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Massive Earthquake Hits Southwest Pakistan

ISLAMABAD -- A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked a remote area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates. The quake was centered in Baluchistan province, the country's most sparsely populated area, said the United...

Female Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens in Pakistan

A woman wearing a burqa lobbed hand grenades into a crowd near a food aid distribution center before detonating explosives, killing at least 45 people in northwestern Pakistan. The suicide attack, believed to be the country's first by a woman, happened as Pakistani security forces attacked hideouts and reportedly killed...

Report: Bin Laden Not Living in a Cave

(Oct. 18) -- Osama bin Laden and deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are thought to hiding in houses close to each other in northwest Pakistan, living relatively comfortably, CNN reports, citing an unidentified senior NATO official. "Nobody in al-Qaida is living in a cave," the official said, disputing a notion some have...

Suspected US Missile Attacks Rock Pakistan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Sept. 8) -- Two suspected U.S. missile strikes hit militant targets in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, bringing to six the number of such attacks in the region in less than a week. At least 10 suspected members of a group attacking NATO forces in Afghanistan were...

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05/23/12 US drone strike kills four militants in northwestern... Source: New Kerala Dot Com At least four insurgents have reportedly been killed in a US drone strike on a militant compound in northwestern Pakistan.
04/20/12 Militants destroy state-run school in NW Pakistan Source: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Unknown assailants have razed a state-run school building to rubble in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, where government troops are fighting militants.
04/14/12 Militants blow up girls school in Pakistan Source: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Suspected Taliban militants have blown up a girls' school building in Mohmand tribal region in northwestern Pakistan near Afghan border.
04/13/12 Financial irregularities in UNICEF's 2009-2010 school... Source: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) UNICEF has confirmed to a group of donors that an estimated US$4 million of donor funds has been misappropriated from its US$6.2 million school rehabilitation project implemented in 2009-2010 in Khyber Paktunkhwa Province, northwestern Pakistan.
04/04/12 Sectarian violence in northwestern Pakistan leaves 12... Source: New Kerala Dot Com At least twelve people were killed as a result of sectarian violence in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, local media reported.

Background on northwestern pakistan

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( ; ), locally called Pukhtunkhwa, and formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province and various other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the north-west of the country.

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