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Kidnapped French tourist freed in SW Pakistan

AP News 172 days ago

Official says kidnapped French tourist freed in southwestern Pakistan A French tourist was freed Friday three months after being kidnapped in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, authorities said. The man, identified as Antoine Falsaperla by the French Foreign Ministry, was released in remote ...

Pakistan separatists kill nine police hostages: official

AFP South Asian Edition 176 days ago

The bodies of nine policemen taken hostage last month by separatist rebels were discovered in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Monday, a police official said. The corpses were found in the area of Naseerabad, 390 kilometres (242 miles) southeast of Quetta, the ...

3 bombs in Baluchistan kill 1, wound 18

AP News 179 days ago

3 bombs in Pakistani province of Baluchistan kill 1, wound 18 Police say three bomb explosions have killed a man and wounded 18 other people in Baluchistan, an impoverished but oil-rich province in Pakistan where Baluch nationalist groups have been fighting for ...

Pakistan

AP News 181 days ago

Pakistani investigators collect information from a person injured by a blast in Quetta, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. Police in the western Pakistani city of Quetta say a bomb and gunfire attack targeted a paramilitary checkpoint, killing at least two passers-by ...

Bomb kills two children in Pakistan: official

AFP South Asian Edition 181 days ago

Two schoolboys were killed and their brother injured Wednesday when a bomb exploded in a Pakistan village playground near the Afghan border, officials said. The trio, all brothers, were playing when the explosive device went off in Nisarabad village on the outskirts ...

Explosion, gunfire at Pakistan checkpoint kill 2

AP News 181 days ago

Explosion, gunfire at checkpoint in Pakistan's Quetta kill 2, wound 4 Police in the western Pakistani city of Quetta say a bomb and gunfire attack has targeted a paramilitary checkpoint, killing at least two passers-by and wounding four people, including a police ...

Baluch rebels kill four Pakistan police

AFP South Asian Edition 189 days ago

Separatist rebels on Tuesday shot dead four policemen and threatened to execute 21 hostages unless Pakistan withdraws paramilitary troops and releases detainees in the southwest, police said. "The bullet-ridden bodies of four policemen were thrown by miscreants in the Naseerabad area and ...

Mine kills five Pakistan soldiers: officials

AFP South Asian Edition 215 days ago

A landmine killed five paramilitary soldiers and wounded four others in Pakistan's insurgency-plagued province of Baluchistan on Thursday, security officials said. The blast happened in a hilly area home to dozens of coalfields, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Quetta, the ...

Mullah Omar reasserts control of Taliban: report

AFP South Asian Edition 232 days ago

Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar is reasserting direct control over the militant group, ordering attacks and shuffling field commanders in Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Citing unnamed US officials and insurgents in Afghanistan, the newspaper said this represents a change ...

One killed, 35 hurt in SW Pakistan train bomb

AFP South Asian Edition 243 days ago

One person was killed and 35 injured Thursday when a bomb hidden in a toilet exploded on a train in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwestern Baluchistan province, a railway official said. The bomb blast hit the train as it was about 45 kilometres (25 ...

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