At least 42 people were killed when a bomb exploded at the main gate of a government-run hospital in south-western Pakistan, police said.

At least 30 people were killed when a bomb exploded at the main gate of a government-run hospital in south-western Pakistan, police said.

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Doctors in Pakistan are mystified by the case of two brothers who have become known as the “solar kids”.

The family of a five-year-old Afghan boy who received autographed shirts from his football hero Lionel Messi have been forced to leave Afghanistan amid constant telephone threats, the boy’s father has said.

The Taliban have chosen late supreme leader Mullah Omar’s longtime deputy to replace him, two militant commanders announced, as Pakistan said peace talks between the insurgents and the Afghan government had been postponed.

A major earthquake has rocked Pakistan’s south west, killing at least 15 and sending panicked people running into the street just days after another quake in the same region killed hundreds.

Rescuers are struggling to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a massive earthquake in south-western Pakistan, as the death toll rose overnight to 210, officials said.

More than 20 people have died when a suicide bomber attacked a funeral for a policeman in south-western Pakistan.

PASHTUNABAD — a poor, wind and flyblown suburb of Quetta — is the type of Pakistani town where commanders in the Afghan Taliban lived after being kicked out of their country in 2001.

The siege of a hospital in south-western Pakistan has ended after security forces stormed the building.

A senior Pakistani police officer says gunmen have taken over parts of a hospital in a south-western Pakistan.

A bomb planted on a bus for a women’s university has killed 11 female students in the south west of Pakistan, officials say.

At least five people were killed when militants wearing suicide vests and disguised as policemen attacked the office of a senior political official in north-western Pakistan today, police and hospital officials said.

The governor of a province in south-western Pakistan where 81 people died in a massive bombing says security officials are too scared of retribution from terrorists to do their jobs.

Sixty people have been killed after a bomb ripped through a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Quetta, a police chief has said.

At least 21 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in north-western Pakistan as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers.

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot dead a police officer protecting polio workers during a UN-backed vaccination campaign in Pakistan.

Funerals for some of the scores of victims of a series of bombings in Pakistan will take place today as the death toll rose to 120.

Two bombs have exploded minutes apart at a billiards hall in south-west Pakistan, killing 38 people.

A bomb that appeared to be targeting paramilitary soldiers has exploded in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing 11 people, police say.

Pakistani militants killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials yesterday said, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups.

A car bomb has exploded outside the women’s waiting area of a government office in Pakistan’s troubled north-west tribal region, killing at least 12 people and wounding 45 others, government officials said.

One person was killed and 10 others injured when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a police checkpoint in south-west Pakistan, an official said today.

At least one civilian has been killed and eight others injured by a roadside bomb targeting a security convoy in south-western Pakistan, police said today.

Five students were killed and more than 50 other people injured when a bomb ripped through a bus heading to a university in south-western Pakistan today, police said.

A bomb attached to a bicycle exploded outside a seminary in south-western Pakistan today, killing at least nine people, police said.

A roadside bomb targeting paramilitary troops has killed two civilians in south-western Pakistan, police said.

The beheaded body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January was found in an orchard, with a note attached saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police said.

A British man working for the Red Cross has been killed by his captors in south western Pakistan, the organisation said today.

Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a shoe store in south-west Pakistan today, killing four Shiite Muslims, police said.

The Taliban’s former defence minister died in a Pakistani jail in 2010, a spokesman for the insurgent group said today.

At least nine people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside the home of a local politician in south-west Pakistan, police said today.

Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims travelling through south-western Pakistan today, killing 13 people and injuring seven others in the latest apparent sectarian attack to hit the country, police said.

Gunmen opened fire on minority Shiite Muslim pilgrims travelling through south-west Pakistan today, killing 26 people in an apparent sectarian attack, officials and survivors said.

A pair of suicide bombers attacked the house of a top military officer in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta today, killing his wife and 18 other people, at least eight of them soldiers, authorities said.

Three al-Qaida members including a top operative believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the world have been held in Pakistan.

A suicide car bomber attacked Shiite Muslims in south-west Pakistan today at the start of an Islamic holiday, killing at least 10 people, officials said.

A car bomb exploded in south-western Pakistan today, killing at least five people.

Twelve people have been killed after a bomb explosion at a hotel in south-west Pakistan, police have said.

Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying minority Shiite Muslims in south-western Pakistan today, killing 11 people in what appeared to be a sectarian attack.

Pakistani troops and a Nato helicopter exchanged fire today, further straining relations with the West following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.