At least 63 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing Monday at a government-run hospital in Quetta, the capital of Pakistanās Baluchistan province, the Associated Press reports. The bomber targeted a gathering of lawyers who had come to mourn their colleague, the prominent attorney Bilal Kasi,ā¦
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The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, was killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan this weekend, the New York Times reports.
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A suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly killed 50 people and wounded 200 others on Sunday.
Multiple outlets are reporting that a least 20 Pakistanis have been killed, and at least 60 injured, after four gunmen stormed Bacha Khan University in northwest Pakistan during a school ceremony on Wednesday. Law enforcement officers eventually killed the attackers after an hours-long shootout at the publicā¦
At least 105 people were killed this morning when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit South Asia, according to Afghan and Pakistani officials.
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On Sunday, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at anti-Taliban provincial minister Shuja Khanzadaās home in eastern Pakistan, killing him and 13 others, the Associated Press reports. A militant group associated with the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
A heat wave with temperatures rising well over 100 degrees in Karachi, Pakistan, has left nearly 900 people dead as of Thursday, the Associated Press reports.
Masked gunmen attacked a bus carrying Ismaili Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan early Wednesday, killing 43 people.
Gunmen have killed at least 20 workers at a construction site in a remote part of the Baluchistan Province's Turbat district, the New York Times reports. Officials believe that the attack was carried out by a separatist group that's operated in the region for decades.
Two bombs exploded outside Christian churches in Lahore, Pakistan's second most populous city, today during Sunday services, killing 14 and wounding 78, NBC News reports.
Previously classified letters between Osama bin Laden and a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative reveal that the Afghan government used a secret fund, bankrolled by the CIA, to facilitate the release of a senior Afghan official kidnapped by the terrorist organization in 2010, The New York Times reports.
An anti-Charlie Hebdo protest in Karachi, Pakistan turned violent on Thursday when four people, including two journalists, were shot outside the French Consulate. The New York Times reports that it's not clear if the victims were wounded by protestors or police.
In what is being described as one the deadliest attacks Pakistan has ever seen, 126 have been reported killed in a Taliban offensive on a school in Peshawar on Tuesday morning. More than 100 of the dead are students.
Police and government officers report a suicide bomber detonated explosives in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, near the country's border with India. At least 54 were killed.
Nearly 300 people have been killed by landslides and flooding in India and Pakistan in the wake of some of the heaviest monsoon rains the region has ever seen. India's top civilian official Rohit Kansal told the Associated Press today, "The situation is extremely grim. We are not able to reach many people because theā¦
The AP reports the death toll in Pakistan and India continues to rise while heavy monsoon rains and flash floods strike the regions. 110 people in Pakistan and 108 people in India have been killed.
Protests in Islamabad, Pakistan continued this weekend as dissidents demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Police clashed with protestors violently, dousing them with tear gas and injuring hundreds.
