Topic: Lashkar-E-Jhangvi
Afghanistan and Pakistan were locked in a war of words on Thursday over a shrine bombing that killed at least 55 people in Kabul and which the Afghan government blamed on a Pakistani terror group.Islamabad called for an end to the ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed Pakistani extremists on Wednesday for an unprecedented attack on Shiite Muslims in Kabul that killed 55 people, demanding justice from the government in Islamabad.By pointing the finger at the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi militant group, Karzai threatened to ratchet ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday blamed a Pakistan-based group for bomb attacks in three Afghan cities that killed at least 59 people on Tuesday, an allegation that could stoke new tensions with Islamabad.The blasts were the worst sectarian ...
Pakistan put the leader of a banned extremist organisation under house arrest on Thursday for inciting sectarian hatred, police said, just days after gunmen killed 29 Shiite Muslims.Malik Ishaq, head of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was released on bail in July after nearly 14 ...
A suicide bomber tried to kill the top elected official in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan on Tuesday, damaging his motorcade but leaving the minister unhurt, officials said.The blast wounded nine people near the convoy of Nawab Aslam Raisani in ...
Pakistani police have arrested seven members of a feared Al-Qaeda-linked extremist group accused of plotting suicide attacks in the nation's economic hub Karachi, a police official said Monday. "We have arrested seven men and recovered three explosive-filled jackets and detonators," senior ...
Pakistani security forces killed at least 35 militants in a restive northwestern region after a two-day military operation, a senior security official said Tuesday. "At least 35 militants were killed and three soldiers were injured in a two-day-long operation in Darra Adam ...
Gunmen riding on the back of a motorbike shot dead a Shiite Muslim politician on Monday in southwest Pakistan, police said, in an attack claimed by a banned Sunni extremist group.The drive-by shooting took place on the main boulevard in Quetta ...
Pakistani police Tuesday said a Shiite lawmaker whose house was targeted in a suicide attack had earlier received threats from a sectarian militant group linked to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.The death toll from the bombing in the remote town of Bhakkar ...
