Police said the attack in Attock caused the roof to cave in while Shuja Khanzada, the home minister of Punjab province, was holding meetings with about 20 people.
Home Minister of Punjab Province, and a DSP were among the 19 persons killed when the suicide bombers attacked his political office at his native Shadi Khan village in Attock district, rescue and administration officials said.
A Pakistani provincial minister killed in a suicide bomb attack had been warned he was a target for retaliation by a militant after police killed the leader of the radical sectarian group last month.
First Information Report (FIR) was registered in Rangoo police station against unidentified attackers for Sunday’s deadly attack in Attock that claimed the life of Punjab home minister Colonel (retd) Shuja Khanzada. The death of seven has been confirmed by the officials but...
But it has launched more than 400 strikes against the PKK in and outside Turkey, he said. The government considers the PKK a terrorist organization just like the Islamic State, as do various Western countries.
In further violence, Kurdish rebels attacked an infantry brigade command post in nearby Sirnak province, seriously wounding a soldier who later died in a hospital. Turkish officials blamed the Suruc bombing on a Kurdish follower of Islamic State, and days later unveiled their...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday, the day marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japan’s war dead, including 14 Class-A convicted criminals of WWII.
The New York Times also reported that “more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets [were] unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound”, yet “the Pentagon continued to withhold data, leaving the public misinformed as discoveries of chemical weapons...
The organizations said they had also documented two such attacks against Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province on June 28. But the Peshmerga official said the weapons were made of chlorine.
Tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima Thursday to mark 70 years since the dropping of the first atomic bomb, with opinion still divided over whether its deadly destruction was justified. Abe said that to demonstrate this determination, Japan will introduce a new resolution at...
Also Monday, Kurdish rebels in the southeastern province of Sirnak fired at a helicopter carrying conscripts who either had finished their term of duty or were taking leave, killing one of them and injuring another, the military said.
Turkey has seen a sharp spike in clashes between security forces and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the a wake of its campaign against PKK targets in Iraq in tandem with airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.