Cease-fire in NW Pakistan; dozens dead
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Pro-Taliban militants and security forces reached a cease-fire in a troubled district of northwest Pakistan early Monday after the deaths of another 35 rebel fighters and 16 troops, officials said.
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GAUHATI, India -- Militants bombed utilities, a tea plantation and a marketplace in northeastern India on Sunday, intensifying violence that has killed 63 people in three days and snarling cease-fire efforts in a region where ethnic rebel groups are
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A truce between the government and local tribal leaders in Pakistanâs volatile northwest seems to have fatally come undone.
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Several people were feared killed in a suicide bomb attack in northwest Pakistan on Monday, a government official said.
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Nine people were killed and 32 wounded in northern Afghanistan Monday when police opened fire to break up a violent protest by a warlord&#39;s supporters, a doctor and a witness said.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - More than 50 people were  killed after a dam burst in remote southwest Pakistan, adding  to a mounting death toll following the country's heaviest rains  in more than a decade, provincial officials said on Friday.
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WANA, Pakistan Pakistani troops threw a tight cordon on Friday around a troubled South Waziristan district near the Afghan border, residents said, a day after government forces smashed a suspected Al Qaeda training camp there and killed about 50 fighters
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Pakistani forces conducted mop-up operations on Friday in the South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a day after 50 Islamic militants were killed in an air strike on a training camp.
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Gunmen who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage in a northwestern town on Monday freed them all and surrendered to tribal elders, a government spokesman said.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Two policemen and a pro-Taliban militant were killed in a firefight in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, the latest in the spate of violence in the volatile region on the Afghan border, police said.
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Around 250 Islamic militants and 60 troops have been killed in just over a month of fighting in Pakistan&#39;s tribal belt, the army said Friday, following intense US pressure to pacify the area.
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A cease-fire between northern fighters and the government is expected to be signed Friday.
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A missile destroyed a suspected militant hideout in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people, officials said. In other clashes in the area, militants killed a soldier and injured four more.
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At least 50 people were killed and hundreds missing in Pakistan after a dam burst and swept whole villages into the sea as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112.
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Pakistani troops killed between 50-60 Islamist militants during fierce fighting in the restive northwestern Swat valley on Sunday, the Army said on Monday.
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At least 50 people were killed and several injured when Pakistan&#39;s fighter planes bombed hideouts of Al-Qaida militants today in the tribal region close to the Afghanistan border.
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Suspected Islamic militants killed eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a cease-fire between security forces and insurgents in northwestern Pakistan, a security official said Monday.