Sectarian Attack In Pakistan

Gunmen Monday killed five people including three Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in the latest sectarian attack on the religious minority, police said.

The confession of a Pakistani teenager who was captured moments before carrying out a suicide attack has given police a rare glimpse into a terrorist network they say is behind the recent surge in sectarian violence.

The US has warned its citizens against all non-essential travel to Pakistan given that the country continues to experience significant terrorist violence including sectarian attacks.

Gunmen today shot dead two Shiite brothers and a policeman at a passport office in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said, the latest sectarian attack to strike the country's restive southwest.

Investigators probing the first attack claimed in Pakistan by the Islamic State (IS) group believe a notorious local sectarian group may have carried out the massacre as it seeks to expand its ties to the Middle East.

Pakistan has come out with a new list of 110 "most wanted terrorists", along with revised cash rewards, belonging to various banned outfits and involved in high-profile attacks and sectarian killings in the country.

A powerful bomb tore through a busy mosque in southern Pakistan today, killing more than 60 people in the country's deadliest sectarian attack in nearly two years.

Authorities in Pakistan's central Punjab province on today cancelled the hanging of a convicted sectarian militant after the victim's family pardoned him, officials and a family member said.

Gunmen killed three people including a senior army officer in an attack on a Sufi shrine in central Pakistan, officials said on Monday, in the latest deadly sectarian violence to hit the country.

In a world dotted with conflicts of all kinds, raging civil wars, bloody sectarian violence and terrorism, South Asia emerges as the worst affected. According to the Global Terrorism Index, that profiles data on terrorism from across the world, India is the fourth most affected in the world by terrorism, after Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Police said they arrested the leader of a banned militant group on Friday in connection with sectarian attacks in the northwestern city of Quetta that have killed nearly 200 people this year.

Scuffles broke out Wednesday as Pakistani Shiite Muslims buried the 89 victims of a second major bomb attack in five weeks, which has highlighted the government's inability to stem sectarian violence.

A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said.

A bomb killed at least five people and wounded about 70 near a Shi'ite procession in Pakistan on Sunday, police said, as the sect braced for major sectarian attacks by Sunni militants during a critical event in their religious calendar.

Gunmen shot dead four Shiite Muslims on Tuesday, in a fresh sectarian attack in Pakistan's troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan, police said.

Gunmen Monday killed five people including three Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in the latest sectarian attack on the religious minority, police said.

The confession of a Pakistani teenager who was captured moments before carrying out a suicide attack has given police a rare glimpse into a terrorist network they say is behind the recent surge in sectarian violence.

The US has warned its citizens against all non-essential travel to Pakistan given that the country continues to experience significant terrorist violence including sectarian attacks.

Gunmen today shot dead two Shiite brothers and a policeman at a passport office in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said, the latest sectarian attack to strike the country's restive southwest.

Investigators probing the first attack claimed in Pakistan by the Islamic State (IS) group believe a notorious local sectarian group may have carried out the massacre as it seeks to expand its ties to the Middle East.

Pakistan has come out with a new list of 110 "most wanted terrorists", along with revised cash rewards, belonging to various banned outfits and involved in high-profile attacks and sectarian killings in the country.

A powerful bomb tore through a busy mosque in southern Pakistan today, killing more than 60 people in the country's deadliest sectarian attack in nearly two years.

Authorities in Pakistan's central Punjab province on today cancelled the hanging of a convicted sectarian militant after the victim's family pardoned him, officials and a family member said.

Gunmen killed three people including a senior army officer in an attack on a Sufi shrine in central Pakistan, officials said on Monday, in the latest deadly sectarian violence to hit the country.

In a world dotted with conflicts of all kinds, raging civil wars, bloody sectarian violence and terrorism, South Asia emerges as the worst affected. According to the Global Terrorism Index, that profiles data on terrorism from across the world, India is the fourth most affected in the world by terrorism, after Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Police said they arrested the leader of a banned militant group on Friday in connection with sectarian attacks in the northwestern city of Quetta that have killed nearly 200 people this year.

Scuffles broke out Wednesday as Pakistani Shiite Muslims buried the 89 victims of a second major bomb attack in five weeks, which has highlighted the government's inability to stem sectarian violence.

A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said.

A bomb killed at least five people and wounded about 70 near a Shi'ite procession in Pakistan on Sunday, police said, as the sect braced for major sectarian attacks by Sunni militants during a critical event in their religious calendar.

Gunmen shot dead four Shiite Muslims on Tuesday, in a fresh sectarian attack in Pakistan's troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan, police said.