Pakistani air ambulance delivers medicines to violence-hit district as roads remain closed

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani charity used an air ambulance on Tuesday to deliver medicines to a northwestern region where a doctor said 29 children had died in the past two months because life-saving supplies couldn't get through roadblocks following sectarian clashes. Air...

Today in History: December 16, the Boston Tea Party

Today is Monday, Dec. 16, the 351st day of 2024. There are 15 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest...

6 Pakistani security personnel killed in a checkpoint attack

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Armed men killed six Pakistani security personnel and wounded seven in a checkpoint attack in the country’s northwest, a police official said Saturday. The assault happened in Kurram district, where fierce sectarian fighting has killed at least 130...

Pakistani court indicts former Premier Imran Khan over May 2023 attacks on military posts

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Thursday indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and dozens of his associates on charges of inciting people to attack military and government installations last year, officials and his party said. Khan pleaded not guilty when...

A 2nd ceasefire is reached between warring Shiites and Sunni Muslims in Pakistan's restive northwest

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities with help from community leaders brokered a second ceasefire between warring minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims in a troubled northwestern region bordering Afghanistan following a deadly sectarian violence that left dozens of people dead, officials...

Sectarian violence has killed at least 130 people in Pakistan’s northwest in the last 10 days

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Sectarian violence has killed at least 130 people and wounded 200 others in Pakistan’s northwest in the last 10 days, officials said Sunday. Violence flared in Kurram district on Nov. 21 when gunmen ambushed a vehicle convoy and killed 52 people, mostly...

Pakistani city mourns 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed in a gun attack

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Protesters in Pakistan's restive northwest chanted anti-government slogans and tensions flared Friday after funeral prayers were held for 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed by gunmen a day earlier in one of the region's deadliest such assaults in recent...

Gunmen fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 42

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 42 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region's deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said. The...

Pakistani police say gunmen opened fire on vehicles in restive northwest, killing at least 8 Shiites

Pakistani police arrest a man accused of insulting the Quran and save him from being lynched by mob

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police arrested a man accused of insulting Islam's holy book, the Quran, in deeply conservative northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday after being alerted that a mob wanted to lynch him, police said. The man, identified as Humayun Ullah, was arrested in Khazana,...