Source: BBC News
A bomb has killed at least six people at the funeral of a Shia Muslim in north-western Pakistan, police say.
The blast, in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, injured many more. The town has a history of violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
In violence elsewhere, a suicide bomber killed nine worshippers on […]

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Source: Chron
Separate blast, U.S. strike leave at least 19 dead
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide bomber bearing a box of sweets managed to penetrate one of the most heavily secured police enclaves in the capital on Thursday, wrecking a residential building that housed anti-terrorism police and injuring half a dozen officers.
Elsewhere in the country, 10 people […]

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Source: The Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country’s tribal belt.
The powerful blast left a massive crater in the middle of a bridge in Bannu and left the burnt-out […]

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Source: New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen seized control of a school in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, taking more than 200 schoolchildren hostage before surrendering to local elders, according to a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema.
All the children were released from the primary school in the Bannu district in the northwest […]

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