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Third gun attack on brigadier in Pakistan capital

Third gun attack on brigadier in Pakistan capital

AFP - Yesterday, 12:44 pm

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - A Pakistani brigadier escaped assassination Friday in the third gun attack targeting top brass in the capital as the army claimed further gains in a major anti-Taliban offensive in the northwest. More »

  • Iran Guards say Pakistan released Jundallah leader

    Iran Guards say Pakistan released Jundallah leader

    AFP - Yesterday, 11:41 am

    TEHRAN (AFP) - The deputy head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards charged on Friday that Pakistan arrested and then released the leader of Jundallah a few days before a suicide bombing claimed by the Sunni rebel group. More »

  • A policeman in a bullet-proof vest stands as he controls people, fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan in Dera Ismail Khan, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, November 2, 2009. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

    Gunmen wound two army men in Pakistani capital 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 06:17 am

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle wounded a Pakistani army brigadier and his driver on Friday in the third drive-by attack on military men in the capital since the army launched an offensive against militants in mid-October. More »

  • Gunmen wound two in Pakistani capital 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 04:43 am

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at a vehicle in the Pakistani capital Friday, wounding two men, police said. More »

  • US strike kills five militants in Pakistan: officials

    US strike kills five militants in Pakistan: officials

    AFP - Thursday, November 5 11:49 am

    MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - Suspected US missiles killed five militants in Pakistan's Al-Qaeda-infested tribal belt on Thursday, not far from where 30,000 troops are battling a major offensive against home-grown Taliban. More »

  • Fashion model Iraj, wearing a creation by Pakistani designer Sonya Battla, is photographed backstage before taking the catwalk during Fashion Pakistan Week in Karachi November 4, 2009. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

    Pakistan takes to the fashion runways

    Reuters - Thursday, November 5 11:26 am

    KARACHI (Reuters Life!) - Pakistan took fashion to the runways this week hoping to promote a more glamorous side of a nation better-known worldwide for violence and militant extremism. More »

  • Pakistan arrests three suspects in Iranian bombing 

    Reuters - Thursday, November 5 10:12 am

    QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces on Thursday arrested three Iranians suspected of planning a suicide attack in Iran's southeastern region last month which killed 42 people, officials said. More »

  • Four killed in US strike in Pakistan: officials

    Four killed in US strike in Pakistan: officials

    AFP - Thursday, November 5 04:49 am

    MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - At least four militants were killed in a US drone missile strike in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said on Thursday. More »

  • Suspected U.S. missile strike kills two in Pakistan

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 4 10:22 pm

    MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles on Thursday into North Waziristan, a major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary in northwest Pakistan, killing two people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. More »

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