The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, on Tuesday denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston.

The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday threatened to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf when he returns to the country.

Militants attacked an isolated army checkpoint in Pakistan’s restive north-west on Saturday, with at least 31 people killed in the initial assault, subsequent crossfire and a rocket attack on a house, officials said.

A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Quran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country’s blasphemy laws.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing at least six people including a senior police officer, officials said.

The blast ripped through a co

Pakistani officials say police have arrested a couple for allegedly killing their 15-year-old daughter by throwing acid on her because she supposedly had an affair with a boy.

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Pakistani surgeons removed a bullet on Wednesday from a 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban for speaking out against the militants and promoting education for girls, doctors said.

Gunmen pulled 20 Shiite Muslims from a bus and killed them at point blank range in Pakistan on Thursday, the third such incident in six months, officials said.

The incident happened in the northweste

The Taliban have threatened to kill Pakistan cricket star turned politician Imran Khan if he holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold along the Afghan border to protest U.S. drone attacks.

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Gunmen stormed a checkpoint in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwestern province of Baluchistan on Saturday and shot dead seven soldiers, officials said.

"Armed men surrounded Pashookan post of Pakista