Pakistan News

Men stand around a burnt-out school bus, after a gas cylinder on it exploded, killing seventeen children, about 200 kilometres from Islamabad.

Jammu, May 25: A militant and his family who returned illegally to Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan have been arrested, police said.

The Interstate 5 bridge collapse into the Skagit River was caused by an oversize truck hitting the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said.

Pakistani women, mourn next to the bodies of their relatives, who were killed in gas cylinder explosion on a minibus, in Gujrat, Pakistan, Saturday, May 25, 2013.

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.

Seventeen children and a teacher were burnt to death in Pakistan's Punjab province on Saturday when the bus taking them to a school caught fire apparently due to a cylinder explosion, local media reported.

Police say that a teacher was among the 17 burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children to school suddenly caught fire.

A small airplane operating as a volunteer Angel Flight crashed in upstate New York on Friday evening, killing at least two people, authorities said.

ISLAMABAD: President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies Pakistan and Yemen.

Nawaz Sharif, incoming prime minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz political party, speaks to his party members, who were voted to political posts in the general election, during a function in Lahore on May 20, 2013 .

British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday on suspicion of "endangerment of an aircraft" after it was escorted to a different airport by fighter jets.

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.

Two men have been arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an RAF Typhoon jet was scrambled to escort a passenger plane travelling from Pakistan to the UK.

Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said.

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.

Gunmen on Friday 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.

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.

The Pakistani election is over, and summer's arrival will present the new government, to be led by Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif, with its first test.

According to police, the Balochistan Constabulary personnel were in a bus en route to Balochistan Secretariat when they came under attack near Link Badini Road in the proximity of Bhossa Mandi on Eastern Bypass.

WASHINGTON: Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, President Barack Obama on Thursday revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret.