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The World Bank approves $1 billion for the construction of the Dasu Dam in northwest Pakistan.
2024-06-11

Iran launches ballistic missiles at Balochistan, Pakistan, targeting what it claims are Jaish ul-Adl terrorist sites, killing two children and injuring three other people. Pakistan calls the action an "unprovoked violation" of its airspace.
2024-01-16

Militants attack a regional police headquarters and two military posts in northwest Pakistan, triggering shootouts that killed five security personnel and five insurgents.
2023-12-15

Four security troops and two private guards are killed after several gunmen tried to storm an oil and gas plant in Hangu, Pakistan.
2023-05-23

Pakistan and Afghanistan report their first suspected cases of monkeypox.
2022-05-29

Pakistan reports its first cases of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom. The patients are three people who travelled from the UK to Sindh and later tested positive for COVID-19.
2020-12-29

The International Committee of the Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed.
2012-05-10

At least 15 people are killed near the town of Landi Kotal in Pakistan after a bomb destroys an Afghanistan-bound oil tanker.
2011-05-21

At least 40 people, most believed to be civilians, are killed near Miranshah after United States drones bomb Pakistan in the deadliest such attack by the United States since 2006. Tribesmen describe a "massacre" as tribal people, elders, local traders and members of the tribal police are killed.
2011-03-17

A Pakistan court requests that a mentally-ill woman who was charged but never went on trial for a 1996 desecration of the Koran be released.
2010-07-23