The banned Islamist group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the December 30 attack in the Karkanra area of the Mir Ali subdistrict.
Police in Pakistan say a man has confessed to killing his former wife, an American national of Pakistani origin.
The government of the Pakistan-administered portion of the disputed region of Kashmir has barred entry to the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), an organization that campaigns for Pashtuns in the South Asian country.
The humanitarian situation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was discussed at a December 19 extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Counting is under way after polling ended in local government elections in a northwestern Pakistani province that were marred by deadly violence and allegations of fraud by the opposition.
Member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have agreed to establish a trust fund to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan that has left millions facing hunger following the Taliban takeover in August.
The death toll from a sewer gas explosion in Karachi, Pakistan, grew to 17 on December 19 as some critically injured people died overnight and as two more bodies were recovered in the debris left from the blast, police said.
A mayoral candidate in northwestern Pakistan has been shot dead in a drive-by attack just ahead of elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
The family of a prominent Pakistani human rights activist say they are in the dark after he was convicted by a military court of espionage and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Pakistani police said on December 12 that an officer who was guarding a polio vaccination team in the northwestern town of Tank has been shot dead by militants in the second such deadly attack there in two days.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of a police officer who had taken part in guarding a polio vaccination team, a frequent target of militants in Pakistan.
Pakistanis who say their relatives have been forcibly disappeared at the hands of Pakistani security forces are demanding the government provide information about their fate.
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