ISLAMABAD: Nineteen militants and eleven security personnel, including a lieutenant colonel and a major, were killed in an overnight gunbattle in Pakistan’s northwestern Orakzai district, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday, in one of the deadliest clashes of this year. Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant violence in recent years, with proscribed groups such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) targeting security forces and civilians in the western provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, which border Afghanistan.

Pakistan army blames India for militant attack on convoy near Afghan border, killing soldiers; Taliban claims responsibility.

ISLAMABAD: Nineteen militants and eleven security personnel, including a lieutenant colonel and a major, were killed in an overnight gunbattle in Pakistan’s northwestern Orakzai…

Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for attack on military convoy, leading to a deadly gunfight.

Pakistani security forces raided a Pakistani Taliban hideout near the Afghan border before dawn Wednesday, sparking a fierce gunbattle that killed 11...

ISLAMABAD: The death of a Pakistan army major in northwest Pakistan has brought the military’s toll to 12 in two days of back-to-back operations against militants, the army said…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s security forces have killed 30 militants involved in an ambush that killed 11 soldiers this week near the Afghan border, the Pakistani army said on Friday.…