spokesperson for the Taliban Ministry of Defence, denied the Pakistani claims and posted on X that "civilian people, …

Attack on miners leaves 20 dead ahead of SCO summit in Pakistan
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Attack on miners leaves 20 dead ahead of SCO summit in Pakistan

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Gunmen shot dead 20 miners …

Gunmen storm a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnap 20 laborers
3 months, 1 week ago

Gunmen storm a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnap 20 laborers

Associated Press  

QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen stormed a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnapped 20 laborers, police said Sunday. The assistant commissioner of Musa Khel district, Dilraj Kalara, said the armed men entered the camp on Sunday morning, torching bulldozers and other machinery and seizing the men. On Sunday, Punjab’s Information and Culture Minister Azma Zahid Bokhari said authorities were deeply upset …

4 people including an army officer were kidnapped in northwest Pakistan
4 months, 1 week ago

4 people including an army officer were kidnapped in northwest Pakistan

Associated Press  

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected militants kidnapped four people, including an army officer who was sitting in a mosque in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban to receive mourners after attending his father’s funeral, officials said Thursday. No one claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s kidnapping of Lt. Col. Khalid Khan and three others in Dera Ismail Khan, a district …

Millions of Afghans made Pakistan home to escape war. Now many are hiding to escape deportation
8 months, 1 week ago

Millions of Afghans made Pakistan home to escape war. Now many are hiding to escape deportation

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The youth is one of at least 1.7 million …

Millions of Afghans made Pakistan home to escape war. Now many are hiding to escape deportation
8 months, 1 week ago

Millions of Afghans made Pakistan home to escape war. Now many are hiding to escape deportation

New Indian Express  

KARACHI: Born and raised in Pakistan to parents who fled neighboring Afghanistan half a century ago, an 18-year-old found himself at the mercy of police in Karachi who took his cash, phone and motorbike, and sent him to a deportation center. The youth is one of at least 1.7 million Afghans who made Pakistan their home as their country sank …

Gunmen ambush vehicle carrying customs officials in northwest Pakistan, killing 4 officers
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Gunmen ambush vehicle carrying customs officials in northwest Pakistan, killing 4 officers

Associated Press  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying officials from the customs department in troubled northwest Pakistan on Thursday evening, killing four of them before fleeing the scene, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack which happened in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, local police official Nasir Khan said. …

Six security personnel, 12 militants killed in separate incidents in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan
9 months ago

Six security personnel, 12 militants killed in separate incidents in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan

Hindustan Times  

Quetta, Six security personnel, including a senior police officer, died while 12 militants were killed in separate terror incidents and security operations in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in the past two days, officials said on Sunday. HT Image The Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the Pakistan armed forces, said in the Balochistan province, four militants …

Dozens of Afghans who were illegally in Pakistan are detained and deported in nationwide sweeps
1 year, 2 months ago

Dozens of Afghans who were illegally in Pakistan are detained and deported in nationwide sweeps

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces on Wednesday detained and deported dozens of Afghans who were living in the country illegally, after a government-set deadline for them to leave expired, authorities said. “This action is a testament to Pakistan’s determination to repatriate any individuals residing in the country without proper documentation.” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “very concerned about this forced …

Dozens of Afghans illegally in Pakistan detained and deported in nationwide sweeps
1 year, 2 months ago

Dozens of Afghans illegally in Pakistan detained and deported in nationwide sweeps

LA Times  

Afghans wait for clearance to depart for their homeland at a deportation camp set up by authorities to facilitate illegal immigrants, in Chaman, a town on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. “This action is a testament to Pakistan’s determination to repatriate any individuals residing in the country without proper documentation.” The authorities said Wednesday’s sweeps took place in the port city of …

Pakistani Security Forces Kill 2 Militants After Attack on Chinese Convoy in Balochistan
1 year, 4 months ago

Pakistani Security Forces Kill 2 Militants After Attack on Chinese Convoy in Balochistan

News 18  

Two separatist militants were killed Sunday when they attacked a convoy carrying Chinese workers to a Beijing-financed port project in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, officials said. The Balochistan Liberation Army said Sunday two of its fighters died in a “self-sacrificing” attack on a convoy going to Gwadar port in Pakistan’s southwest. China’s consulate in Karachi said it had asked Pakistan to …

Pakistani security forces kill 6 militants in separate raids near the border with Afghanistan
1 year, 6 months ago

Pakistani security forces kill 6 militants in separate raids near the border with Afghanistan

The Hindu  

Pakistan’s military says security forces have raided two militant hideouts in regions near the border with Afghanistan, triggering intense shootouts that left six insurgents dead during the Eid holidays. A military statement said the two raids were conducted earlier on June 30, in Tank and North Waziristan districts on credible intelligence information about intrusion and hiding of militants in the …

Pakistani soldier, 8 terrorists killed during raid in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
1 year, 9 months ago

Pakistani soldier, 8 terrorists killed during raid in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

India Today  

A Pakistani soldier was killed and eight terrorists were eliminated during an overnight raid at a militant hideout in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military has said. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations on Wednesday, an intense exchange of fire took place between the security personnel and terrorists during the intelligence-based operation in the Shinwarsak …

Pakistan arrests suspects linked to bombing in Islamabad
2 years ago

Pakistan arrests suspects linked to bombing in Islamabad

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Authorities arrested five people suspected of involvement in last week’s suicide car bombing that killed a police officer in the capital of Islamabad, Pakistan’s interior minister said Tuesday. Rana Sanaullah Khan made the announcement on Twitter, saying the detainees included the suicide bomber’s handler. Khan did not disclose the identity of the detainees and no spokesman for the …

Pakistani forces gun down 9 members of Baloch Republican Army
2 years, 1 month ago

Pakistani forces gun down 9 members of Baloch Republican Army

India Today  

Pakistan’s security forces killed nine members of the outlawed outfit Baloch Republican Army during a raid in their hideout in the country’s restive Balochistan province, the army’s media wing said on Saturday. The security forces conducted a raid in Kohlu district in Balochistan province after receiving a tip-off that members of the outfit were holed up in the area, the …

Pakistan: Five dead as Baloch separatist gunmen attack coal mine
5 years, 8 months ago

Pakistan: Five dead as Baloch separatist gunmen attack coal mine

Al Jazeera  

Two miners, two security personnel and a driver were among the dead after attackers stormed a coal mine in Harnai. Islamabad, Pakistan – At least five people have been killed in a gun and bomb attack on a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan, officials say, the latest in an uptick of violence by ethnic Baloch separatists. Two miners, two security …

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