Portal:Pakistan/News

Today is December 17, 2024

• September 2

Pakistan's religious affairs minister escaped with a minor injury in an attack.(CNN)

• September 1

Militants suffer heavy casualties as fighting rages between security forces and militants.(CNN)

• August 26

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan confirms that their former leader Baitullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained during a U.S. drone attack on August 5.

• August 22

Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud is selected as the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a local Taliban commander in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas confirms. (CNN)

• August 21

A missile fired from a U.S. unmanned plane destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 12 people in a stronghold of a jihadi leader blamed for attacks in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

• August 17

A bomb explodes on a truck at a fuel station in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan (20 km from Peshawar), killing seven people. (BBC News)

• August 14

Pakistan begins its first international freight train service from Islamabad to Istanbul. (BBC)