Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan News

The responsibility for the failure against terrorism thus falls squarely on the security shoguns and their sprawling establishment The recent elections, besides turning up a new rightist Pakistan reeking with regional tendencies, unfortunately also exposed a pathetic lack of security for its citizens.

PESHAWAR: Gunmen killed seven police in an ambush attack in the Taliban-plagued northwest, officials said on Saturday.

The theory that terror campaigns against Pakistan are some kind of retaliation for US drone strikes against the Taliban is dangerously naive Our democratically elected prime minister-designate has said there is 'no harm in talking to the Taliban', thereby signalling his intention of initiating a process of dialogue.

An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.

'Chinese PM's visit conveyed strong message of solidarity' * Foreign secretary says steps taken to expand trade with China to $15bn from present $12.5bn * Denies presence of Chinese forces in northern areas of country ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Friday said that the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang to... Supreme ... (more)

In the deadlier of Friday's two attacks, suspected militants armed with heavy weapons attacked a police convoy in Mattani, 20km south of the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing six policemen and wounding seven others, said senior police officer Shafiullah Khan.

A militant attack on a police convoy near the city of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least six policemen.

ROUGH CUT STORY: At least six policemen were killed and three others, including the District Police Officer, were injured when militants ambushed their vehicles on the Indus Highway near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan late Friday night.

PESHAWAR: Gunmen yesterday opened fire on a convoy of Nato containers in a northwestern Pakistani town near the Afghan border, killing a driver and wounding a helper, officials said.

A policeman and residents gather near a damaged car at the site of the bomb blast near a religious school in Peshawar on May 24.

Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people.

Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people.

PESHAWAR: A woman contender from Pakistan's northwestern province of Fata and a couple of others from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made headlines in national and international media after jumping into the election arena, but none of them could win any seat either in national or the provincial assembly.

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's MPAs-elect will take oath on May 29 which will be followed by the election of speaker and deputy speaker, while the provincial chief executive will be elected on May 31, chief minister-designate Pervez Khattak revealed on Thursday.

When Barack Obama ran for president of the United States in 2008, his message of hope and change gave us, the citizens of lesser republics, hope that he would close Guantanamo and shut down programs where extrajudicial killing or bribing foreign heads of state with American taxpayer dollars had become standard practice.

Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of drones against terror suspects.

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.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.

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.