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Two Pakistani brothers, Abdul, and Mohammed Rabbani, have been freed from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay after more than 20 years in detention and repatriated, the Pentagon said Thursday. Abdul Rabbani, who was born in 1967, is believed to have been one of the oldest inmates at the …

Pakistani border guards and Afghan Taliban forces traded cross-border fire on Monday morning, officials said, a day after Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers closed the Torkham border crossing amid increasing tensions between the two neighbors. Six Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier were killed on Sunday in the shelling and gunfire, according …

Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the campaign against al Qaeda following the militant group’s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, died in Dubai on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He was 79. Musharraf, a former four-star general who seized power after a 1999 military coup, died in …

Officials have blamed a suicide bombing that killed 100 people inside a mosque at a police and government compound in northwest Pakistan on a “security lapse.” The blast, which ripped through a mosque inside a major police facility in the city of Peshawar, was one of the deadliest attacks on …

A powerful bomb explosion at a busy mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least 33 people and wounded 150, according to officials. A hospital official said many of the casualties were police officers who had gathered in the mosque for afternoon prayers. The mosque is located …

The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a police post in northern Pakistan that killed three police officers. Attackers threw grenades at a police outpost near the Afghan border in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and entered the premises where a suicide bomber detonated explosives, …

Pakistan’s special forces raided a police center in a remote northwestern district on Tuesday, killing all of the 33 Pakistani Taliban militants who earlier this week overpowered guards at the facility, seized arms, and taken hostages, officials said. The militants had killed two hostages before the rescue operation, according to …

Cross-border shelling and gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan killed eight Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier on Sunday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, with each side accusing the other of starting the fighting. The Pakistan army said Afghan border forces had opened “unprovoked and indiscriminate fire of …

Pakistan’s Taliban said on Monday they have called off a shaky ceasefire agreed upon with the government in June and ordered fighters to stage attacks across the country. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a separate entity from the Taliban in Afghanistan but sharing a similar Islamist ideology, has been responsible for dozens …

Pakistan has reopened a major Afghan border crossing that was shut for trade and transit after security forces clashed last week, officials from both sides said on Monday. As the crossing opened on Monday, three people were wounded in another clash reported on a northwestern border with Afghanistan, an Afghan …

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was disqualified Friday from running for political office for five years, his lawyer said, after the country’s election commission ruled he misled officials about gifts he received while in power. The decision is another twist in political wrangling that began even before Khan’s April …

People displaced by the devastating flooding complain that they are without food and ration as authorities struggle to cope with the disaster. The death toll from the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan has crossed 1,400, as the forecast of more rains in parts of the worst-affected southern Sindh province is causing …

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the world for massive help for flood-ravaged Pakistan on Friday as he visited to boost the response to a disaster that the government estimates has caused $30 billion of damage. Record monsoon rains and glacier melt in northern mountains have triggered floods that have …

Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country’s biggest lake from bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the disaster management agency on Monday raised its toll of flood deaths by another 24. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountains have brought floods …

Torrential rains and flooding have killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children, in Pakistan, where army helicopters plucked stranded families and dropped food packages to inaccessible areas while the UN appealed on Tuesday for $160 million in aid. The historic deluge, triggered by unusually heavy monsoon rains, has impacted …

Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country’s climate change minister said on Thursday, calling the situation a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions”. Pakistan has urged the international community to help with relief efforts as it …

Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said. Government agencies and the army have set up aid and relief camps in …

A woman was killed and 11 people were left injured after an explosion occurred at Karachi’s crowded Bolton Market in Kharadar on Monday evening. Victims and witnesses said that a van from the Kharadar police station, out on routine patrol, had just stopped in Bombay Bazaar near New Memon Masjid …

Three soldiers and three children have been killed in a bombing near a military vehicle in Pakistan’s northwestern region.

Five people were killed and four others injured in a shooting incident on Saturday in Pakistan’s Punjab Province. At least five people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The injured have been sent to the hospital for treatment, CGTN reported. A terrorist …