Peshawar, Pakistan News

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.

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.

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.

In order to fully understand why Malala Yousafzai, now fifteen years old, made an outstanding contribution to changing the world - and we hope she will continue to do so - it is important to take a look at the background of the following story.

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.

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.