Sources: The Financial Times
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
Unidentified gunmen kill six people in Mir Ali, North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [https:--abcnews.go.com-International-wireStory-gunmen-kill-6-barbers-former-stronghold-pakistani-taliban-106039837 (ABC News)]Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa2024-01-2
A major power outage in Pakistan leaves nearly 220 million people without electricity after a failure at the national power grid. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered a reduction in energy consumption as the country faces a severe energy crisis. 2023-01-23
A nationwide blackout occurs in Pakistan, leaving more than 200 million people without power. Senator Faisal Javed Khan says that the blackout was apparently caused by a "sudden frequency drop in the power transmission system". Power is gradually being restored in some parts of the country. 2021-01-9
Gunmen kill nine in twin attacks in Punjab a Pakistan province. The ambushes killed two police officers, two intelligence officers and an informant in the first attack. The second attack happened at a checkpoint when unknown gunmen killed an officer and three others. 2019-11-11
Gul Ahmad Saeed is suspected in the killing of his fiancee and nine of her relatives in Pakistan, apparently because of opposition to his marriage. He also is a suspect in the murders, earlier this year, of his mother, father, brother, and sister-in-law. 2015-04-6
Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods leave over 200 people dead across India and Pakistan. 2014-09-6
Pakistani military bombs the hideout of a Taliban militant leader killing five insurgents. 2014-03-2
A six-year-old boy is killed and two other children are wounded after a militant throws a hand grenade into a co-educational school near Peshawar, northwest Pakistan. 2012-04-16
At least 10 anti-government protesters are killed by early morning bombs in Mogadishu; the dead include people from Afghanistan, Algeria, India and Pakistan. 2010-08-21