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PESHAWAR: At least three children, including two brothers, were killed on Monday when a toy bomb exploded in Pakistan's restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Local sources report that the children were on their way home from the madrassa when the mortar shell explosion took place and claimed the lives of three students, including two brothers. South Waziristan is also one …

Seventeen terrorists were killed on Friday in two separate operations when Pakistani security forces' helicopter gunships targeted their hideouts in the country's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The intelligence-based operations were conducted in the Bannu and the North Waziristan districts, according to security sources. Security forces also released images of the killed terrorists. The security forces launched a massive operation against …

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 …

Pakistan: Militants blow up govt girls' school in restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Peshawar: Unidentified militants blew up a government girl's school in a tribal district in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, officials said. The militants blew up the Govt Girls Middle School in North Waziristan tribal district, bordering Afghanistan, on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Minister Faisal Khan Tarakai said. Provision of education is the …

A Pakistan Army Major and a soldier were killed in a gunbattle with militants during an intelligence-based operation in the restive northwest tribal district bordering Afghanistan, the army said on September 2. The incident happened two days after nine soldiers were killed in a suicide attack by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terror group in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The clash …

Pakistani troops and militants exchanged fire in a northwestern region along the border with Afghanistan in a shootout that killed two soldiers and two militants, the army said June 5. The shootout took place late Sunday in North Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that is a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, a militant group also known as …

Pakistan's first case of polio in 2023 reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

A six-month-old baby died recently due to poliovirus in Pakistan, officials said here on Friday, as the country's effort to defeat the crippling disease seems to be failing. The baby boy was from the South Waziristan tribal district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the health ministry said in a statement, adding that he had onset of paralysis in August. Attempts to …

At least four Pakistani soldiers were killed and seven other people injured in a suicide attack in North Waziristan tribal district of the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military’s media affairs wing said on Tuesday. A tri-wheeler rickshaw hit the vehicle of the security forces near Pattasi check post in Mir Ali tehsil region of the district, killing four soldiers …

Pakistan airstrikes in Afghanistan's Khost, Kunar provinces, at least 30 killed

Local officials in Afghanistan confirmed that Pakistani aircraft launched airstrikes on the Khost province of Afghanistan on Friday night, April 15. Meanwhile, TOLO news tweeted, “Media reports as well as interviews with a number of eyewitnesses show that Pakistani forces have carried out airstrikes in two areas in the eastern Kunar and the southeastern Khost provinces of Afghanistan on Friday …

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Unidentified militants attacked a security check post in Pakistan’s restive North Waziristan district near the Afghan border, killing two soldiers in exchange for gunfire, the Pakistani army has said. The army’s media wing said on Saturday that the attack took place in Datta Khel tehsil of the tribal North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In earlier two attacks, the …