Bannu Attack

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  2 Killed, 3 Pakistan Soldiers Injured As Suicide Bomber Detonates Self

  Two persons were killed and 10 others, including three Pakistan army soldiers, were injured in a suicide attack on a convoy of security forces in the Baka Khel area of Bannu district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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  Imran Khan Slams "Imported" Government For Taliban Attack In Northwest Pak

  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Monday blamed the coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the terrorist attack in Bannu, reported Geo News.

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  2 Killed in Bomb Attack on Pakistan Cabinet Minister's Convoy

  At least two people were killed when a roadside bomb hit the convoy of a Pakistani cabinet minister in the country's troubled northwest today, police said.

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  Pakistan School Massacre Probe: Afghan Canteen Staffers Held

  Some Afghan nationals working in the canteen of the army-run school where 150 people, mostly school children, were massacred, have been arrested by Pakistan security agencies for allegedly facilitating the Taliban militants in carrying out the bloodbath.

• First Suicide Blast in Pakistan Tribal Area Since Military Offensive, Three Killed

  Three people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal area, the first such attack there since the military launched a major operation against the Taliban and other militants.

• Pakistan police arrest three with 100kg of explosives

  Pakistani police have arrested three men and seized 100 kilograms of explosives in a raid in the capital Islamabad, officers said on Tuesday, following two deadly Taliban attacks on military targets.

• Pakistan jet fighters kill 20 militants: officials

  Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships began airstrikes in a northwestern tribal district on Tuesday, killing more than 20 militants.

• Twenty Pakistani soldiers killed in attack on army convoy

  At least 20 Pakistani soldiers were killed on Sunday when an explosion hit an army convoy in the northwestern town Bannu, intelligence and military sources said.

• Taliban free nearly 250 in Pakistan jail break

  Dozens of heavily armed Taliban fighters freed nearly 250 prisoners, including hardcore militants, during a sophisticated overnight attack on a Pakistani jail that killed 13 people, officials said today.

• Suicide attack kills six at Pakistan police station: officials

  Suicide bombers attacked a Pakistani police station on Monday, killing six people in the outskirts of northwestern town Bannu near the militant stronghold of North Waziristan, officials said.

• Taliban attack police in Pakistan, take hostages

  Pakistani Taliban disguised in burqas attacked an office of the security force's intelligence agency in the country's northwest on Monday, taking several hostages before police stormed the building and ended the siege, police said.

• Taliban are contract killers: Rehman Malik

  Terming Sunday's jail attack in Pakistan as a "pre-planned conspiracy", Pakistan's Interior minister Rehman Malik Monday said the Taliban were "contract killers" but called themselves "Muslims". An audacious Taliban attack on the Bannu jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province freed 384 prisoners Sunday. The interior minister termed the attack as a pre...

• Militants attack Pak jail, free over 300 prisoners

  In a big blow to the Pakistani security agencies, more than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early today after it was attacked by militants.