Tag: Pakistani Taliban

Bomb blast injures 13 in SW Pakistan days after major attack

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — A roadside bomb apparently targeting a judge injured at least 13 people in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said, days after a major attack killed most of the city’s senior lawyers. “The bomb was planted on a bridge in the city, which went off immediately after the vehicle of an Islamic court judge passed by it,” Akbar Harifal, the home secretary of southwestern Balochistan province, told AFP. The […]

Pakistan says leader of Peshawar school attack killed in U.S. drone strike

REUTERS — The alleged mastermind of the 2014 attack on a school in Pakistan in which more than 150 people died, most of them children, has been killed in an American drone strike in Afghanistan, the Pakistan military and sources in the Pakistani Taliban said. General Asim Bajwa, Director General of the Pakistani Army’s media division, reported the death of Umar Narai, also known as Khalifa Umar Mansoor or Khalid Khurasani, in a message on […]