Zara brushes her dark brown curls away from her face, nose scrunched up in concentration as she stares at the white board. She looks down to write and then pauses, placing her little finger on her chin in contemplation.
Thirty-six people were killed and dozens were injured in explosions at a market in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, an official said.
The Pakistani Taliban are waiting the weather out and will take on the military when winter arrives in Pakistan's tribal region, said Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud in a phone call with CNN.
Two people were killed and at least nine were injured in a chemical explosion in Peshawar on Saturday, police said.
A suspected drone fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Friday morning, killing eight militants and wounding several others, officials said.
A suicide bomber struck Thursday morning outside the gates of a court compound in the heavily guarded administrative heart of the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Taliban leaders have claimed responsibility for a wave of suicide bombings that have battered the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants also vow to carry out more attacks in the future.
Violence flared in northwestern Pakistan for a third straight day Sunday as one anti-Taliban government leader was killed and another survived an attack, officials said.
A suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives, killing six people on Monday near the Budbhair area in Peshawar, officials said.
A suicide car bomber who blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in Peshawar killed 11 people and wounded 26 -- marking the second straight day of major violence in the area, authorities said.
Zara brushes her dark brown curls away from her face, nose scrunched up in concentration as she stares at the white board. She looks down to write and then pauses, placing her little finger on her chin in contemplation.
Thirty-six people were killed and dozens were injured in explosions at a market in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, an official said.
The Pakistani Taliban are waiting the weather out and will take on the military when winter arrives in Pakistan's tribal region, said Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud in a phone call with CNN.
Two people were killed and at least nine were injured in a chemical explosion in Peshawar on Saturday, police said.
A suspected drone fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Friday morning, killing eight militants and wounding several others, officials said.
A suicide bomber struck Thursday morning outside the gates of a court compound in the heavily guarded administrative heart of the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Taliban leaders have claimed responsibility for a wave of suicide bombings that have battered the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants also vow to carry out more attacks in the future.
Violence flared in northwestern Pakistan for a third straight day Sunday as one anti-Taliban government leader was killed and another survived an attack, officials said.
A suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives, killing six people on Monday near the Budbhair area in Peshawar, officials said.
A suicide car bomber who blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in Peshawar killed 11 people and wounded 26 -- marking the second straight day of major violence in the area, authorities said.
A pair of bombings in Pakistan killed 10 people and wounded dozens of others Friday, officials said.
A senior al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan has blamed the U.S. security firm formerly known as Blackwater as being behind the recent spate of deadly attacks in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
A pair of bombings in Pakistan killed at least 17 people, including security officials, and wounded dozens of others Friday, officials said.
A Pakistani working for the Iranian Consulate was shot and killed in the northwestern part of the country Thursday, police said.
A Pakistani working for the Iranian consulate was shot and killed in the northwestern part of the country Thursday, police said.
A suicide car bomber struck a congested traffic circle outside Peshawar Tuesday, killing at least 26 people -- including several women and children -- and wounding 60 others, police and hospital officials said.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing at least three people, police said.
A suicide car bomber struck in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 12 people, including a local mayor, authorities said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people Monday by detonating explosives outside a bank where people had lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.
A deadly car bomb attack on a busy market in Peshawar Wednesday continued a bloody trend of atrocities in Pakistan during October.
A massive car bomb tore through the heart of a bustling marketplace in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, killing at least 100 people -- including many women and children -- and injuring at least 200 others, officials said.
The militants behind Wednesday's deadly strike on a Pakistani marketplace that killed at least 90 people -- most of them women -- are "on the losing side of history," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a joint news conference with her Pakistani counterpart.
A suicide car bomb in a bustling market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 49 people Friday, a government official said.
Seventeen people were killed Saturday in three separate blasts in northwest Pakistan, police said.
A pro-Taliban cleric who helped negotiate a short-lived cease-fire between the militant organization and the Pakistani government was arrested Sunday in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Gunmen killed a guard and a U.N. worker during a kidnapping attempt in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, officials said.
A trickle of Pakistanis who fled their homes during the fighting in the country's volatile northwestern region have begun returning under a government operation, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
Government airstrikes killed 20 Taliban militants in the past 24 hours in northwest Pakistan, a military source said Monday.
A moderate Muslim cleric who denounced suicide attacks as forbidden by Islam was killed Friday in a suicide attack on his mosque in Lahore, authorities said.
Pakistani authorities have lowered the toll of victims killed from Tuesday's suicide attack at a hotel in Peshawar to nine.
Three suicide attackers shot their way onto the grounds of a five-star hotel in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar and set off a car bomb, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens, officials said.
Pakistani authorities increased security throughout the capital Friday after this week's deadly bombings in Lahore and Peshawar and a threat by the Taliban to carry out further attacks.
A series of explosions in northwest Pakistan killed eight people Thursday night, and two suspected militants died in a gunbattle with Peshawar police on a rooftop, authorities said.
It's an exodus on an almost biblical scale. And it has produced a mosaic of plastic and canvas that is now home to more than 93,000 people -- with more arriving each day.
