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PESHAWAR - Militants fired rockets and bullets on a police patrol van in Balyamina area of District Hangu on Monday, killing at least two policemen including a sub inspector. The ambush left seven policemen injured. The District Police Officer Abdul Rashid Khan told Pakistan Today that militants hiding in mountains fired five rockets on the police when they were passing through a road linking Samana and Orakzai Agency.
The rockets were followed by firing with sophisticated

PESHAWAR - Militants shot dead four men for alleged spying and dumped their bodies near North Waziristan Agency on Saturday, police said. Police said they found four bullet-riddled bodies with notes from militants in their pockets outside Karak.
"We found bodies of four men, they had been killed by shooting and notes in their pockets said they were spying for Indian and Jewish intelligence agencies," district police chief Sajid Mohmand told AFP. "We are trying to ascertain the

PESHAWAR - Scores of militants attacked a security checkpost in Mohmand Agency early on Wednesday, killing at least three security personnel. In retaliation, the forces reportedly gunned down 15 assailants while injuring eight others. The officials said a group of more than 70 militants attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost at Anargee in Baizai Tehsil of Mohmand Agency during the wee hours of Wednesday.
Three troops were killed and four others injured in the sever assault.

SWAT - Security forces shot dead six miscreants Sawat's tehsil Matta on Monday. Security forces intercepted six miscreants, in Serwan an area of Tehsil Matta (Swat), who were trying to enter the town. Encircling the men, security personal tried to arrest them but they fired at the security personal and were killed in retaliation. The dead men were wanted by the police in several criminal cases.

PESHAWAR - The Pak-Japan Friendship Kohat Tunnel, connecting southern districts and tribal regions with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa capital Peshawar, was closed for traffic late on Friday after suicide attacks in the tunnel killed eight people and injured another 19.
Following the incident, authorities closed the tunnel and diverted traffic towards the 100-year-old Kotal Pass. According to details, two suicide attackers targeted the Kohat Tunnel late on Friday, with the first attacking a

FAISALABAD - A long-running family vendetta took one life when attackers came in the uniform of Elite Force and shot dead a 22-year-old married woman in her house. Reportedly, a group of men wearing police uniform shot down Saima Sahi of Chak No 186 RB Dhilam near Chak Jhumra, in her house and escaped. The victim family had an old enmity with another group of the area and several men from both the sides have been murdered in the blood feud.
The victim Saima Sahi's two brothers

FAISALABAD - A woman, allegedly murdered by her husband and in-laws, was found hanging with a ceiling fan, in Mohalla Razaabad under trhe jurisdiction of Ghulam Muhammadabad Police Station. Fauzia's husband and in-laws allegedly killed her and then hanged her body with a ceiling fan to stage a suicide drama.
The police registered a murder case against the husband and his family after the deceased's parents rejected the suicide version. According to details, a housewife, Fauzia,

PESHAWAR - Unidentified militants attacked the house of Awami National Party's Senator Zahid Khan on Tuesday, killing one and wounding three others, including his brother. Police said Senator Zahid Khan's house in Timergarah area of Lower Dir was attacked by a dozen attackers.
They said the assailants opened indiscriminate fire on the house, killing one person. Hospital sources said Muhammad Ayub, the wounded brother of Senator Zahid Khan, and two other injured were in a critical

KARBALA - Three car bombs ripped through crowds near Iraq's shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding dozens in fresh attacks on pilgrims arriving for religious rituals. "There were three car bomb explosions, two at 8:30am (05:30 GMT) and another 30 minutes later," said Nusayef Jassem, the provincial vice chief.
"Twelve people were killed and 150 wounded in the attacks," he said. Dr Laith Sharifi, an official of the provincial health department, said

PESHAWAR - A series of unmanned US drone strikes in North Waziristan on Sunday killed at least 13 militants, officials said, as tribesmen took to the streets to protest the aerial campaign.
According to local intelligence officials, in the first attack that took place in Datta Khel area, two missiles were fired on a vehicle seconds after it was parked outside a house, killing four suspected militants. The militants were said to be members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban North Waziristan

HANGU - Taliban militants killed four alleged robbers, calling them members of a criminal gang, Hangu police said on Tuesday.
According to police, the bodies were recovered from Sarkadana area and the Taliban claimed the responsibility for the killings. Police official said that a letter was found near the bodies stating that the men were killed because they belong to a gang of abductors. Taliban also warned local people against attending their funereal prayers.

MIRANSHAH - Five civilians were killed and six wounded when mortar shells fired from Afghanistan hit a border village in the Tribal Areas, military officials said on Friday.
"Five mortar shells fired from the Afghan side landed in Teti Madakhel village," in the Mir Ali district of North Waziristan late on Thursday, a military official said. He said the mortars hit houses located just three kilometres from the border. "As a result, five civilians - three women and two men - were

KOHAT - After getting secret information, security forces opened fire on an alleged suicide bomber killing him instantly near Kohat Development Authority on Friday.
According to the media reports, it was expected that the alleged suicide bomber, wearing suicide jacket, was to attack on tribal leader's vehicle passing by Kohat Development Authority whom security forces killed.
The reports added that police besieged the area and recovered a grenade from the possession of the

BRISBANE - Thousands of people fled central Brisbane on Tuesday as the panicked city braced for its worst flooding in 120 years, after terrifying flash floods left 10 dead and 78 missing nearby.
Workers evacuated en masse after the Brisbane River burst its banks and officials said 6,500 properties and the downtown area would be hit in Australia's third largest city, which was facing its biggest floods since 1893. "This water is on its way," said Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell

NABLUS - Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man on Saturday as he ran toward a checkpoint in the West Bank shouting Islamic slogans, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
Khaldun Samudi was hit by several bullets as he was running toward an Israeli checkpoint east of Nablus shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest), Palestinian witnesses told AFP. Palestinian security officials said he was a member of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, referring to the

PESHAWAR - At least eight suspected militants were killed and several others injured in two separate US drone attacks in North Waziristan on Friday.
The first attack destroyed a vehicle in Data Khel area close to the Pak-Afghan border in the morning. The drone fired four missiles at the vehicle killing all six on board.
In the second attack, a motorcycle was hit by two missiles in Boya tehsil's Ghalmani village. Both the riders were killed.
Though identity of the

LAHORE - Two minors died when fire erupted at a house at Gohava Colony located in South Cantonment police precincts at about noon on Friday. Fire erupted when minors, brothers, unmonitored by an elder, tried to light a stove.
The deceased were identified as Usman Muneer (7) and Adnan Muneer (5). According to Edhi officials Usman and Adnan were in their single room house, while their four elder brothers were playing outside and their mother, Samina, and father, Muneer, had gone