Pakistan election candidate shot dead as violence escalates ahead of nationwide vote
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A police officer has been arrested in connection with facilitating a suicide bomb attack at a mosque on the premises of a police compound in northwest Pakistan.
Authorities struggle to control months of tit-for-tat attacks by Shia and Sunni tribes in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
At least two dozen people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a suicide bombing at a train station in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Saturday morning, officials said.
Roadside bomb kills four officers and wounds five others while two schoolchildren are killed in a mortar explosion.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing four officers and wounding five others, officials said Thursday, and the same day two schoolchildren were killed when a mortar exploded near them elsewhere in the northwest.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces acting on intelligence faced off with militants in two separate shootouts in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, killing six insurgents, the military said on Monday.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Russia’s embassy in Pakistan said Tuesday it is attempting to verify reports that one of its citizens was abducted in the South Asian nation’s troubled northwest.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, triggering a shootout that left a police officer dead, local authorities said. Three of the attackers were also killed in the exchange.