A man killed six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them had relations with boys in the neighbourhood.

Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them one by one, while t

A bomb attack targeted a public meeting due to be addressed by a Pakistani cabinet minister in the northwest on Monday, killing five people and wounding more than 20, officials said.

Initial reports

"Assemblies in Pakistan just need to put up an 'adults only' notice at the entrance and hope it will ensure a full house", said a leading daily after a lawmaker was caught watching a TV show on his iP

A US missile strike destroyed a vehicle in Pakistan's lawless tribal district of Kurram on Monday, killing three militants near the border with Afghanistan, security officials said.

US drone strikes

US drone strikes on Monday killed 15 militants in Pakistan's tribal district of South Waziristan, destroying compounds in twin attacks just minutes apart, local security officials said.

The first str

A bomb ripped through a passenger vehicle parked at a bus terminal near the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding 11 others, police said.

The bomb was p

A bomb blast at a busy marketplace in a restive tribal area in northwest Pakistan on Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 15 others, officials said.

The blast took place at Pasht bazaar i

A bomb blast at a busy marketplace in a restive tribal area in Northwest Pakistan on Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 15 others, officials said.

At least 15 people were killed in an oil tanker blaze after a bomb exploded on the Afghanistan-bound Nato vehicle near a Pakistani border town on Saturday, officials said.

Pakistan's Taliban said on Friday it had attacked a U.S. consulate convoy in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, the latest in a surge of violence since U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osam