An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 rocked Peshawar and other parts of northwest Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, leaving at least five persons injured.

A soldier and 11 Taliban fighters were killed during operations by security forces in the volatile tribal belt in northwest Pakistan today, security officials said.

At least three persons were killed and two others injured when the car they were travelling in hit a landmine in the volatile Orakzai tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Monday, security officials

Air strikes by helicopter gunships on Saturday killed 10 pro-Taliban militants in the restive Orakzai tribal region of northwest Pakistan, a day after six soldiers, including an officer, died in a bom

A powerful blast ripped through a mosque packed with Friday worshippers on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least three people and injuring 20 others.

A religious leader was killed by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan's restive northwest, where security forces shot dead three militant commanders today.

The main land route for Nato supplies remained blocked in Pakistan on Friday and no trucks were being allowed to enter in Afghanistan for the second consecutive day, officials said.

The police in northwest Pakistan apprehended five foreign militants wanted by security forces for subversive activities, officials said on Tuesday.

Three persons were killed when pro-Taliban militants carried out three bomb attacks on trucks and tankers ferrying supplies to foreign troops in Afghanistan in the restive Khyber tribal region of nort

The police apprehended an important Taliban commander and two proclaimed offenders in Hangu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Monday.