Portal:Pakistan/News

Today is July 29, 2024


 * September 2
 * Pakistan's religious affairs minister escaped with a minor injury in an attack.(CNN)


 * September 1
 * Militants suffer heavy casualties as fighting rages between security forces and militants.(CNN)


 * August 26
 * Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan confirms that their former leader Baitullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained during a U.S. drone attack on August 5.


 * August 22
 * Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud is selected as the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a local Taliban commander in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas confirms. (CNN)


 * August 21
 * A missile fired from a U.S. unmanned plane destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 12 people in a stronghold of a jihadi leader blamed for attacks in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)


 * August 17
 * A bomb explodes on a truck at a fuel station in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan (20 km from Peshawar), killing seven people. (BBC News)


 * August 14
 * Pakistan begins its first international freight train service from Islamabad to Istanbul. (BBC)

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