Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan News

On the evening of January 17, 2012, a year and four days after Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar was gunned down on a busy street in Karachi, Mukarram Khan Aatif , a senior journalist in the tribal region of Pakistan, was offering evening prayers at a mosque near his home in Shabqadar.

Imran Khan, head of Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, leaves the hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday, May 22.

PESHAWAR: Imran Khan's party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, has sought the help of an elderly pro-Taliban cleric to initiate peace talks with the militants, party officials said Tuesday.

SPEAKING FREELY The sea rises in age of drone terror By Dallas Darling Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.

The YouTube was banned in Pakistan in September 2012 after a blasphemous video titled "Innocence of Muslims" was uploaded on it, and Muslims all over the world protested against it.

Drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas are unlikely to eliminate Islamist extremist networks, according to a new study.

Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party headed by Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pray during a gathering to celebrate Sharif's victory, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013.

Election workers use covers of ballot boxes and polling booths to shield themselves from the sun before transporting them to polling stations, at a sports complex used as a storage area for election material in Peshawar, Pakistan, on May 10, 2013.

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Pakistanis cast ballots in Karachi on Sunday, a day after the slaying of a well-known political leader who had accused rivals of vote rigging.

Railway workers attempt to fix tracks in Lahore. In its heyday, train travel in Pakistan was an elegant, popular mode of travel for the wealthy and working classes alike.

NOWSHERA: The chief of the gang that kidnapped Ali Haider Gilani, a son of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, was arrested during an operation by police against the abductors on Friday.

A US Predator drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport.

Police say bombings at two mosques in northwest Pakistan have killed at least 10 people.

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants ambushed a military convoy late Thursday in Pakistan's troubled northwestern city of Peshawar, killing two soldiers, security officials said.

Nawaz Sharif's victory in Pakistan's general elections is being seen with some alarm in Afghanistan, where some fear it may mean more instability.

Karachi: May 16, 2013. The Central Executive Cuncil of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC have approved nomination of Jan Masih as President of PCC-Peshawar in a meeting here today.

He told the BBC that 15 of the injured were in a critical condition and being taken to hospitals in Mardan and Peshawar.

A driver was killed when unidentified militants opened fire at a NATO supply tanker in Gariza area of Jamrud tehsil, sub-division of Khyber tribal region, on Thursday, official sources said.

The party of Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan on Thursday said it would lead a coalition government in the terror-hit northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.