Pakistan Bombing

Bomb Hits Railway Station In Lahore, At Least 2 Killed

Reuters | Posted 04.25.2012

LAHORE, Pakistan, April 24 (Reuters) - A bomb killed at least two people and injured at least 27 others when it exploded at the main railway station...

Bomb Explodes In Northwest Pakistan, Killing At Least 26

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 03.10.2012

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's top court said Tuesday it could dismiss the prime minister unless he begins corruption proceedings against the president,...

Growing Anger Over Soldiers Slain In NATO Air Strike

AP | By KHALID TANVEER and RIAZ KHAN | Posted 01.31.2012

SAHIWAL, Pakistan -- Azra Bashir spoke by phone to her son Usman, holed up in a freezing border outpost on the dangerous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, ...

Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 20 During Funeral

AP | ABDULLAH KHAN | Posted 11.15.2011

SHINA SAMAR BAGH, Pakistan — A suicide bomber attacked the funeral service Thursday of a Pakistani tribesman opposed to the Taliban, killing 31 ...

Bomb Threat Reportedly Forces Pakistani Plane To Make Emergency Landing

AP | Posted 11.07.2011

ANKARA, Turkey — A U.K.-bound Pakistan International Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Istanbul on Wednesday after it re...

Trick Trike Bomb Causes Deadly Blast In Busy Market

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.25.2011

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A bomb planted in a child's tricycle exploded outside a shop in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 11 peop...

Bomb ROCKS Pakistan's Largest City

AP | SHAKIL ADIL | Posted 05.25.2011

KARACHI, Pakistan — Militants attacked a police compound in the heart of Pakistan's largest city on Thursday with a hail of gunfire and a massiv...

Muslims Against Muslims: The Struggle Between God's Worshippers And God's Warriors

Fahad Faruqui | Posted 05.25.2011

Fahad Faruqui

Islam is a life-affirming religion and a religion of love that has no space for those of "God's warriors" who are committed to death. Still, within the last 24 hours, at least six were killed in an explosion at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan.

Shrine Bombing in Pakistan Kills 5

AP | KHALID TANVEER | Posted 05.25.2011

PAKPATTAN, Pakistan — A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine in central Pakistan during morning prayers Mon...

Blasts In Pakistan Kill Shiite Worshipers

AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

KARACHI, Pakistan — Suspected Sunni militants bombed a bus carrying Shiite worshippers and two hours later attacked a hospital treating the vict...

Suicide Attackers Kill 35 At Pakistan Mosque

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 05.25.2011

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A Taliban suicide squad targeted Pakistani military officers and their families praying at a mosque Friday close to army ...

Blast Kills 22 Near Lawmaker's Home In Pakistan

AP | KHALID TANVEER | Posted 05.25.2011

DERA GHAZI KHAN, Pakistan — A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in a market close to a politician's home in central Pakistan on Tuesday, kil...

Peshawar Bomber Kills 49 Near Crowded Market, Pakistan's Deadliest Attack In 6 Months

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — (AP) A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 49 people and p...

Police: Bomb kills 20 in northwest Pakistan market

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 05.25.2011

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber attacked a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 24 people and illustrating mil...

2 bombs Kill 34 in eastern Pakistan city of Lahore

AP | BABAR DOGAR | Posted 05.25.2011

LAHORE, Pakistan — Twin blasts at a market in eastern Pakistan killed up to 48 people as militants struck back amid an army offensive against th...

Pakistan in the Aughts: Devastation and Carnage

Saad Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Saad Khan

Pakistanis have been bearing the brunt of their leadership's screw-ups for decades and the aughts were no different.

Shangla Market Hit By Taliban Bombing, Dozens Killed

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a ...

Peshawar's Reaction: Personal Accounts of the Bombing at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Pakistan

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 05.25.2011

Nosheen Abbas

"People are very very worried in Peshawar, you never know when a bomb could go off... No one goes out to busy places out of fear."

Pakistan Attacks In 2008, 2009

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

A look at some recent major attacks in Pakistan or blamed on Pakistan-based militants: _ June 9, 2009: A huge bomb explodes at a luxury hotel in Pesh...

World In Photos: Peshawar Bombing

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

At least 11 people were killed and 46 injured Tuesday in a huge bomb blast at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in the northwestern Pakistani ci...

Islamabad Police Station Hit By Bomb Explosion

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

A bomb has exploded at a police station in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, as the military continues to battle Taliban fighters in the northwest of the...

Lahore Car Bombing Kills 30 In One Of Pakistan's Deadliest Attacks This Year (SLIDESHOW)

AP | BABAR DOGAR | Posted 05.25.2011

LAHORE, Pakistan — Suspected suicide attackers detonated a car bomb Wednesday that destroyed a police building and sheared walls off a nearby of...

Pakistan searches for reported wreck of US drone

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities searched Sunday for the possible wreckage of an American pilotless drone reported to have crashed in a northwe...

An Unexpected Blast

Jeanette Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeanette Khan

The full headline was, "Blast at Alhamra Cultural Complex in Lahore." Alhamra Cultural Complex was holding a World Performing Arts Festival with both local and foreign artists.

Suspected US Missile Strike In Pakistan Kills 9

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 05.25.2011

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike targeted two areas in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghanistan border on Thur...