PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A helicopter crash due to engine failure has killed six people and injured eight others in Pakistan’s northwest, a local police officer said Saturday. The chartered flight was transporting employees of Mari Petroleum when it crashed in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to police officer Ahmed Khan. A security official earlier put the death toll at …
A group of militants used kerosine to set fire to a girls' school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said Wednesday, in the latest in a surge in such attacks. Earlier on Monday, a girls' school, with more than 1,400 students inside, caught fire in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Haripur district, DawnNewsTV reported. According to …
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military said a soldier and four militants were killed Sunday in a shootout during a raid near the border with Afghanistan. Separately, in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a Pakistani official said Indian cross-border firing killed a 7-year-old girl and wounded 10 villagers. Umar Azam, the deputy commissioner of Kotli district in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, said Pakistani …
