U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Pakistan, kicking off a tour of South Asia aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan.
Militants have opened fire on a civilian convoy escorted by security forces in Pakistan’s tribal region, killing at least 18 people.
A bomb explosion killed at least eight people and injured 15 others in a remote village in Pakistan's Khyber Tribal Agency on July 16.
The blast occurred at a bus terminal in the town of Mingora.
Former Pakistani lawmaker and nationalist leader Habib Jalib was shot dead today in Pakistan's southern city of Quetta.
Senior U.S. civilian and military leaders are pushing for Washington to designate major Taliban networks as terrorists. But the move could adversely affect Afghan President Hamid Karzai administration's efforts to negotiate with certain Taliban networks based in Pakistan.
Police in Pakistan's northwest say they have rounded up more than 650 suspected militants after a major bomb attack last week that left more than 100 dead.
A bomb attack apparently targeting a tribal elder in northern Pakistan killed a teenage boy on July 12.
The security and humanitarian situation in Pakistan's Kurram region has deteriorated significantly, local leaders and analysts say.
U.S. General David Petraeus praised Pakistan's counterinsurgency efforts in a surprise visit to the country on July 12, his first since taking over as the NATO commander in neighboring Afghanistan.
After a suicide bombing at the start of the year killed more than 100 people playing and watching a volleyball game in Shah Hassan Khel, a tiny village in northwestern Pakistan, residents appear more emboldened than ever to resist the Taliban.
The Pakistani military’s scattershot security operations over the last eight years have not produced results because they have not been backed by a serious political strategy of development projects in the cleared districts.
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