Nearly a half-billion dollars in "urgent contributions" are needed, the United Nations said Friday to aid displaced Pakistanis whose numbers are nearing 2 million.
Violence echoed across a volatile Pakistani province and an adjacent tribal region on Saturday, with dozens reported killed in the latest military push, a drone strike, and a car bombing targeting a school bus.
Twenty well-behaved boys sit on the floor in two rows, quietly eating a humble lunch of flat bread, water and beans.
Taliban militants attacked NATO supply terminals Wednesday morning, torching at least 10 supply trucks in northern Pakistan, local officials said.
Civilians continued to flee Pakistan's northwest in droves Monday as government troops prepared to engage Taliban militants in the crisis-hit Swat Valley.
A suicide bomber in a car filled with explosives, rammed into a Pakistani security vehicle at a government checkpoint just outside Peshawar, killing six security forces and wounding 30 people Tuesday.
More than 80 militants attacked a supply terminal in northwest Pakistan that serves U.S. and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, police said.
Suspected Taliban militants destroyed 15 trucks in a NATO supply convoy in northwestern Pakistan's restive tribal region early Monday, a Peshawar police official said.
A remote-controlled bomb detonated on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday morning, killing seven security personnel and a civilian.
Two Pakistani security guards were killed Friday when they stopped a suicide car bomber from barreling into a military outpost.
Suspected Taliban militants early Saturday staged another attack against cargo terminals in northwestern Pakistan in the country's restive tribal areas, destroying NATO supplies bound for neighboring Afghanistan, police said.
Suspected militants attacked a truck depot in Peshawar near the border with the Khyber Agency in the country's restive tribal areas, destroying NATO supply trucks bound for Afghanistan, Peshawar police said.
The U.S. military is looking at alternative ways of transporting equipment into Afghanistan, two sources said, after militants Monday torched 50 trucks at a northwestern Pakistan staging post.
Dozens of containers, possibly holding supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, burned after militants attacked a Pakistani freight terminal with mortars and grenades early Sunday, according to Pakistani police officials.
Pakistan has agreed to borrow $7.6 billion from the International Monetary Fund to avoid adding an economic crisis to its struggle against Islamic militants, an official said Saturday.
A U.S. citizen was shot and killed Wednesday in northwestern Pakistan, police said.
A suicide attacker targeting the home of a provincial party leader in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) killed four people and injured seven on Thursday, according to the Interior ministry and local police.
Dozens of Taliban militants took control of a government office in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border Saturday, raising concerns about an advance on the nearby city of Peshawar, a police chief said.
A suicide car bomb targeting a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan killed at least 25 people, including 10 police officers, and wounded 50 others, a Peshawar police spokesman said Saturday.
In recent weeks, the Pakistani Taliban have said they were to blame for a string of suicide bombings. One attack killed nearly 70 people
A Japanese aid worker who was abducted in east-central Afghanistan has been found dead, a local government official said Wednesday.
Gunmen Tuesday seized a Japanese aid worker and his driver in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
A U.S. consulate vehicle in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest came under gunfire Tuesday.
Pakistani troops pounded Islamic militants in the volatile northwest Saturday, killing 37 in retaliation for suicide attacks
A bomb targeting an Air Force bus killed at least 12 people in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, police said. The blast wounded another 15.
Distracted by its political turmoil, the nation is losing control of its militant hinterlands, where al-Qaeda is reviving
A powerful explosion destroyed a militant compound and killed up to eight people Monday in a volatile tribal region where Pakistan security forces are waging an offensive against pro-Taliban militants
A Pakistani police officer died and two other were wounded when a car bomb exploded Saturday morning in Nasir Bagh, about 15 miles from Peshawar, a Peshawar police official said.
The death toll in the bombing of a political gathering on Saturday has risen to 27 with more than 50 people wounded in the attack, according to an Associated Press report.
Pakistani authorities have launched a search operation in the country's tribal region for Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
An explosion killed three would-be suicide bombers in Pakistan Wednesday, police in the northwestern city of Peshawar said.
A suicide bomb detonated near a Shiite religious site in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding 22, police told CNN.
Police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students hours after a blast in a mosque in northern Pakistan left at least 50 dead and dozens injured, according to an Associated Press report.
One of the quieter places in the country's wild west now has a radical seminary, complete with armed militants
At least 13 people, including a senior police official, were killed Saturday evening in a suicide bombing near a crowded Shiite mosque in Peshawar, police sources told CNN.
The U.S. consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, was closed Monday because of a "very specific and credible threat," three State Department officials told CNN.
A general strike has shut the normally bustling port city of Karachi in southern Pakistan as demonstrators took to the streets to protest the publication of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, police said.
Deadly violence erupted Wednesday across Pakistan as several thousand demonstrators stormed through the streets of Peshawar and Lahore to protest the publication of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, police said.
Mullah Abdul Mannan Hanafi and Mullah Mohammad Akbar, former Taliban provincial governors and military commanders in Afghanistan, have been shot dead in an attack early Tuesday morning in Peshawar, police sources have told CNN.
Pakistani intelligence agencies have arrested two suspected al Qaeda members in separate raids in Peshawar and Lahore, the nation's information minister has said.
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